I have a variety of interests and opinions, so as you might imagine, I struggled to come up with a name that would represent my true hopes for this blog. It seems like a permanent enough thing, being on the web and all. I took an unorthodox approach to generating the name that seems to have had significant positive effects. I took all of my personal writings for the last year or so, coded up a Ruby script that would calculate and sort the word frequencies, read through the list, and then took a nap.
My subconscious worked on it for awhile, and when I woke up, I asked myself what the correct name should be. A couple of strange hazy names came to mind, and then in literally a flash of insight, '22 idea street' popped into my head. It immediately seemed correct, although I didn't necessarily understand why. I excitedly woke up and wrote it down.
After thinking about it for a few minutes, each of the parts actually represents something that is deeply important to me.