Futuristicky

I've discovered lately that people who don't hear me talk on a regular basis have no idea how to say the name of this site. In conversation, I tend to treat lots of words as if they have more meaning when you put an extra y on the end, and that's all I'm doing here.

It's futuristic + Y (with a K thrown in so you won't say "icy" at the end)

Pronunciation-wise, it's "futuristic - e."

If you say it right, it'll sound kind of sticky, which I think is neat. And I don't mean "sticky" in the way that web designers use the word, because I don't pay attention to that stuff -- I feel like web stats are easy to obsess over, and that people who do are insanely boring. I mean "sticky" in a way that describes the giant mess in my apartment whenever I'm working on something creative.

Also, I think the word futuristic tends to make people think of things that are clean and smooth like polished silver or Star Trek apparel. But the future could just as easily be a sticky mess of unpredictable nanoparticles and toxic waste. (I hope it's not, but with all the idiots out there messing up the environment any chance they get, my hopes for a Jetson-like future dim a little further every day.)