Bilbulatsia

BHB wants to know, why Bilbulatsia?

Good question. Unfortunately the answer isn't that exciting, but I figured the question might be asked again, so it may as well be in a post rather than a comment.

Basically, I knew I wanted something derived from bilbul, which is confusion in Hebrew, because I'm confused about lots of stuff, obviously. I couldn't find it when I searched again but when I originally Googled bilbul, something similar to the second hit on the list showed up. The page itself was not relevant and didn't even contain the word. But I liked the Google preview for it.

To me it sounded like a Hebraicized(?) English word, like democratzia, only funny because bilbul is already a Hebrew word. I decided pretty spontaneously. I was on my laptop at my parents' house, and Godol Hador had just closed. I think another skeptic blog had just closed too. I rattled off an introductory post and uploaded it.

Then I realized that I was angling the screen so that no one could see. And it hit me that maybe, if I wanted to keep my issues secret from my family, putting them on the internet for all to see wasn't the smartest move ever. Especially not at their house.

But I didn't delete the blog. And one day when I was talking to my friend who'd shown me Daat Emet. We talk a lot on IM and there's never enough time to finish a conversation. So I asked some pertinent questions to my dad (he's a tech head)
Q: can you tell a blogger's IP address from their blog? A friend wants to know.
A: with great difficulty.
Q: By the way, what blogs do you read?
A: Mentalblog. And my own.

My dad is pretty smart and I think if he stumbled across my blog he might be able to work it out. But I don't think it's likely. And anyway, I mainly don't want my mom to find out. So, I'm being young and a little reckless on this one.

My friend had another comment about the name: it almost sounds like an ideology. That really fit. Because I feel like I'm in limbo, but I might be there for a loooong time, so it pretty much is an intellectual state of being, which is practically an ideology.