FAQ

Q. – What’s up with your funny name? What does Wulfgar even mean?
A. – Yes, “Wulf Gar” is my real, legal name. Catch me in person some time, and I’ll show you my driver’s license. It’s meant to be said as all one word, which is why I spell it as “Wulfgar”.

Q. – How did you come up with the name “The Chronicles Of Wulfgarnia”?
A. – This blog is actually not the first place that name has been used. I’ve had 2 pseudo-blog type things in the past, both now irrevocably dead.

At the time when I was thinking of something to name the first attempt, it was very stylish to name your Geocities website or commenter-handle (do the kids still call those “nicks”?) something that was common + funny, or some type of play on words. So, you ended up seeing people named “Darth Paul”, or “Pilsnerd”. I wanted to try to find something punish and funny for my blog, but it’s kinda difficult to rhyme with Wulfgar. The only thing I could think of at the time was that GAR rhymed with the NAR in Narnia. Then I said “What if I changed THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA to “THE CHRONICLES OF WULFGARNIA?”

Lame and geeky, I know. I’ve grown rather fond of it though!

Q. – I’m an English geek, and I have a bone to pick with you. You put your periods, commas, and exclamation points on the outside of your quote marks. Clearly, it’s proper English to put them inside of the quote marks. Also, it’s traditional to use 2 spaces after the end of a sentence, but you only use 1. Are you some kind of moron?
A. – I am also an English geek, so I know your frustration.

However, it’s recently become obvious to me that we’re all writing and texting for the web, not for university essays, so here’s the thing;

• When writing a URL, if you include the period inside the quote marks, your recipients might get confused and add the period into their browser. This could have unintended consequences.
• I anguished long and hard over the two-spaces-at-the-end issue, as I’ve been doing it since Miz Bakeberg’s 4th grade English class. Finally, I recognized that in order to get a double space in HTML, you have to insert “&nbsp” all over the place, and that gets to be a PITA. Not only that, but the extra space was wasted real estate in my Tweets and texts, so I took them out.

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