On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:19:26PM -0400, Hugh Brock wrote: > > Factory wraps Oz. Oz is (I believe) so named because it operates in an > imaginary land (the virtual machine). You get to Oz via Kansas. So, you > could call the thing Kansas... or maybe more poetically, "tornado" or > "whirlwind."
The tornado is also what transports Dorothy out of Kansas, so it seems like a good line of thinking. (I must disclaim that The Wizard of Oz is a distant memory for me and I'm going by the Wikipedia page.) How about the term "updraft", associated with tornadoes, which conveys a sense of movement up towards the clouds? Though the name sounds kind of dumb. -- Matt
