Gymergy
January 27th, 2005
Over chimichangas at El Mexicano last week Lara described to me her work-out routine. A moderately distended belly freed my mind to wander from it’s normal preoccupation with food, and so I listened.
Imagining her in a gym full of radiating humans, I pictured them all furiously trying to convert their lipid-based energy into entropic waste heat, and it occurred to me that surely there must be a way of getting this energy to do some useful work. I said as much to Lara and earned the usual ‘why are you such a fool’ eyebrow-rise, but she smiled too, so I persisted.
We could start a gym ourselves on this principle, I said, go into business! But what would we call it? Before 2 seconds had passed it came to me: Gymergy. Stop thinking! I said, there’s no need to think anymore. There could not be a more perfect name for this foolish idea, so don’t waste any more effort trying. Gymergy.
We laughed and ordered two more Coronas, and with only half a thought to registering the domain name, the subject changed.