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