Necktie Part Missing from Sum of All Human Knowledge

I am going through my organization project today and I see that I have a necktie that I have safety pinned the back of so that I could tuck the short end of the tie in and wear it. This nameless (more on this later) piece of fabric is barely hanging on by a thread, but it just so happens that in my new project of  "Sell, Donate, or Pitch,"  I have come across a bag of thread spools, spare buttons, and a package of 25 assorted needles.

Feeling domestic, I decided that it might look slightly more professional if I actually sewed my tie back together and retired the safety pin of its duty of holding the back of my necktie together.   As I  begin to sew I realized that I am doing a pretty lousy job of sewing this un-named piece of fabric back on my tie.   I am too embarrassed to share with you my shoddy sewing job.  Perhaps if you ask politely!

Anyway, as I am sewing along, I think to myself, "What on earth do you call this silly little piece of fabric on the back of the necktie anyway?"   I have no idea what it is called technically, but I am very sure it has a name.  Perhaps I will look Google necktie and figure it out.  The first entry for my Google search....yep you guessed it, Wikipedia.

Now I am not a huge fan of Wikipedia, especially after what I read yesterday.  Yesterday, I found myself on Wikipedia, and saw that there was a link to a letter from the founder, Jimmy Wales.   I decided to click the link and take it quick read.   It turns out that the link led to Wikipedia's annual beg letter.   This was your typical thank you for your support, please donate, yada yada.... but one sentence really stuck out to me.  I went back and saw that this isn't the first time he has said it.   The quote from Mr. Wales is this:

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. -- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation

Wow....if Wikipedia is the "sum of all human knowledge" then the name of this flap of fabric on the back of my tie that I am sewing should be readily available for me to look up right there on Mr. Wales' page.

Nope....no such luck.   Not a mention to be found on the page!   The history of the necktie is there.  Types of neckties are there.  Tons of ways to tie neckties are there.  However there is no mention of the piece of fabric sewn on to the back of your tie to keep the short end of the tie from flapping around wildly after you have tied your necktie.  Could it be that this is some sort of mistake?   I think that I have found a gap in  "sum of all human knowledge."

If the flap of fabric has no name, since I found it, (think Columbus, or Lewis and Clark, or Darwin) my question to you is what do we name it?  Since I have in essence discovered it, can I name it the "the Bryce of the Tie?"  Furthermore, if I name it, the necktie's Bryce, am I then allowed, even obligated, to get on the necktie Wikipedia page and update the entry on neckties, so that the "sum of all human knowledge"   is more complete?  

Help!!!!

Bryce in 2010, A Prologue

9:13 am Monday, December 28, 2009

I need to do laundry.  I have a more than a couple of loads to do, since I have been on the road the better part of the month of December.  I need to make a list.  I grab an envelope that contained the Christmas card from my cousin Jim's family and start a list, my to-do list for the day.  I write these to-do lists all of the time, though they don't always get done.   The list is as follows:

1. Wrap gifts/post office (this actually gets done Tuesday morning....I am such a bad uncle, but it has been a busy Christmas season)
2. Phone Card (for my pay-as-you-go phone; a job which still hasn't been finished, but will be doing this tonight online, before my phone expires....I only have this pay-as-you go phone because of a run in with AT&T)
3. Bring downstairs scanner and shredder (check)
4. Clean out refrigerator (wishful thinking)
5. Laundry (yep started on this, and actually got it done)
6. One bag at a time (I will explain this later)
7. Set-up New Year's Blog (you are reading it)
8. Louis (I had to email him back...and I did, very briefly)

     I have lots of big plans for 2010, the biggest of which is moving to Europe for my career.   The questions are numerous, and if I answer them all now, then I really have no blog.  I had asked for an external hard drive from Santa for Christmas, and was lucky enough to have gotten one.   The idea I had was to trim down my life, scan in my essentials, pictures, music, etc.  that I would need in Europe.  I would in effect digitize my entire life, and become a vagabond of sorts.  
     I figured that I would start a blog chronicling my 2010, mostly as a way for my biggest fan, my mom, to be able to follow me.   Perhaps one or two friends would follow as well and, if I am lucky I might actually learn something from this great voyage.  It was time to start to scan my stuff so I start list #2.  I just need to jump in and do this, and hold myself accountable for making all of this happen.    I will make a list of everything I do today...

1. Grab one load of laundry.
2. Back of envelope to make notes (if I keep putting stuff on this list it make make me feel like I have done something)
3. Bring downstairs 3/4 full bag of trash (which I had started a couple of days ago, but now if someone walked in on me, it would look like I had gotten rid of some of my clutter)
4. Shredder (not sure what I will be shredding, yet)
5. Phone (plugged it in to charge? I'm not sure why I listed this, when I look back 24 hours later)
6. Scanner (got it...time to rock and roll)
7. Lee Silber's Time Management for the Creative Person (perhaps a quote will get me motivated)
8. 2nd cup of coffee (yeah baby I am in this for the long haul)

I grab a green Eco-friendly, reuseable, shopping bag, fill it full of books and papers...and begin the long process of digitizing my life...

One bag at a time.

I am not a spam blog

Dear Gods of Google,

Hi, I am Bryce Westervelt. I am a professional opera singer. I wanted to secure a domain for this blog idea that I have about writing a blog that follows me through the next year...as I plan on moving to Germany for my career, potentially giving a US recital tour, and recording a CD.

Before I could get one blog post posted on my new blog....I have the almighty Google telling me that I have the characteristics of a spam blog. Well... aside from not blogging fast enough. I can assure you that this will not be a spam blog. It is not intended to be a spam blog. I don't even like spam. (electronic or otherwise)

Now if you will be patient and let me develop a little content...without sandboxing me, you will see that this blog will be far from a spam blog! Capisce?

Thank you,

Bryce