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I'm surprised your the first one to bring up the name, I've had friends question me about it... but no worries, I have a reasoning/meaning behind it.

I originally liked the word Tubular(used mostly in the 80's, or by people mocking the 80's to describe something 'awesome' or 'excellent' ie, good.); however, that domain was taken. Then I started thinking about variations of the word, and went with Tubalr. I went with this version of the word because it has the word Tuba(a musical instrument) in it and in my head sounded cool :P. So with that in mind, I thought it was cool to have a name that came from a word meaning "awesome", "excellent", or "good" AND have a musical instrument in the name.

Hope that clears up the name a tad bit. Oh, I pronounce the word something like: Tube-u-ler



"Tube" in French (from France) also means "a hit" on the radio, a top-40 song. Plus, Tubalr has great Michael Oldfield resonance (Tubular Bells was the first record I ever bought). Ace name.


I personally read it as tubular. So no confusions for me, just to throw that out there. I like the name.




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