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15 years ago
Why, its the Blue Guy of BlueGuyNow (BGN)
Waaaay back in 2003 me and my family were cleaning out a storage shed that was being rented by a friend. The person was in another state and didn't know what to do with the stuff inside the shed so she let us pick through it and take whatever we wanted.
And I found this thing in there.
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/.....on/BlueGuy.jpg
I didn't know what it was but I liked it.
So I kept it. I didn't have a name for it other than from what my mom called it when she found it, and that was "Blue Guy."
And so the name stuck.
I had BlueGuy, but no Now.
The "Now" part of BlueGuyNow came from visiting the Chicano Now Art Exhibit when it rolled through Albuquerque in 2004 (or 2005). For whatever reason, "Now" just struck me as something very cool, and so I put 2 and 2 together and got BlueGuyNow.
Over time Blue Guy would make his way into a lot of my drawings and sketches (example: http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/.....ingForBono.jpg). Eventually though I got into drawing anthro characters, and he started to appear less and less. But I still kept the name BlueGuyNow.
Today he sits in a CD tower on my desk, watching me work on drawings and other things. http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/...../desktop09.jpg
So now you know! ;D
-BGN
Waaaay back in 2003 me and my family were cleaning out a storage shed that was being rented by a friend. The person was in another state and didn't know what to do with the stuff inside the shed so she let us pick through it and take whatever we wanted.
And I found this thing in there.
http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/.....on/BlueGuy.jpg
I didn't know what it was but I liked it.
So I kept it. I didn't have a name for it other than from what my mom called it when she found it, and that was "Blue Guy."
And so the name stuck.
I had BlueGuy, but no Now.
The "Now" part of BlueGuyNow came from visiting the Chicano Now Art Exhibit when it rolled through Albuquerque in 2004 (or 2005). For whatever reason, "Now" just struck me as something very cool, and so I put 2 and 2 together and got BlueGuyNow.
Over time Blue Guy would make his way into a lot of my drawings and sketches (example: http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/.....ingForBono.jpg). Eventually though I got into drawing anthro characters, and he started to appear less and less. But I still kept the name BlueGuyNow.
Today he sits in a CD tower on my desk, watching me work on drawings and other things. http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/...../desktop09.jpg
So now you know! ;D
-BGN
And that's a cute character though. Seems... fitting
For now though I have my signature containing my Initials and the exclamation point. ;D
the mystery is solved but, why bgnm <-- blueguynomore? whats up with that~
:( i wish i had a story like that for my nickname D:
Well, NM stands for "New Mexico," so its "New Mexico BlueGuyNow" (Kind of long huh? xD)
I wanted to have a different name that could be applied to all the work that you see on Y!gallery, but I wanted it to show that its still BGN, so I just slapped on NM (without giving much thought xD)
Another fun fact: Biggens comes from BGN. B-i-G-g-e-N-s = BGNs
I actually thought in my perverted mind that Biggens was...
Big + gens (genitals) xD there i go~
youre like the back of a cereal box, lots of fun :D <3
L eech
INC orporated
A erospace
R esearch
D ivision
Prototype series 1000
And I have used either LINCARD1000 or just LINCARD ever since for online naming purposes. Helps that it is fairly unique being a made-up word so not many other people would ever think of using it. Sorry you asked, now?
Kaapke's
Lesser-
Used but
Greatly
Esoteric
Where KLUGE itself is a data processing term popular in its day for something that works right under certain special conditions, and for all the wrong reasons. (In turn taken from the Kludge Printing Press, which had fanbelts, gears, wheels, other mechanical components in its design which served no useful purpose - over-engineered, and/or not well revised after changes were made. It must have beefed up the spare parts department. "Oh, GNDN14 pulley assembly!" [borrowing from Gene Roddenberry's Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing parts and pipe labeling standards on starships].)
I am no longer named Kaapke - part of why not use KLUGE anymore.
Bear-Paws, HalfBear, or just Rkaapke were in use for about the time dial-up was going on, BBS and otherwise. I did not get into USENET early however. I found it and WWW backward and unpromising (my lack of vision there).
Interesting way to aquire a name I must say.
Nice deski setup by the way. You got all kinds of goodies there! Your PC doesn't look too bad either.