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June 23, 2003
Urgo's 8th
Happy Birthday Urgo! One question that most people ask me at some point is how I became known as Urgo. I’ve wanted to post the story on my blog for a long time but have just not had the time, or thought it was an appropriate time. Since (today) June 23rd this year is Urgo’s 8th birthday this is as good as time as any. The story goes something like this. On June 23, 1995, a Friday afternoon, I was 14 years old and sitting at friend of mine’s house (I believe he went by Elthar back then). My mission was to come up with a good name for an Uruk-Hai character for an Internet text based role-playing game based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy named Elendor. Since this was the summer after I finished the 8th grade I had been using the Internet and BBS’s for over a year already, but at this point usually I just went by my real name or some stupid temporary name whenever I needed an alias, so the events that took place on this day truly were monumental. From what I remember I decided upon the name Urgo after 30+ minutes of brainstorming with my friend. Of all the names that we thought of, this was the only one that seemed to fit. So on June 23, 1995 a new character was born, and Urgo emerged as my Internet personality. From that day forward on IRC, instant messenger, message boards, and any other online site that requires registration I have used the name Urgo. Just a side note about Urgo"666". I started using the number 666 after my name back in ~1998 when I got an AIM screen name. (Someone apparently has been holding onto Urgo for the past 8 years on aol and never using it) At this time everyone was using either their age (lame), the current year, 69, or their favorite number in their screen name. Since I didn't like any of those ideas or have a favorite number, and I wanted to be different I thought 666 would be an ok choice. I am not a devil worshiper (I have been called Urgo Satan before). They are just numbers. My name is Urgo not Urgo666. Anyway I'm trying to come up with a better addition to Urgo for sites that require more then just Urgo. Any suggestions?
PS: My 10th birthday is going to be a big party so keep June 23rd free in 2005 =] Posted by Urgo at 09:42 AM
June 04, 2003
Finding Neo
The summer is finally here, at least in the no-school since. The weather is still that of spring, but hopefully that will change soon. Anyway, since I did not get a co-op like I had wanted for the summer I ended up getting 40 hours a week at the helpdesk for June, and part time hours at Cinemark (movie theater) for the whole summer (hopefully full time for July/august). The helpdesk has actually been pretty busy this week so I have not had much time to work on my own projects, but hopefully as the month progresses I'll get some things done. :) Cinemark isn't the most glamorous job, but it definitely isn't hard. The people I've met so far there are nice so its not too boring or annoying either. I rip tickets, clean theaters, make sure people don't steal posters/etc. When its busy I also fill in at the concession stand. The rest of the time I just hang around and talk to the other ushers or go in and watch movies to make sure the uh screen and sound work fine.. yeah. When we clean theaters we usually go in for the last 5-10 minutes of the movie so I've seen the ending of Bruce Almighty and Finding Nemo about 15 times each by now. I've also seen the Matrix ending several times. Speaking of the matrix...... according to this website I'm Neo. w00t.
Posted by Urgo at 11:01 AM
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