Part of Blaugust involves some, optional prompts, and one is an introduction post. This is one I have done before many times and it’s probably mostly all there on the About page linked above. But I’ll recap a bit here for those just joining in.
Welcome to Lameazoid, my first blog that I keep dragging along behind me. When it began life on Geocities it was The Chaos Zone but I did a sort of rebrand when I moved to Livejournal in the early 2000s. It’s technically all the same.blog, though I have purg d and restored content on it probably a dozen times. The name was sort of a retro inspired riff on not being cool, inspired in part by the name Freakazoid.
Last year I did Blaugust on my other blog, [Blogging Intensifies]. Where [BI] is about my “nerd content” about programming, gardening, food, and music, Lameazoid is all about my “geek hobbies”, my toy collecting, my game playing, my TV/movie watching. Though there was a brief period where the Toy content was on its own blog called Ready Set Geek.
I am your host for this month on this blog, Josh Miller, aka Ramen Junkie. Ramen Junkie is a name I have used for ages now, I like to joke that I have been known as Ramen Junkie for more of my life than I have not been known as Ramen Junkie. It’s a name I started using back in the late 90s on Use etc, primarily alt.games.final-fantasy, which I am the duly elected “Supreme Dictator For Life.” Whatever that means, I honestly don’t even remember if I actually won that “election”, it’s just a dumb meme at this point.
The name was picked for several reasons, I like ramen noodles, at the time I was a poor college student and ramen was poor college student food, also, ramen noodles are “hacker food”. I also picked it to poke fun at the common Usenet trope of people using Japanese Anime names as handles.
Anyway, welcome to the blog.
