esacteksab

There are two types of people (you haven’t heard this joke before), those who ask “WTF is esacteksab?” and those who state “You know that’s basketcase backwards, right?” like somehow I didn’t know what I was doing.

I’m digging back into tinkering and that’s taking place on GitHub, under the esacteksab org. I need/want a place to host docs for projects and will do so with subdomains $project.esacteksab.com. Otherwise this site will remain empty and relatively unchanged. My personal blog continues to exist at barrymorrison.com.

Early 2000’s’ish I was attending my first VMworld and I signed up for Twitter (it was called Twitter back in my day…) on my terrible Blackberry while waiting in line. Stuck my phone back in my pocket to not look at Twitter again. Fastforward to the following year’s VMworld, I go to sign back into Twiter and basketcase isn’t working for a username. 😕 Poke at it, jiggle the handle, I finally determined that I fat-fingered ‘basketcase’ when I signed up. I thought “No big deal, I’ll just sign up again.”. Nope! basketcase was taken. Quite a few people knew me online as ‘basketcase’ so I knew I wanted a play on it, I was going through a phase and decided to type it backwards. Fastforward almost 20 years, and the name has stuck.

If you’re curious about basketcase before esacteksab. I’ve been a car guy my entire life. Even earlier 2000’s’ish, I bought a car and brought it home on a trailer. Inside that car was about 8 boxes of parts the previous owner had taken off, but not put back on. It was very much a project. Those around me in real life called the project a basketcase. And basketcase was born.

p.s. this also gives me a space to test out my first Hugo theme simpl.