Who Is Blex You Ask?
This page is about my real life, and internet life.
Here is my life story.
I am 18 years old and in college. My name is Mike Kramer I am 6
feet tall and a whomping 145 pounds. I enjoy playing baseball, working
at mcdonalds, running my mp3 page, watching football, and just sitting
my ass down on my computer. I believe in God, I am christian, I don't
believe in UFO's, I think Kennedy wasn't shot by a lone gunman, I don't
like graphics on webpages, I love Savatage music, I love cats, dogs,
and animals, and
I like chics too. My life story starts before I was born. My father
passed away in a car accident on icy roads while I was in the womb. I
was raised by my mom, sister, and relatives. My life has had about 4
major phases. My first phase was my transformer phase. I had
everysingle one almost and the TV show kicked ass. After my transformer
phase, I got involved
in collecting sports cards. I (to this day) have all my sports cards
and I plan on keeping them as momento's of my youth. Thoughtout my life
I have always played
baseball. I consider myself good, but in my hick town that I live in
the I've always been in a league younger then all my classmates because
my birthday is 50 days
past the age deadline. So my entire life I've always been playing
baseball with kids that are a grade younger. I played football in 1993,
I was 5'3 90 pounds on the freshman
team and sat on the bench all year. I did however make the interception
of my life in my first ever game by picking off a pass and running it
back 40 yards until I tripped over my own two feet and got sandwiched
by an actual 350 pound freshman from Marquette. I wrote a webpage on
that and it's was fun to read. In March of 1994 my computer days
started. My family got a Packard Bell 486/33 MHX computer with 4 megs
of ram. This started the next phase of my life, that being the computer
phase. That summer, I put a 14.4 modem in the computer. That started my
days on the local bbs which I would later get suspended off of in 1996
because I didn't fit it's "family orientated" type of system. In
January of 1996, we got a new
Hewlett Packard pentium 133/1.6/16 computer, which I have upgraded to a
Pentium 133/1.6 (with tape drive)/32. My webpage making days started on
the old bbs, and even had one
at http://www.cybrzn.com/~blex that was just an insult other webpage's
type of page that criticized other shitty local www pages. That got
boring then March of 1997 I stopped
working on the page and just sat on the local ISP and downloaded warez
for a while. I always thought of making a warez www page, and about 5
days before the prom I put together Blex's Page of Good Warez. That
page was never uploaded, but rather scratched because all warez www
pages suck, and mine would have sucked also. I then thought to
myself..."I got about 5 good mp3 sites right now, if I posted them on a
webpage and adveritised the URL on IRC I could run a good site" I
started
the page the day of the prom, because there was nothing to do seeing
that all the people I know were at the prom, and I was at home. I soon
saw hits flying into my page, I added
as many sites that were working as I could. I then added some funny
graphics, and people started emailing me and saying "Your page rules!"
I knew then this mp3 page would be
something big. Well, I graduated high school and a month later got a
job at my hick town gathering hall (Mcdonalds). I played another year
of baseball, but because I was only 17 years old, I was to play on the
JV team, although all my friends graduated with me. I actualy prefered
to play on the JV team because I'm so used to being on the same team
with all the kids a year younger that it'd be funner. Last year I had a
career low batting average of about 240 (although my career average is
350 still). But I don't give a shit, it don't matter when your
graduated from high school and playing on a JV baseball team because
the idiot baseball leaders have some stupid age deadline. I hit
my first homerun in July of 1997. The homerun was in batting practice
and it was on the last pitch thrown to me, in the last practice of the
year. I have always been a good
contact hitter and an excellent defensive player (I have started at
shortstop every game of my life almost). But, I have never hit a
homerun in any game or practice. After I hit my homerun I ran out to
left field and got the ball. I have the ball sitting on my computer
desk right now. If I wanted too I could probably list about 50 baseball
stories that I have been through, including the drunk coach, 10th man
mistake, and the shouting match but I choose to keep them secret. I
love the game and have another year of elgiblitiy in 1998, but it's
questionable if I'm gonna play or not because the only people that
start are the players that have father's that suck up to the coach.
Seeing I do not have a father that is drinking buddies with the coach,
I don't play. As it is right now, I started my first semester at the
University of Wisconsin Marinette Center, and I got a 2.87 GPA. I also
just won the fastest grill person of the month award for an amazing 2
months in a row at Mcdonalds. I also run the best mp3 sites list in the
entire
world. I think I might eventually make the mp3 page my 5th phase, I
really enjoy it (although sometimes it gets boring) and I'm glad that I
have made a difference in the world (I always
thought that I should make a diference in the world). You now have a
shitty grammer, 1000 spelling mistake version of my life story. I have
left out tons and tons of details, but now you
know who Blex is in real life.
Here was what this page originally was. It's a philosophical view of what the internet is and the power of Anonmosity.
Who am I? Well in case you don't realize it, you are on the
internet. Yes, the next technological wonder and the biggest revolution
of the 90s. So who am I?
I use the nickname of Blex. What can you draw from that? Am I just
another teenager running around surfing the net? Am I an FBI agent in
disguise out to take down
illegal sites? Am I the President of the United States in disguise? Am
I your long lost brother or sister? You really want to know who I am? I
am a computer
user connected to the internet who uses chat rooms, webpages, and other
sorts of technological wonders to express the person I want to be on
the net. I can pretend
to be anybody I want. I can enter chat rooms and give advice to doctors
for a heart transplant, I can say I am a male or a female, I can say I
am
anybody in the world and you would have nothing to say that I am not.
Surely, if you already know a person in real life the internet is a
great way to talk back and forth with
email or chat rooms, but if you have no idea on who a person is in real
life, all you can do is draw up a picture in your mind and any
personality that you want to because all that you know is that that
person is a series of letters (a nickname or user-id) that talks back
to you and gives you an idea to who that person is. But then again,
what proof do I have that anybody else exists in this world? Can you
prove to me that you exist? How do I know the universe wasn't created
10 minutes ago and my past hasn't just been illusions? What proof do I
have that there really is an actual person who is Blex that types stuff
into a computer? What if I told you my age? If I said 10, how do
you know I am? If I said 20 how do you know I'm not? What if I told you
my real name? Could you prove me wrong if I said I was Bill Clinton? If
I claim to be a male, am I telling the truth? If I said I was from the
north pole and lived with elves would you have proof to say I'm lying?
How do you know that I am actually a person? What if I claimed to be an
alien from outer space who has signed onto the internet to learn about
the human race? Could you prove me wrong? What am I here for you ask?
Well I started up my mp3 page because I wanted to make a difference in
people's lives and
to make things better for people. I am near 1 million visitors to my
mp3 page, and lots of nickname's out there know this "Blex" as a
household name. I have changed nearly 1 million lives, and effected
millions more seeing that people download and mp3 song, play it, and
then others around them hear it. Could
I have affected more then 10 million people without leaving my chair in
front of my computer? I guess the internet is the place you go where
race, sex, religion,
ethics, minorities, heritage, teeth color, eye color, bad breath, hair
color, shoe size, and everything else about a person is thrown aside
because you can't see a person. All that remains is your interpertation
of what a person's actual personality is in real life from what a
series of characters that a person types into his computer show on your
screen. How do you know the Blex from Blex's Page of Good Mp3 wrote
this page? Does my claiming to have wrote this page really mean I wrote
it? Are you sure? So now, this page is titled "Who Is Blex", so...who
am I? That's for your mind to determine, unless you know me in real
life...
Now you all think I am some sort of weird ass, you can email me. But, how do I know anybody else besides my self can think?
Site made 1/8/98 with the philosophical version. The real Blex version was made on 1/14/98.