About Antranik From Jan 2011 to March 2013

The 3D Lion King

Who Are You?

SOME OF YOU know me very well.  Some of you have never heard of me before.  My name is Antranik and I am also called Anto for short.  My main drive for cre­at­ing and main­tain­ing this blog is for express­ing myself.  I love shar­ing infor­ma­tion that is insight­ful and/or enter­tain­ing, whether it comes from my per­sonal thoughts or on the internet.

Inter­est­ingly enough, most of the peo­ple that I have cre­ated a con­nec­tion with in the past few years are peo­ple that I’ve met hap­haz­ardly through online forums.  We were adven­tur­ous forum mem­bers (read: awe­some nerds!) that used to orga­nize “meet-ups” at par­ties or even host entire par­ties just for us!  As I started to know every­body bet­ter online and offline, I assim­i­lated these online friends to be my friends just like any other.  I had no idea what I was get­ting myself into but one thing is for sure:  This has resulted in me sud­denly hav­ing a much larger net­work of friends than would oth­er­wise have been pos­si­ble.  The power of the inter­net, is a bit ridicu­lous to say the least.  My friend Adrian Coroian told me, “The human mind can’t grasp the size of the inter­net.” And that’s so unbe­liev­ably true.

I don’t post nowa­days in those same forums.  I don’t really have the inter­est.  I spend my time with dif­fer­ent things.  The pass­ing of time has con­firmed yet again that the only thing con­stant… is change.  It seems I was just another part of a gen­er­a­tion of friends that have dis­banded.  Just another cycle in the wave.  The good news is that I’m still friends with every­body!  The bad news is that I really missed mak­ing detailed replies or start­ing threads on forums to express myself.

I enjoy writ­ing my thoughts out and shar­ing any­thing that I feel is worth shar­ing if it helps peo­ple out in some way through edu­ca­tion or entertainment.

That is why Face­book, which I use all the time, just like you, isn’t cut­ting it.  It’s great for social net­work­ing and has tremen­dous reach but with the way it’s struc­tured, it doesn’t pro­mote any depth.   like the really, really dumbed-down ver­sion of a mes­sage board, on par with inane YouTube com­men­tary.  The last thing I want to do is con­tribute to the dumbing-down of our soci­ety.  I want to help lift us out of this rat race, to raise our con­scious­ness beyond our prob­lems and bring aware­ness to the bet­ter and brighter things.

So after much hes­i­ta­tion, I decided to start my own site.  This was going to be my out­let for what I had to say.  At first I was won­der­ing if using my first name would be in vain, but I feel blessed to have a first name that is so weird that I could buy the .org of it (hey, maybe one day I can get the .com domain too!).

I’m going to do the best I can.  This is all new to me so there’s a lot to learn.  I don’t even know what I’m going to post next.  All I know is that I should just be myself.

So here it is! Yay! Thank you for mak­ing it near the end by the way!  I really appre­ci­ate your atten­tion!  Pssst.. there’s secret pages scat­tered around this blog.  There’s one even on THIS page!

If you really like some­thing, there’s a myr­iad of ways you could show your sup­port.

You may… click “Like”,  leave (absurd) com­ments at the end of the post, sub­scribe to my newslet­ter, become a Face­book Fan… and so forth! The great­est com­pli­ment one can give is when they share an arti­cle with their friends. 

All the Best,

Antranik

Likes:  Clouds, bicy­cles, views, frozen blue­ber­ries, canyon dri­ving, pho­tog­ra­phy, effi­ciency.
Pet Peeve: No coat hanger in a bath­room stall.