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About
Who am I? What am I? How did I get here?
Those questions are usually better asked of yourself, but since you're here, I'll share a little background on myself with you to try to fill in some of the holes about my life.
"My name is Jimmy Blake, and I'm an addict." Those are the words I first entered the online world with, back in the mid 90's. I had just entered an IRC chat room for the X-Philes Anonymous internet group, and I was hooked instantly into the world of instant communication.
Of course, back then I wasn't really going by my real name. I was going by the handle of 'CyberMind', because I thought it was much cooler than just going by 'Jimmy'. As things evolved, people just started calling me 'CM' for short, and when I began writing daily lines of short poetry, my first mailing list was always signed that way.
My digital presence really started to kick off right after the shootings at Columbine High School, but for reasons that you might not expect. When all the shooting ended and the smoke started to clear, it left a lot of people asking what caused two teens to become so horribly violent, and while people started to look towards everything from video games to outcasts at school, I had a slightly different theory. Having been picked on and tormented for most of the years I had been in school, I knew just what it was to feel completely and utterly helpless, and I knew what it was to let that pressure build up until you just about exploded.
There was something about Eric and Dylan that I identified with, even though I couldn't agree with the choices they made, and I knew I wasn't alone. Sooner than I really realized what I was doing, I had my hands to the keyboard and let my thoughts fill the screen. The 'Youth Cry' campaign was just a little website with my thoughts about Columbine and a ribbon graphic people would use as a link, but it caught on like wildfire. Even now, many years later, I still manage to get a call or two every once in a great while from a newspaper reporter asking for an interview about the site for an anniversary special they're doing about the shootings.
Skip to a few years and a few websites later, and I had decided to start getting into online radio broadcasting. Before I could really be serious about broadcasting though, I needed to come up with another name for myself. 'CyberMind' just wouldn't cut it anymore, since it now tends to make people think of cybersex instead of cyberspace. After a little pondering and a lot of twisted leaps inside my head, I came up with Sies Y. Atnevon, or Atnevon for short. Backwards, it becomes noventa y seis, or 96 in Spanish. Take the 96th element from the periodic table of elements, and you'll find yourself with Curium, which has an atomic symbol of Cm, all leading back to my initials for CyberMind.
So, now you know where I get my name. The rest I'll leave up to you to find on your own. Enjoy your hunting.
Copyright © 2008 Atnevon.com
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