june 1, 2009.

apparently i've been a blogger for quite some time and never actually had a blog. i believe though, that this initial entry on the first of june in the year two thousand and nine now makes me an official blogger.

i decided to celebrate this blogger achievement with my beta:
istio michael simes jr.
istio stands for "istiophorus platyperus"
[the scientific name for the sail fish]

background on istio's name:
when he first arrived in my dorm somewhere around april 20th, 2009 [a gift from my roommate]
he was a noticeably fast and furious fish, should i say. he could be heard ramming into the walls of his glass home into the wee hours of the morning.
i took it upon myself to decide that he was one of, if not THE fastest beta fish in existence, and decided to name him michael, after michael phelps [because if michael were a beta fish, HE would be the fastest alive].
others, however, decided michael was an inadequate name to give to a fish so i decided that if he could find the name of the fastest fish alive then i would consider renaming little michael.
well, he came upon the sailfish, which is apparently "the fastest fish" and because i decided "sailfish" was an inadequate, and just plain boring, name to give to a fish, i went with an abbreviated version of it's scientific name.

and that is how michael became istio michael simes jr.
[even though there is no senior preceding him, so technically he's not a junior, but we just decided it'd be fun].

so this is my official blogger entry.


hello to all other bloggers and i am indeed very happy to be here.