Curious about why I use the name Blue Kae as a handle on various games and as the name for this blog?  Wondering if I picked random Scrabble tiles, or there’s some deep dark Dan Brownesque mystery?  Scarybooster has the full story go check it out. [Note, I’ve inserted Scary’s original post here since he lost the original during a horrible blog upgrade accident.]

Yesterday, I had a post about playing a hero in real life and games. I don’t consider this post playing a hero, but it is a way to help a person get noticed. Brian aka Blue Kae is one of the nicest virtual buds I have “met”. I enjoy reading his blog and talk to him over Twitter daily.

I try to do post like this not to draw attention to my blog or force other bloggers to link me, but because I like to get to know my bloggers. I want you to know what I know. For me, blogging is a great social network. This is my Facebook. I enjoy these type of posts the most, because I feel like I am getting to know a friend. I don’t treat my blog as a competition between other bloggers for hits. I won’t ever tell you how many hits I get or how many comments I have, because it doesn’t matter. What matters is if you like what you read. That is why I have stars at the end of each post. I don’t need you to comment, but I do like it when the stars are filled out so I can gauge if you liked the post or not.Anyway, this post is not about me, it is about Blue Kae. He is great guy. Check him out on Twitter or his Blog.

I bought an Xbox 360 two years ago to play Mass Effect. I also got a Zune 80gb about the same time. I knew when I signed up for a Live account that the nickname would be attached to both devices and I had never been happy with the nickname I had on the original Xbox. Mostly because it was so forgettable that even now I can’t remember what it was. I didn’t want any l33t speak or other garbage and I’m not a big fan of names like xx_killa_xx. I think names are very important, especially in online spaces when that’s your first impression of a person. Unfortunately in most MMO’s I pick names based on the background lore and for Xbox Live there is none.

So here’s the criteria I had:

1. nothing stupid
2. nothing too long
3. something that could be shortened easily that I would still like
4. something that I could use in other online spaces beyond Xbox Live and Zune

Of course a lot of the names I tried out on Xbox Live were already taken.

I ended up looking at two word combos as a way to have something easily shortened. My intials are B K and my favorite color is Blue. I also thought Blue would work out good as a shortened version. Kae, I made up. I liked it because it sounds like the letter and I’ve always liked the ae vowel combination (yes I know that’s weird). So I checked online and Blue Kae was free on Xbox and on Gmail.

In September of last year when I was thinking about starting a blog, I couldn’t come up with any clever titles I liked. So instead of something clever like Bio Break or Dubious Quality, I just went with my gamertag and registered Blue Kae

… Treat others as you would like to be treated.

While you’re there be sure to check out my three most favorite Scary posts [links removed since they’re all broken now, see above for why]:

  1. Suck It!
  2. Aion Character Creator
  3. Playing the Hero
What’s a Blue Kae Anyway?
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9 thoughts on “What’s a Blue Kae Anyway?

  • December 11, 2009 at 2:21 pm
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    Thanks for the plug. I do like the WPTouch set up. It is easy and fast to comment.

    Btw the Aion character creator video post is my favorite too. When my girlfriend says boobies, it just is HOT!

  • December 11, 2009 at 3:27 pm
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    I’ve been wondering about the name the entire time I’ve followed this blog!

    • December 11, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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      Hope the real story wasn’t too much of a let down for you. What’s the origin of Yeebo?

      • December 11, 2009 at 4:38 pm
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        It’s a name I made up for the first Hobbit Druid I rolled in EQOA (of all games). He had green hair on his feet and looked like a Yeebo. He never made it much past the ripe old age of level 16, but I liked the name and kept using it.

        • December 11, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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          Funny how these handles get started so randomly and then take on a life of their own. At the time I made my Xbox live tag I had no idea it would end up as a blog, twitter account, etc. I guess its a good thing I’m so picky about names, even if I don’t expect to use them for long or very often.

  • December 11, 2009 at 5:13 pm
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    After my Fail at my first blog The Order if Destruction I was wandering the Internet trying to find my way. Br3ntbr0 picked me up for his blog Wall of Text, but I was attention whore and needed my own blog. I asked my friends and family what I should do. They all said, you are Scarybooster (which I made up with crayons in the sand) and so Scarybooster.com was born. What does Scarybooster mean… Nunya cuz this is Brian’s Blog and I am over my attention whore ways. Lol, not really that is why I blog. It twas a great story Brian and I wish my name had the cool roots yours does

  • December 13, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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    Scary, an attention whore, no way! So because I have a few X’s in my name, does that make me l33t?

    • December 13, 2009 at 9:56 pm
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      I couldn’t say, but I’m not much into shooters so I’ve never really gotten the hang of the X’s and clan tags. I think to be truly l33t don’t you need at least one number in your name? Something like xXJ@y3DuBXx. 🙂

      • December 14, 2009 at 7:57 pm
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        LOL! Give ’em heck, BK.

        Great story, by the way.

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