Who I am, in a nutshell
| Name: | Bamidele O. Shangobunmi |
| Location: | San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA |
| Age: | Fortysomething |
| Favorite saying: | "Good enough, isn't." |
| Profession: | LEGO builder & reviewer (Formerly web & software user experience designer) |
| Educational background: | Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley, and Contra Costa College |
| Favorite foods: | Grilled cheese sandwiches, burgers & fries, protein smoothies, fruit |
| Things I loved as a kid: | Birds, He-Man, Voltron, M.A.S.K., my BMX bike, HO scale trains, RC cars, LEGO |
| Things I love now: | My wife, life, hard work, accomplishment, honesty & morality, peace, driving on twisty roads, sci fi, LEGO, gaming |
How the name "JANG" came about
As an adolescent I had started signing artwork I drew with the nickname BOSman, a pun on my initials, and this stuck with me when I first got online in the early 1990s. Between 1993 & 1997, I struggled to define an online persona and went through a number of alias changes. From the Wu Tang Clan-inspired "Method Man," I moved to the more original "Mahsta of Methods," then underwent an ego check and adopted the nick "Just A Nice Guy." I didn't want anybody thinking I was too nice, though, so I then abbreviated & hybridized the alias to "Mahsta J.A.N.G." before stepping it up to "Admiral J.A.N.G." in conjunction with a science fiction backstory I invented for one of my early web sites. Eventually I settled on just the enduring acronym, but injected a bit of self-deprecating humor, and "the JANG" I've been for now a couple decades.
