Jason Austin's Blog Life and times of a PHP Developer in Raleigh, NC

The story behind “Jason Awesome”

Lots of people have asked me about my "jasonawesome.com" domain... They say "Jason, is it just because you are so freakin awesome?".  Well, kinda...but that's not the story of how it got started.

It all started one chilly winter day when I was ordering DirecTV for my house.  I'm not going to get into my DirecTV/Time Warner cage match just yet, but it all started because I had enough of my crappy, overpriced service from TWC.  Anyway, I called DirecTV to sign up, and the conversation went a little like this:

Me: Hey, I want to get DirecTV

DirecTV Dude: Great!  Can I get your first and last name?  And your address?  And your social security number?  And...

Me: You are an excited dude....I'll give you all that info if you just take a breath....

DirecTV Dude: Heh...yeah.  Ok...I'm a little hyper...

Me: No way...really?

DirecTV Dude: Yeah, so I need your first and last name.

Me: Jason.....Austin

DirecTV Dude: Did you say awesome?

Me: Austin...A - U - S - T -

DirecTV Dude: OHHHHHH!

Me: Yeah, like the city in Texas.

DirecTV Dude: It'd be so much cooler if your last name was "Awesome"

Me: Maybe I'll change it up like Ocho Cinco

DirecTV Dude: Who?

Me: Nevermind

Anyway, you get the point.  Dude thought Austin == Awesome, and therefore, I got JasonAwesome.com.  BTW, the rest of the conversation was seriously just as scattered as that exchange above.  I think the guy doubled up his espresso intake for the day.  I finally asked him if he was always this excited about DirecTV.  "Yeah, I'm pretty much this excited about everything"....wow...