name: Brandon M.
age: 27 years old
occupation: Application Developer
school/degree: University of Detroit Mercy // BS in Computer Science
location: Greenville, TX, USA
aol instant messenger: pubarso
email: mister AT pubarso DOT com

website: pubarso.com
flickr photo gallery: flickr photos
photography/artwork: gallery @ deviantart.com

What exactly is Pubarso?

Good question…

It was Super Bowl sunday, 1999. At 11pm, I was in Darren’s fine automobile (r.i.p) and on the way back home from playing poker with him, his cousin, some of his other family, and Justin.

In Michigan we have these things called Michigan Lefts (basically a legal U-turn on a divided highway/parkway/whatever). Anyway, some idiot decided that instead of stopping at the Michigan Left and looking before pulling out into the road, like he was legally required to do, that he would just pull out in front of a car travelling 45mph.

Boom.

Ouch.

Head-on collision at 45mph. Not fun.

click here to see the result of that little fender bender.

Yes, everyone survived. The other guy didn’t seem to be hurt. Out of the four people in our car, I think Justin had a small concussion, Darren’s cousin was ok, and Darren and I had to go to the chiropractor every other day for three or four weeks.

Ah-Ha! That explains the spiney thing on the right… maybe. (Site was redesigned. The ’spiney thing’, as I had described it, is now gone.)

So, while sitting at the chirpractor day, after day, after day, we had stared at this poster in the office each time. It shows a spine, and then for each vertebrae, it shows what areas of the body will be effected if that vertebrae is out of place. (or something, im no doctor)

We stared at this poster and thought — ‘wow, these doctors sure do memorize alot of nice & complicated information’. We wondered if there were any neat little acronyms they could make, to remember the symptoms easier. HFBEENTPGPGHLSLI, HBL, and OTTBLI weren’t really easy to pronounce or remember, and then we got down to the bottom…

Prostate
Uterus
Bladder
Anus
Rectum
Sexual
Organs.

And thus, PUBARSO was born.

(pronounced poo-BAR-so or pew-BAR-so, take your pick… but the 2nd one is wrong.)