User:Lapper

Welcome to me

Hey everyone. This is Lapper here, or you can call me Alex. I'm a 15 year old guy living in Missouri, United States. Although I've only been active for a short time, I hope to contribute more now than ever before. Homestar Runner has been a large interest of mine for a long time, and I hope to see that it keeps doing as well as this wiki is.

Science again! I said science again!

I was turned on to Homestar at the same time the stunt double email came out, late July 2003. It was then that I first saw Homestar at a local Science Center's Internet station, saw Strong Bad do all of his own stunts, and I was hooked immediately. Every single day I was on the site, watching the 'toons, playing the games, and exploring the easter eggs. Every part of the site was wonderful.

No, I'm pretty sure it was dot-wiki

In April of 2005, I discovered the Homestar Runner Wiki through a Google search some forgotten Saturday morning. I was amazed with how the wiki knew what was on the Homestar site before even I did. I created an account as fast as I could, for I wanted to be part of the community, to contribute my knowledge. However, during this initial period, my contributions were sparse. I mostly watched and learned, trying to pick up MediaWiki syntax while subtly making the occasional edit. More recently, a now good friend of mine welcomed me to this wiki after seeing one of my edits. I saw the array of helpful links and was suddenly enlightened. I opened my eyes and saw the wiki for the first time. It was at this point that one thing led to another. I since have become outgoing and active not only in the content of HRWiki, but also in the community.

Vague understanding

If I've learned anything from experience, it's to live by these simple guidelines:

1. Watch and wait until something interesting happens, at which point you should observe it, evaluate it, and try to pick something up from it.

2. If, at any point, you find that you are accurately able to predict the outcome of a given action you're watching and waiting for, you are ready to join in.

3. Do not, under any circumstances, join into something that you can't fully grasp or seem to understand.

It may sound a bit Hitchhiker-esque, but this is a quite fool-proof way to make sure that you at least know what you're getting into before you do it. This applies especially for a wiki, which sometimes is so excitingly big, people disregard guideline three and join right in, often causing severe misunderstandings.