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After two years, that one Anonny is finally here. Not on Friday as guessed, but hey, at least I got one this weekend! I'm still working on this page.
My history with Homestar Runner
My first experience (or "impression") of Homestar Runner was a bad one. I believe I was browsing the iTunes Music Store for podcasts when I noticed what might have been the Homestar Runner podcast. It's a vague memory, but it looked like the Homestar and Strong Bad Poster (only with with the positions switched and instead of someone on the right it was the left), and apparently something that looked like the White House or some white US government building, to the side. with a flag hanging off of it. The podcast was labeled as explicit. I doubt this was actually it, but when I saw Homestar Runner for real the first time I thought I was watching something I shouldn't have been.
In early 2007, a friend's friend and I were on the computers at school one morning. He was wondering if linking directly to a file would bypass the filter we had at school. The link was to First Time Here, and I found it funny. I think the sailor costume was what was chosen for Homestar out of the random costumes, too, if I remember correctly. Fortunately, homestarrunner.com wasn't, and still isn't, blocked, but now with a new filter it blocks this wiki's domain under "forums and blogs" (and it block's Wikipedia's edit page under the same category...huh). Afterwards, he showed me kids' book and I was hooked. Then it seemed classmates watched a bunch of Strong Bad emails that week, and people especially liked guitar. Of course, like some of you, I wasn't at all familiar with the characteristics of the Homestar Runner Universe the first time I saw it, so at first it was all strange. I especially wondered why all the characters looked so strange, especially in the moving silhouettes in the first background of the Fluffy-Puff commercial in retirement (and I watched that email a lot). The following week, I watched your funeral and Drive-Thru. One day I showed my sister it, and she liked Teen Girl Squad. I believed she watched all of them, and we all (which was my sister, my mother, and I) liked the "Uh-oh. We got a spinner." part in Teen Girl Squad Issue 10.
Later on, we bought a lot of merchandise, enough to get all of the Freebies. We got all the strongbad_email.exe DVDs there were at the time (up to disk five), some t-shirts and Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits.
Ever since my interest (and comprehension of the Homestar Runner Universe) has been growing ever since. However, at school classmates no longer take it so lightly. They now consider it as "something that was funny in third grade", and they really don't find it funny, and often ask me to stop watching.
My history with Homestar Runner Wiki
I eventually discovered the Homestar Runner Wiki in a Google search. At first I didn't really notice, or care, but eventually looking through I found it interesting. At one point, I made my first and hasty edit, that was just a repeated "Real-World References" statement, and was reverted.
In Later Months I transcribed the commentary for redesign, since I was a Mac fanboy, and Mike in the commentary "mentioned" the name of The Cheat's new computer (which looked similar to the white plastic iMac with the iSight camera). I tried to claim it a few days before I had the time to do it, and being inexperienced with MediaWiki markup and the standards it was an utter mess between me and a few other users (and thanks, guys!). The big issue was that I was using Safari and the textarea is displayed in a sans-serif font, and I thought bold was done by a quote and apostrophe (with Helvetica at that font point, I swear, you can get the two easily mixed-up). I also got a spot on Loafing's Hall of Fame when editing the article for Monosodium Dreams. To be honest, I was trying to, heh heh.
When original was released, I (not with the Greasemonkey script, but the Flash menu) found a Goof with Strong Bad's neck as Bubs was punching him. I took a screenshot, uploaded it online long enough for It's Dot Com to put it on here and use it.
At one point I found out about the Greasemonkey script through a mention it in a description of an easter egg (from mile?), downloaded Firefox, and got it. Somehow before or after that I had learned about the Subtitles project, and quickly, knowing some HTML, I caught on. On day I corrected some of Where's the Cheat?, which took me some hours to do, and even then I still haven't finished it (it's been well over a year!).
IP Addresses Used By Me
One day, I made a list of all the IP addresses I could find that I used, and made a list that would grow a little bit. These aren't all of them, but all of them are related to some of my major contributions. Here it is, copied right from the text file!
IP Adresses:
# 76.224.216.122 (Jul 12 2009-
69.150.85.66 (Jan 8 2009-Mar 4 2009)
68.94.94.234 (Apr 10 2009)
75.28.91.38 (Apr 7 2009-Apr 9 2009)
75.5.176.233 (Dec 6 2008-Dec 21 2008)
70.253.165.204 (Nov 23 2008-Dec 6 2008)
64.149.213.65 (Nov 18 2008-Nov 22 2008)
71.157.173.166 (Nov 12 2008-Nov 17 2008)
75.41.212.228 (Nov 9 2008-Nov 11 2008)
70.143.29.193 (Oct 13 2008-Nov 1 2008)
68.92.250.78 (Sep 7 2008-Sep 13 2008)
70.248.146.87 (Sep 6 2008-Sep 7 2008)
75.8.93.33 (May 26 2008-May 28 2008)
70.143.29.70 (Apr 28 2008-May 18 2008)
76.210.181.251 (Apr 10 2008-April 22 2008)
70.232.140.237 (Mar 20 2008-Mar 22 2008)
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75.59.138.25 (Nov 21 2007)
71.153.55.87 (Sep 25 2007)
75.33.123.41 (Sep 3 2007-Sep 4 2007)
70.239.222.30 (Sep 8 2007-Sep 10 2007)
68.94.95.119 (Jul 13 2007-Jul 16 2007)
