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==Hi==
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Hi. I was kind of a major contributor to this wiki back in the heyday. Just came to my mind to come back and say hi.
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==My history with H*R and the Wiki==
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I made my name way back in 2005 as a direct (probably overly direct) translation of "Homestar Runner" at a time where I spoke German a lot. Then I moved to China and found that, go figure, Chinese is more useful in China, so I ended up speaking more of that. Still, I'm probably better at German than Chinese even today. Chinese is hard, people.
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I first discovered homestarrunner.com in March 2003 when I saw a couple of friends of mine watching various [[Strong Bad Email|Strong Bad Emails]] (at the time, [[the show]] was the new Email). I remember laughing really hard at [[japanese cartoon]]: I used to have a roommate who liked anime and so the parody of the clichés resonated well with me. After a couple of weeks, I went back and watched all the Strong Bad emails to that date (this time, it was [[spring cleaning]] that made me just about fall out of my chair). That summer, I introduced it to my entire family and hooked all three of my sisters (who often try very hard not to like anything that I like).  
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I moved to China back in '08, a little over a year before the Great Hiatuses began. For a while I remained active on the wiki despite relatively little activity here and despite things like getting married and subsequently having two kids, but eventually my activity dropped off. And kid number three arrived. And then the whole Läufer family finally moved to the United States.
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I first encountered the Wiki sometime in 2004 or 2005 (I believe I followed a link from [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]), but I didn't become a regular user until summer of 2005. At that time, I discovered all the awesome things on the Wiki. I first registered sometime around 23 August 2005 because I wanted to vote on [[STUFF]]. For over a month, I remained a redlinked user and only voted in STUFF and occasionally corrected spelling or grammar (albeit anonymously). On 6 October 2005 I finally made a user page and was greeted shortly thereafter by [[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] (back when he was called "notstrongorbad") and [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]], who remain two of my favorite users. As I had no concept of such things as the recent changes page at the time, I was surprised to see that I had been noticed me at all! This was when I began to contribute to the wiki. At first, it was just a little bit here and there, but eventually I became a very active user. I must have done something right, because I was made a sysop on 7 March 2006.
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So what is Heim doing now? Teaching 3rd grade in Bakersfield, California. Still all up ons quoting Homestar Runner. My kids are actually getting old enough they might like it by now! I certainly don't envision myself returning to being active or anything. But I finally got tired of how out of date this page was, so now we have some updates up through 2023.
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== My Wikitivities ==
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[[Image:HeimsternGreatWall.JPG|thumb|Yeah, that's what I look like. On the Great Wall, no less.]]
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'''''SADDY DUMPINGTON:''''' ''Some troll decided to celebrate New Year's Day 2006 by vandalizing my user space, and since then it's been vandalized many more times! Isn't that great?!''
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==Old matter==
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I enjoy making sure that the Wiki remains free of defacements and poor edits, and am to that end a member of the Recent Changes Patrol. I've reverted many a vandal edit in my day and have blocked several (or, in my pre-sysop days, informed sysops of them). My most memorable experience fighting vandals occurred when [[User:Lapper|Lapper]], [[User:Some HSR themed username|Some HSR themed username]] and I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning of 28 January 2006 stopping an annoying group of sockpuppets.
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I used to do a couple of contests on my userpage. I haven't done them in quite some time due to time constraints and the fact that the subtitles project has made my first a bit obsolete. Here, at any rate, are all the winners of the contests, whose wins I intend to keep recorded on this page as long as the page itself continues to live:
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What else do I do here on the Wiki, you ask? Or maybe you don't ask, but I'm still going to tell you. I vote on STUFF and correct bad spelling and punctuation (some of you should really watch [[local news]] again: Ohh, if-you-want-it-to-be-possessive-it's-just-I-T-S. But-if-it's-supposed-to-be-a-contraction-then-it's-I-T-apostrophe-S. Scalawag.) I also look for various opportunities to add content and to participate in discussions on the wiki. I tend to monitor the [[HRWiki:Featured Article Selection|featured article selection]] process here on the wiki and make sure it runs smoothly.
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'''Those who have won cupcakes in my German contest:'''<br>
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[[User:It's dot com|Es ist Dotcom]] (sechsmal) <br>
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[[User:DorianGray|DorischGrau]] (achtmal) <br>
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[[User:E.L. Cool|E.L. Kühl]] <br>
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[[User:Mibluvr13|Mibliebhaberin13]] <br>
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[[User:Thunderbird L17|Donnervogel L17]] (viermal) <br>
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[[User:Dacheatbot|Derbetrügerroboter]] <br>
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[[User:Qermaq|Kermacher]] (dreimal) <br>
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[[User:Super Sam|Der Übersam]] <br>
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[[User:Some HSR themed username|Irgendein Benutzername mit einem HSL Thema]]<br>
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[[User:Phlip|Phlipp]] (zweimal) <br>
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[[User:Loafing|Faulenzen]] <br>
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[[User:LordQuackingstick|HerrQuakendzweig]]
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'''Previous winners of my opera contest''': [[User:Trey56|Trey56]] (thrice), [[User:Qermaq|Qermaq]], [[User:Loafing|Loafing]], [[User:Has Matt?|Has Matt?]], [[User:The Commander IN COMMAND|The Commander IN COMMAND]]
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== Significant Contributions ==
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At least, I at one time thought they were significant:
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*I created the [[Crapfully Yours]], [[Homestar and Marzipan's Relationship]] and [[DNA Evidence (running gag)]] articles (but, naturally, others have continued to maintain and improve them).
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*[[Countries in Strong Badia the Free‎]]. Can't say I did it all, but I did a fair bit of it. One of my favourite articles already.
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*Oddly enough, given my dislike for the subject matter, I created the article [[Politics]].
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*I transcribed the following DVD commentaries:
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**[[Bug In Mouth Disease]]
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**[[Biz Cas Fri 2]]
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**[[Fluffy Puff Commercial]] (both commentaries)
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**[[New Boots]]
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**[[Peasant's Quest Preview]]
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**[[Puppet Time]]
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**[[Senor Mortgage]]
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**[[Sick Day]]
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**[[Strong Bad Sings]] (some of it had already been transcribed)
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**[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 3]] (second commentary)
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**[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 4]]
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**[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 7]]
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**[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 8]]
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**[[Teen Girl Squad Issue 10]]
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**[[The Interview]]
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**[[Theme Song Video]]
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**[[Trogdor Con '97|TrogdorCon '97]]
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*And the following toon transcriptions:
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**[[death metal]]
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**[[Sbemail 150?!?]]
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**About three eighths of [[Strongest Man in the World]]
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**[[road trip]]
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**[[coloring]]
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**[[your funeral]]
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**[[from work]]
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**About half of [[pizza joint]]
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**[[web comics]]
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**[[love poems]]
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**About two thirds of [[Career Day]]
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**[[Teen Girl Squad 15]]
== How do you pronounce Heimstern's name? ==
== How do you pronounce Heimstern's name? ==
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*Läu- : loy (does ''not'' rhyme with "how"!)
*Läu- : loy (does ''not'' rhyme with "how"!)
*-fer : fah (kind of a mix between "ah" and a schwa)
*-fer : fah (kind of a mix between "ah" and a schwa)
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== Possible translations of other characters' names ==
 
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*Pom pom : Pompon
 
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*Marzipan : Marzipan (P.S.: The word [[Wikipedia:Marzipan|Marzipan]] actually came to English from German)
 
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*Strong Bad: Stark Schlecht
 
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*Strong Mad: Stark Wütend
 
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*Strong Sad: Stark Traurig
 
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*The Cheat: Der Betrüger (although I prefer "Der Cheat")
 
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*Bubs: Bubs (not really translatable)
 
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*Coach Z: Trainer Z ("Z" pronounced "tsett")
 
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*The King of Town: Der König der Stadt
 
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*The Poopsmith: Der Mistschmied
 
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*Homsar: Hemsern
 
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== Some random facts ==
 
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*Current favorite quote: "A protected landmark with surprisingly clean restrooms!"
 
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*I have a poster on my wall that my sister made for me that says "cool tapes!"
 
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*My birthday is the same as the composer [[Wikipedia:Richard Wagner|Richard Wagner]]'s.
 
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*My cousins have a pair of red boxing gloves that resemble Strong Bad's. The first time I tried them on, I naturally decided to try typing with them. No success. I still have no idea [[How Do You Type With Boxing Gloves On?|how he does it]].
 

Current revision as of 03:31, 22 April 2025

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[edit] Hi

Hi. I was kind of a major contributor to this wiki back in the heyday. Just came to my mind to come back and say hi.

I made my name way back in 2005 as a direct (probably overly direct) translation of "Homestar Runner" at a time where I spoke German a lot. Then I moved to China and found that, go figure, Chinese is more useful in China, so I ended up speaking more of that. Still, I'm probably better at German than Chinese even today. Chinese is hard, people.

I moved to China back in '08, a little over a year before the Great Hiatuses began. For a while I remained active on the wiki despite relatively little activity here and despite things like getting married and subsequently having two kids, but eventually my activity dropped off. And kid number three arrived. And then the whole Läufer family finally moved to the United States.

So what is Heim doing now? Teaching 3rd grade in Bakersfield, California. Still all up ons quoting Homestar Runner. My kids are actually getting old enough they might like it by now! I certainly don't envision myself returning to being active or anything. But I finally got tired of how out of date this page was, so now we have some updates up through 2023.

Yeah, that's what I look like. On the Great Wall, no less.

[edit] Old matter

I used to do a couple of contests on my userpage. I haven't done them in quite some time due to time constraints and the fact that the subtitles project has made my first a bit obsolete. Here, at any rate, are all the winners of the contests, whose wins I intend to keep recorded on this page as long as the page itself continues to live:

Those who have won cupcakes in my German contest:
Es ist Dotcom (sechsmal)
DorischGrau (achtmal)
E.L. Kühl
Mibliebhaberin13
Donnervogel L17 (viermal)
Derbetrügerroboter
Kermacher (dreimal)
Der Übersam
Irgendein Benutzername mit einem HSL Thema
Phlipp (zweimal)
Faulenzen
HerrQuakendzweig

Previous winners of my opera contest: Trey56 (thrice), Qermaq, Loafing, Has Matt?, The Commander IN COMMAND


[edit] Significant Contributions

At least, I at one time thought they were significant:

[edit] How do you pronounce Heimstern's name?

  • Heim- : hime (rhymes with "lime")
  • -stern : shtairn ("r" pronounced as a vowel, as some Northeasterners do)
  • Läu- : loy (does not rhyme with "how"!)
  • -fer : fah (kind of a mix between "ah" and a schwa)


ME: And that's why come Schumann was so awesome.

STRONG SAD: Ohh! I see now!

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