Topic awaiting preservation: Why did you join the Asylum (Page 2 of 2)

I've been quite fond of philosilly too

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I like the name "philosilly" I forget who said it first, but it always struck me a somehow quite appropriate!

was surfing one night for the meaning of life and mistook the gurus here for the kind that would know.

they don't. hence, 'philosilly'... but the pictures still mesmerised and the banter still enlightened and somehow my hunger for divine purpose was eclipsed by this strange, burning need to gaussian blur spheres till they resembled glass marbles....

[insert fabulous sig here]

For all I know it began with me being totally fascinated by Doc's trekker interface, coming across the forums (without knowing that they were forums, of course, as that concept wasn't known to teenage Germans at that time), having trouble figuring out what all the English words meant and not returning for a year or two. The next time I happened around here has to have been around Xmas '01 when I was trying to get some style sheet things to work in NN4.... then Emps and that coffee boy somehow tricked me into getting into the specifics of CSS, stuff like tableless layouts, and into translating a bunch of GN tutorials for the intenationaglobalization project (which still is a well-kept secret!), even into writing own tutorials, reading millions of entertaining posts and web pages, then putting half a year of life into the grail.... and now here I am, studying for a bachelor of science in information technologies for some strange reason. And though I hardly know him, it might all well be the Doc's fault. Hmmm. Funny place =)

[edit: BTW - who's inmate #5555 ?? Speak up! ]

(Edited by kuckus on 02-25-2005 21:39)

I think March 2000. wow. 5 yrs. Now Im only 17 yrs old.

I joined the Asylum in search of sig uploaders...man that time was so embarassing.

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I came here naked to play tetris with Shiii, Weadah, Dl and Michael...

...And cofess it, you all came here to see me naked.

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that naked guy

Holy Wakka Moli !

Holy Toledo!!!!! Welcome back, Wakky!!! O_o

*hides stash of black pills behind back*

Ummm...look, there are a whole lot of new members you can...confisticate from! Stop staring at me!

*backs away slowly*

Ñummmm, i missed these pills...

BTW, I'm Spanish now!
I miss being Ilegal =(

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that naked guy

You're also a couple days ahead of the rest of us... Someone steal the calendar?

[edit: Oh yea... February... Only 28 days...

That's almost a little embarassing...

(Edited by Lord_Fukutoku on 03-01-2005 00:17)

Not me, I just steal pills....

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that naked guy

Totally wakkopillforous

I joined because of something mikey.milker said.
I miss that cranky basterd.

It's been awhile...
Pink pills for everybody.

Ribbed for your pleasure.

I felt it was time, I had lurked for quite awhile before hand.

Found the site through Ozones and Hands On.

I even remember when Doc was quite active in the forums.

later

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Look at me... god... I'm marvelous!

A long time ago. in a galaxy far,far away..
I had seen Doc`s work and was awestruck. I joined because I had stumbled across a trial version of PS 5.5. After some experimentation, I created a website. I came here to get opinions of my outstanding creation. Which the Inmates promptly ripped to shreds.
And rightly so. It sucked. It was frought with overdone rollovers, too many colors, and generally crappy work.
But, the thing that made me stay was the way they ripped it up. They told me all that was Wrong, but several people went to some trouble to help me make it better. Shared their hard earned knowledge freely. That was when I got hooked. This was a new concept to me. I liked it. There was so much humbling talent here...willing to teach ME !! Too cool.


Thank you all.

docilebob, you don't mean to suggest that the Asylum is somehow special, do you?

I love this place.

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(Edited by Bugimus on 03-06-2005 16:06)

To flame twitch...

...nuff said.

To build on my post count

I intially joined ot learn some tricks in PS and make some progress on a website I was working on.

Since then... I've found a sense of community here that I couldn't break away from.

I took a nearly permanent vacation recently. I found something that brought me here missing and went looking for it. While I didn't find what it was I did find myself. That is because of this place and all of you out there.

My haitus is over. I have returned for good methinks.

Thank You All,

GD

The other night eight forums became inadequate. I'd go through them and type my posts and it would take entirely too little time for them to be all read...no new posts - LAME!

Then I caught a fun post from gurusnetwork that happened to crosspost here and I remember this place and signed up this time.

When I started learning Web development and JavaScript, a friend recommended this site.

Nice people* around here.

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I think it's good to point out this article. But I do think that it's all because of the good Doctor.

cell 799

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and all 1300 of the current members (growing every day)

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Dun growed some. =)

I apperantly joined to draw pretty graphs of 'new users per month'..

I spent years ripping off Doc's fanct javascript and modifying it to do what I wanted it to do. Never was much for joining forums back then ... so I lurked. Then one day the chance to give back arose, and I couldn't 'coz of the no guest posting rule .. so I got me an id and got stuck.

I'm not around too often any more. The band, the rockets, and the volume of work see to that. But I lurk.


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