User:Soiled Bargains

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This user enjoys doing Gnome work.

This user kinda works on the subtitles project.

Just then, this user traipsed in, naked as a jaybird.

If you want it to be possessive, it's just I-T-S, but if it's suppposed to be a contraction then it's I-T-apostrophe-S. Scalawag.

This user loves Sweet Cuppin' Cakes.

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This user uses Windows.

This user uses a Mac.

This user uses Linux, but messed up his ATI driver. And forgot his root password.

This user downloads a lot of fonts.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

This user contributes using Google Chrome, but somehow this user can't save pages.

6502 asm This user doesn't know, but wants to learn, 6502 assembly language.

{{Wiki}} This user is an intermediate writer in the MediaWiki language.

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(x)html-2 "This user is an intermediate HTML/XHTML user. He prefers XHTML.

Personal

This user is an American.

RIGHT This user is right handed

Owned Merchandise

This user owns a Strong Bad T-shirt, and is his favorite shirt.

This user owns a Star T-shirt.

This user owns a Five-Dor T-shirt.

This user owns a Strong Bad hoodie.

This user owns a Kick The Cheat.

This user owns Set 1 of the Collectible Figurines.

This user owns Set 2 of the Collectible Figurines.

This user owns strongbad_email.exe.

This user owns strongbad_email.exe Disc Four.

This user owns strongbad_email.exe Disc Five.

↑ Unfortunately, this user's DVDs are scattered and probably scratched.

This user owns Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits.

This user owns a Bad Graphics Ghost T-shirt.

This user owns a Trogdor polo shirt.

This user owns the Homestar and Strong Bad Poster.

This user owns a bunch of Coasters.

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.

For those who are wondering, my name originates from a store mentioned on Strong Sad's Lament (which Strong Sad was banned from in an interesting story).

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 the site, and she soon starting liking Teen Girl Squad. I believed she watched all of them, and one time, my sister showed my mother and I her favorite part of Teen Girl Squad Issue 10, which was the "Uh-oh. We got a spinner." part, which we all liked.

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.

When the "Save The Cheat Foundation" offer was around since the infamous Kick The Cheat toy was going away, my sister and I both got one. Right now we have no idea which one is who's.

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, again, if memory serves me correctly. 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. Well, actually, my first edit was on HRWiki:Introduction, but does that really count?

In Later Months I transcribed the commentary for redesign, since I was a Mac fanboy at the time, and Mike in the commentary "mentioned" the name of The Cheat's new computer (which looked similar to some polycarbonate 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 for the hekp, 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, 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 (I wasn't even aware of it's existance!), but the Flash menu by viewing the flash file directly, 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 at the time (I'm not to sure I was aware about XML then), caught on.

Notable Contributions

I just quickly (if you'd consider a period of a couple hours "quick") ran over my IP contributions according to my list. Here are some of my major, or notable contributions. These are in no particular order, but for the most part they are in descending chronological order.

On IP Addresses

• Created one heck of a long external links list, and did a lot of stuff related to Thorax Corporation.
• Awake at 8 AM UTC, or really, really early in the morning where I live, to standardize, add information, and worked a little bit on the subtitles for love poems.
• Did almost all of the work on Make a Scene with Telltale: Strong Bad Edition.
• Did some fixes here and there on the transcript for Georgia Tech - 26 Apr 2007.
• Turned the King of Town DVD Navigation Template into an actual table.
• I helped to expand on Special:Contributions/24.94.27.28's idea of the Nunchuck Gun article.
• Changed <br /> to <br style="clear:both;" /> on all navigation templates. I'm probably going to need to replace this with {{clear}} to save space. I don't know whether I was being XHTML-biased then and used <br /> instead of {{clear}}, or if I wasn't even aware of {{clear}}. Probably the former, though.
• Promoted the {{no-image}} template on many pages where there was no summary image.
• Using a calculator, practicing dimensional analysis for the first time in a real-life situation, I found out the times for several cartoons where it was missing.
  • In Search of the Yello Dello Theatrical Trailer
  • In Search of the Yello Dello Old Version
  • In Search of the Yello Dello New Version
• Created the article Apple IIe.
• Motivated the creation of the {{see}} template.
• Created the article Do-Nots.
• Done several overhauls on Strong Sad's Lament (such as converting the post description "list" to a table).

Subtitles

• Corrected Lookin at a Thing in a Bag English Subtitles.

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)