User:Elcool

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[edit] A Little About Myself

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SYS This user is a wiki sysop.

TAVI This user was on Ye Olde Wiki.

IRC This user visited the IRC channel.

This user translated subtitles to Hebrew.

This user's favorite character is Strong Sad.

This user has more than two problems.

This user is squirrel left-handed.

This user is Israeli.

OLD This user is an old man.

This user played SBCG4AP.

This user owns a Homestar Runner hat.

This user owns strongbad_email.exe Disk 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

This user owns Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits.

This user owns Everything Else, Volume 1, 2 & 3.

This user owns SBCG4AP Collector's DVD.

This user owns both Sets of the Collectible Figurines.

This user owns Cheat Commandos figurines.

This user owns Trogdor!! The Board Game Wingaling Level with extra character meeples.

This user owns the Patches.

This user owns the Coaster.

This user owns the Homestar Keychain thanks to TBird.

This user owns the Stop Sign Keychain thanks to TBird.

This user owned the Strong Bad Pin, but he lost it.

This user once made a Strong Bad Head T-shirt, but it came out too small so he gave it away.

This user made a Dn'D Greg T-shirt for a cosplay

This user has rocked out to Trogdor on Guitar Hero 2.

This user has rocked out to Because, It's Midnite on Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s.

This user made his own Stinkocomics

Greetings! Please let me introduce myself. My user name here, as you can probably see, is Elcool (I also used to be known as E.L. Cool, but shortened it for convenience). Outside of the WikiWorld and InternetLand I go by the name of Elad (IPA: [ʔel:ʕad]). Elad L. (hence the initials E. and L. on my user name). I hail from the State of Israel, just in the center of the Middle East and very much proud of it. As an Israeli, I am fluent in Hebrew and (pretty much in) English. כתחביב, אני אוהב לזרוק משפטים בעברית באמצע טקסט לועזי שאף אחד לא יבין.

I came to this world kicking and screaming on December twenty third, nineteen eighty seven. I study Earth science, and am a freelance astronomy teacher. I work in Givatayim Observatory and Planetanya as well as a bunch of schools and community centers. It really is the best job ever. I got married in 2019 and now live with my wife near Tel Aviv.

I was first introduced to the world of Homestar Runner when I was in junior high, around the time dragon and japanese cartoon were out. If I remember correctly, I saw the toon I got linked to and did not continue to check the site out. After seeing more and more links, I wondered what the site is about and started exploring it for myself. At that time there was no index page and no navigation bar, so the first thing I watched was the intro. I was welcome to some main page and I felt like the whole site was laid there on my hands and I didn't knew what to make of it. For a minute or so I looked around and moused over the buttons, until I noticed the First Time Here? link. The rest is history.

After I watched everything at least twice, I jokingly typed in the first address I could think of: www.homestarrunner.net, At first I thought it was some kind of joke, like some of the Easter eggs, but after careful reading I found out it was actually a fan forum. I started reading it and was amazed at the sheer number of fans just like me, as anyone in my class I showed the site, did not like it. I registered as fast as I could and had my first real fan experience. Of course I now found out about the existence of far more Easter eggs then I knew about and some secret pages I completely did not know, like Matt cake and the like.

The .net forums died at it's peak, leaving for me a big gap to fill with a community devoted to Homestar Runner like they were. In November 2003 I found out about the old wiki and read some of it's articles. I was amazed at the amount of pinpoint precision in which all these people analyzed each toon. Sure, the consistency level and the standards were not as high as today, but it was still there - all the information, all the characters and all those secretes I liked so much. After some weeks of lurking around and seeing the site updates, I registered the nick name which I had since the sixth grade and made my user page. I was not accustomed to the inner workings of the wiki accidentally blanked the glossary but got off with only a warning.

That first experience scared me a bit, and therefor I did not edit much. That was until I once again made my usual daily visit to the wiki, only to find out about the new MediaWiki interface. So smooth and so shiny. I started reading talk pages and HRWiki namespace pages and got accustomed to the new standards. On April nineteenth, 2005 the first thing I made was a short, one-line user page and cast my vote on the April 2005 Sysop Nominations. I made more and more edits and several pages until on March eighth 2006 I was made part of the sysop team.

I also wrote the Hebrew article on Homestar Runner in the Hebrew Wikipedia, the Hebrew subtitles for the subtitles project, and some other sutff.

After the long hiatus I too took a break from wiki editing. I still used it from time to time to remember facts and find toons, but I didn't even bother logging in. Recently, I think, with the new influx of Homestar content coming in, I'm finding myself going to this wiki more often. So maybe I'll start editing it more? Maybe make some substantial changes? Who knows! This feels like taking an old box of belonging from the back of the shelf, all dusty and nostalgic, and trying to remember all the things you used to do a long time ago. So, we'll see how it goes.

Thank you for reading, — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) — א.ל. קול

[edit] Me and the Wiki

[edit] Page Creations and translation

[edit] Transcriptions and subtitles

• Transcribed Homestar vs. Other Little Girl
• Transcribed the Easter egg in The Cheatar
• Subtitled everything that's in Hebrew
• Subtitled Quality Time

[edit] Other Costumes

I took the Other Costumes pages as my little project, and I split it from all being one one page to the several it is now, and standardized them along with Joshua.
I put all the costumes in chronological order in the following pages:

I added a total of about 90 images of costumes and completely made the following pages:

• Teen Girl Squad
• Cheat Commandos

[edit] Other Accomplishments

• Added Film template to replace filmography categories to all the toons.
• Standardizing images with Homestar Coder
• Standardized Peasant's Quest Responses.
• De-stubbed Trogdor. (Featured)
• Found out about HOW Magazine Interview - Aug 2003, asked for premission for it and had it mailed to Some HSR themed username.
• Added subtitlesLinks to every toon, exept SBEmails.
• De-stubbed Homestar Runner Halloween Costumes & Products
• Not a project or anything, but I'm usually the one to make the file name redirects when I click on the HRWiki link in the All-in-one script.
• general gnoming.
• Image uploading. (about 250 images added)

[edit] User Sub-Pages (and Other Related Stuff)

(Please do not edit those pages or any of their talk pages, unless specified otherwise)

• Templates: Colecting and archiving navigation templates, even deleted ones.
• SFotWoDoS Archive: An archive for the Stupid Facts of the Week or Day or So. Also seem to be an archive for old news published insted of facts.
• April1: This is how this page looked like in April Fools day.
• Nick's Name: List of user nicknames. Other users can contribute too.
• IRC Dos and Don'ts: A list of guidlines in the making for chat etiquette. Other users can contribute too.
• We're Drunk: A small story me and Lapper wrote about The Brothers Chaps.
• What if Strong Bad took over the wiki?

[edit] List O' Very Awesome Users

(Listed in alphabetical order. Users can be awesome for reasons not listed here. Sysops and admins not listed because they all naturally rock)

• Bubsty - Showed me the code for scrolling text in my userpage.
• Dacheatbot - Nice fellow; I'm in his NAGLC.
• Gafaddict - Helped me fix up my page.
• Homestramy20 - One of my best buddies on the wiki; Chatted with regularly.
• Joshua - Helped me with Other Costumes.
• Jweb Guru - A relic from the days of old came to the young wiki to validate its HTML.
• Kookykman - Gave me the Pewter Van Buren Award for the cleanup type job I did on Trogdor.

• Ookalaylay - Liked my Heb sig so much she still uses it! Also gave me this glass of Suudsu, twice!
• Rob (AKA Rainer) - Helped me fix up my page; I took the HTML logo he created (below).
• Smileyface11945 - Helped and encouraged me to create Hanging Objects.
• Thesmokingmonkey - A very nice guy with cool Easter eggs on his page; I liked helping defending his great Pasta Salad page.

You guys rock.

[edit] Disgusting little chit-chats

I know I'm not a man with green and white stripes, but I do like to talk! We can discuss stuff via:

1. My talk page
2. My Facebook
3. My email

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