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<div style="border: 1px solid #009; padding: .5em 1em; color: #000; background-color: #DEF; margin: 3px 3px 0; text-align: center">[[Image:Exclamation Mark.png|20px|Notice]] '''Warning:''' This user is hopelessly inactive. Some information may be outdated. [[Image:Exclamation Mark.png|20px|Notice]]</div>
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Hi. I'm Leith. Aka Thunderbird. I'm an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrician electrician] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada Canada], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rock%2C_British_Columbia near] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver Vancouver] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia BC]. My screenname is Thunderbird L17, and no, it doesn't have anything to do with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Thunderbird car]. It's more the inspiration of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_%28mythology%29 legendary creature] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American Native American] mythology. And no, I am not Native American. I enjoy the heritage of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland Scotland] and... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario Ontario]. But I preffer the Scottish half. Thunderbird was simply my first internet screen name when I played [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Of_Empires Age Of Empires] back in the late 90's, now I use it for all my screen names. The L17 stands for my first initial and my age when I first started coming to this site (It's 18 now). I like this site, and enjoy contributing. Three days after first coming to the new Wiki, I was banned for a few days due to an accident. But I'm a good, productive member of the [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page HRWiki] community now. I've been reformed. I've been coming to the Wiki since mid-summer, by first finding the old one about 2 weeks before it went down, and then anxiously awaiting the opening of the new one for two more weeks after that. I have been a regular user of the new wiki since it opened, and prefer to create/edit pages that are at least a week or so old, so as to avoid the "brand new page" rush. Transcripts, Easter Eggs, I stay clear of all those sort of things generally. I preffer instead to "reorganize info", sort already known information into useful lists, along with supplementary information. I also enjoy finding pages with no pictures, and adding the pics. Besides my page credits, I also added pics to pic-less pages on more than 100 pages. I'm a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo Nintendo] junky, as you can see by my picture, and I hope to one day become a moderator at this site. This is my second favorite website, second only to the [http://www.homestarrunner.com/main9.html Trapper Keeper].
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Hi, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Thunderbird L17, but generally I just go by Thunderbird. I'm an [[Wikipedia:Electrician|electrician]] from [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canada]], and I was born in 1986. You do the math.
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=== <span style="color:#C90">A Brief History</span> ===
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I first was introduced to Homestar Runner through my cousin during a lull in an MSN conversation, via [[HR:sbemail77.html|this link]], and that was in late August of 2003. Nearly a year later, a different friend of mine gave me [[old:Peasant's Quest/Walkthrough|this link]] to a walkthrough for Peasant's Quest that she found. When I returned a day or two later to sign up and explore this site further, I was greeted with [[:Image:this is real.png|this image]], as the site had begun it's switch to MediaWiki. Several weeks later the image was removed, and it finally re-opened, allowing me to to create this account on September 14th, 2004. After over seven months of contributions, I was made a sysop on April 26th, 2005 during the [[HRWiki:April 2005 Sysop Nominations|2005 Sysop Nominations]].
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=== <span style="color:#C90">About The Screen Name</span> ===
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My screenname &mdash; Thunderbird L17 &mdash; doesn't have anything to do with the [[Wikipedia:Ford Thunderbird|car]], or the fact that I'm an electrician. It's more the inspiration of the [[Wikipedia:Thunderbird (mythology)|legendary creature]] from [[Wikipedia:Native American|Native American]] mythology. And no, I am not Native American. I enjoy the heritage of [[Wikipedia:Scotland|Scotland]] and... [[Wikipedia:Ontario|Ontario]]. But I prefer the Scottish half. Thunderbird was simply my first internet screen name when I played [[Wikipedia:Age Of Empires|Age Of Empires]] back in the late 90's, now I use it for all my screen names. The L17 stands for my first initial and my age when I first started coming to this site. It's a progressive screenname; on the forum I am Thunderbird L18, and usually on the IRC chat channel I use ThunderbirdL(Insert current age here). That way I can keep track of when I first signed up for a certain account.
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=== <span style="color:#C90">What I Do</span> ===
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As I mentioned before, I'm a sysop around here and try and keep things standardized and running smoothly. See my list of notable contributions below for the kind of editing contributions I've done around here. Besides those pages, I also try and keep the Featured Article of the Week running smoothly, keep Personal Images and Signature sizes under control, and I'm always willing to help out fellow users whenever they ask. I'm also the unoffical wiki Public Relations guy, since I'm usually the one that sends emails to other sites asking for interview reprint permission, image reuse, etc. I even attended Flashforward Seattle 2006 with a press pass in behalf of the wiki.  
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== Freqently Updated Contributions ==
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== <span style="color:#C90">Contributions</span> ==
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=== <span style="color:#C90">Flashforward</span> ===
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[[Image:Flashforward Autograph.PNG|thumb|Autograph Given To Thunderbird|190px]]Perhaps my greatest contribution to the wiki occured on February 28th, 2006, when I attended [[Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006|Flashforward 2006]]. It all started when InterruptorJones first created the article, alerting me to the fact that [[The Brothers Chaps]] would be in Seattle the same day I would be down there on business anyways. Admission was pricy however, but I was determined to find a way. A week later I noticed an interview with The Brothers Chaps go up on the Flashforward website, and I emailed the powers that be as usual, to let them know we were transcribing it. They appreciated this, and asked if there was anything else they could help me with. I ran with this oppourtunity, and asked if there was any way I could pay to attend just The Brothers Chaps' presentation. They replied instead with a free press pass, for me to cover the event in behalf of the wiki. I went to the presentation, met the Chaps, was given the pictured autograph, and less than two weeks later had completed the summary of the event.
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=== <span style="color:#C90">Top 17 Contributions</span> ===
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*[[Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006|Flashforward 2006]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> As mentioned before, my proudest "exclusive" contribution. At the time it was the fourth largest original page on the wiki, written entirely by myself. Still one of the best pages, in my opinion.
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*[[Floppy Disk Container]], [[Couch Mumbling]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> My next proudest pages. I did nearly all of the info and formatting. The Floppy Disk Container was the largest original page on the wiki, and it's still in the top ten.
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*[[:Template:updates-box|H*R.com updates article series]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Added nearly all of the updates for 2000-03 by sifting through LiveJournals, and I kept the entire series of articles standardized.
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*[[Interviews and Public Appearances]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Created the page, and did most of the work, including most of the pages, several transcripts, much of the research, formatting, and lots of email correspondence for the reprint permission.
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*[[HRWiki:Questions]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Started it as a subpage, and threw a bunch of questions there. With the rest of the wiki's help, it has since evolved into it's own project namespace article.
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*[[Strong Bad Email By Name of Sender|Strong Bad Email By Name]] and [[Strong Bad Email By Place|Place]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Read about the idea on the Strong Bad E-mail talk page, and created these twin pages in response. Added the first 100+ emails when I started it, and later reformatted the name one into tables.
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*[[Store Thank You Messages]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Created the page from disorganized summaries in the Store, did pretty much all the work on it, including pics.
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*[[Random Toon]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Convinced other users it was needed and spearheaded the page as soon as soon as Random toons selection began, resulting in much debugging info being saved before it was fixed and lost.
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*[[Duck Guardian One]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Summaries of last 20 or so levels, completely made level select after finding it in the forum (after a while the links broke and it became obsolite, but it was cool while it lasted), and came up with armor glitch.
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*[[Holidays]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Started the page and worked on it lots, including finding and listing all the additional Holiday Toons.
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*[[Halloween Costumes]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Created the page, and uploaded many of the pics.
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*[[Monkey D]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Created the page, and added the pics.
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*[[Sketchbook (museum)]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Expanded on a very basic summary to add pictures and captions.
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*[[Making Out]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Came up with the idea, and made the page, along with a list of most of the occurances.
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*[[Toilets]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Created the page, watch over it, and added most of the pics. I don't know why I like it so much, but I do.
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=== <span style="color:#C90">Top 7 Scribings</span> ===
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*[[Wired News Radio Interview - 23 June 2003]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Wrote the transcript for the entire 19 minute interview.
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*[[Flashforward]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Transcribed most of the toon a full eight months before it was officially released, since it was shown at Flashforward 2006.
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*[[Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Wrote the entire transcript, and built the whole base page.
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*[[Sketchbook (video)]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Stumbled across it only half complete, finished the other half of the transcript.
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*[[Flashforward Interview - 10 Feb 2006]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> I only scribed one minute of this transcript. The majority was done by [[User:Phlip|Phlip]], with additional pieces from [[User:Kookykman|Kookykman]], [[User:E.L. Cool|E.L. Cool]], and [[User:Qermaq|Qermaq]].
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*[[NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Scribed the last half of the Sample of Style Too section.
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*[[death metal]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Only scribed the Easter Eggs. Not much to brag about.
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=== <span style="color:#C90">Top 5 Images</span><span style="color:#FFF"> (All done exclusively in MS Paint)</span> ===
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*[[:Image:The Basement.PNG|Widescreen Basement]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> An early image of mine, it took quite a bit of work to splice that image together, especially in MS Paint.
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*[[:Image:ComputerRoomFull.PNG|Full Computer Room]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Spliced together images from [[flashback]] and [[pop-up]]. [[User:Phlip|Phlip]] later spliced The Cheat's Lightswitch into the image.
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*[[:Image:CarvenivalCostumes.PNG|Carvenival Costumes]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Spliced character captions in from 13 different screenshots.
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*[[:Image:SuckyTreatsCostumes.PNG|Sucky Treats Costumes]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Spliced character captions in from 12 different screenshots.
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*[[:Image:Flashforward Autograph.PNG|Flashforward Autograph]] <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span> Scan of an autograph given to me from [[The Brothers Chaps]].
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* [[Floppy Disk Container Plus]] - My crowning achievement. I did most of the info, but not much formatting.
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=== <span style="color:#C90">Contributions By The Numbers</span> ===
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* [[Halloween Costumes]] - My other crowning achievement. I came up with it and did all the formatting and much of the info and pics.
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*Over 10,000 total database entries. <span style="color:#FFF">Includes all log entries and deleted edits.</span>
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* [[Strong Bad Email By Name]] - Read about the idea on the Strong Bad E-mail talk page, and created these twin pages in response.
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*And I've welcomed well over 150 new Users. <span style="color:#FFF">I was "welcomed" by "BurninatorBoombox&Markie"</span>
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* [[Strong Bad Email By Place]] - Read about the idea on the Strong Bad E-mail talk page, and created these twin pages in response.
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* [[Toilets]] - Created the page, and added the pics.
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== Proud Contributions ==
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== <span style="color:#C90">Lists</span> ==
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*[[HRWiki:Featured Article Selection|FA Selection]]
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*[[HRWiki:Da Basement|Da Basement]]
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*[[HRWiki:Questions|Questions]]
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*[[Special:Allmessages|Master List]]
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=====<span style="color:#C90">Subpages</span>=====
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*[[User:Thunderbird L17/Userbox|Userbox]]
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*[[User:Thunderbird L17/Siggie|Siggie]]
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*[[User:Thunderbird L17/talkarchives|Archives]]
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*[[User:Thunderbird L17/monobook.css|Monobook.CSS]]
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*[[User:Thunderbird L17/monobook.js|Monobook.JS]]
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=====<span style="color:#C90">Translations</span>=====
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*[[User:Heimstern Läufer|German]]: Donnervogel
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*[[User:E.L. Cool|Hebrew]]: ציפורעם
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*[[User:It's dot com|Spanish]]: Pájaro del Trueno
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=====<span style="color:#C90">Tasks</span>=====
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*Complete NYU Page.
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*Find Pulse Video.
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*Design a cool "Beware of Duck" warning sign.
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=====<span style="color:#C90">Websites</span>=====
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*[http://www.homestarrunner.com/main9.html Trapper Keeper]
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*[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page Trapper Wiki]
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*[http://forum.hrwiki.org/ Trapper Forum]
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*[http://www.gamefaqs.com/ Trapper Faqs]
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* [[Duck Guardian]] - Summaries of last 20 or so levels, completely made level select, and came up with armor glitch.
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* [[Holiday Toons]] - Built it from the ground up, including finding and listing all the additional Holiday Toons.
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<div style="border: 1px solid #C90; padding: .5em 1em; color: #000; background-color: #FFF7CB; margin: 3px 3px 0; text-align: center"><span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span>If you've found this userpage useful, please [[User talk:Thunderbird L17|let me know]]. My talk page is used primarily to [[Special:Emailuser/Thunderbird_L17|avoid email]]. <span style="color:#C90">&#8660;</span></div> __NOEDITSECTION__ __NOTOC__
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* [[King of Town's Castle]] - Added the 'virtual tour' of sorts using pics.
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* [[Monkey D]] - Created the page, and added the pics.
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* [[Strong Bad's Basement]] - Added the widescreen pic of said basement, it took quite a bit of work and editing.
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* [[Tandy 400]] - Added and organized the history of the Tandy 400, with pictures.
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* [[The Cheat's Head Exploding]] - Added the pics.
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* [[booOOMbox]] - One of my many 'radio' pages. They're all quite small, but still mine.
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* [[Homestar's Radio]] - One of my many 'radio' pages. They're all quite small, but still mine.
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* [[Strong Sad's Tape Player]] - One of my many 'radio' pages. They're all quite small, but still mine.
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* MP3 Player - One of my many 'radio' pages. They're all quite small, but still mine.
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* [[Ray-Jo]] - One of my many 'radio' pages. They're all quite small, but still mine.
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*Over 1000 edits and counting!!!
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Most pages that aren't even on the periodical update list I watch and update. But my pet pages are listed under the Frequently Updated Pages section. They're my favorite pages, the Strong Bad Email sorted by Names and Places pages, and the Floppy Disk Container Plus. The latter page is by far my favorite page. I research the labels, add the new pics, add sources, all that good stuff. I like that page. It's my precious.
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* [[User:Tom|Tom]] ([[User_talk:Tom|Talk]]) - A huge help with the Floppy Disk Container Plus formatting, and lots of the costumes.
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* [[User:FireBird|Firebird]] ([[User_talk:FireBird|Talk]]) - A big help with the costumes info and my sig.
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* [[User:The Paper|The Paper]] ([[User_talk:The Paper|Talk]]) - A big help with the costumes info.
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* [[User:Drhaggis|Drhaggis]] ([[User_talk:Drhaggis|Talk]]) - For being just such a great worker on the Wiki, doing the jobs nobody else wants.
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Any [[User_talk:Thunderbird L17|comments]] are appreciated and answered.  
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Please feel free to e-mail [[User:Thunderbird L17|''<small><tt>[[User:Thunderbird L17|<font color=gold>⇔Thunderbird⇔</font>]]</tt></small>'']] at [mailto:leith_hymers@hotmail.com leith_hymers@hotmail.com].
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Introductions

TalksSysopsEdits
AbdiViklas
AgentSeethro
BazookaJoe
DorianGray
Drhaggis
E.L. Cool
FireBird
FortyTwo
Furrykef
Heim. Läufer
Homestar Coder
Interrupt.Jones
It's dot com
Jay
JoeyDay
Kilroy
Lapper
Loafing
Phlip
Rogue Leader
HSR username
Stu
The Paper
Thunderbird
Tom
Trey56

Hi, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Thunderbird L17, but generally I just go by Thunderbird. I'm an electrician from Canada, and I was born in 1986. You do the math.

A Brief History

I first was introduced to Homestar Runner through my cousin during a lull in an MSN conversation, via this link, and that was in late August of 2003. Nearly a year later, a different friend of mine gave me this link to a walkthrough for Peasant's Quest that she found. When I returned a day or two later to sign up and explore this site further, I was greeted with this image, as the site had begun it's switch to MediaWiki. Several weeks later the image was removed, and it finally re-opened, allowing me to to create this account on September 14th, 2004. After over seven months of contributions, I was made a sysop on April 26th, 2005 during the 2005 Sysop Nominations.

About The Screen Name

My screenname — Thunderbird L17 — doesn't have anything to do with the car, or the fact that I'm an electrician. It's more the inspiration of the legendary creature from Native American mythology. And no, I am not Native American. I enjoy the heritage of Scotland and... Ontario. But I prefer the Scottish half. Thunderbird was simply my first internet screen name when I played Age Of Empires back in the late 90's, now I use it for all my screen names. The L17 stands for my first initial and my age when I first started coming to this site. It's a progressive screenname; on the forum I am Thunderbird L18, and usually on the IRC chat channel I use ThunderbirdL(Insert current age here). That way I can keep track of when I first signed up for a certain account.

What I Do

As I mentioned before, I'm a sysop around here and try and keep things standardized and running smoothly. See my list of notable contributions below for the kind of editing contributions I've done around here. Besides those pages, I also try and keep the Featured Article of the Week running smoothly, keep Personal Images and Signature sizes under control, and I'm always willing to help out fellow users whenever they ask. I'm also the unoffical wiki Public Relations guy, since I'm usually the one that sends emails to other sites asking for interview reprint permission, image reuse, etc. I even attended Flashforward Seattle 2006 with a press pass in behalf of the wiki.

Contributions

Flashforward

Autograph Given To Thunderbird
Perhaps my greatest contribution to the wiki occured on February 28th, 2006, when I attended Flashforward 2006. It all started when InterruptorJones first created the article, alerting me to the fact that The Brothers Chaps would be in Seattle the same day I would be down there on business anyways. Admission was pricy however, but I was determined to find a way. A week later I noticed an interview with The Brothers Chaps go up on the Flashforward website, and I emailed the powers that be as usual, to let them know we were transcribing it. They appreciated this, and asked if there was anything else they could help me with. I ran with this oppourtunity, and asked if there was any way I could pay to attend just The Brothers Chaps' presentation. They replied instead with a free press pass, for me to cover the event in behalf of the wiki. I went to the presentation, met the Chaps, was given the pictured autograph, and less than two weeks later had completed the summary of the event.

Top 17 Contributions

  • Flashforward 2006 As mentioned before, my proudest "exclusive" contribution. At the time it was the fourth largest original page on the wiki, written entirely by myself. Still one of the best pages, in my opinion.
  • Floppy Disk Container, Couch Mumbling My next proudest pages. I did nearly all of the info and formatting. The Floppy Disk Container was the largest original page on the wiki, and it's still in the top ten.
  • H*R.com updates article series Added nearly all of the updates for 2000-03 by sifting through LiveJournals, and I kept the entire series of articles standardized.
  • Interviews and Public Appearances Created the page, and did most of the work, including most of the pages, several transcripts, much of the research, formatting, and lots of email correspondence for the reprint permission.
  • HRWiki:Questions Started it as a subpage, and threw a bunch of questions there. With the rest of the wiki's help, it has since evolved into it's own project namespace article.
  • Strong Bad Email By Name and Place Read about the idea on the Strong Bad E-mail talk page, and created these twin pages in response. Added the first 100+ emails when I started it, and later reformatted the name one into tables.
  • Store Thank You Messages Created the page from disorganized summaries in the Store, did pretty much all the work on it, including pics.
  • Random Toon Convinced other users it was needed and spearheaded the page as soon as soon as Random toons selection began, resulting in much debugging info being saved before it was fixed and lost.
  • Duck Guardian One Summaries of last 20 or so levels, completely made level select after finding it in the forum (after a while the links broke and it became obsolite, but it was cool while it lasted), and came up with armor glitch.
  • Holidays Started the page and worked on it lots, including finding and listing all the additional Holiday Toons.
  • Halloween Costumes Created the page, and uploaded many of the pics.
  • Monkey D Created the page, and added the pics.
  • Sketchbook (museum) Expanded on a very basic summary to add pictures and captions.
  • Making Out Came up with the idea, and made the page, along with a list of most of the occurances.
  • Toilets Created the page, watch over it, and added most of the pics. I don't know why I like it so much, but I do.

Top 7 Scribings

Top 5 Images (All done exclusively in MS Paint)

Contributions By The Numbers

  • Over 10,000 total database entries. Includes all log entries and deleted edits.
  • And I've welcomed well over 150 new Users. I was "welcomed" by "BurninatorBoombox&Markie"

Lists

Pages
Subpages
Translations
Tasks
  • Complete NYU Page.
  • Find Pulse Video.
  • Design a cool "Beware of Duck" warning sign.
Websites
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