User:KieferSkunk

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Revision as of 10:23, 16 January 2006

About Me

subject: Who the crap?

Dear Strong Bad,
Who the crap is this KieferSkunk guy?

your pal, fhqwghads

Hi there! My name is KieferSkunk. I am a software development engineer in test (SDET) at Microsoft, and I am also a fan of homestarrunner.com. If you're curious to see more about me, check out my website and my LiveJournal.

I live in the Seattle area, and as of today (10/26/05), I am just months away from being married to the most wonderful woman in the world. :)

The Many Things I Have Been Called At Fatburger

Fatburger is a chain of hamburger joints in the western United States, and I go to one in my area on a fairly regular basis. I almost always order my food to go, so they always ask me for a name to put on the receipt. I usually identify myself as "Kiefer" (and sometimes spell it for them), and they ALWAYS get it wrong. Here's my running list of mispellings so far:

What Am I Doing Here?

subject: How'd you get here?

Dear KieferSkunk,
Okay, so now that I know who you are,
tell me what the crap you're doing here.

So totally not your pal,
Strong Bad

How I found Homestar Runner

Well, see, I used to participate actively in a forum dedicated to DDR and other music-oriented games, and one day a random link was posted to Everybody to the Limit. I watched the toon and thought it was rather amusing, so I browsed through the rest of the website for a while. It quickly ended up in my Favorites, and now I visit the site nearly every day to look for updates. At the time I started watching the website, island was the most recent Strong Bad Email.

My involvement with the Wiki

I came across the Homestar Runner Wiki by accident in September '05 and decided to join. I mainly have been trying to contribute minor things, such as fixing up spelling and grammar, finding and adding intra-wiki links, etc. I occasionally mess up and ask dumb questions or provide redundant information - be patient with me. :)

The fluoride sting

In the time I've been here, I've made a few major contributions (See Pages I've Worked On below for more info), and I attempted to help revert the damage done by the "Denial Of Service Stole My Cow" trollbots (working alongside Bubsty). I've also joined the Recent Changes Patrol and the Welcoming Committee.

Defender of the Wiki

Even in the midst of the blitzkreig of trollbotting on the night of November 11, 2005, KieferSkunk had his wits about him. Along with a host of other stout-hearted users he became a first responder, reverting before the insolent foe had even completed his ill-fated career. For promptitude of the first degree, this barnstar is hereby awarded. —AbdiViklas 08:21, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Pages I've Worked On

I'm not going to bother listing the pages where I've made minor edits and fixes - take a look at my Contributions Page if you're interested in that. But here are the pages where I've done major edits and rewrites:

• The Cheat, Coach Z and Homsar — Organized/rewrote Biographies
• Reynold — Organized/rewrote character description
• The Paper — Rewrote Oddities
• In Search of the Yello Dello (new ver) (old ver) — Remarks and transcript fixes
• That A Ghost — Transcript fixes
• The Best Decemberween Ever — Major transcript fixes, added several Fun Facts
• Marzipan's Answering Machine — Assisted with LOTS of redirect fixes in the x.0 Update
• Retro Gaming Character Variations — Populated this page when it was part of Minor Alternate Versions
• Atari Strong Bad — Created the article
• Awexome Cross — Organized/rewrote the Fun Facts section
• Population: Tire — Rewrote the entire article
• Duck Guardian One — Placed some SFX, reformatted Level Guide
• Stinkoman 20X6 Enemies and Items — Rewrote all the enemy descriptions
• Stinkoman 20X6 Playable Characters — Rewrote and reformatted most of the article
• Stinkoman 20X6 Real-World References — Rewrote and organized most of the article
• Places Strong Bad Made Up — Alphabetized the list
• Email replacement — Major fixes to transcript and Fun Facts
• Internet Slang — Assisted in creation of page, moved it from Leetspeak, fixed redirects
• Strong Sad's Death — Created the running gag article, then later merged it with Death
• Crap — Created the page and initially populated it with more than 70 references.

People I've Welcomed

I joined the Welcoming Committee on November 17th, 2005. Here are the people I've welcomed since then. :)

My Favorites

subject: Favorites?

Dear KieferSkunk,
You're a cool guy!
What parts of Homestarrunner.net
do you enjoy the most?

Homestar Runner
Baleeted
Delteated
Deltaco
...

I'm glad you asked! Here we go:

Toons

My favorite Toons are Strong Bad Sings, Everybody to the Limit, Senor Mortgage and Under Construction. I also enjoyed First Time Here? (who can forget "It's Dot Com!"? :)).

Strong Bad Emails

Games

I love retro-gaming references - particularly those in video games, as they remind me of my days growing up with games just like those. In general, I really like how Homestarrunner.com tends to keep with the spirit of the 80's and around that time period, without seeming old and out-of-date. My favorite games on the site are Population: Tire, Stinkoman 20X6 and Peasant's Quest, though I like all of them to some extent.

Quotes

I see that people are posting their favorite quotes from the site, so I figured I'd post mine as well:

"I finally caught that skunk!"

• "Oh, why, Homestarrunner.net. It's DOT COM!" -- Homestar
• "Aaah! It's the ghost of General Tso!" -- Strong Bad
• "Those loonies are gonna blow up the ocean!" -- Silent Rip
• "Ohhh, very well. This one's called The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw!" -- Strong Bad
• "I am a vampire and" -- trevor the vampire
• "And coming in at number 3, it's Strong Bad with I Freakin' Hate Sibbie!" -- The Announcer
• "Campus outreach is looking for... um... hang on..." -- radio
• "What's up Pawkeegan? This is Homestar Runner from Homestarrunner.com, and you're listening to the Cornbread Hour, here on WPKG, pointy-point-five, the voice of Pawkeegan State!" -- Homestar
• "Oh, go soak your fat head." -- The Homestar Runner

• STRONG BAD: I say there, Homestar, butt's twelve by pies?
  HOMESTAR: Ooh, yes! I got Strong Bad to say something stupid! The Grumblecakes will be mine!
      -- stupid stuff
• "Coach Z, you jerk!" -- Bubs
• "Oh, and look! I finally caught that skunk!" -- Strong Bad
• "Sorry, Hamburger." -- Stinkoman 20X6

(more to come)

Guestbook

subject: Guestbook

Hello Kiefer!

I think you should make a guestbook.
Then people like me can sign it!

Yours truly, Marzipan

Hey, that's a great idea, Marzi! Thanks for the suggestion! So, here's a spot for you to sign your name if you like. :)

1. —  KieferSkunk (talk) —
2. — _talk Bubsty _edits yay! First signer!
3. --Stux 01:23, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
4. — Lapper (talk) 01:43, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
5. — DBK! 19:22, 19 November 2005 (UTC) sign'd!
6. (U)(T)(C) 19:18, 20 November 2005 (UTC) (There isn't enough room on this Wiki for both of us.)
7. – The Chort 19:31, 20 November 2005 (UTC) My Autograph? Sure!
8. Heimstern Läufer 22:26, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
9.  Bkmlb(talk to me·stuff I did) 15:18, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
10. Homestramy20|^Talk 00:27, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
11. — Has Matt? (talk) 19:06, 4 December 2005 (UTC) [insert generic H*R related quote here]
12. --Jeff J. W.(Talk·Contribs) 18:14, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
13. DorianGray
14. ♥ _tee^eff_oh! Ha! I found you!
15. -- Benol, aka Coach B 19:13, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
16. User:Bill Martinson/sig 20:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
17. Salty^Talk! 23:14, 8 December 2005 (UTC) Love, Salty.
18. --The 386 ^{My talk} 20:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC) Hey man. You sign mine, I sign yours.
19. —GWR 2004 ^Talk_Contribs 06:57, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
20. ΨHomsarΨroksΨ 19:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)--Jeez, yet another guestbook. Must...Sign...
21. TheThingé 22:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC) I sign yet another guestbook.
22. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ Something is compelling me to sign this guestbook.
23. Trey56 17:17, 4 January 2006 (UTC) Nice sig!
24. User:pieinbubsface/sig 15:01, 6 January 2006 (UTC) why do we even sign geastbooks, It hurts my ego.
25. Marth 99 19:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC) You won! Congraturations!
26. A.K.A THE PINK MENIS (not realy) DJM1791 ^{· (Sup | Stuff I Did!)} 10:23, 16 January 2006 (UTC)