User:Heimstern Läufer

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Wilkommen!

Heimstern Läufers Doppelgänger

Hallo! Wie geht's Euch? Ich freue mich, daß Ihr meine Webpage besucht! OK, no more German.

So, my name's Nat Paulsen. I am 24 years old and live in Santa Barbara, California (or, as locals often call it, SB). I'm currently studying for a Ph.D. in music theory at UCSB (yes, even we academics enjoy the subtle pleasures of homestarrunner.com).

My non-HR-related interests interests include various church-related activities, such as choir, Bible Study and outreach. I am also obsessed with classical music of all sorts, especially Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Wagner and Mahler. I enjoy singing Schubert Lieder in my spare time. I am also fluent in German and enjoy speaking it whenever I can (as some of you may have guessed, my user name is a direct translation of the name "Homestar Runner").

UPDATE: Heimstern is in Oregon visiting his parents, sisters, dog and cat for Christmas. He'll still be around the Wiki, though.

German translation fun

Mir gefällt Essen nicht mehr!

The first person to figure out what Strong Sad is saying auf Deutsch and answer on my talk page wins cupcakes. Keep checking back; I'll put up a new one in a couple weeks or so.

My history with H*R and the Wiki

I first discovered homestarrunner.com in March 2003 when I saw a couple of friends of mine watching various Strong Bad Emails (at the time, the show was the new Email). That summer, I introduced it to my entire family and hooked all three of my sisters (who often try very hard not to like anything that I like). I first encountered the Wiki sometime in 2004 or 2005 (I believe I followed a link from Wikipedia), but I didn't become a regular user until summer of 2005. At that time, I discovered all the awesome things on the Wiki. I first registered sometime around 23 August 2005 because I wanted to vote on STUFF. On 6 October 2005 I finally made a user page and was greeted shortly thereafter by AbdiViklas (back when he was called "notstrongorbad") and It's dot com, who remain two of my favorite users. As I had no concept of such things as the recent changes page at the time, I was surprised to see that I had been noticed me at all! This was when I became active on the Wiki.

Troll — in the Wiki — thought you ought to know

I enjoy making sure that the Wiki remains free of defacements and poor edits, and am to that end a member of the Recent Changes Patrol. Thus far, I've added eleven trolls to WikiTroll (and have helped revert some that I didn't get to report). Still hunting for numba twelve... although it seems unlikely that I'll catch any more vandals until the lockdown ends. This, in the words of Albus Dumbledore, "goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words", in that I did in fact add another troll during the lockdown. That was very therapeutic. (P.S.: This section of my user page seems to be Harry Potter Quote Central.)

What else do I do here on the Wiki, you ask? Or maybe you don't ask, but I'm still going to tell you. I vote on STUFF and correct bad spelling and punctuation (some of you should really watch local news again: Ohh, if-you-want-it-to-be-possessive-it's-just-I-T-S. But-if-it's-supposed-to-be-a-contraction-then-it's-I-T-apostrophe-S. Scalawag.) I also occasionally add Fun Facts and deleted and STUFF some bad ones (or at least I thought they were bad!). I also revert bad edits.

Significant Contributions

I finally think I actually have enough to make one of these lists, so here goes:

• I played a major role in the Proxyblocks project, and I got to be the one to finish it. Stux also deserves credit for working hard alongside me in this project.
• I created the Crapfully Yours page.
• I wrote these guidelines concerning when we should use STUFF.
• I contributed six entries to the Teen Girl Squad Locations page (although other users, such as Salty, had to provide the images, since I suck at those).
• I transcribed the following commentaries from the Everything Else, Volume 1 DVD:
  • Biz Cas Fri 2
  • Sick Day
  • Strong Bad Sings (some of it had already been transcribed)
  • Teen Girl Squad Issue 3 (second commentary)
  • Teen Girl Squad Issue 4
  • Teen Girl Squad Issue 7
  • Teen Girl Squad Issue 8
  • Teen Girl Squad Issue 10
  • The Interview
  • Theme Song Video
  • TrogdorCon '97

To do:

• Standardize quotation marks around captions.
• Transcribe more commentaries.
• Ongoing project: Read random articles checking for spelling and grammar errors and looking for opportunities to improve wording.

Signs that I have been using the Wiki too much

• When I found that I needed to spruce up a paper for one of my seminars, I wrote a note to myself to do "gnome work" on it.
• A while ago, I saw a van with the words "Santa Barbara meals on wheels" (emphasis added) and had a brief moment of panic.

How do you pronounce Heimstern's name?

• Heim- : hime (rhymes with "lime")
• -stern : shtairn ("r" pronounced as a vowel, as some Northeasterners do)
• Läu- : loy (does not rhyme with "how"!)
• -fer : fah (kind of a mix between "ah" and a schwa)

Possible translations of other characters' names

• Pom pom : Pompon
• Marzipan : Marzipan (P.S.: The word Marzipan actually came to English from German)
• Strong Bad: Stark Schlecht
• Strong Mad: Stark Böse
• Strong Sad: Stark Traurig
• The Cheat: Der Betrüger (although I prefer "Der Cheat")
• Bubs: Bubs (not really translatable)
• Coach Z: Trainer Z ("Z" pronounced "tsett")
• The King of Town: Der König der Stadt
• The Poopsmith: Der Mistschmied
• Homsar: Hemsern

Some random facts

• I have a poster on my wall that my sister made for me that says "cool tapes!"
• Favorite SBemail: virus
• Favorite underappreciated character: Strong Sad
• Current favorite quote: "Oh, what's up, ironic costume? I suppose you think you're cooler than everyone here! Well guess what? You're also here. At the comic book convention."
• My birthday is the same as the composer Richard Wagner's.

ME: And that's why come Schubert was so awesome.

STRONG SAD: Ohh! I see now!