User:Thunderbird L17
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About Myself
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'm 19 years old. I first was introduced to Homestar Runner through my cousin from Alberta, during a lull in the MSN conversation. The first thing I saw was the email suntan, 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. I was excited by this find, and intended to fully investigate this new exciting wealth of knowledge. But when I returned less than a week later, I was greeted with this image, as the site had begun it's switch to MediaWiki. Several weeks later 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. 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 Thunderbird L19. I'm usually sleeping or at work when the site is updated, and miss out on the "new page" rush. See my list of contributions below for the kinda work I've done around here. I also keep the Featured Article of the Week running smoothly, I'm usually the one that sends emails to other sites asking for reprint permission, and I'm always willing to help out fellow users whenever they ask. This is my second favorite website, second only to the obvious. And that, in a nutshell, is me. Oh, and I just so happen to own the audio of the UMFM Interview on CD. Lucky me. :)
Top Ten Contributions
- Floppy Disk Container, Couch Mumbling ⇔ My proudest pages. I do nearly all of the info and formatting.
- H*R.com updates article series ⇔ Added nearly all of the updates for those 2000-03 by sifting through LiveJournals, and I keep 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 ⇔ 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.
Other Proud Contributions
- Holiday Toons ⇔ Started the page and worked on it lots, including finding and listing all the additional Holiday Toons.
- Monkey D ⇔ Created the page, and added the pics.
- Museum Sketchbook ⇔ Expanded on a very basic summary to add pictures and captions.
- Widescreen Basement Pic ⇔ My proudest image, it took quite a bit of work and editing to splice that image together.
- 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.
Scribings
- Wired News Radio Interview - 23 June 2003 ⇔ Wrote the transcript for the entire 19 minute interview.
- Sketchbook (video) ⇔ Stumbled across it only half complete, finished the other half of the transcript.
- Flashforward Interview - 10 Feb 2006 ⇔ I only scribed one minute of this transcript. The majority was done by Phlip, with additional pieces from Kookykman, E.L. Cool, and Qermaq.
- NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005 ⇔ Scribed the last half of the Sample of Style Too section.
- death metal ⇔ Only scribed the Easter Eggs. Not much to brag about.
Contributions By The Numbers
- Over 6000 edits to the Wiki. And only two of them troll edits! :)
- Over 8000 views of my userpage. 65.6.33.133 approved!
- Over 200 images originally uploaded. Over 150 still in use, including picures of Jonathan Howe and Paul Slocum!
- And I've personally welcomed 64 new Users. I was "welcomed" by "BurninatorBoombox&Markie"
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. I'm very proud of the slow and methodical time I put into the updates pages, the time I spent watching every Strong Bad Email to fill out the name and place pages, and the time researching and adding the games in The Floppy Disk Container. The latter 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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