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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"> Not as active as I once was, so lots of the info on this userpage is kind of out of date. But I still reply to talk messages. </div> |
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- | + | == Wilkommen bei Heimsternläufer.net. Es ist .de! == | |
+ | [[Image:HeimsternGreatWall.JPG|thumb|Yeah, that's what I look like. On the Great Wall, no less.]] | ||
+ | Hallo! Wie geht's Euch? Ich freue mich, daß Ihr meine Webpage besucht! | ||
- | I | + | So, my name's Nat. I'm a resident of [[Wikipedia:California|California]], though I currently live in [[Wikipedia:China|China]]. |
- | + | I got a Master's degree in 2007 in Music Theory because I'm obsessed with classical music of all sorts, especially [[Wikipedia:Franz Josef Haydn|Haydn]], [[Wikipedia:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], [[Wikipedia:Franz Schubert|Schubert]], [[Wikipedia:Carl Maria von Weber|Weber]], [[Wikipedia:Richard Wagner|Wagner]] and [[Wikipedia:Gustav Mahler|Mahler]]. That, and I've recently developed a strong fascination for [[Wikipedia:Léo Delibes|Delibes's]] [[Wikipedia:Lakmé|Lakmé]]. I enjoy singing all sorts of classical music, not to mention occasionally something outside the classical repertoire (usually seems to be "[[Wikipedia:Hotel California (song)|Hotel California]]" or "[[Wikipedia:Grace Kelly (song)|Grace Kelly]]"). | |
- | [[ | + | I am also fluent in [[Wikipedia:German language|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"). Many on the Wiki believe I am German, and sometimes I wish I could tell them that I am. But it's just not the case: I was born and raised in the United States of America and have never lived in Germany. |
- | + | Since I started coming to China in 2006, I've started learning [[Wikipedia:Chinese language|Chinese]], too. I'm not fluent as yet, but I get many, many opportunities to practice here in China, so many that I start to feel like my German has fallen by the wayside. China and its culture and history have become yet another fascination of mine, so I suppose I'm in the right place these days. | |
I used to do a couple of contests on my userpage. I haven't done them in quite some time due to time constraints and the fact that the subtitles project has made my first a bit obsolete. Here, at any rate, are all the winners of the contests, whose wins I intend to keep recorded on this page as long as the page itself continues to live: | I used to do a couple of contests on my userpage. I haven't done them in quite some time due to time constraints and the fact that the subtitles project has made my first a bit obsolete. Here, at any rate, are all the winners of the contests, whose wins I intend to keep recorded on this page as long as the page itself continues to live: | ||
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'''Previous winners of my opera contest''': [[User:Trey56|Trey56]] (thrice), [[User:Qermaq|Qermaq]], [[User:Loafing|Loafing]], [[User:Has Matt?|Has Matt?]], [[User:The Commander IN COMMAND|The Commander IN COMMAND]] | '''Previous winners of my opera contest''': [[User:Trey56|Trey56]] (thrice), [[User:Qermaq|Qermaq]], [[User:Loafing|Loafing]], [[User:Has Matt?|Has Matt?]], [[User:The Commander IN COMMAND|The Commander IN COMMAND]] | ||
+ | ==My history with H*R and the Wiki== | ||
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+ | I first discovered homestarrunner.com in March 2003 when I saw a couple of friends of mine watching various [[Strong Bad Email|Strong Bad Emails]] (at the time, [[the show]] was the new Email). I remember laughing really hard at [[japanese cartoon]]: I used to have a roommate who liked anime and so the parody of the clichés resonated well with me. After a couple of weeks, I went back and watched all the Strong Bad emails to that date (this time, it was [[spring cleaning]] that made me just about fall out of my chair). 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). | ||
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+ | I first encountered the Wiki sometime in 2004 or 2005 (I believe I followed a link from [http://www.wikipedia.org 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]]. For over a month, I remained a redlinked user and only voted in STUFF and occasionally corrected spelling or grammar (albeit anonymously). On 6 October 2005 I finally made a user page and was greeted shortly thereafter by [[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] (back when he was called "notstrongorbad") and [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]]. This was when I began to contribute to the wiki, and Dot com remains a close wiki associate and, more importantly, friend to this day. At first, it was just a little bit here and there, but eventually I became a very active user. I must have done something right, because I was made a sysop on 7 March 2006. | ||
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+ | While, alas, no pictures worth posting came out of the event, I'm glad to have had one chance to meet one of my fellow wiki sysops in real life. In early 2008, I made a short trip down to [[Wikipedia:San Diego|San Diego]] to meet [[User:Trey56|Trey56]], who was there briefly. I had a good time showing him around one of my favourite cities in the world. | ||
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+ | == My Wikitivities == | ||
+ | {{userboxtop}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#008000|mainbkgd=#7CFC00|codebkgd=#32CD32|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=SYS|msg=This user is a wiki '''[[Special:Listusers/sysop|sysop]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=navy|mainbkgd=lightsteelblue|codebkgd=lightgray|codecolor=black|code=[[Image:California_state_flag.png|47px]]|msg=This user lives in '''[[Wikipedia:California|California]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#006400|mainbkgd=#ADFF2F|codebkgd=#2E8B57|codecolor=#000000|code=[[Image:HomsarPotion-ma-jig.png|30px]]|msg=This user enjoys doing '''[[HRWiki:WikiGnome|Gnome work]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#1D95CF|mainbkgd=#AED9EE|codebkgd=#666|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=[[Image:Strong Bad's Rhythm N' Grammar.png|45px]]|msg=If you want it to be possessive, it's just '''I-T-S''', but if it's suppposed to be a contraction then it's '''I-T-apostrophe-S'''. '''[[local news|Scalawag]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#FF6103|codebkgd=#000000 |codecolor=#FF6103|code=RC|msg=This user patrols '''[[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#708090|mainbkgd=#F0F8FF|codebkgd=#696969|codecolor=#B0E0E6|code=RV|msg=This user often finds and reverts '''[[HRWiki:WikiTroll|vandalism]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#708090|mainbkgd=#E0E8FF|codebkgd=#696969|codecolor=#B0E0E6|code=[[Image:Tgs10 p0wned.png|43px]]|msg=This user '''<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=Heimstern_L%C3%A4ufer p0wns]</span>''' '''[[HRWiki:WikiTroll|vandals]]''', ''so schnell als wäre er selbst auf Rädern''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#00008B|mainbkgd=#F5F5F5|codebkgd=#0000CD |codecolor=#FFFFFF|code='KP|msg=This user is also a sysop on '''[[Wikipedia:User:Heimstern|'Kipedia]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#FF9900|codebkgd=#FFCC00|codecolor=#663333|code=OLD|msg=This user is over '''19 years old'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#008000|mainbkgd=#7CFC00|codebkgd=#32CD32|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=SB|msg=This user lives in Strong Badia, err, [[Wikipedia:San Bernardino County, California|San Bernardino]] County.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#FF9900|codebkgd=#006600|codecolor=#000000|code=[[Image:Fallen Ben.PNG|43px]]|msg=This user is a member of the '''[[Homestarmy]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#FFFFFF|codebkgd=#0000FF|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=SH|msg=This user wears '''[[Toons#Shorts|shorts]]''', but shuns Daisy Dukes.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#CCFFCC|codebkgd=#FFFFFF|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=[[Image:Homestarrunningshirt.PNG|48px]]|msg=This user owns a lot of freakin' H*R T-shirts.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#FFFF99|codebkgd=#FFFFFF|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=[[Image:The Cheat doll.jpg|43px]]|msg=This user owns a '''[[Store#Kick The Cheat|Kick The Cheat stuffed animal]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#FFFF99|codebkgd=#FFFFFF|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=[[Image:Figurinesset2.PNG|43px]]|msg=This user owns '''[[Store#Collectible Figurines|Set 2 of the Collectible Figurines]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#66CCCC|codebkgd=#FFFFFF|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=[[Image:Ev Else.PNG|43px]]|msg=This user owns '''[[Everything Else, Volume 1]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#66CCCC|codebkgd=#FFFFFF|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=[[Image:dvd3discset.gif|43px]]|msg=This user owns '''[[strongbad_email.exe]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#66CCCC|codebkgd=#FFFFFF|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=[[Image:dvddisc4.jpg|43px]]|msg=This user owns '''[[strongbad_email.exe Disc Four]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#66CCCC|codebkgd=#FFFFFF|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=[[Image:Strong Bad Sings CD.png|43px]]|msg=This user owns '''[[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]]'''.}} | ||
+ | {{userbox|border=#000000|border=#000000|mainbkgd=#FF9966|codebkgd=#FFFFFF|codecolor=#FFFFFF|code=[[Image:Static cling.PNG|38px]]|msg=This user has the '''[[Store#Static Clings|Static Clings]]''' mounted on his car windows.}} | ||
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+ | '''''SADDY DUMPINGTON:''''' ''Some troll decided to celebrate New Year's Day 2006 by vandalizing my user space, and since then it's been vandalized many more times! Isn't that great?!'' | ||
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+ | 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. I've reverted many a vandal edit in my day and have blocked several (or, in my pre-sysop days, informed sysops of them). My most memorable experience fighting vandals occurred when [[User:Lapper|Lapper]], [[User:Some HSR themed username|Some HSR themed username]] and I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning of 28 January 2006 stopping an annoying group of sockpuppets. | ||
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+ | 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 look for various opportunities to add content and to participate in discussions on the wiki. I tend to monitor the [[HRWiki:Featured Article Selection|featured article selection]] process here on the wiki and make sure it runs smoothly. | ||
== Significant Contributions == | == Significant Contributions == | ||
- | At least, I | + | At least, I think they're significant: |
*I created the [[Crapfully Yours]], [[Homestar and Marzipan's Relationship]] and [[DNA Evidence (running gag)]] articles (but, naturally, others have continued to maintain and improve them). | *I created the [[Crapfully Yours]], [[Homestar and Marzipan's Relationship]] and [[DNA Evidence (running gag)]] articles (but, naturally, others have continued to maintain and improve them). | ||
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*Läu- : loy (does ''not'' rhyme with "how"!) | *Läu- : loy (does ''not'' rhyme with "how"!) | ||
*-fer : fah (kind of a mix between "ah" and a schwa) | *-fer : fah (kind of a mix between "ah" and a schwa) | ||
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+ | == Possible translations of other characters' names == | ||
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+ | *Pom pom : Pompon | ||
+ | *Marzipan : Marzipan (P.S.: The word [[Wikipedia:Marzipan|Marzipan]] actually came to English from German) | ||
+ | *Strong Bad: Stark Schlecht | ||
+ | *Strong Mad: Stark Wütend | ||
+ | *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 | ||
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+ | == Some random facts == | ||
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+ | *Current favorite quote: "'Ina-pro-pro!' barfed the Queen of England." | ||
+ | *I have a poster <s>on my wall</s> in storage somewhere that my sister made for me that says "cool tapes!" | ||
+ | *My birthday is the same as the composer [[Wikipedia:Richard Wagner|Richard Wagner]]'s. | ||
+ | *My cousins have a pair of red boxing gloves that resemble Strong Bad's. The first time I tried them on, I naturally decided to try typing with them. No success. I still have no idea [[How Do You Type With Boxing Gloves On?|how he does it]]. | ||