User:Thunderbird L17
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About Myself
Hi. I'm Leith. Aka Thunderbird. I'm 19 years old, I've been a user of this Wiki since September 14th, 2004, and a sysop around here since April 26th, 2005. I'm an electrician from Canada, near Vancouver BC. My screenname is Thunderbird L17, and no, it doesn't have anything to do with the car. 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 at the upcoming Homestarrunner.net I will be known as Thunderbird L19. 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 a misunderstanding. But I'm a good, productive member of the community now. I've been coming to the Wiki since late-summer 04, by first finding the old one two weeks before it went down while looking for a Peasant's Quest walkthrough, 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 prefer instead to "reorganize info", sort already known information into useful lists, along with supplementary information. I also enjoy adding pics to pic-less pages, and keeping continuing features of the Wiki, such as the Featured Article of the Week, running smoothly. I used to be a Nintendo junky, but nowadays I don't really have time for any of that anymore. 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.
Proudest Contributions
- Floppy Disk Container, Couch Mumbling ⇔ My proudest pages. I did most of the info, and much of the formatting.
- H*R.com updates 2003, 2002, 2001 and 2000 ⇔ Read about the idea to use LiveJournals in the Forum, and ran with it.
- Interviews and Public Appearances ⇔ Created the page, and did most of the work, including adding several transcripts, formatting, and asking for most of the permission to reprint them. Also acquired a picture of Jonathan Howe, thanks to Bobby Blackwolf.
- Halloween Costumes ⇔ Came up with the idea and did most of the formatting and pics, but not much info.
- 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.
- 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.
Proud Contributions
- 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. Contributed the picture and much of the info.
- 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.
- Holiday Toons ⇔ Started the page and worked on it lots, including finding and listing all the additional Holiday Toons.
- King of Town's Castle ⇔ Added the 'virtual tour' of sorts using pics.
- Monkey D ⇔ Created the page, and added the pics.
- Museum Sketchbook ⇔ Expanded on a very basic summary to add pictures and captions.
- Strong Bad's Basement ⇔ Added the widescreen pic of said basement, it took quite a bit of work and editing.
- Making Out ⇔ Came up with the idea, and made the page, along with a list of most of the occurances.
- Tandy 400 ⇔ Added and organized the history of the Tandy 400, with pictures.
- The Cheat's Head Exploding ⇔ Added the pics.
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.
- NYU Talk - 1 Mar 2005 ⇔ Scribed the last half of the Sample of Style Too section.
Contributions By The Numbers
- Over 4000 edits and counting!!!
- Over 222 pictures and counting!!!
- Over 6000 views of my userpage and counting!!! I hope they weren't all by me...
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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Contact me
If you have the Mediawiki email setting set up, feel free to send me something, if you feel so inclined. I'm usually a bit quicker to answer usual wiki questions through my talk page though. Thanks for stopping by.
