User:FreedomRock

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Brenton Paul Burkett (Born November 25, 1987 in Tampa, Florida; FreedomRock on Wikipedia) is a college student at The Art Institute of Tampa (since August 2006), majoring in Web Design & Multimedia. His most notable Wikipedia contibutions include the creation of the Pat Julmiste (now defunct) and Timmy Chang pages. Prior to attending The Art Institute, Brenton was a 2006 honors graduate of Gaither High School in Tampa.

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  • Brenton has a twin brother who also attends The Art Institute of Tampa and lives in the same townhouse as he does. His parents moved from Tampa to Edgewater, Florida in 2006 after 20 years in the Tampa Bay Area. His parents and two of his three living grandparents reside in Florida. Public record search results from Intelius say that Brenton has lived in Edgewater, but this is false.
  • He was named after a supporting character in "Gone with the Wind", one of his mother's favorite books.
  • Although he normally goes by "Brenton", he often introduces himself in person as "Brent". Additionally, his last name can either be pronounced "BUR-kett" or "Bur-KETT". Brenton favored the former in his youth, but now uses both, usually combining his first name with the latter pronunciation.
  • He is a big baseball and football fan, especially of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Rays, and Atlanta Braves. He is also a fan of professional wrestling (particularly of the TNA brand and independent wrestling), and considers himself a historian of the business. However, as stated in his MySpace blog as of June 2007, he watches less wrestling now than he once did.
  • His dedication to the Atlanta Braves has paid off in his trips to watch them in Spring Training. In March 2006, Brenton won a prize for correctly guessing the attendance at a game in Kissimmee, Florida after the seventh inning of a Braves win over the Cincinnati Reds. One year later, in March 2007, he answered a Braves trivia question correctly and won another prize at the All-Star Cafe before a win against the Toronto Blue Jays. The correct answer was Kyle Farnsworth.
  • Brenton currently runs a Tampa Bay Rays blog affiliated with Major League Baseball's official website. He started it in July 2007, and it covers the Rays as well as the Braves. He is currently one of the most active Rays MLBloggers. [1]
  • He was seen in the background of a brief clip of dancing fans in a Tampa Bay Storm AFL commercial that aired around 2000. The footage was taken from a game against the Orlando Predators from 1999.
  • He played Little League baseball from 1996 to 1998 in three Tampa Bay Area leagues. This is his only real athletic experience. He claims he quit because he and his parents couldn't find a league they liked and his parents did not want him playing at a highly competitive level.
  • Height runs in his father's side of his family. He stands 6'3" tall, having reached 6' before high school. (The only taller student in his eighth grade class was two years older, leading Brenton to joke that he "cheated".) His father stands 6'5½", and one great uncle 6'9" at his peak height. His great great grandfather was said to have stood 7'2".
  • According to some sources, Brenton's ancestors in the Harmon family founded the town of Harmontown, Mississippi, outside of Oxford. Others, however, say that a different family was behind the town's creation. Regardless, Brenton himself has never been there.
  • He attended Sanders Memorial Elementary School in Land O' Lakes, Florida from 1993 to 1998. He moved on to Essrig Elementary School in Tampa for the 1998-1999 school year, then Ben Hill Middle School from 1999 to 2002, and Gaither High School from 2002 to 2006.
  • He suffered from anxiety during his grade school years and never had much of a social life as a result, as other students and baseball teammates found him to be mostly reclusive. He and his brother were also accused for years by some of being homosexual (mostly by less mature classmates), but they are actually heterosexual.
  • He survived a significant stroke in 2002 at the age of 14. Police and paramedics initially attributed it to drugs, creating a controversy that spread throughout Ben Hill Middle School. He and his friends were cleared of any wrongdoing, and an assistant principal (ironically, a former co-worker of Brenton's mother) quit her job the day the scandal broke.
  • On Google search results for his name, someone with his first and last name once came up as having posted a blog comment that reads, "The judge who put coded messages in his Da Vinci Code plagiarism trial ruling has written another..." This has been the only result to date that did not refer to him, but rather, someone else with his name. (One man with his name currently lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina, according to public records.)
  • Google also ties him to backyard wrestling websites in its search results. This is because Brenton and a few friends did some backyard wrestling during some middle and high school years. It was very tame by backyard wrestling standards, but the entire group agrees that it was poorly executed and, in retrospect, embarrassing. Brenton considers himself to have been the worst of the group.
  • Musically, Brenton has been a parody song writer and has posted many of his revised lyrics online. [4] A few later parodies were posted in his MySpace blog. He has also used Soundtrack Pro to create repetitive music beats of varying genres for audio projects at The Art Institute; he is saving these bits for potential future use if the opportunity arises.
  • The number 747 carries a rare significance with Brenton. His first name is seven letters, middle name four, and last name seven-thus, 7-4-7. He was also born at 7:47 A.M.
  • Brenton wrote this entire page in the third-person.

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