User:Mrschimpf

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Userboxes Wikipedia Philosophy This user has been on Wikipedia for 3 years,  1 month and 28 days. CST This user's time zone is CST. This user lives in or is from the State of Wisconsin. This user is a member of WikiProject Television Stations. This user assumes good faith. This user is a WikiSloth. This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know. This user maintains a strict policy advising against all personal attacks. This user removes personal attacks because it's the right thing to do. This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits. Setup XP This user uses Windows XP. This user contributes using Opera. This user contributes using Safari on an iPhone. This user's primary Instant Messaging software is Trillian. This user contributes while using iTunes 7.6.2 Personal This user is male. This user is an Aquarian. This user is a child at heart. They may have grown older but they'll never grow up. LH ← This user is a southpaw. This user is Single. This user is straight... but not narrow. Shame on those who are. This user supports the fight against breast cancer. This user does not smoke. Media Access Chtr This user's TV service provider is Charter Cable. SBG This user, sadly, lives in a market with two Sinclair stations... DT This user has a Digital television set, or tuner box, to receive Digital terrestrial television, such as DVB, ISDB, or ATSC. This user prefers cable television over satellite television. NPR This user listens to NPR. PC This user listens to podcasts. fan-3 This user thinks that Paris Geller is the greatest character of all time. Newspapers This user reads The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. This user reads USA Today. PBS This user pledged Zeeba Zeeba Eata.

Well, I figured with my three year anniversary of editing here coming up (one month under an IP, and then I got my username in May 2005), I should probably give you an idea of who I am beyond what's been here as a placeholder just so my name isn't red. So I'm finally getting around to adding userboxes and a better biography of myself.

Let's do it in bullet-point form (because I can get verbose...very verbose).

• I'm a 28 year-old guy from Wisconsin...Sheboygan, specifically. I'll wait while you get the giggles about America's favorite funnily-named town outside of Walla Walla out of your system.
• I usually edit a little bit of everything, mainly pop culture topics, television shows, and television/radio stations, along with local roads and expressways. After so much time here though, you get bored editing the same things, so I've broadened my horizions to do minor spelling and grammar edits, and I occasionally edit a template here and there.
• I do deal with vandalism also, but it's not my life. Just enough to discourage them from doing it again, but not flying off the handle because someone added immature content that can easily be reverted. Hey, it is the encyclopedia anyone can edit after all.
• If I can stay out of a content fight, I will. 3RR is an important rule and I feel it's better to come to a consensus than to make new enemies if I don't have to.
• My watchlist might be thin, but I do monitor plenty of articles and WikiProjects. My goal is to keep articles clean and concise to read, and hopefully entertaining as well.
• I am liberal, but here I'm neutral to anything political. If someone vandalizes an article about someone from another party, I still revert. It's the right thing to do.
• I learned about the project from reading an article about it from Aaron Barnhart, a television critic for the Kansas City Star, who if I recall, described Wikipedia as 'addictive'. I scoffed at the time when I clicked on a WP link. About 8,000 edits later...not so much with the scoffing.
• I watched all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, even the last annoying season with that guy who isn't Amy Sherman-Palladino. I fell for the awesomely talented and beautiful Liza Weil through the show and her character Paris Geller. That she's my favorite actress and Paris is the best character will probably never change. Unless she gets a new show. Which I hope for, soon.
• The CW used to be my favorite network, until GG ended and they replaced it with 192 hours of reality and a lame infomercial. Now I watch DIY Network and Fox Soccer Channel alot. I still don't know what my favorite football team is, but I'm leaning toward Everton.
• Of course I like the Green Bay Packers. If I didn't, I think it would be against some Wisconsin statute and I'd have to perform community service.
• Yes, I write fanfiction. I do write Paris/Rory femmeslash. I'm proud to do so.
• I also watch Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, and ship Callie/Addison (though if Erica Hahn gets her way I will definitely ship her and Callie). Yes, I'm a guy. No, I don't care for most male-targeted shows or science fiction, and I'm lost on Lost and Heroes.
• But I do watch NCIS.
• I'm an X-Play superfan. I've watched almost every episode and had videos of reviews up on YouTube before Comcast got all DMCA on G4/TechTV fans and deleted them all.
• The Soup is the only time I can watch reality television, because Joel McHale is the only one who can make it sane to me. I also watch Best Week Ever, but it's gone a bit downhill.
• I've stared quite a few articles (like WMLW-CA, W29DJ, WWRS, WSHS (FM), WPXE, and MeTV Milwaukee (since then, becoming WBME-TV, which I rewrote)), but most of the time I don't care for credit or anything. I say I lay the foundation and you bring the bricks. My major contributions were to the Paris article of course, at least before it got merged into one GG character article.
• Yes, I do know I'm using my real name to edit. I'm uncreative like that.
• I do own an iPhone, which I love. Leaving it at that, because boasting is dumb.
• I listen to AM radio all the time, especially news radio. But I prefer middle of the road talk like WGN; I don't care for political and sports talk. I also hate local radio monopolies which suck locality out of radio so they can carry shows you can hear on big city radio stations anyway.
• WGN America's logo is totally the new can't sleep, clown will eat me. Except replace the clown with Lydia from Beetlejuice and combine it with a Wayne's World EXTREME CLOSE-UP!!.
• Automation also really bugs me. It somehow ends up malfunctioning and a station has dead air for an hour because some engineer 1,000 miles away forgets to flip a switch.
• Which is why I love podcasts. Unless the server's down or your MP3 player is broken, no technical difficulties.
• I own a Weatheradio and am a middling weather geek. I even bought a DTV reciever so I could get the local weather digital subchannels to watch.
• As much as I'd like to use an external WP editor, I hate IE (which most of them use as an engine) and try to never use it if I don't have to, so I'm content with popups in Opera.