Today I turn 30 years old, and for some reason this has always been the age I have used to judge successes and failures.  I have no idea why, but I never set any goals for myself to be achieved by 40 or 50 or even 35.  I just never thought of life beyond 30.  The thought of getting this far seemed light years away, so most of my explicit goals were to be done by the arbitrary age of 30.

As long as I can remember, there have been two overarching goals that were centered around 30:

1. To travel to 6 continents before I turn 30
2. When I was 18, I told my Grandpa that I would become a millionaire by age 30

I wrote about the first goal of world travel extensively last month, having achieved the goal mere months before my self-imposed deadline.  I have written nary a word of the second goal in this blog or elsewhere, as to be so would likely create more negative reaction than I could fragilely handle at any point in the previous 30 years.

I write about it today only to share in my failure to achieve this goal.  I do not have $1 Million in US currency in the bank.  On the very date I was supposed to celebrate my financial achievement I am publicly admitting defeat.

Why am I doing this?

Because even while admitting failure, a failure I am not.  Setting a big hairy audacious goal (BHAG) and laying a foundation to meet this goal has mixed my lifes achievements into a cocktail of experiences and fiduciary responsibility.

Chasing my goal helped me get out of debt.  It allowed me to quit my dead end job and join Three Deep as a consultant.  It afforded me the opportunity to meet so many great people over the years and find my voice both personally and professionally.

It has humbled me as I watched a company I helped build make the Inc 5000 list of fastest growing companies, all while achieving the title of the 9th best place to work in the Twin Cities.  Creating jobs and watching Three Deep grow from 5 people to 35+ people in the worst recession of the past several generations.  This is worth far more than money.

Throughout all of this, money has really not factored into any of my career or personal decisions since I quit “working for the man” in 2006.   Its only influence has been in motivating me to quit in the first place.  That decision alone has put me in a position to someday achieve my arbitrary goal.

And the money will come.  I have just adjusted my expectations to something more realistic.

30 is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0

Most Underrated Movie Ever?

2. It is quite possible that I am the biggest fan of the movie Cable Guy in the world. I genuinely think that it’s a hilarious movie. Plus the fact that it bombed in the box office and a lot of people didn’t like it just adds fuel to the fire. America just wasn’t ready for Cable Guy!

3. I have gone to several countries without a plan. Each time I was able to get around via public transportation and order food by pointing at menus. Now that I think about it, I guess I did have a plan for where I’m staying, so saying I have no plan was a lie.

4. If 2007 was my year of Europe, 2008 was my year of North America. During this year I was in the following states/provinces: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey, California, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Ontario.

Heroes of Might and Magic II

5. In 1994/1995, I created a web site dedicated to a video game I loved called Heroes of Might and Magic II. I was able to create the site template in Netscape Navigator 2′s HTML editor and captured all of the images from the game itself. I uploaded them all to my dad’s company web server and then got people to visit my site through a web ring. I was getting visitors worldwide. I was a Hero without the might and magic. My brother would make fun of me for doing this. Now I have turned the Internet into my career. Who’s the dork now brother? What’s that? It’s still me?

6. When I was in college, this guy I know was allegedly involved with a server that hosted movies, music, applications, games, etc. that were all ‘free’ to those who visited the server. My friend at St. Thomas IT said this server sucked up 2/3 of the entire Internet bandwidth at UST before the RIAA sent a cease and desist. This guy was not me, I swear.

7. My brother and his wife have 3 adorable kids. Like model caliber children. I am training them to say stuff like “Uncle Jeff is awesome,” but I don’t see them often enough for it to stick. I am devising a plan that involves my voice coming through baby monitors and a getting a guest appearance on Dora the Explorer that will hypnopaedically implant this into their memory. They won’t even see it coming!

8. Continuing with the niece/nephew theme, I just love those kids to death. They are funny, cute and a little crazy too. They also have taken almost all of the pressure off of me to have kids until the twenty-teens. This affords me a lot of leeway in my life’s decisions. I am also working on giving them some money each birthday/Christmas so that they can travel abroad during college. International travel is something I think is very important, but is extremely expensive.

Hurricane Mike Ditka Sauer

9. I went as Hurricane Mike Ditka for Halloween in 2008 and rocked that costume. I even bought a mustache that contained real human hair and had to use some kind of human friendly contact cement to apply it. The night I wore the costume to a beer drinking party and the costume was well received. I enjoyed the attention. The part I didn’t enjoy, though, was the beer in the mustache. I just don’t think it’s very sanitary.

10. I am addicted to buying things on Amazon.com. The moment I get a glass of wine or a beer in front of me, my imagination runs wild. I hop onto Amazon.com, search, read reviews, look for something with ‘prime’ shipping, and buy. I would say Amazon converts me about 68% of the time when I have a little booze in me. If they were smart, they would monitor my habits and send me messages only during this peak window. During my periodic brushes with sobriety, Amazon converts at a much more conservative 10%.

11. I have never killed a hooker or a hobo. Carnies, are another story… which I will not be telling here. 5th Ammendment beeeotch.

12. Speaking of beeotches, when I broke up with my college girlfriend, I was heartbroken and thought the world was over. With time, I realized that she was actually an alien and killed her on the spot. I then proceeded to lose 50 pounds, wear something other than Cargo pants and band t-shirts, and start my own business. Life has been better ever since that time. It turns out that heinous alien was the best thing to ever happen to me.

13. I drink a lot of coffee. I think it’s awesome and life altering. Without coffee, I pretty much live in a haze and am not productive. If I would have drank coffee in HS and college, I probably could have gone to Harvard.

14. I chose to go to St. Thomas for college because my dad clipped an article from the paper about their Computer Science department. I knew that I wanted to go into computers, and my original intention was to make video games. Then I learned that you had to spend 100 hour weeks writing code in order to break into the industry, and you don’t make any money until you’ve been around several years, and I decided to give up that dream.

15. One of my good friends from my neighborhood growing up, Scott, also went to UST with me and did Computer Science because he wanted to make video games. We ended up living together for 2 years in college, buying a house together after college, and he came and worked with me at my first job. Since then, I see him about once a year. Sad.

16. Since I moved into my house in Roseville in 2004, I have had the following people live there: Sauer, Skaff, Weber, Smith, Catlin, Palzer, Pinto, Skaff, Petrich, Nick James (unofficial), Koba, Langhoff. That’s 12 people in that house. We have also had 1 pet; Skaff’s Parrot named Rossi. I now have 0 roommates and love it!

I am the guy front row in the middle

17. My business partner and brother from another mother, Harlan ‘Hucky’ Austin, was one of the most influential people in my career. He took me from doing static web development into the world of search engines and online money making, and if it weren’t for him, I would not be leading the life I live today. Plus, he taught me how to BBQ kickass ribs! He also allowed me to tag along with him to a celebrity fashion show as a bodyguard. That was an awesome experience.

18. When I was in 7th grade, I worshipped my sister. She owned several CD’s with a ‘parental advisory: explicit lyrics’ label, about 100 ‘cross colors’ shirts, and a pair of red Girbaud jeans. I remember wearing them to school one day with my red Chicago Bulls pullover Starter Sweatshirt and thinking that I was the coolest person in the school. I wasn’t, but for that one shining moment, Jeff was the proud little brother of Kristi ‘Straight Mackin’ Sauer.

19. Speaking of my sister, she used to drive a bright red Mitsubishi Eclipse. The thing looked fast. It wasn’t. During my senior year of HS, my sister had finished college and was substitute teaching at my high school. She used to give me rides to school in the Eclipse. One day she was too sick to work (read: hungover) and I took the car so that I could get to school. She was not happy about that. Another time, I took her car (4 cylinder engine, rear wheel drive) onto north Lindstrom lake and got stuck. It took me about 60 minutes to finally get off of that lake. Some redneck dude with a truck helped me out and scolded me for being so stupid.

1960 Corvette - Jimbo's baby

20. My dad has a 1960 Corvette that he’s had since he restored it in 1968. A red Corvette is the quintessential American Hot Rod and one could argue that this is the best year for Corvettes. Just an awesome car. I used to get jealous of my sister growing up because it was earmarked for her to be the car’s heir since birth. However, since I am retarded and can’t even drive the thing without stalling it, I am no longer concerned if I don’t get it. Also, by the time we pry that thing from my dad’s iron grip, I will be so rich I can just buy one myself. Or hire someone to sculpt one for me out of solid gold.

21. I have a huge extended family. Mom had 8 kids in her family and dad had 7. Let’s just say that my grandparents on both sides were getting busy. I have a lot of cousins too. They are all pretty awesome.

22. My 10 year HS reunion is this summer. I won’t be going, because I have already planned a trip to Chicago that weekend to watch the Twins play at Wrigley field.

23. I have a friend named Jeff Sauer who found me on jeffsauer.com while we were both in college. He’s from the Chicago area and we’ve talked on the phone. We almost met for a drink one time, but we both got cold feet and were worried that the world would implode.

24. I run a web site called FunnyVideoSearch.com where I post videos that are hilarious and it gets about 10 visitors a day. Most of those people come in through Google search. The top 5 keywords that drive traffic to my site are some derivation of “Gizz in my Pants.” When I look back on my life, I am hoping that this is my legacy. Jeff “Gizz in my pants” Sauer.

25. I registered jeffsauer.com a long time ago and have been posting pictures and stories online since around the year 2000. I called them ‘Random Thoughts.’ Then others started doing the same thing and calling it a “blog.” I like Random Thoughts better.

25 Random Things about Me is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0

I spend a lot of time on the web. Most of it is business related, but I do take time away to play. Here are some more of my favorite sites:

Site:

Stuff White People Like

Synopsis:

This site has gained a TON of momentum over the past several weeks, and rightfully so; it’s hilarious! Very insightful, yet ultimately self deprecating, Stuff White People Like is a blog that chronicles the nuances that go into the decision making process of the average white (and I would assume affluent, 25-45 year olds) person. Hilarity generally ensues. The writing isn’t particularly laugh out loud funny, but if you can have a sense of humor about yourself, it becomes hilarious as you begin to see bits and pieces of yourself in the writing.

Signature Post:

Most posts can be given signature status, but two recent posts really made me laugh out loud. The first is the post about the Wire, which is a great television show. This article easily could have been written about me. The second is about hating corporations. Since I’m not the biggest fan of corporations, this one fits me as well (although often for different reasons than outlined in the article).

Site:

Jake and Amir Dot Com

Synopsis:

One of the stupidest sites on the web, but I absolutely love it. Jake and Amir are two guys who work for College Humor. Every few days they post a video that’s about 1-3 minutes long, and it details Amir’s unhealthy man-crush on Jake. The videos are all a little odd, and make me laugh about 90% of the time. Not everyone will think this site is funny, but if you like the one I’m posting, chances are you’ll like them all.

Signature Post:

There are lots of funny posts, but I’ll give a few for you. The first is a recent one where they pick their March Madness Brackets. Another is Jake’s Computer. (warning, there is a bit of swearing, so make sure to use headphones if at work).

Site:

TK On Toast

Synopsis:

This is a sports blog started by three of my St. Thomas Buddies. Pretty funny stuff, and insightful if you like MN sports.

Signature Post:

Other than my guest post from the NFL Playoffs (boy was I wrong about the Giants), I would have to say my favorite post is their road trip diary about their trip to Marquette as part of the DTFTC. If you like guy humor and stories of drinking, this one is an epic.

Site:

Photoblog 2.0

Synopsis:

I found this site when I started to become interested in Digital Photography, and have been a subscriber ever since. Harold Davis (the owner of this blog) takes some awesome photos and even tells you how he achieved such great shots! He’s a very personable guy and actually wrote me a personal email after I left a comment on his site. He even went to my site and read my posts! Pretty cool guy if you ask me.

Signature Post:

I mentioned earlier that I commented on one of his blog posts, which showed a beautiful picture of a Gerbera Daisy. This was the favorite flower of my girlfriend at the time, so I wrote to Harold to see if I could get a print.

Site:

The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks

Synopsis:

This site constantly posts pictures of signs and other unnecessary public displays of quotation marks. Good for a few laughs if you are a fan of grammar.

Signature Post:

Nothing really blows you away, since all of the quotes are funny in their own way…. but I got a kick out of this one: “crabs”.

My Favorite Web Sites – Part 2 is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0

While I feel that I am an excellent long term planner (far beyond my years, actually), I am not very bright when it comes to planning for the short term. Generally I’m resourceful enough to overcome this lack of planning ability, but sometimes things are beyond my control. Case in point, Thanksgiving.

This year I was going to family Thanksgiving in St. Cloud like my family does every other year. I’m at the point now where I’m old enough that I am required to bring a side dish of some sort to family functions, and this time my mission was cranberry sauce. Naturally, I forgot that I was supposed to bring something, and didn’t buy Cranberry sauce during the week as I should have.

I went on a mission on Thursday morning to get some cranberries and ran into a small problem; Roseville was an absolute ghost town! EVERYTHING was closed, and there were no cars on the road. I learned a hard lesson that grocery stores aren’t open on holidays, and I was left scrambling for some cranberries. (Side note, this exact same thing happened to me on Easter this year with the olives, and whatever I was in charge of bringing on Christmas Eve. This is evidence that I am in serious need of a girlfriend).

I called my mom to ask her if she had any Cranberries at the house, and she said no. I asked her if she knew of any stores that were open on Thanksgiving, and she said no once again. I asked if anyone even ate the Cranberries, and she said she didn’t know. Not much help, so I kept on trucking.

I drove down the road and came across a Super America station that was open, and absolutely packed. I walked in and started looking at the shelf in a long-shot attempt to try to find cranberry sauce; no luck. Amazingly, they actually had a table set up in the front of the store with items that people must commonly forget on Thanksgiving (stuffing, baking supplies, pie filling, etc.), but NO CRANBERRIES!

I drove around some more and found another Super America. They were less busy, so I went in and asked a clerk if they had cranberries, or if they could point me to a place that was open. They didn’t have cranberries, but they did say that Walgreens was open and had a decent food selection.

Walgreens turned out to be my savior. I walked in, checked out a few aisles, and there it was; a sweet, tangy, awesome flavor-locked can of wonderful Ocean Spray cranberries. I triumphantly grabbed the can and held it up in victory. Then I walked to the front of the store to check out, passed a clerk on my way, and said to her “Walgreens saved my life!” She looked at me as if I was having a tourette’s outburst.

I ignored the jeers from the Walgreen’s staff and smiled knowing that I wouldn’t have to disappoint the family with a lack of cranberries. While checking out the lady at the register rang up the cranberries and announced my total of $1.49. She called me a “Big Spender” and then asked me if I would like to save 10% by opening up a Walgreen’s Credit Card account. Was she serious? Still smiling, I let her down lightly; “just the cranberries for me, thanks”.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Does Anybody Even Eat The Cranberries? is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0

10. I believe
Me in a nutshell. In this post I outline my beliefs, which are inane, petty and often far-fetched. If you ever wanted to know what I stand for, read this one!

9. Romeo Must Die… So Must Whitey
I thought I was going to see a movie, but I ended up being scared for my life. Find out why.

8. Our First Date
Just some random crap that I wrote one day about a fictitious first date that I had. It ended up being a pretty solid post, and got some good reactions from friends.

7. Valley Oaks Neighborhood Memories
A made up story about how much I lamented the Semi-Retarded kid down the street growing up.

6. Poor Timing
A classic tale of me putting my foot in my mouth. I was venting to Brandon about somthing that happened while working, and I ended up venting to his boss instead. He was not happy with my rant!

5. Wedding Speech
Best man’s speech that I gave at my brother’s wedding. It’s a classic in our family, and is the reason why I should be given a speaking role at all future weddings.

4. Scotland – Day 8
This post had it all. In chronicling my experience in Scotland, this day truly stood out as the most fun/wild/scary day of the trip. It started with a trip to watch the Hearts (Scottish soccer club) play at Tynecastle Stadium. It also included me posing with a bagpiper, lots of walking, and a night at a discotheque filled with lots of drinking, House music and other things that I can’t mention in this space. The night ended with me getting lost in the streets of Edinburgh and trying my hardest to find a way home.

3. Childhood Flashback – Commercials
Venting about how the commercials I saw when I was a kid were all full of shit.

2. My Golf Story
I quit golf at the peak of my game while in college.

1. An Open Letter to Chipotle
My opus that I wrote to Chipotle trying to get them to start an incentive program (much like the Subway Stamp club). If nothing else, read it for the first few paragraphs when I display my Chipotle credentials.

My Top 10 Favorite Jeffsauer.com Posts is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0

I have been publishing stupid stories on my web site since 2000. It started when I was in college doing web design at St. Thomas. I made a site on the St. Thomas server (It was iss.stthomas.edu/sauerw to be exact), and used Cold Fusion to post my thoughts for my friends. The only way you could get to the site was through my AOL Instant Messenger profile (sowcow50). People started reading my site for whatever reason, and I started to get a decent number of people who would email me/call me/talk to me at parties saying that they had read my web site and thought it was funny. So, I kept on posting, and it has gone from there. Some months I would post every day, but ever since I graduated college, my post frequency has declined to a high of 1-2 posts a month to a low of one post a quarter (with the exception of my travel diaries, which are often posted daily).

I guess I just created this site to write stuff. There was no commercial intent, no real reason for the site at all, other than to just write stuff when I was bored. Somehow it has caught on among people that I know and don’t know, and now I get thousands of visitors a month, and the number of visitors increases each and every month! I swear that I don’t even know that many people, but somehow people keep coming back.

Since people do keep coming back, and there are always new visitors each month, I thought I would implement a voting feature on the site where you can vote for your favorite posts in the history of js.com. Starting today, you can vote for each post on the site from a scale of 1 (sucks) to 5 (awesome). I put a sidebar on the right hand side of the screen that shows the top 10 rated stories on the site. This will allow you loyal readers who have supported me since the early 2000′s to reminisce about your favorite stories. It will also give good exposure to my new readers to see what this site is all about.

So please, take some time out of your day to vote for your favorite posts on jeffsauer.com. It will really make me feel special, and it will also make the site a little better for new visitors.

You can vote 1-5 for any post by simply clicking the star at the bottom of each post. Your vote will be automatically entered, and the sidebar will be updated. Thanks in advance!

Jeff

P.S. I am working on lining up a string of posts that will appear every Wednesday on this blog for the next several months. This will hopefully keep you interested in the site, since new content is awesome. I will even try to throw in posts on days other than Wednesday if people start to leave comments and I get people coming here more frequently.

Now You Can Vote For Your Favorite Stories is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0

This was pretty much all that I said for an entire year circa 2004.

They Took Our Jobs is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0

Check it out. A 2008 Infiniti G37 Coupe.

Pretty. Freaking. Sweet.

I’m not a pretentious car guy, so I’m not going to talk about specs and that stuff. What I am going to talk about is how awesome the car is from a tech nerd standpoint. I test drove the car last week, and I determined that it was pretty much the coolest driving experience I have ever had. Here is how it went down:

I got into the test car and hooked my iphone up to the car. It automatically recognized my phone as an ipod/music device and allowed me to select songs and control volume from my steering wheel!!! I was already in love.

Next, I programmed the phone to recognize the car as a “blue tooth” receiver. After it was hooked up, I had my friend Kris call me from outside of the car. The music immediately faded out and my phone/the car’s computer told me that I was receiving a call. I was able to choose “answer call” on both my phone and on my steering wheel. I answered and started talking to Kris hands free, using the microphone within my car. His voice was clear as day and projected throughout the speaker system in the car. He said he could hear me very clearly as well.

I hung up with him and the music automatically faded back in… and it played proudly in the car.

It’s the little things like this that really make me excited about new cars. I know that buying a new car isn’t always the wisest financial decision, but that doesn’t really matter to me all the time. Seriously, I worked my ass off for the past 6+ months, didn’t take a vacation, and I deserve a treat. This car (and my trip to Europe) are my chance to indulge in my hard work. Wise investment or not, I don’t really care. This car is freakin’ sweet.

I’m Buying A New Car! is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0

To go along with my present work overload, I had some very unfortunate events happen with my computer. First, the hard drive on my laptop crashed this weekend, and I lost about 6 months worth of work files, pictures and other media! That’s a really really really bad thing! My computer is my life, and having my hard drive crash is devastating to say the least! To top that off, I have a stupid iPhone and somehow that stopped working as well, and I lost all of my phone numbers and email addresses!!!! From a technological standpoint, life pretty much sucks right now.

On the bright side, I have a wonderful girlfriend who is supporting me through all of this, and I did have a lot of my vital data backed up on my computer. So, although the crash has killed my productivity over the past week, it could be worse.

Then I turned on the news tonight, and all of my problems came into perspective. As I’m sure all of you already know, a bridge on Interstate 35W collapsed right over the Mississippi river, and several cars were plunged into the water and onto the ground below. I have been glued to the news ever since (it happened less than 2 hours ago), and I just can’t believe what happened.

I also am thankful that I was not involved, because this is a road that I travel 3-4 times a week! It is my main entry point to Minneapolis and the south Twin Cities area (one of the only roads that I can take to get around town), and now it is gone! Since it just happened so suddenly, I have no idea if there are any casualties or how many people are injured. I have called several of my friends to see if they are OK, and so far I think that things are fine.

It will take some time for things to settle down from this crazy incident, but I know one thing; it really puts my petty problems into perspective.

An Update of Sorts is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0

What is 1337 you ask? That is a good question. I’ll start with my personal definition, and then send you a link to Wikipedia so that you can read the official definition (likely written by some guy in his underwear in ‘Jersey).

I believe that 1337 stems from the hacker community. Here, you start off simply being a hacker (or h@x0r), and then when you attain a certain level of prominence, you become a 1337 h@x0r (1337 for short). Here’s Wikipedia’s definition. It then spread throughout the hacker/IRC (Online Chat)/Multiplayer gaming community to the point that it completely supplanted normal English.

For me, the transition from normal English to 1337 was a gradual process. I saw words here and there that were either blatantly misspelled, or just looked weird, and I guess I accepted them for what they were. It wasn’t until college when I started hanging out with my friend Tim Cook that I finally realized that a brand new language had developed in the hacker community! The first time he used the term pwn3d (owned), I was in complete awe. He was my Mr. Miyagi, and I enlisted him to show me his ways.

After some training, I started using basic 1337 terms in my online conversations. Simple things like teh instead of the, and n00b (short for newbie) whenever someone asked me a stupid question. Then somehow for a short period of time 1337 hit mainstream, and people were actually talking back to me in 1337! It started with Brandon asking me all kinds of questions, and ended with my roommates (online multiplayer video game freaks) using 1337 terms in casual conversation!

A whole new world was opening up, and I was somewhere in the middle. I knew about 1337 well before these n00bs, but they were suddenly surpassing my knowledge, and taking things to a new level. When it came down to fight or flight, I ran away from 1337 and never looked back. While I still continued to use my favorite words (teh, l33t (same as 1337), n00b and of course pwn3d), I never increased my knowledge beyond that point.

In fact, my love of l33t laid dormant for several years until about a week ago, when I discovered the 1337 Leetspeak plugin for WordPress. I haven’t even tried out, but basically it allows me to enclose any text that I want in a 1337 tag, and that text will be converted to 1337 $p3@k. I was immediately intrigued by such a trivial plugin (honestly, someone spent time making this?) so I decided to give it a try. Here it goes

Thi5 p4r4gr4ph w45 writt3n in p14in Eng1i5h by m3, in 4n 4tt3mpt t0 5h0wc453 th3 p0w3r5 0f b3ing 4n 31it3 h4ck3r. S33, I h4v3 1itt13 kn0w13dg3 0f th3 p0w3r 0f 31it3 5p34k. H0w3v3r, thi5 p1ugin f0r W0rdPr355 4110w5 m3 t0 f4k3 my kn0w13dg3 13v31 4nd 0wn 3v3ry 0n3 0f y0u with my 31it3n355!

That’s the l33t version of my paragraph. Here is the original:

This paragraph was written in plain English by me, in an attempt to showcase the powers of being an elite hacker. See, I have little knowledge of the power of elite speak. However, this plugin for WordPress allows me to fake my knowledge level and own every one of you with my eliteness!

That’s it, I just wanted to show you how awesome Leetspeak is. If you want me to translate something for you, let me know and I’ll send it back 133t5p34k f0r y0u t0 3nj0y.

UPDATE: Ok, so I didn’t get a chance to see the l33t translation until after I posted. This plugin sort of sucks! It simply replaces letters with numbers. It doesn’t even convert elite to 1337, even though the plugin is called 1337!!! Sorry to waste your time with this post!

1337 $p3@k (Elite Speak) is a post from: Jeff Sauer Experience v8.0