Ouro

Ouro is a person who has not left Wikipedia. He's just got a lot of work, complications in life, and two wonderful children, so he does not have as much time for editing as he used to. But I'm still here.

I am a translator with a few ISBNs and ISSNs here and there. I work with Fedora running on a Lenovo laptop (not one that came with Fedora pre-installed, though, I did that myself), and I use a trackball. I like biking and am an enthusiast of electric cars. I love books. My latest kick is learning to play the synths (well, the Roland Corporation Go Keys digital synthesizer and the Arturia MiniBrute analog synthesizer), and am greatly inspired by what Brendan Kavanagh does in his youtube videos.

I recently came to realise that my hitch-hiking past is a great contributor to who I am today, in that I prefer not to hurry with anything (but I can work quickly!), that I am rather open towards people (used not to be!), and that to rest I don't need much more than a blue sky above my head and a few minutes of peace and quiet. I travelled all across Europe, to Scotland, Corsica, Istanbul, the Balkans, Barcelona. Wonderful experiences that I think made me who I am, and taught me to be self-reliant, learn first and solve problems independently.

Just realised I want to add this: over the years I have learned to do a lot of things with my hands, and I realised why: seeing as I never get to see most of my work in physical form (other than on the laptop screen), I prefer hands-on hobbies like cooking and general experimenting in the kitchen, I've taught myself various DIY activities needed around the house, and I like to bring things that people throw away back to life, not just reading books I find in the street but also doing minor repairs on electronics (I did this with the laptop I'm writing these words on).

I am forty-one now, though I still do not feel grown up at all.

I love puffer jackets!

• some quotes
• not any more
• some thoughts I wrote here seventeen years ago (it's 2024, and this was back in 2007). That's almost a full adult person ago. Gosh how time flies.
• so am I

Articles I started:

• Rives, Isère
• Recording the Angel
• Ether addiction
• Zsolt Palotai

Significant contributions:

• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

I also got these once:

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 1000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 20:13, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your fine work on 2000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Tireless Contributor's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk 20:13, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		For your excellent work on 3000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Working Wikipedian's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk 11:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)