Maringaense

🌐 Maringaense

🇧🇷 From: Maringá, Paraná, Brazil 🇬🇧 Also: London & Oxford (former resident) 🗣️ Languages: Portuguese  · English 🔧 Role: WikiGnome 🔭 Interests: Astronomy · Photography · Audio 📖 History · Literature · Classic cinema

"Knowledge is as important as the air we breathe."

Maringaense

My two cents

Knowledge is as important as the air we breathe. Not taking heed of that is grasping for it whilst drowning in sheer ignorance.

Contributions to Wikipedia

As a self-proclaimed WikiGnome, there isn't obviously much to report home in terms of article creation — I'd rather do my WikiGnome business in the lurk, under the ad hoc Wikipedian mushrooms, than expose myself to the rather flashy but harmful, UV-laden spotlights of recognition.

→ My contributions

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User info

The nick Maringaense comes from the demonym for natives of Maringá, in southern Brazil — where I am originally from. I also lived for several years in both London and Oxford.

Subjects I am very interested or conversant in:

Topic	Notes
🔭 Astronomy & Astrophysics	Stars, cosmology, deep-sky objects, the big questions
📷 Photography	Favourite genre: street photography — colour, coincidence, geometry
🎵 Digital Audio	Lossy and lossless encoding; audio formats and codecs; active member of the Hydrogen Audio community
📜 History	WWI flying aces (a lifelong fascination); Victorian and Edwardian London; British social history
🇬🇧 England	London and Oxford, where I spent a good number of years
📚 Literature	The classics; eerie gothic horror (18th–20th c.); sci-fi; crime fiction; Sherlock Holmes
🎬 Films / Cinema	Golden Age of Hollywood; film noir; Hitchcockian suspense; pre-code Hollywood

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Maringaense

My two cents

Knowledge is as important as the air we breathe. Not taking heed of that is grasping for it whilst drowning in sheer ignorance.

Contributions to Wikipedia

As a self-proclaimed WikiGnome, there isn't obviously much to report home in terms of article creation — I'd rather do my WikiGnome business in the lurk, under the ad hoc Wikipedian mushrooms, than expose myself to the rather flashy but harmful, UV-laden spotlights of recognition.

→ My contributions

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User info

The nick Maringaense comes from the demonym for natives of Maringá, in southern Brazil — where I am originally from. I also lived for several years in both London and Oxford.

Subjects I am very interested or conversant in:

Topic	Notes
🔭 Astronomy & Astrophysics	Stars, cosmology, deep-sky objects, the big questions
📷 Photography	Favourite genre: street photography — colour, coincidence, geometry
🎵 Digital Audio	Lossy and lossless encoding; audio formats and codecs; active member of the Hydrogen Audio community
📜 History	WWI flying aces (a lifelong fascination); Victorian and Edwardian London; British social history
🇬🇧 England	London and Oxford, where I spent a good number of years
📚 Literature	The classics; eerie gothic horror (18th–20th c.); sci-fi; crime fiction; Sherlock Holmes
🎬 Films / Cinema	Golden Age of Hollywood; film noir; Hitchcockian suspense; pre-code Hollywood

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Maringaense

My two cents

Knowledge is as important as the air we breathe. Not taking heed of that is grasping for it whilst drowning in sheer ignorance.

Contributions to Wikipedia

As a self-proclaimed WikiGnome, there isn't obviously much to report home in terms of article creation — I'd rather do my WikiGnome business in the lurk, under the ad hoc Wikipedian mushrooms, than expose myself to the rather flashy but harmful, UV-laden spotlights of recognition.

→ My contributions

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User info

The nick Maringaense comes from the demonym for natives of Maringá, in southern Brazil — where I am originally from. I also lived for several years in both London and Oxford.

Subjects I am very interested or conversant in:

Topic	Notes
🔭 Astronomy & Astrophysics	Stars, cosmology, deep-sky objects, the big questions
📷 Photography	Favourite genre: street photography — colour, coincidence, geometry
🎵 Digital Audio	Lossy and lossless encoding; audio formats and codecs
📜 History	WWI flying aces (a lifelong fascination); Victorian and Edwardian London; British social history
🇬🇧 England	London and Oxford, where I spent a good number of years
📚 Literature	The classics; eerie gothic horror (18th–20th c.); sci-fi; crime fiction; Sherlock Holmes
🎬 Films / Cinema	Golden Age of Hollywood; film noir; Hitchcockian suspense; pre-code Hollywood

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