User:Infrogmation/Personal info

My hometown is New Orleans, Louisiana, which I dearly love. I live Uptown.

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Me

Meet the Wikipedian

I do radio shows and writing related to jazz, as well as irregular historical research on other New Orleans subjects. I am part time trombone player with the good fortune to live in a place where I have had a chance to play with some wonderful bands and musicians.

I've been on line since 1994. I tend to avoid mentioning my legal name on the internet, just to make things a bit harder for the tiny fraction of a percentage of people on line who use such information for unscrupulous purposes or mischief.

My handle "Infrogmation", as you might guess, is a portmanteau of "Information" and "Frog". I started using it because the handle "frog" or "froggy" was usually already taken on various websites. And the frog reference? New Orleans seems to be quite fond of nicknames, and after I wore a frog costume for Mardi Gras, some people called me "Froggy". Figuring there are much worse things one can be called, I did not object, and it stuck. Hey, frogs are nifty.

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Me (at left) speaking at dedication of historical marker
on the centenial of the opening of Storyville

Been there

Other places I have lived include: Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Pompano Beach, Florida, USA; Belize City, Belize; Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico; Antigua Guatemala, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The beautiful cities of Mérida and Antigua were my favorites after New Orleans.

Do I get to add Austin, Texas, where I resided on evacucation (Tex-ile?) in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

also

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Infrogmation playing at a Mardi Gras Tumble, 2003

I love good chocolate, tea, and wine. And well prepared New Orleans style red beans & rice. Mmmm.

And New Orleans Mardi Gras. Yay, Mardi Gras!

Ancestors

And now, a pair of photos of my great-grandparents in 1900.

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What a cute couple.

Awards

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This editor is a Complete and Perfect Tutnum of the Encyclopedia, and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge.

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For work over the years in many articles focused on Latin America, I present to Infrogmation the Society Barnstar. Kukini 22:07, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

File:Original Barnstar.png		The Louisiana Barnstar
		For impressively uploading oodles and bajiggles of free Louisiana photos to Wikipedia. 70.186.172.75 16:38, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

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		Thank you for your hard work. Finale Wiki Geek (talk) 02:29, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

File:Barnstar-abc.png		The Helping Hand Barnstar
		You were gentle and kind to a new user 2 years ago, and made a suggestion so nicely that she was encouraged to follow it. Reynardo (talk) 15:26, 8 October 2009 (UTC)