Getting to know you: labrego

Well I think it's about time the Ozzu community got to know a little something about our newest moderator: labrego


And so begins the interrogation...


1. What does your handle mean?

2. Age?(if you dare or care to answer)

3. What are you doing right now? Work? School? Being a bum?

4. Tell us about where you live.

5. What's with all the cats?

6. Single? Married? To one of the cats perhaps? Kids?

7. How did you find your way into Ozzu? What kept you here? What's your favorite category, and/or forum?

8. Tell us about hobbies you like that don't involve a computer.

9. Favorite food and/or restaurant?

10. What, if any, are your plans for your future?


You have one week to respond, or this section of the MySQL database will explode. Bigwebmaster will be unhappy if you are responsible for putting a hole in his server, so I'd snap to it.

Matrix?

yeah thats Matrix. The one where his mouth gets covered up and they shove a mechanical shrimp into his belly button!

11. If you had to look like one of the Ozzu smileys for the rest of your life which one would it be?

12. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?

13. One word that describes yourself

14. How old were you when you first got into computers?

15. Have you ever been arrested?

oh boy, I think you got me Dave, I'll spend some time on this on the weekend.

SB, "they grow up so fast" = "darn, I am getting old waaay to fast"

The people demand answers!

<cough> bump <cough>

/me snores in the corner

Ok, Ok, here it is, I'm sorry for the delay, but I warn you I am a booooring guy, so continue reading at your own risk

1. What does your handle mean?
A. It is easy, labrego = Luis Abrego, my real name. The Larz sig came from my youth (a long time ago, I know *lol) when I played the drums in a local band with some friends.

2. Age?(if you dare or care to answer)
A. I am turning 39 in August. The 15th of August to be exact. Any volunteers to throw me a party?

3. What are you doing right now? Work? School? Being a bum?
A. A bum most of the time, you are right. On the other hand I am working here in Monterrey for a Telemarketing company, I am developing software for database management mostly. Aside from this, I spend all my free time at Ozzu and most of the weekends (when there's money) with my daughters

4. Tell us about where you live.
A. I live in Monterrey, Mexico, at almost 3 hours from the border of Laredo Tx or McAllen Tx. It is a city near the hills of the Sierra Madre, the biggest mountain system here in Mexico. The weather is mild but it can be really hot sometimes (104 F in the mid summer, not as hot as Texas but alike).The greatest thing is that we can run away from the rush of the city every weekend just by taking the car and driving 30 minutes to any of the near hills. Here's an eagle shot of Monterrey with the Silla hills in the middle:



5. What's with all the cats?
A. I love the cats, I grew up surrounded by hundreds of cats with my mom, so make a guess *meow

6. Single? Married? To one of the cats perhaps? Kids?
A. This is so funny.. to one of the cats?
Ahh, the hard question. Well, I am divorced, for a second time unfortunately, but what the heck? that's life and that's another story to tell. Right now I have two daughters, Laura (15) and Rebeca (14), and two step-daughters, Stephanie ( 18 ) and Katherine (16). Unfortunately, none of them lives with me by now but I see them almost every weekend. If you want to know them, here are some photos:


Stephanie and Kathernie


Laura


Rebeca


Laura, Rebeca and Me (when I had mustache) at Chipinque, one of the biggest natural reservoir here in Monterrey

7. How did you find your way into Ozzu? What kept you here? What's your favorite category, and/or forum?
A. I can't remember exactly how I found Ozzu, I think I was looking for some information on Internet Explorer or some thing like that and I stumbled in here, and you already know the rest: Ozzu IS ADDICTIVE!

A2. You guys are my reason to stay here

A3. My favorite is the windows forum.

8. Tell us about hobbies you like that don't involve a computer.
A. I am mostly a lonely man, I like to be alone and don't like crowded spaces and noisy people so I developed a great love for books and personal learning that makes me read for hours and researching on the internet. I also practice Aikido and some weightlifting, but definitively my favorite hobby is to spend time with my daughters

9. Favorite food and/or restaurant?
A. 'cmon!, Mexican Food of course *lol

10. What, if any, are your plans for your future?
A. This last months have been terrible for me and I am barely beginning to breathe, so my immediate plans are to strengthen my finances by obtaining a new job and later get my daughters to live with me. I am trying to live one day at a time.

11. If you had to look like one of the Ozzu smileys for the rest of your life which one would it be?
A. It would be this one it remind me of my youth *lol

12. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
A. hmm 39 + 15 = 54... my God, I better not think about that for now!

13. One word that describes yourself
A. Patience, or at least that's what my daughters say, that I am a patient father

14. How old were you when you first got into computers?
A. I remember the first computer my dad brought home, it was a tape computer, and the first thing I learned was how to play checkers I was about 12 years old.

15. Have you ever been arrested?
A: Thank God no, never. Even though I wasn't an angel when I was young I never got into trouble.

If you come all the way down here I should say thank you, I hope I wasn't too boring

Nicely done indeed.

Can we get a round of applause for Labrego?

A good sport, a fine mod and all around nice guy.

Also, for those of you who do not realize... it's ok for non-mods to ask questions.

So if you have follow-up questions for Mr. Labrego, please bring them forth.

Cheers.

*Avoids all tempting question about labrego's daughters*

As a young gentleman, may I just say they are beautiful girls. Well done, chap.

As for a real question: What got you into the programming world? For instance, I got started in a local ISP's web chat program, moved into IRC, took over the server, and etc. What gave you that feeling that this is what you like to do?

16. Seeing as you're a fine Mexican lad, can you dance any latin dances?

17. What do you do when noone is looking?

18. What's the grossest thing you've ever eaten?

19. Have you ever travelled outside Mexico? If so tell us about the countries you've visited.

20. How tall are you?

21. What's in the trunk of your car?

22. Do you have any useless talents? If so tell us about them and how you discovered them.

23. Favorite childhood memory?

24. Name your top 5 fave bands/musicians

25. Which came first: the chicken or the egg?