Demf are actually the initials in my name, David Enrique Miró Feliciano. I'm a native of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico (particularly Miradero), to where I've returned to live for the first time in nine years. I lived for close to three years in San Jose and Cupertino,California, while working at Apple Inc. Since then I returned to Puerto Rico, not before criss-crossing the United States and living for a while in Orlando, Florida. You'll see who I am and what I stand for in the Userboxes section down below.
I was, for over 12 years, the organizer of the Premios DUH! (or DUH! Awards), a mock award show where Puerto Rican odd news (and odd celebrities) were given awards and immortalized for posterity. Sort of. This was a minor media event in Puerto Rico every December 28th., the local equivalent of April Fools Day in Puerto Rico. I've since moved on and am now contributing with a humor column to a local newspaper, every week. For the time being, the newspaper shall remain nameless...
I used to be an active contributor to Wikipedia, and did contribute to pages that relate to either Puerto Rico or to Puerto Rican culture. I gravitated to pages about Puerto Rican landmarks, famous people (particularly singers and composers), and the one for my birthplace and those of fellow mayagüezanos. However, one article made me change my mind. I tried, unsuccessfully, to raise the Ramón Emeterio Betances artice beyond the paltry "B" rating it used to have a while back. For close to five months I researched the guy, took photos of all landmarks associated to him in Puerto Rico, transcribed podcasts, rewrote the article tons of times... and still didn't get much assistance to have it fixed. Everyone and his brother thought it was my article, so to speak; they would all critique it, but only a few would help. Some Wikipedians' paranoia over quotes and over WP's arcane rules made things worse, and I had quite a few decent Puerto Rico articles removed claiming I had done "original research" (ask a Puerto Rican about a sociological concept such as "Ay, bendito" and he'll tell you it is not a mere phrase in a dictionary, but some bozos here think it is), so I simply gave up.
A few fellow Puerto Rican Wikipedians carried on the torch for the Betances article and had it earn the Featured Article status it now has (and deserves, modesty aside). However, yet again, this place is the only place in the world where a person, in theory, cannot write an autobiography if someone hasn't quoted him or her first... There are also quite a bunch of trolls raising hell around these quarters, far more interested in rules and harassing other people about what they think this WP version should be: an Anglocentric realm of popular culture, where little else deserves more than stub treatment. I simply edit here first because the only language in far more use than English in the world is Chinese, and I know almost no Chinese. A broad worldwide editorial and tech support base made articles about my home country much better known elsewhere, and because of this, I chose English, and not Spanish, as the basis for most of my articles. Yet, I'm sure, some bozo will complain about me even saying this here.
My WP status as an editor is on hold. However, motivated by fellow boricua Wikipedians like Tony the Marine (whom I personally visited in Arizona in February, 2008), I am slowly returning to correct existing articles here and there. Finally, I'm starting a wiki project called Mayawiki, in Spanish. If you're a mayagüezano, feel free to join.
A recent addition to my list is Tempe, Arizona, particularly downtown and the area near Arizona State University. Yep, Kelly, you were right about your home turf(!)
Andy Montañez - great singer, and even greater with a dancing carrot behind him.
Anibal Acevedo Vilá - was a pen pal while he was Resident Commissioner for Puerto Rico. He owes me one juicy lead I gave him once... however, we don't communicate any longer; see the José E. Serrano entry for details...
Calle 13 - "Augerescere in te, Via Tredicim!" I have close ties to those nutcases...
Carlos Gallisá - he does not realize he's a kleptomaniac; he inadvertently stole a ball point pen I kept...
Benicio del Toro - he presented both of his Ché movies in my hometown. Turns out my gastroenterologist is his cousin... and that we're both fans of Mon Rivera; he quoted the chorus of Kijis Konar when I talked to him...
Carlos Vives - he was our master control guy come Christmas time a few times. Just imagine people's reactions when they called into our program and he answered the phone. Great guy.
Sunshine Logroño - when I was a regular radio guy we staged the only time his characters Eleuterio and Vitín have spoken simultaneously, he as Vitín Alicea, and me as Eleuterio Quiñones (my imitation of Eleuterio is, all modesty aside, quite good...)
Jorge Seijo, chupamattress extraordinaire (partner in crime)
José E. Serrano - I can unabashedly claim to be the first blog author ever in Puerto Rico, back in 1996, when blogs had to be hand-coded. Lucky coincidence, not because I'm stellar or anything. Serrano followed my blog religiously, even called me over the phone a few times to discuss my entries. However, we had a run-in over a bill sponsored by Carlos Romero Barcelo that had to do with Puerto Rico; I dared to tell him Romero was outright lying to him (which turns out he did, as fate would have it), but since Serrano is a personal friend of him he felt hurt by my reaction and closed the communication channel. Too bad; Serrano is truly a gentle, humble, down-to-earth guy. There's something within the Beltway that makes politicians extremely touchy; I had a similar run-in with Anibal Acevedo Vilá over philosophical differences on the Puerto Rico status question. As time passed, Acevedo eventually (and rather painfully, I might add) realized where I was coming from.
María Celeste Arrarás - We both took a History of Puerto Rico course in college; in one of the tests, we were the only ones to ever get perfect score of 100 from the rather demanding professor we had. Of course, she had a perfect 4.00 GPA by the time she finished college; I'm still recovering from my less than stellar grades...
Steel Pulse - thee members of the band had an impromptu dub jam in a club in Carolina, Puerto Rico club during my 40th birthday bash. Of course, they didn't know I was in the audience...
The inventor of the XCOPY command in MS-DOS (I can't remember your name, dude!)
I've also had to slow down while driving to allow Weird Al Yankovic and Steve Jobs cross the street on separate occasions... (For the record, I never worked under Jobs' during either one of his tenures, as was implied in a newspaper article in Puerto Rico recently... I did meet people who worked with the guy, though. What a character...)
OTOH Jacobo Morales lives up the street from me, but doesn't know me (I have no plans to run him over with the car, however. God forbid!) Tego Calderón's daughter was an acquaintance of mine's. Shy guy, excellent father, very respectful dude. Outside of that, I've had the chance to see Prince Charles, Mel Gibson and Mel Tormé (when he was alive) from a distance. I've stood right next to Otilio Warrington, Gilberto Santa Rosa and Victor Manuelle but wouldn't dare to greet them. I also literally walked behind Isabel Allende when she visited the U. of Puerto Rico, for about 60 yards (...them skinny legs!)
Flor Morales Ramos, otherwise known as Ramito, most criminally underrated song lyricist in the planet. An unsung giant of Latin American folklore, born in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
This Boricua Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to Demf for the continous work on Puerto Rican related articles. Presented by Tony the Marine 21:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)Puerto Rico National Merit Medal
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