User:Chyeburashka

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Cheburashka out for a walk in the park.

Chyeburashka en This user is a native speaker of English. ru-1 Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне. fr-1 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. Please be nice and patient with this New Wikipedian. This user enjoys Opera. This user enjoys jazz music. This user enjoys classical music. This user plays the piano. This user attempts to understand Philosophy. This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy. This user has a keen interest in physics. This user is a bibliophile This user is interested in his or her family history. This user prefers cold weather. This user enjoys snowboarding. This user occasionally uses his Mountain bike. UNM This user attends or has attended the University of New Mexico. This user runs Mac OS X. This user contributes using an Apple Mac Mini computer. This user has an iPod. This user contributes using Ubuntu. This user runs MediaWiki at home on an aging Ubuntu box. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user is of multiple ancestries. This user supports Israel, but is not Jewish. dad This user is a father. ubx-2 This user is an intermediate user of userboxes.

My user name is an alternate spelling of Cheburashka, who was a favorite cartoon character of my daughter when she was young.

Interests

• Nuclear fusion
  • Tritium (I worked on fusion fuel processing technology development from 1982 to 2001.)
• Nuclear power
  • Pebble bed reactor
• Climate change (Does it seem a little stuffy lately? Can I open a window or something? Thanks.)
• Opera
  • Santa Fe Opera (Which is near where I live. I saw and enjoyed all five operas performed in 2006.)
• The Lensic Theater provides a local venue for a wide range of musical performances.
• Jazz
  • Ray Bryant (Favorite Bryant album: Somewhere in France)
  • Dave Brubeck
  • Sidney Bechet
• European classical music (Abbreviated list of favorite composers.)
  • Baroque music
    • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Classical period (music)
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Ludwig van Beethoven (I can play the Moonlight Sonata 1st movement, but the 3rd is a few years in the future).
    • Gioacchino Rossini
  • Romantic music
    • Ludwig van Beethoven (Did I already mention Beethoven?)
    • Franz Liszt
    • Franz Schubert
    • Frédéric Chopin (I've performed his Nocturne in Eb major and Preludes in e minor, Db major and c minor).
    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • 20th century classical music
    • Sergei Rachmaninoff
    • Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
    • Claude Debussy
    • Gustav Mahler (The first symphony I ever attended was his Symphony No. 1 in D).
    • Béla Bartók
• Skiing and snowboarding at Pajarito Mountain Ski Area (Where I was a ski and snowboard instructor back when it used to actually snow. Maybe next year.)
• Linux (Which I have used since 1993, and contributed to the kernel off and on since 2000)
  • Ubuntu (My current distro of choice running on an old Gateway PC).
• Mac OS X (Which I have used since 2004. At work, I have a Power Mac G5 and at home both a Intel Core 2 24" iMac and a older PowerPC G4 Mac mini.)

• B-17 Flying Fortress
  • 351st Bomb Group (My father's WWII B-17 Flying Fortress organization)
• US Navy
  • Aircraft carrier
    • USS Enterprise (CVN-65) (Where I was stationed for part of 1973 and 1974).
  • Submarines
    • USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599) (I made seven strategic deterrent patrols with the Blue Crew from 1978 to 1981)
• Idaho Falls, Idaho
  • Naval Reactor Facility
    • A1W reactor (Where I worked as an instructor from 1974 to 1977)
• Riverdale, California (Where I spent the first 17 years of my life. I will be expanding the Wikipedia article on Riverdale sometime soon.)
• Bokchito, Oklahoma (Where I lived nearby for a dozen summers of my youth).
• White Rock, New Mexico (Where I happen to live).