User:Chyeburashka



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).