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Profile

Note to fellow ODP Editors: My editing will slow down a bit this summer, as I work on new projects: <a href="http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jrose/radios/radiomain.htm">John Rose's Vintage Radio Home</a> .

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/jrose42/">RCI - A Technician's Unofficial Tour</a> - particularly vexing in that the subject keeps changing. <hr> Day job: Electronics Technologist for Radio Canada International, at the Sackville shortwave transmitter site, since 1997. - previously: Electronics Technologist for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Northern Service), at the Western Arctic Regional production centre in Inuvik, NWT, Canada. 1986-1997. We produced current affairs programs and broadcasted in English, Inuvialuktun, and Gwich'in. - mature student at: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton AB, Canada 1984-1986 - before that: Print Program Director at the Holman Eskimo Cooperative, Holman NWT. 1976-1984 - student at: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. 1973-1975 ... Lotsa' printmaking, especially Lithography (real Bavarian limestone, leather rollers, the works). <IMG SRC="http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/jrose/marsface.gif" ALT="Martian Face image" ALIGN=left WIDTH=198 HEIGHT=146 hspace=10 BORDER=0> My idea of a good time: - Collecting and restoring antique radios, mostly Canadian-made five-tube sets from the '40s and '50s. - Hunting down items to add to my family history. (mostly Scottish emigrants to Nova Scotia, Canada) - Winter: Sitting in a big comfy recliner chair while doing a British-style cryptic crossword and listening to a CD of music by Maurice Ravel or Gabriel Fauré and sipping from a 16 oz. mug of my Weapons-Grade Hot Chocolate. (See my home page for the link to my recipe.) - Summer: Searching for the perfect beach within an hour's drive, somewhere on the Northumberland Strait. I missed the beach during my years in the North. - The Annual <a href="http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Heritage/FSCNS/Scots_NS/Events/Pipers_Picnic/Earltown_Pipers_Picnic.html">Pipers Picnic</a> at Earltown, Nova Scotia. Baked beans, potato salad, home-made rolls, and lots of bagpipes, rain or shine. Can't ever have too many bagpipes. Preferences
Music:
Kate Bush, Afro-Celt Sound System, Maurice Ravel, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Planxty, Gabriel Fauré, Ashley MacIsaac, The Who, Steve Reich, Quintette Cornemuse.
Books:
Stephen King, Harry Turtledove, Larry Niven, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" - Gary Zukav, "The Lord of The Rings" - J.R.R. Tolkien, The SERRAted Edge series by Mercedes Lackey, William Gibson, Douglas Coupland (esp. "Microserfs").
Television:
The X-Files, Dharma and Greg, West Wing, Twin Peaks, Millenium, Star Trek (any series), Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, Absolutely Fabulous, BattleBots, The Lone Gunmen, Boston Public, The Red Green Show.
Movies:
Koyaanisqatsi, The Blues Brothers, Jurassic Park, Star Wars (first one), anything by David Lynch (esp. Blue Velvet), The Money Pit, The Matrix, Toy Story, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, A Bug's Life, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien, Bladerunner, Ghostbusters, Pulp Fiction, anything by Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Mars Attacks), anything by Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen), Nick Park's "Wallace and Gromit" series (3 movies - Wrong Trousers, A Grand Day Out, A Close Shave), Apocalypse Now, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Sting, The Great Escape, Plan Nine From Outer Space, The Misfits, White Heat, Swimming With Sharks, Surf Nazis Must Die!, Fantasia, Kelly's Heros, Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon, MST3K - The Movie (also episodes from the series on VHS). Currently waiting for release of "The Lord of The Rings".
Artists
Richard Avedon, Andrew Wyeth, N.C. Wyeth, Man Ray, Claes Oldenburg, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Diane Arbus, Robert Christo, Isamu Noguchi, Maxfield Parrish, Frank Frazetta, Jules Olitski, Lucas Samaras, Norman McLaren, Victor Ekootak. Interesting People
Richard Feynman (physics), Joseph Campbell (mythology), Bettie Page ('50s pinup model).
Interesting things
The Manhattan Project, railguns, combat robot competitions, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment, Schroedinger's Cat, Burgess Shale fossils, Dada, Culture Jamming, the Mandelbrot Set. <a href="http://dmoz.org/editors/charter.cgi?cat=%2FBookmarks%2FJ%2Fjrose">More stuff about me</a>, for ODP Editors only.