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Sylwester Arabas: miscellanea

SEE ALSO

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FAMILY

• I'm married to Zuzia and father to Antek.

• Together with Krzysiek we're building our family tree, here's an Antek's perspective.

HOBBY

• FLOSS (here're some stats from Open Hub)

• hiking:
  • Andorra: Arinsal - Mounicou
  • Bosnia: Maglic
  • California: Kearsarge pass from Onion Valley
  • Colorado: Westcliffe - Lakes of the Clouds; around Flatirons
  • Faroes: Bour - Gasadalur; Kirkja - Hattarvik
  • France: Cauterets - Marcadeau - Banos de Panticosa; Corte - Gorges du Tavignano; La Plagne - Notre-Dame-du-Pre (ski-tour)
  • Germany: a ski-tour near Garmisch; around Niederwalddenkmal
  • Greece: Parnitha, Hymettus, Fonias Valley @ Samothraki
  • Iceland: Seydisfjordur - Egilsstadir; Dettifoss - Krafla
  • Indiana: Turkey Run State Park
  • Italy: around Sella Nevea in summer; Corno Grande from Albergo di Campo Imperatore
  • Japan: Minotoguchi - Akadake - Amida - Kiyosato; Asahidake onsen - Asahidake - Sounkyo; Iwaobetsu - Rausu daira; Shiga - Bunagatake - Bomura; Daisen-ji - Daisen - Oyasumi-toge - Ikkoganaru; Nishiawakura - Komanooyama - Ainomura park; short hikes in the Rokko Mountain Range; around Aso-san
  • Korea: Amnam and Geumgang parks in Busan
  • Lebanon: Al Shouf
  • Macedonia: Popova Sapka - Titov Vrv
  • Norway: Skei - Fauskavatnet; Myrdal - Flam; short hikes in Lofoten
  • Poland: Tatry, Beskidy, Sudety, ...
  • Slovakia: Tatry, Slovensky raj, around Morske oko, ...
  • Spain: Torla - Monte Perdido - Bielsa
  • Romania: Durau - Cabana Dochia
  • UK: Ben Nevis; a glimpse of Glen Coe and the Trotternish
  • Ukraine: short hikes along Borzhava river (Zakarpattia)

• various tunes in the spirit of (in my own chronological order, italics mark attended live performances): Marek Grechuta, Phil Collins, Czesław Niemen, Elektryczne Gitary, Omega, Pink Floyd (Waters, Mason), RHCP, Perfect, Kult, Maanam, Sting, U2, Blind Guardian, Lhasa de Sela, Kroke, Jan Garbarek, Tyr, Dikta, Janusz Muniak, Ibrahim Maalouf, Peyk, Avishai Cohen, Selah Sue ...

• aviation (mainly visiting museums: East Fortune UK, Berlin Gatow DE, Krakow PL, Lelystad NL, Le Bourget FR, Yesilkoy TR, Toulouse FR: A380 assembly line, A321 assembly line and Aeroscopia, Brussels BE, Tokorozawa JP, Concorde Barbados, Sintra PT, Singapore, Intrepid NYC, Vantaa FI, ICAO Montreal, Dayton WPAFB, Smithsonian Air & Space in D.C., Gimpo KR, MoF Seattle WA, 777 assembly line/Everett, WA ...)

• moto-wise: SAABs & VW California

  

  

  

• movies: Bill Murray

• games: GoldenEye 64 (still playing...)

ALMAE MATRES

• University of Illinois, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences
  (postdoc with prof. Nicole Riemer, 2021 - 2022)
• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics
  (PhD with prof. Hanna Pawlowska, 2008 - 2013)
• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics
  (MSc with prof. Hanna Pawlowska, 2002 - 2008, 350 ECTS)
• Stanislaw Staszic high school, Warsaw (1998 - 2002)
• Karol Kurpinski primary musical school, Warsaw (1990 - 1996)
• Teodor Duracz (no longer named so) 69-th elem. school, Warsaw (1990 - 1998)

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