Committing video punditry.
World Wide Curries
Free curry recipes from India and Malaysia
Savoring
the Spice Coast of India
This is far and away the best Indian cookbook you can
buy. The author incorporates recipes from all the communities of Kerala,
including Nair, Christian and Muslim, and explains technique in enough
detail for the curry neophyte. Both veg and non-veg.
Makan-Lah!:
The True Taste of Malaysia
This is the best overall cookbook on Malaysian and Singaporean
food, and it includes the Raffles Hotel's recipe for the Singapore Sling.
Trolling on Lake Del Valle in Livermore.
Watching Barry Bonds hit home run number 71.
I work in a network research lab of a large Japanese consumer electronics company, as a consultant. One of my most important achievments so far was solving the wiring conundrum that plagued Ethernet until Tim Rock of AT&T, Bob Galin of Intel and I convinced the IEEE 802.3 committee to let us write a twisted-pair standard, 1BASE5, in the mid-80s, and I served as Vice-chair of the task force and editor of the standard.
In the early 90s, I designed a wireless MAC protocol for Photonics, one of my best clients when I was a consultant, which became the basis of the 802.11 MAC; the ideas of variable IPGs, bandwidth reservation, sliding windows, Ethernet compatibility, and inter-access point tunnelling were mine. Later, I collaborated with Rich Rein at HP on the design and implementation of a pipelined Video Server API, and since then, I've designed and written NIC and router diagnostics for 3Com, Cisco, and net.com. Millions of people have the software I wrote for 3Com, no 7500-series router ships from Cisco until it passes my tests, every Ethernet uses the wiring standards my task force devised, and every packet that traverses a WLAN is carried by my protocol.
Most recently, I've been active in the WiMedia Alliance, IEEE 802.15.3, and the MBOA, working on the design of a new protocol for UWB networks that provides a fully decentralized scheme for bandwidth reservation and tight clock synchronization. This system will be used by home networks in the future for audio/video programming stored on TiVo-like devices and played out on flat-screen TV sets.
I've also done a fair bit of political activism, working with California Senator Chuck Calderon (chair of the Judiciary Committee), Assemblyman Rod Wright (Utilities and Commerce committee chair), and Senate president pro-tem John Burton to pass and/or amend a number of measures improving the state of family law. The most notable of these bills are SB 509 on Spousal Support, and SB 542, creating the statewide Department of Child Support Services to improve the process for both payers and recipients of child support. I've served on a number of oversight boards and commisssions related to the court system, given numerous interviews to the press, and appeared on television and radio programs such as California Capitol Review with Jack Kavanaugh. Although I've retired from lobbying, I still get the odd call from the Wall Street Journal or the L. A. Times, I stay in touch with my favorite columnists and elected officials.
The story of Richard will not, of course, be complete without an homage to the amazing and wonderful Judith. Click here to hear Judith's thoughts on power and authority in contemporary Western society. This file is especially interesting to Wellberts, patrons of a vanity publishing system owned by Salon.com, some of whom listen to it several times a day.
This site is perpetually under construction, but now more than usual. Enjoy your visit, and drop a note to me if anything you see here intrigues or enrages you. And yes, I know that nothing on this site sets new standards for animation, multimedia, or Java; that's just my cross to bear.
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