User talk:Eric Walker
Born and raised in New York City, I attended the Bronx H.S. of Science,
then
was graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.E.E.
degree.
I worked for some years in the aerospace industry, chiefly on the
design of
control systems for satellites and spacecraft.
I left engineering to take up radio broadcasting; I was an early
"underground
rock" DJ, then became news editor at a suburban Washington, D.C.-area station; I also hosted a telephone-talk show there.
I left that to move, with my lady, to the West Coast, where we took odd
jobs
for a while, then toured northern Europe for a year using up a modest inheritance I had come into.
On our return, I was for some years a technical writer and editor
(something
I had been briefly while an engineer).
In time, by a complicated process, I became a baseball expert and broadcaster, with a daily 5-minute "module" syndicated to 20 NPR
stations. I
eventually went on to become a consultant to major-league clubs on the
new
mathematical approach to player evaluation, and had some material
influence
on the sport (c.f. Alan Schwarz's _The Numbers Game_).
I also co-founded a business, The Lawsmiths, that started a small
industry,
the "temp attorney" line; I operated that for over 20 years, and still,
in a
modest way, do.
More recently, in semi-retirement, I have devoted myself to operating
several
web sites, one of which (The Induction Site, theinductionsite.com) has
become
the leading internet resource on induction cooking and equipment. The
full
roster of sites I maintain, which represent what I believe to be some
of my
areas of legitimate expertise (by no means all listed here), can be
seen at
http://owlcroft.com
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