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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