Richard Juday:  

Most recent edit: 04 January 2020 -- the year of perfect vision The headshot is of Nino, a crocodile who comes when called to a diveboat tender in Cuba. I might have gotten a little too close. He's there for the chicken, so far has not sampled a diver to see if *they* taste like chicken. Let's see... in nearly sequential order: I went to Rice, went to work at NASA in Houston, married, three kids, divorced, waited another 28 years of happy singlehood, married a longtime friend (Darcy) November 2000 (after she got out of her practice marriage and then we courted for two years), retired, became a grandfather, moved to Colorado. For technical description of my education and NASA work (colleges attended, papers, etc.), drop me a note. I am still professionally active; look up Optalysys in Yorkshire, I am consulting to them, get over there a couple times a year. They need some of the theory and methods I worked out when at NASA, and it's a hoot to see it get put to use. Let's see if I can defeat the Classmates censor... Write me by e-mail. You'll have to be more intelligent than their automatic interpreter. Richard dot Juday {shift 2 key} gmail dot com. Ahhh, that worked. It took a couple tries! Classmates wants to moderate all the conversation, but we can get around 'em with a little effort. I don't need all that protection. You can call me at 303-774-9700, too. Hobbies include-- -- Woodworking (we built a shop under the garage), Furniture, built-in library, toys for the grandkids. Plans for a pair of parabolas to make a whispering gallery across the greenbelt behind the house. I designed and built a cubical planetarium to cast star-representative spots on the walls and ceiling. -- Beekeeping (since 1972, but with a decades-long gap before moving to Colorado and resuming the activity). I am into this winter with six hives; we'll see how many survive. Last winter I got all four of four. -- SCUBA We got nitrox certified, used that in Cozumel in October 2015, then in that December in Milford Sound [New Zealand], then in Hawaii and Truk Lagoon. Look up Truk Lagoon; our fathers fought in WW II, and that attack over 2 days in February 1944 really broke the back of Japanese navel dominance in the Pacific. More than 40 Japanese merchantmen vessels in the 350-foot-long class were sunk in that lagoon. Not a small lagoon, mind you -- it's about 30 miles in diameter, and the wrecks are deep. I hit 205 feet on the San Francisco Maru, for example. Bulldozers, live ammunition ranging from rifle bullets to 14-inch shells, a Zero fighter, a human skull embedded in the ceiling, winding through complicated engine rooms, swimming through a torpedo hole to get to a cargo hold, and more. Sorry for rattling on, but I am pretty stoked about that trip right now., More recently, a live-aboard trip to Cuba, where I took the photo of the crocodile Nino who is standing in for my headshot. Week of live-aboard diving in the Galapagos was very special -- hammerhead sharks, seals, marine iguanas, flocks of rays, and more. -- Backpacking (we've had fine hikes with teenage niece and nephew, but in March 2014 we did a splendid set of hikes in Patagonia; see photos of FitzRoy and Torres del Paine), also four weeks in Nov/Dec of 2014 in Tasmania, June 2015 Dublin-to-Dingle with REI. More recently, Nov/Dec 2015 in New Zealand walking the Milford Track.) More local hiking in the Rocky Mountain ...Expand for more