<-- bigjoe says: welcome...

I'm a father. It's awesome.

I've put up a "professional" home page, Joseph L. Richards' Astronomy Homepage, so that I can feel like a real person.

Elina is graduating soon and starting to look for employment. Learn more about Elina Brobeck Richards and check out her curriculum vitae and then hire her.

www.borkbork.org is still being hosted on a server at OC Hosting in Orange County, California. They're inexpensive and so far my experience with them has been good. My home internet connection is still provided by SPEAKEASY.net and I wholeheartedly recommend this ISP if you are looking for a good DSL provider.

If I were a superhero... (thanks to the Hero Machine).

local content

• MantisBlog
• SprogBlog pregnancy blog
• zurl URL listings
• bigjoe's physics page
• Loki the Cat
• bigjoe's (ancient) office photos

friends

chekmate

willie

elina

annoyama

jclay

mokang

matt

marisa

links

• Tools
  • Hunter.com - Reverse DNS Lookups
  • Cambridge Public Library - Minuteman Library Network Catalog
  • Dictionnaire Français en ligne - une petite collection d'outils pour la langue Française.
  • paper cd case - Web site to print a paper CD case with liner notes

• Guitar
  • Sulaiman Zai - Sulai is a truly amazing guitarist and a good friend of my family. You should check out his recordings.
  • Gene Stein - Although he doesn't have a web site up at the moment, I wanted to include him anyway. Gene is a great guitarist and excellent instructor under whom I studied from 2002-2004.

• Cartoons
  • Questionable Content - My favorite web comic. Great sense of humor and some very addictive storylines.
  • The Joe Cartoon Co. - Some amusing Flash animations. Of course, they're a bit crude but that shouldn't stop you.

• Baking
  • The Joy of Cooking - Of course! No kitchen should be without this fantastic book (presuming that you like American food).
  • Breads
    • Fleischmann's Bread World - Has some helpful baking tips / bread recipes at the site brought to you by the well-known yeast manufacturer (at least where I come from).
    • Breads & Pastry, Rolls & Buns - Many recipes, but I can't vouch for them as I have yet to try any.
  • Cookies
    • The Search for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie - Sorry, just a link to buy the book.. but it has some great recipes, including Grand Marnier chocolate chip cookies and Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, both fantastic.

• Computer Games
  • MobyGames - Info about a bazillion games, past and present
  • The Underdogs - lots of old game stuff... yay!

• Computer Graphics
  • The Mesa 3D Graphics Library - open implementation of the OpenGL 1.3 Spec.


• Programming and Computer Science
  • A page about quines - a "quine" (aka "selfrep") is a self-replicating computer program; it produces its own source code upon execution (here's an example I wrote)
  • The Brainf**k Programming Language - fascinating minimalist, Turing-complete language... e.g., hello world:

    >+++++++++[<++++++++>-]<.>+++++++[<++++>-]
    <+.+++++++..+++.[-]>++++++++[<++++>-]<.#>
    +++++++++++[<+++++>-]<.>++++++++[<+++>-]
    <.+++.------.--------.[-]>++++++++[<++++>-]
    <+.[-]++++++++++.
            

    here is my very own (braindead) 15-minute brainfu**k to c compiler


• Obscuritivia
  • American Tilapia Association: How odd... an association for a species of fish
  • Gallery of Regrettable Food : "What were they thinking? How did they eat this bilge"
  • Recipes of the Damned : In the same vein as the Gallery of Regrettable Food
  • Lake Webster, Massachusetts, a.k.a. Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
  • The Ultimate Ungulate Page : Your guide to the world's hoofed mammal species (which just happens to include the aardvark )
  • Tuatara Page : New Zealand's Tuatara is one of the oldest reptiles in existence, dating from the Mesozoic period over 65 million years ago. Much to the disappointment of the female tuataras, the males of this species do not possess a copulatory organ.