RAJ's Home page
Welcome to Richard Johnson's personal home page! I started work at
Cisco
on June 26, '95.
George Bush's
debate coach unveiled!
Contact info:
I work at home in Santa Barbara
along with my wife, Kelly Morse Johnson (klmj) and our cat
Keegan.
(Our previous cat Beast
died of fluid in the lungs caused by heart problems and our previous
cats
Rafiki and Basti
died of various digestive problems related to Abyssinians. Save
yourself a lot of expense and grief, don't get a pure breed cat or
dog. They are too inbred.)
Here's a 3D
map of our town.
I play music with the UCSB
Middle
Eastern Ensemble. I play Nay (pronounced either "nie",
rhyming with "pie", or "nay", rhyming with "hay", depending upon what
part
of the Middle East you're from). Here's
a AIFF file [263Kb] of my playing a favorite Sufi tune when I first
started
many years ago. Here's an excerpt from the
Persian song "Rounama", played by the ensemble. Here's a finging
chart for the "Dukka" which is the one tuned to the key of "D".
(mostly
for my own reference, of course.)
I love books and like to read many different ones all at once. I'm
usually
reading about four or so at a time, switching off between them all.
Here's
a list of some of my favorite
books.
Other interesting pages
- Danman's Music Co.
- This is the home page of my brother-in-law in Dana Point, Ca.
He's a professional
musician and plays mainly flute, piano, and guitar. He has quite a few
cassette tapes out and we all hope he'll be able to put out a CD
sometime
soon. This home page has information about his band, their club, and
their
gig dates, times, and locations.
- The Passing Zone
- Owen Morse, my brother-in-law, and John Wee are a great comedy
juggling
team. If you're looking for some great entertainment, they're your guys!
- Jeff Tritel
- This sculptor is a personal friend and lives in Grass
Valley. Check out their new Web page which they just started!
- The Goddess Shoppe
- This is the home page of a long time friend of the family, Erin
Rado. She
didn't know much about computers at all and yet managed to register
"goddess.com"
and create her own web pages (yes, she did them herself)!
- Darryn Songbird's
Ocarina
page
- Darryn Songbird makes ocarinas of all sizes and sells them here
in
Santa Barbara on Sunday afternoons down by the ocean. He's a wonderful
musician and has some recordings of his playing on this page. I believe
he plans to also sell his ocarinas here as well as some CDs of his
work,
but he's still getting started with the page design currently.
Ebay users:
Don't
get taken!
Timothys
Merchandise bad business practices.
More later...
Richard Johnson, December,
2004
