This Richard Friedman lives in Oakland, California, and goes by the user name rchrd, which he started using in the 1970s. It was his User ID for the BKY operating system on the CDC 6600/7600 complex at the computer center of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab - University of California (1968-82). This Richard Friedman also worked at Sun Microsystems and then Oracle as a technical writer for over 17 years, and left in 2012 to work freelance.