Relax, Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled: Hardware Design Guru Wanted

Wow. It is June 1, 2005, and I still have not finished my Biased But Brief History Of JavaScript. ~~Maybe this weekend. If I am lucky.~~ Or maybe I will never finish and my typepad will never get out of January 2005 and like Xeno's Paradox I will just keep getting closer to the finish line without ever getting there.

In the meantime, friends of mine at Echelon and Apple are looking for hardward design gurus. Here's the job description:

Hardware design guru
Broad level analog and digital electronic design
Knowledge of or experience in design of power supply circuits
Experience in design of FS communication circuits
ECAD experience, preferably in high volume PCA design and simulation
Experience in regulatory and safety certification applications and compliance
Knowledge of or experience with VHDL or Verilog
Ability to troubleshoot electronic circuitry and document same

Comp on the job is above industry rates, plus stock, at both Apple and Echelon. These jobs are not for the average hardware engineer; I am looking for gurus with personality. Three to four people will work with this team lead. Echelon is located in San Jose, CA, and Apple is located in Cupertino, CA. If you know anyone who would be appropriate, please contact me.

Cheers...

Music

Sugar, We're Going Down
Fall Out Boy: From Under the Cork Tree
"We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded god complex, cock it and pull it"

Thank you Myspace for helping me discover this band. I love this album. (*****)
Hollaback Girl
Gwen Stefani: Love, Angel, Music, Baby
The first three songs are about time, money, and winning, and the album just gets better from there. What's not to love? (*****)
Gone Going
Black Eyed Peas: Monkey Business
"You see yourself in the mirror
And you feel safe coz it looks familiar
But you afraid to open up your soul
Coz you don't really know, don't really know
Who is, the person that's deep within" (*****)
Holiday
Green Day: American Idiot
"Zieg heil to the president gas man,
Bombs away is your (pun-ish-ment),
Pulvarize the Eiffel Towers, who criticize your (gov-ern-ment)..." (*****)
Dreamgirl
Dave Matthews Band: Stand Up
"I would dig a hole all the way to China, unless of course I was there, and I'd dig my way home. If by digging I could steal the wind from the sails of the greedy men who ruled the world..." (*****)
B.Y.O.B.
System of a Down: Mezmerize
"Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?" (*****)
Bleed Like Me
Garbage: Bleed Like Me
"You should see my scars..." (*****)
Beverly Hills
Weezer: Make Believe
"Where I come from isn't all that great;
My automobile is a piece of crap;
My fashion sense is a little whack,
And my friends are just as screwy as me...
Beverly Hills - That's where I want to be!
(Gimme Gimme)
Living in Beverly Hills..." (*****)
I'm Supposed To Die Tonight
50 Cent: The Massacre
"Sometimes, I sit and look at life from a different angle. Don't know if I'm God's child or I'm Satan's angel." Sing it, Fitty! (*****)
E-Pro
Beck: Guero
I love how Beck samples the Beastie Boys' "So What'cha Want" (which itself is a sample of Sly Stone's "Time for Livin'") while singing, "I won't give up that ghost. If you take away, these tongues are twisted... There's too much left to taste that's bitter..." And then Beck goes into this chorus of "Na na na na na na na" that is reminiscent of the Meow Mix jingle... (*****)
Rain Man
Eminem: Encore
"When am I gonna come to my good senses? Probably the day Bush comes to my defenses..." (*****)
Sleeping In
The Postal Service: Give Up
"The people thought they were just being rewarded for treating others as they like to be treated, for obeying stop signs and curing diseases, for mailing letters with the address of the sender... Don't wake me, I plan on sleeping in..." Thank you, Chris Wetherell... "Nothing Better" is a great track on this album, too... (*****)
Verse Chorus Verse
Nirvana: With the Lights Out
"And if you save yourself
You will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar
And you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes
And you'll think you're happy
He'll cover you with dust
And you'll think you're happy now..." (*****)
Tilt Ya Head Back
Nelly: Sweat
"I see you lookin', uh
like what you see?
Boy, now don't be shy
and look at her face in opportunity..." (*****)
Jesus Walks
Kanye West: The College Dropout
"We at war with terrorism, racism but most of all we at war with ourselves... I want to talk to God but I'm afraid because we ain't spoke in so long..." (*****)
America, FUCK YEAH!
Team America: World Police: Soundtrack
"America, FUCK YEAH! Comin' again to save the motherfucking day, yeah! / America, FUCK YEAH! Freedom is the only way, yeah! / Terrorists, your game is through, 'cause now you have to answer to / America, FUCK YEAH!" (*****)
Canned Heat, by Jamiroquai
Napoleon Dynamite: Soundtrack

Kid on Bus: "What are you gonna do today, Napoleon?"

Napoleon Dynamite: "Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh!!" (*****)
Almost
Bowling for Soup: A Hangover You Don't Deserve
"Here I go thinking about all the things I could've done. I'm gonna need a forklift, cuz all the baggage weighs a ton..." (*****)

Comments

Why are you still in January?!?!?!?

Posted by: Emy | June 03, 2005 at 04:43 PM

He is still in January because he is a serious hacker doing serious things that will probably change the world, unlike a lot of bloggers who bullshit about bullshit (like Russell Beattie who cackles endlessly about mobile phones to the point that he tries to convince others that he's a mobile phone guru). The true guru is the fellow who runs this blog and says things once in a great while that have a lot of meaning and thought behind them!

Posted by: Chauka | June 04, 2005 at 03:03 AM

I'm still in January because there's a post I started writing on January 18 that I haven't finished that's clogging up this typepad's pipeline.

I wish I could attribute something more intelligent to it than that. ;)

Anyhoo, I'm almost done with it. And then I can hopefully quickly return to the present and once again blog in real-time.

Posted by: Adam | June 04, 2005 at 11:21 AM

I take it you are still busy...

Posted by: Henrik | August 18, 2005 at 07:11 AM

Wow, this blog hasn't been updated for awhile...what's the latest scoop?

Posted by: jeff | September 30, 2005 at 12:08 AM