| Hobbies |
All of my hobbies tend to become jobs, though I'm still working on getting the 71" HDTV to pay for itself. When not in the "Batcave" (underground home office/lab/studio), I like cycling, skating, writing, guitar, Aikido, watersports, and silviculture
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| Areas of Expertise |
Product development on start-up company budgets. RF systems both integrated and discrete, embedded CPUs (8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit; ARM, PSoC, MSP430, Microchip, Coldfire, others), schematic capture and layout in Altium (Protel), FPGA design in VHDL, computer bus systems (PCI, I2C, USB, SPI), realtime embedded software. Hardware design for quick time-to-market, flexible product definition, design-for-bring-up and design-for-test/production.
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| Favorite Books |
Neil Gaimen, Brandon Sanderson, Stephen Baxter, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen R. Donaldson, Steven King
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| Favorite Bands / Musician |
REM, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, The Decemberists, Greenday, Neil Young, Bright Eyes, Radiohead, The New Pornographers, Yes, Foo Fighters, The Who, Jimmy Buffett
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| Favorite Movies |
Most anything by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton, Oliver Stone, Akira Kurosawa, Quentin Tarantino, David Cronenberg, Robert Rodriguez, Frank Oz, David Lynch, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Kevin Smith.
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| Favorite TV Shows |
Lost, Heroes, The Mentalist, Nip/Tuck, Dexter, Babylon 5, Lie to Me, Battlestar Galactica, Arrested Development, The Monkees, House, The Rachael Maddow Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Bevis and Butthead, The Prisoner, Ren & Stimpy, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks.
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| Comments and Things Worth Noting |
I use Vegas for NLE, Acid and Sonar for music, Sound Forge for audio, DVD Architect for DVD authoring, Blu-Ray, DVD encoding, Altium for schematic capture and PCB layout, Photoshop and Canvas for graphics, lots of other stuff for lots of other things.
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