I wasn't really sure about accepting an offer at Motorola if I got one. I was able tomake up my mind after the excellent event put together and hosted by Tim, a very talented manager in Motorola's HR department. About 70 candidates were flown in and hosted for the night at a hotel, and the following day on location, which must have been an ( Read more... )

I attended this little ol' job fair in Anaheim called HENAAC, where I submitted my resume and talked to recruiters at about 30 companies. I got some really strong responses from a bunch of companies. A guy with the civilian Army Research Labratory (ARL) said I had the best resume he'd seen all day and he'd give me a call on Monday. The recruiter ( Read more... )

I'm flying out to Chicago the 26th! I start working the 9th of next year. I'll be working for the 3GSM team, which is cutting edge stuff in the U.S. - Cingular will be rolling out UMTS nation wide over the next year or two. I got my hand on some of the 3G phones out now in Europe when I was interviewing there, video teleconferencing and streaming ( Read more... )

I was stumbling around websites as I'm prone to do at work where I have nothing better to do, and I somehow ended up on Roger Ebert's page. I was reading his Q & A section when I came across this quote from Davis Bordwell who literally wrote the book on film art:

"My student told me that the most sophisticated games require up to 100 hours to ( Read more... )

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175006881&_loopback=1

That cracks me up. A few weeks after the Xbox 360 comes out, and you can get a mod chip and 70 pirated games. Doesn't that piss developers off? You'd think Microsoft would take steps to make piracy more difficult (you might say it's impossible to prevent piracy on ( Read more... )

Perfect timing GOP! This ties in with what I was saying yesterday. Today the Senate approved a deficit cut with a 51-50 vote (Dick Cheney cast the tie breaker), for $39.7 billion. Now at first glance, that seems good right? After all, the government is in so much debt they need to cut spending. It gets ugly when one looks at the details. This ( Read more... )

I was just reading 1984 by George Orwell and this really hit home:

"And in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years--imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages ( Read more... )

"What ya looking at boy?", yelled a man in so much armor you would not have even known there was a man in it if not for the movement of his arms. A boy of four and ten, dressed in gilded mail and sitting upon an armored destrier, lifted up a lobstered hand and pointed at a scrawny, filthy boy wearing naught but dirty, brown rags standing next to ( Read more... )

"Get a move on boy", yelled a short, stout man dressed in drab brown overalls and a wide-brimmed straw hat. The man was covered with mud and dust, leaving the original color of his overalls a mystery. His face was filled with craters of dust and dirt, and when he spoke his teeth were as brown as his clothes.

A similarly mud covered boy, who wasn't ( Read more... )