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Stairway to heaven.....I miss Baguio and Banaue!

Bakers Beach SF.

Golden Gate Bridge in the background. On the Pacific Ocean side of SF.

Photography

Travel

Travel photography!

Good wine

Good food

Most exotic meal - in Matsumoto, Japan (up in the mountains) -

start with raw horsemeat sliced very thin (like carpaccio)

then fried honeybees (yes you can taste the honey; no, no stingers)

followed by fugu (blowfish) that left my tongue and lips tingling

In between, grilled eel from the local river and ayu (small freshwater fish). And somewhere in there, boiled conch (must have been brought in from the southern fishing towns).

What was most interesting was the green tea they served to start the meal - sweet (though without using sugar or other sweeteners) and with 24K gold flakes. Gold's supposed to be good for you in small doses.

Thinking of starting up an outsourcing venture in Manila and looking to see what expertise/experience is available in Manila for such a venture.

HW - system, circuit and logic (CPLD, FPGA) designers. Experience with Verilog/VHDL. Experience with OrCAD or other schematic capture. Signal integrity, PCB design and EMI control. DFM/DFT. For consumer products, experience with user interface design, cost-optimized design, reliability and ruggedness. For networking, high speed (3.125Gbps and up) signal analysis, circuit synthesis and simulation skills required. PowerPC CPU and memory systems, PCI. XAUI, Gigabit and 10G Ethernet (WAN, LAN). Fiber interfaces.

SW - system and module design. C, C++, Java. Networking (standards-based protocols and other switch/router applications) expertise. Real-time OS (Tornado/VxWorks). Embedded systems design.

Mechanical - consumer and enterprise systems. Thermal design and simulation. DFM, automated fabrication.

System and SW test - Networking, protocols and applications.

Anyone there who fits these requirements? PM me. No guarantees, but maybe we can ride the outsourcing wave.

This will be startup with some (a LOT!) risk involved.

Starbucks is the McDonald's of coffee. Nothing special, in fact, you can get better at the same or lower prices elsewhere. BUT - with Starbucks/McDonald's, you always know what you're going to get when you order your favorite drink. It's always the same - looks the same, tastes the same, smells the same.

There (Manila) more than here (Silicon Valley), it could be also the place to see and be seen. Here, I think it's more convenience and ubiquity that drives their popularity.

Me, I like my local neighborhood coffeehouse - better coffee at lower prices and a place "where everybody knows your name".

Or if you go 4 hours north on Interstate 395 (towards Lake Tahoe/Reno), you end up here - Mono Lake. This photo op doesn't exist anymore, at least not as shown. The lake level has been allowed to rise over the past 7 years and what you see here as a peninsula of tufas (calcified deposits from underwater hot mineral springs exposed when the lake level dropped over the past 40 years) is once again under water. Good for the lake but bad for photgraphers.

1984 - sounds like you're in Las Vegas? Add a couple of hours and you'd be in Canyon de Chelly -

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Thanks, hitman! Finally figured it out........

hope you like the Banaue pic. that was shot in 1972 and is still an all time favorite!

But wait! there's more!

Here's a picture taken at a ghost town in Arizona, called Oatman,on Route 66 (remember - "Get yoru kicks on Route 66"?) maybe not - you gotta be pretty old to remember that one.... ;D

One more then I go home......

the Grand Canyon at dawn.

By the side of the road - Highway 199 in northern California. Lots of biiiiiiiig redwoods......

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