At 07:26 PM 7/6/99 -0700, Mark Willis wrote:
>I may be moving out of state (Looking for a good job that'll pay well,
>etc.) - Something like an R&D design technician or something would be
>luscious <G> but I'll take what'll work.
>
>  Mark

   Heck Mark, now is a good time to move to Portland, OR's Silicon Forest.
Lot's of major companies here. You will need web feet for the rain and
have to put up with an independent attitude. Like Silicon Valley, your
manager may wear roller skates or walk around in socks. I think Intel's
architecture lab is hiring. That should be interesting with LINUX
experience ;-) Of course there is OrCAD and Mentor Graphics which may
be porting to LINUX. Tektronix recently split up and their test and
measurement division is very active. There is `eleventy billion' high-
tech startups. On the down side you are about 30-60mins from the
mountains and the coast which makes working on a rare nice day very
difficult. Then there is the occasional high wind storm, earthquakes,
floods, and our local volcano's ;-)

   Then there is the terrible image of me coming over and bugging you
with questions all the time. I said the same to Andy Kunz when he was
considering such a move and apparently it was enough to scare him off ;-)

   - Tom