Idiorhythmic IPC Inconcinnity

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• Chris explains what he thinks Thanksgiving was about (or what he thought it was about, he's no historian).
• The Daily Show had a segment about "Evacuation Day" and the history behind it.

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• Ask our listeners: How many hours do you work in a work week? How much is the norm in your country of origin?
• Chris's friend Dave wrote about the surprises of going full time as a consultant.
• Dave mentions that on the software side, jobs on sites like Elance are underbid  by overseas contractors.
• Chris loves an article from an IT consultant with some tips on how to be a good consultant to hire.
• Though Dave did not show much interest in ham radio in general, he did decide to go hang out with them!
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysv4SNLwM20
• Chris is still looking for more people to join him in getting a license by the end of the year!
• If you want to study, there are study sites and practice exams out there.
• Chris has been looking at buying a snowblower and has looked at making it autonomous. There is even an autonomous snowplow competition!
• Perhaps this is a future venture for iRobot and their Roomba platform?
• Dave's office is ready for some wall hangings (post-approval from the wife, of course). He should hang up the Widlar poster!
• The_Axis wrote in about their reuse of PCBs as tail stabilizers for a homemade rocket!
• Eric the Embedded HW Guy wrote a post on EEweb about a homebrew solder smoke fume extractor.
• Our occasional co-host Jeff Keyzer (@mightyohm) set up a Flickr photo pool with pictures of electronics benches. Add yours today!
• Chip of the Week:
  • Gleaned from the /r/nicechips subreddit, the ATtiny10 is a (tiny!) SOT23-6, 8-bit microcontroller with integrated flash (1K), SRAM (32B), ADC (4 channels/8 bit) and a lot more. Crazy!
• Is there a standard footprint repository where someone can find IPC standard footprints (and maybe some of the odd ones too)?
• On Ask An Engineer this week, Chris wrote in with a question about KiCAD and Limor and Phil were hopeful about the emerging XML standard from EAGLE, that it would open up the ecosystem.
• Bunnie Huang of Chumby writes about buying an iPhone schematic on the street in Shenzhen and using it to source cheap parts. Chris calls this Coattailing.
• Apparently phone makers need to recoup costs in the first few months of sales of their product because they are so quickly overtaken by the newest phones.