Eric Jacobsen's Home Page

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I live in McDowell Mountain Ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, although I'm originally from South Dakota, in the frigid northern realms of midwestern America. I'm an Electrical Engineer and do system engineering and signal processing algorithm development for broadband wireless systems. Occasionally I manage to pass myself off as a musician, cartoonist, poet, illustrator and writer, although not always successfully.

My siblings. And you thought I was weird. 52Kb

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The 1997 F1 Gran Prix du Canada. Race cars against the Montreal skyline on a beautiful summer day. 52Kb

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My class picture from Racing School. 80Kb (I'm on the right in the maroon t-shirt.)

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One day the engineering dept. wore ties, just to piss somebody off. 64k (I'm kneeling, third from right.)

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One day we all dressed like managers. 45k (I'm on the right end.)

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A pathetic attempt at recreating a famous American painting. 110Kb

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My Mom in front of Phoenix Union High School in 1948. 38Kb

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The world's cutest kid circa 1963. 43Kb

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My family has a strong historical connection to a pastoral mining ghost town in the Black Hills of South Dakota. 61Kb

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For those who doubt the authenticity of my professional title. I left Intel in 2007, but still retain the title, which predated employment there. 22Kb

Eric's list of interesting things:

• Jeff Jacobsen's home page. My brother the cult researcher and a thorn in the side of Scientology. Read an article published in New Times about some of Jeff's adventures.
• Ken Jacobsen's home page. My brother the graphic artist.
• An interesting first amendment case was contested in South Dakota by my father, Harlan Jacobsen. Who says you can't fight the government? My Dad did it without a lawyer.
• Rosilee and I grew up together, although I liked her a lot better when she did R&B.
• Vicki Yohe and I grew up together, too. Rosilee, Vicki, myself and numerous other hapless souls all attended the same Pentecostal church.
• South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.My alma mater. Great school. Great people. Great area. (Good thing I'm not biased, eh?)
• Overseas Brats. Another group of which I am an alumnus. I attended Stuttgart American High School, just like Newt Gingrich, Katrina Leskanisch of Katrina and the Waves, and Tom Paquin, Director of Engineering at Netscape. Tom and I were both sophomores at SAHS in 1976, and I vaguely remember him. There's a lot of interesting DoDDS school stuff on the web. Military brats make for an interesting American subculture. There is now a Historical Societydevoted to preserving artifacts of this little-known tribe.
• Landover Baptist Church Unsaved unwelcome.
• The Onion. The place to get the really useful news.
• The Straight Dope is where to go to get the real scoop on just about anything. Cecil will steer you straight.
• I've recently converted to Pastafarianism. The Flying Spaghetti Monster has touched me with his Noodly Appendage.
• Engrish.com
• The Taurus SHO web page. Although not the hottest vehicle on the streets, an SHO is an outstanding example of a factory performance sedan. I drive a 1995 SHO 5-spd, Silver Frost/grey. I used to be a frequent poster on the SHOforum as well with the user name SHOaz. Update:I've sold my old SHO. After that I raced The Pumpkin, which was a 1994 ex-Bondurant SHO.
• Cute Overload. The bestest website on the entire intarweb!
• Musician's Friend's Stupid Deal of the Day. I check this almost daily for cool deals on musical stuff.
• The International Eric Jacobsen Page. We are many. We are wise. We are diverse. We are all named Eric Jacobsen. Perhaps you know one of us?

Some blogs and web presences of note (friends, family, oddballs, whatever)...

• My Professional and Technology Page, which is sort of a web resume.
• My backyard weather station. This one doesn't always update regularly.
• A better site for my backyard weather station. This one updates regularly and links a lot of other useful info.
• My thinly used personal blog.
• My periodically used professional blog on DSPRelated.
• My facebook account. For shame.
• My Myspace profile. For even more shame.
• My LinkedIn profile. No shame there.
• Abineau Communications. I co-founded Abineau Communications along with Colin McKay, Rob Weinstein, and Jim Young.
• Anchor Hill Communications. After Abineau ceased payroll, I founded Anchor Hill Communications.
• Carolyn's blog, which she doesn't use any more since she discovered Facebook.
• Carolyn's Facebook thingie.
• Jeff's Facebook entry.

I've managed to spend an inordinate amount of cash going to racing school at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. Due to the miracle of electronic publishing, you can read about my experiences learning to drive fast. I took the four-day Gran Prix Road Racing course in October, 1994. Read about the first two days, the third day, and the fourth day. Exactly a year later, I took the two-day Advanced Road Racing Course. Read about the first day, and the second day.

Here's some stuff on Digital Signal Processing for Those Who Care. Specifically, it has to do with frequency estimation.

I am an inventor on a number of US and foreign patents. (Thirty-something at last count.)

Once upon a time, I drew cartoons.

Once in a while, I still write poems.

I can be reached at

eric.jacobsen@ieee.org

All views expressed are my own, as no one else seems to want them. No warranty expressed or implied. Your mileage may vary. Don't try this at home. I told you so. Are you going to eat that? Be well, citizen. Live long and prosper. Share and enjoy. Be excellent to each other. Rotate your tires. You think I'm making this up, don't you? That'll do, pig.

Believe it or not, this page is Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2014 Eric Jacobsen.
This does not, of course, include the stuff I stole from other people.

Last modified July 2, 2018, although all I changed was this date.

The background image of Kokopelli blowing a sinx/x waveform out of his flute is an attempt at faking a glyph showing my interests in southwestern anthropology, signal processing, and music. It seemed like a cool idea.

Here are some words and phrases that'll trigger search engines looking for something else. This should give the guys at the Fed Shed a short break from looking at the really crazy stuff. Sneaky, eh?

flatulence George W. Bush Laura Bush Dick Cheney stolen election greedy scumbags Osama Bin Laden Al-Qaeda Axis of Evil Taliban Wal-Mart Northern Alliance Hamid Karzai Ben Kingsley Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton Chelsea Clinton Socks Clinton Buddy Clinton anarchy militia groups government overthrow bomb making tax evasion automatic weapons terrorism polygamy radical assassination child pornography sex clubs baldness cure winning lottery numbers live forever immortality L. Ron Hubbard Dianetics e-meter Uri Geller wife swapping million dollars wealth free beer terminal stupidity easy frat babes

NOTE: August, 2014 - The above sort of thing used to be unusual and funny because it was a little provocative. Now with large numbers of people spouting radical opinions all over social media, hinting at things like a government overthrow is now common to the point of annoyance. I'm leaving the above as-is mostly for historical purposes.

More later. Cheers.