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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

Conversation with Aimee

A: We're in an apartment building. Do you think we'll get trick-or-treat'ers? C: *checks calendar* Is today Halloween? I bought candy just so that I'd have something cheap to toss their way. *Merry Christmas. Here's a USB hard drive. It&

Stone Mountain PATH Trail

I ventured a little further from my comfort zone again today. First, my hopes of being able to calmly and fully explore the entirety of the Eastside Beltline trail were interrupted by some sort of high-pressure spraying being done to the trail, thus blocking the trail. Another cyclist told me

Parallela

I haven't been this excited about a Kickstart project in, well, forever, actually. Parallela. If all goes well, I'll have a 64-core RISC-based Ubuntu-running computer to play with this coming May. The DSP stuff I could do with that ... I wonder if I should start writing

Collected Thoughts on Elections and Squirrel-Like Behavior

Below, please find some of my collected thoughts that individually didn't warrant a blog post (even by my own, low standards) and together probably don't warrant one either. First, there's this upcoming presidential election. While I'll apply my thoughts specifically to that

GPS for Running

Back when I lived in Alpharetta I drove a couple miles to reach the Greenway whenever I wanted to bike or run. It was a luxury that I never fully appreciated until I moved away, spring arrived and running was no longer quite so simple. There's something about

Free, Throw-Away Email Addresses

For a free throw-away email address for use with annoying registration forms: http://spamass.net

print_number() - an alternative for sprintf()

In most situations this probably falls clearly into the category of premature optimization, but if you need that extra ounce of efficiency in a situation where you're converting a numeric value into its ascii equivalent via sprintf(), you might find this print_number() solution useful. It has precisely

T-SPLOST

It was my pleasure and privilege this morning to vote NO on T-SPLOST. I hope you did the same.

Granny is no Slouch

I've been biking at the Greenway instead of in the mountains while I wait for my replacement brakes. My current Avid BB5's are no longer trustworthy enough to slow me down on some of the hills/corners. Meanwhile I also swapped out the Shimano M324 pedals

Three Gap

For a couple years now I've done this 3-gap ride up North, which includes Woody Gap, Wolfpen Gap and finally Neel Gap. Having recently learned of the "elevation profile" feature of Google Earth, I grabbed my GPS and loaded the last ride. I've heard

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