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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

i successfully tore out old ftdx usb.html

I successfully tore out the old ftdx usb driver from Static and implanted libftdi which works completely differently, of course. I spent all day Saturday racking my brain trying to figure out how to manipulate the quadrature data to make it suitable input for the Chebyshev IIR filter (without success)

What is it?

Centered around 146.575MHz is this crazy signal. Sadly, my HT can't distinguish the signal beyond noise, while the big antenna is only connected to a program that can't demodulate (as of yet). So I'm left to wonder. It sure looks interesting though. I&

Sexism

I feel like I should be offended whenever I go into William Sonoma (or the like) and during checkout face the inevitable inquiry, "Is this a gift?" -- I've got a london broil, onion, garlic, rice and a healthy dose of wine stuffed into a shiny

Friday Nights

The champagne and orange juice, the beautiful weather, nine inch nails and adding support for a 3rd party usb driver to Static. True relaxation.

SDR Goodness

So I finally noticed these crazy little 9V DC input pins on the 144-148MHZ down converter. Apparently it needs to be "plugged in". So I deftly wired up a 9V battery to it.

Incompatible

Eating dinner and drinking wine is not compatible with watching Dirty Jobs. That's not to say that I stopped drinking the wine; but I did stop eating dinner. And speaking of wine.... My liquor store recently started peddling a simple selection of Malbecs, Merlots, Cabernets and Pinot Noirs

The Call Into the Wild: The Story of a Retarded Dog

I plowed through The Call of the Wild [1] this evening (while waiting for 10.6.5 to download at Starbucks) - a story of a beast both spirited and ferocious (not to be mistaken with Into the Wild, the story of a retarded boy) - and I found that

SQLite

To make the command line sqlite3 program useful, alias it like this: alias sqlite='sqlite3 -header -column'

FindMeSpot Locator Alert!

Apparently we're still alive: Location: 40.76463, -73.97342 Timestamp: Map:Google Maps Closest point of interest: Description: New York, New York, USA Location: 40.77000, -73.98000 Distance: 0.47 miles Since last time: Distance: 0.00 miles

FindMeSpot Locator Alert!

Apparently we're still alive: Location: 40.70605, -73.99677 Timestamp: Map:Google Maps Closest point of interest: Description: Home - New York, New York, USA Location: 40.70864, -74.00647 Distance: 0.67 miles Since last time: Distance: 0.00 miles

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