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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.com

Road-Side Tax Collection

Perhaps due to slacking off around Thanksgiving, the roadside tax collectors were out in force: nineteen speed traps between here and church. Sorry, Timmy, no present this year because Officer Billy Bob needed to make his quota.

Thanksgiving Leftovers

"To one large turkey add one gallon of vermouth and a demijohn of Angostura bitters. Shake." F. Scott Fitzgerald's recipe for turkey cocktail. Seriously, the man was a genius.

Thanksgiving Leftovers

Conversation with Aimee

A: Do you think we'll get trick-or-treaters? C: Is today Halloween? I bought candy just to have something cheap to toss their way. No trick-or-treaters came. Still an improvement over the suburb where kids rode driveway to driveway in the parents' SUV.

Stone Mountain PATH Trail

Venturing past my comfort zone again: a trail blocked by high-pressure spraying, a dead-end into Ponce, and a well-beaten dirt path that dumped me back on the far side of the construction. The Stone Mountain PATH trail lacks the new Eastside shine, but it's not bad.

Parallela

I haven't been this excited about a Kickstarter in forever. Parallela: a 64-core RISC-based, Ubuntu-running computer arriving this coming May. The DSP work I could do with that. The only way it gets better is a Grand Central Dispatch equivalent to make the threading funner.

Collected Thoughts on Elections and Squirrel-Like Behavior

Collected thoughts too small to each warrant a post: why I think you should be able to cast a negative vote rather than throw it away, and why kids on bikes are best understood as 30-pound squirrels. My average ride speed that day: half a mile per hour faster than jogging.

GPS for Running

Spring arrived, the Greenway was gone, and running got harder, so I picked up a Garmin Forerunner 610 despite reviews warning of buttons falling off. The watch is fine; Garmin Connect is genuinely good. Its graphs proved I hadn't run in ages. Just the motivation I wanted.

GPS for Running

Free, Throw-Away Email Addresses

For a free, throw-away email address to feed annoying registration forms.

print_number() - an alternative for sprintf()

Probably premature optimization, but if you need that extra ounce of efficiency converting numbers to ascii, here's print_number(): 9.27 seconds against sprintf's 22.88, with optional zero-padding and a returned pointer to the char right after the number. Enjoy.

T-SPLOST

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

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