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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

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

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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