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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

Where Is Curtis

In anticipation of my upcoming Grand Canyon and Collegiate Range trips, I dusted off a couple XSLT books and got to work on whereiscurtis.com. (1) I modified the Perl script (which checks IMAP mailboxes for FindMeSpot locator messages) to ultimately dump out an XML file of the last ten

Climbs

(1) I'm all set to head out to the Grand Canyon on Oct 1 for the Second Annual Curtis-and-Bridger Death March. As I recall, we came in around 23:41 last time. Possessing a greater assurance in the frequent availability of water, we should be able to cut

Homeopathy

This summary from Wikipedia regarding the supposed effects of dilution which are fundamental to homeopathy really cuts to the chase: Furthermore, since water will have been in contact with millions of different substances throughout its history, critics point out that water is therefore an extreme dilution of almost any conceivable

Lethargy

Recently having become the proud owner of a shiny, old '94 Lexus, I've become increasingly aware of other Lexi (Lexuses?). And as a group, the drivers of Lexi can best be described as lethargic. They're everywhere and they tend to want to travel as slowly

Doppler

If you're reading this ... did I give you my radar detector a couple years back when I sold my car? I can't remember who I gave it to....

My Other Profession

I'm famous! macdesktops.com

Cloud Computing

I can't wait until the term cloud computing finally gets shoved out of the vernacular and relegated to the list of idiotic terms used by a previous and archaic generation. Given that the cyber- affix remains in rampant use by the US government (and not a single private

Postgres, Timestamps and the C API

I ran into something unexpected, recently, related to libpq (the Postgres C API). When running PQexecParams() / PQexecPrepared() and passing a "1" for the resultFormat argument (ie, provide results in binary), a timestamp is returned as a 64-bit value (a uint64 or float, depending on a compile-time option). I

INTJ

I've never read something that describes me quite as well as this does. It's a description of the INTJ Myers Briggs personality. Crazy stuff. Update: I did it. Zazzle.com. I made an "INTJ" shirt. It should arrive later this week. It looks like

Burglars Beware

Finally found another use for my webcam ... ever since it guarded my apartment while I was in Alaska. Update: Using a demo version of EvoCam, I'm now saving a high-quality 1280x1024 jpeg image from the webcam every minute. Rather annoyingly, each image is ~950K, so I'm

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