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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.com

If you knew him like I do....

A Denver officer was found not guilty of excessive force despite video of him slamming a cyclist's face into the ground. But the part that got me was the commenter who argued that knowing the man personally somehow proves his innocence.

A Moral Obligation

I ordered a Dell to run Linux on, and it's arriving with an unwanted copy of Windows. Do I destroy the disc, pass it off to someone with a taste for sullying computers, or claw a refund out of Dell? Haven't decided.

A Moral Obligation

What a Manager Says vs What a Manager Means

On the "team player" line: why must I have an emotional attachment to a 9-to-5? Pay me like a millionaire athlete and we'll talk. A short translation guide for what managers say versus what they actually mean.

Managing Programmers

The single best summary I've found of the peculiarities of managing IT people, so good it reads like my own rants quoted back at me. Read "programmer" wherever it says "geek" and it lands even harder.

Click to Flash

ClickToFlash might be my favorite browser plugin ever, though admittedly the competition is nonexistent since it's the only one I use. Embedded Flash now waits for a click. Now I just need plugins to stop animated gifs and autoplaying audio.

Vanity

I registered my new car and got my first vanity plate. The answer to which one should be obvious. Picture to come, "within ninety days."

Where Is Curtis

Ahead of my Grand Canyon and Collegiate Range trips, I dusted off some XSLT books and rebuilt whereiscurtis.com: a Perl script pulling Spot locations from IMAP into XML, SFTP uploads, and an embedded Google Map. The XSLT took freakin' forever.

Climbs

Three plans in the works: the second annual Death March at the Grand Canyon (chasing sub-20 hours), four-plus days across the Collegiate Peaks, and a possible West Rib climb. I need ice climbing partners. Anyone? Fat chance, I know, but I ask anyway.

Homeopathy

Wikipedia cuts straight to the heart of homeopathy: since water has touched nearly everything in its history, drinking it should treat every imaginable condition. And a 30C dilution would need a container 30 billion times the size of Earth.

Lethargy

I bought a '94 Lexus and suddenly notice all the other Lexi, a tribe that drives as slowly as possible as far left as possible. But find the Over-Drive button, switch it off, and oh, there's the V8. I get half the rated mileage in every car I own.

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