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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

Mt. McKinley (2008) - Epilogue

Post-Trip Stuff It's been a while since the McKinley expedition. My big toenail on my right foot is still there, and still bloody, but slowly improving. My right little finger was numb from the last knuckle down for about a month, which made typing (an integral part of

Small Victories

The corporate network at my present employer isn't as bad as Bloomberg's - but its not far off. All web browsing goes through this ridiculous HTTP proxy server that is now being rebooted nightly due to stability issues. Further, it seems to prevent HTTP POSTs of

CSS

I prettied up the McKinley journal substantially ... fumbling my way through more CSS than I ever wanted to know (while eating goldfish crackers and consuming a fine Pinot Noir). Instead of having clumps of images, they're all vertically aligned with captions. And Aimee, using her l33t Photoshop skilz,

Slacking

I've been slacking off, but I'm finally getting around to it. I've done another several days of journal entries from the McKinley trip. And I've copied all of my pictures into a single location. And I'm working on typing up

Bye Bye Camera

When I got to baggage claim at Laguardia yesterday evening, my pack was second out. As soon as I picked it up I noticed that the top zipper pocket was completely open. My belt, gps and camera were missing. Great. I zipped it up and started heading over to the

Trekking Poles and Crevasses

I just got off the phone with Black Diamond. I was ordering a *single* Black Diamond Compact Spire Trekking Pole. You see, my last day on McKinley, while we were walking down from 14k camp to camp 3, I had switched from two trekking poles to one trekking pole and

Pikes Peak II

So, Natalie and I just finished up a Pikes Peak hike. Going up wasn't so bad, but going down sucked tremendously. Anyway, pictures are here: http://gallery.me.com/curtisj#100030

Most Useless Menu Option

I've been using Mac OS X since its pre-release days when it was known as Rhapsody (DR-2), which'd put it right around May 1998. And I'm not sure when this particular menu option made its way into the Apple Menu, but it wasn'

Lunch

I order my lunch through SeamlessWeb. It costs a little more, but the cost I would incur by ceasing to bill time for 15 or 20 minutes to walk to the restaurant, wait in line, order, wait for the food and walk back to work -- far exceeds the extra

Crocs

I didn't know I was looking for the perfect quote regarding Crocs until I found it (from the National Post). It so very clearly conveys my thoughts on the matter “When I see someone wearing Crocs, I immediately know we have nothing in common."

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