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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

Bases of Pi

As I was falling asleep last night I started wondering whether pi looked more interesting in other bases. I took the first 50 digits (in base 10) of pi and made a bignum out of it and looped from base 2 to 36 and printed it out. Since I only

BigMath-20080428-1

Since I probably won't have anything substantial to add before I leave for Alaska, I figured I'd do a BigMath release now. I've added nth root support (which puts me one step closer to fast factorial support), string-to-bignum support, and a half-completed calculator GUI.

Is Java Dying?

I'm trying to find an RPC protocol (xmlrpc, json, soap, rest, etc.) and server-side implementation for Java that doesn't depend on the massively over-grown and unmanageable train wreck which is J2EE. And I'm not saying that J2EE shouldn't exist (although that thought

BigMath on the Free Software Directory

I had never heard of the Free Software Directory before, but they apparently have my BigMath project listed there. Also, the Free Software Directory listing for BigMath ranks #2 on the Google search results for BigMath, while the official BigMath page has moved up to #3 (previously #4), and something

Mt. McKinley Routine Part 13

I did 48 flights of stairs this time with 77 pounds. I decided to not skip steps on the way down because that seems to be really hard on my knees with this much weight. And it took precisely one Rage Against The Machine album to do this.

Overconfidence

I went to a dance performance this evening. A modern dance performance. Some of it was very enjoyable - like the last piece, which featured two Bjork songs. Actually, it was really good. Another piece of the performance was decent. And the rest of the performance did nothing more than

Hot and Cold

Given a room of people with relatively similar body fat levels, what causes some of those people to be cold while others are hot? Something to do with the individual's metabolism? I'm going to see if I can find out.

I am in-vin-ci-ble!

I am invincible! I believe that I just now became the first person in the entire world to run LimeWire under Java SE6 on Mac OS X. You see, SE6 is 64-bit only, and Carbon is 32-bit only. The two do not play well together. So, after commenting out some

Mt. McKinley Routine Part 7

I slacked off a bit this week because I'm working on an interesting little side project, and this project, combined with company parties, have kept me up way too late the last several evenings. I'll post about the project after I've got it done.

Grrr

I added Growl support to LimeWire a few minutes ago. Watch, as crowds of people suddenly want to be my friend. Yes, you can be my friend too.

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