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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

Preparatory Work

I am going to need to do some preparatory hiking if I am to conquer Mt Rainier (which itself is a preparatory hike) this Winter. I need ideas. I need someone to hike with. My fall-back idea is to fly out to Georgia and convince a friend/relative to hike

A Baseball First

My employer pays for every employee to go out to dinner (with the rest of his team at work), twice a year, at a cost of no more than $100 per person. Recently I did my first such company dinner. We went to Sparks Steak House. This is the place

One Recruiter at a Time

I do not have a Word version of my resume -- for religious reasons. And moral reasons. And digestive reasons. Instead, I maintain both a PDF and plain text version of my resume. Inevitably, every time I send my resume to a recruiter, I'll receive a response asking

AT&T vs T-Mobile

I hope to switch to AT&T from T-Mobile when I purchased my iPhone. I wasn't terribly pleased at this, but I had some months to prepare myself. I especially liked T-Mobile because in the several years that I was a customer, I almost never had to

Stroustrup!

There are many downsides to working in a large, corporate environment, and this is not one of them. Bjarne Stroustrup will be giving a talk on C++0x this week. That's going to be so freakin' awesome. I'm going to try to get him to

Corporate America

In spite of looming deadlines, "eager" customers, project dependencies hinging on a timely completion of my project -- I spent an hour and a half this morning in a Sexual Harassment Training seminar; or was it Sexual Harassment Awareness? No. It was just Harassment Awareness. Whatever the case,

The Escalator Standers

At my present job I have to take two escalators and a set of stairs to get to my desk. I make this trip several times a day. Unless I'm busily typing something into my shiny iPhone, and sometimes even when I am, I always continue walking while

Paris Hilton

I loathe to admit that I'm even aware of some goings on in Paris Hilton's life. But I am. So, she went to jail for doing something stupid (but victimless), and received preferential treatment (home confinement). Then, after she was moved back to the jail (due

A couch, dishes, chess

I've been waiting on my first paycheck ever since I arrived in NY, before purchasing the more expensive "necessities". And due to a paperwork snafu, I had to wait a month for that first paycheck - which arrived yesterday. So, I've been sleeping on

My Week

Monday @ 14.00 - Received email about job opportunity. Responded with resume. Monday @ 14.30 - Received phone call about job opportunity. Subjected to a technical interview. Passed. Monday @ 20.45 - Performed over-the-phone hour-long technical interview. Tuesday @ 08.30 - Notified that I passed the technical interview from the

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