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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

My Fifteen Minutes

I largely finished up my latest programming endeavor [glowworm.us] the other day, and I started working on the web site - my least favorite thing to do. To assist in avoiding that task, I decided to do something else. First, some background. Back in 1999, I had a relatively

Stealing Water and Netmasks

I was going for a jog a few weeks ago, late at night, and I noticed that one of my neighbors was watering his lawn - but the hose was plugged into the as-of-yet-unsold house next door. Seriously cheap. I thought it would be fun to get ahold of some

It is Done

When I'm working, desperately, to finish a programming project, personal hygene always takes the second seat ... or fifth or sixth. So does eating for that matter, but that's another story. After much agonizing, I finally got Knuth's algorithms on multiple precision arithmetic for addition,

Bars, Oceans and Sun Burns

I went to Destin, FL over the weekend. Friday evening started out at Starbucks, then progressed to Bluepoint (a bar/restaurant thing), and then progressed even farther, to the beach. At 2am. In retrospect, swimming out into the Gulf in the middle of the night was probably not such a

People who Eat Tasty Animals

I saw a bumper sticker today which read: I love animals so much that I don't EAT them. I thought, "Huh, I love animals so much that I DO eat them." In fact, I certainly wouldn't eat something that I hated. I wonder what

Run, Run as Fast as You Can

There's this race on July 4 called the Woodstock 3.106856M ... or maybe it was just the Woodstock 5K ... I never can remember. I have Two Fat Friends who will be running it, and I can simply choose to not run (and I do hate running ... but I

Lullabies by Marvin the Paranoid Android

Found here ... lullabies by Marvin the Paranoid Android: Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep Sweet dream wishes you can keep,

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

My oldest sister just had her first kid, earlier today. Her name is Madelyn Danielle (last name withheld, because I know about all you psychos out there, reading this blog). And although she doesn't sport her own Wikipedia page just yet, the Olsen Twins, who share this birthday,

Yahtzee

No more Monopoly stories. I'm not going to be playing Monopoly for a really long time. I can add it to the list along with Clue. I did play Yahtzee, last night, though. It was fun. I didn't win (mostly because one person rolled two Yahtzee&

Remote Kernel Debugging

I finally got remote kernel debugging working ... sort of. If I attempt to set a breakpoint and then tell the kernel to continue, it SIGTRAPs for a reason I can't ascertain ... because gdb is convinced that the source code I've given it is newer than the

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