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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

'Drawing Names' for Christmas

Back in the days of the Internet Bubble, when stocks of which I owned none were doing so very well, it was expected that everyone in the family would buy at least one gift for everyone else in the family. n * (n - 1) gifts. Ridiculous. When the word budget

Crip Memoir Resurrects Slain

...or, "It's Okay to Murder People if you Document it in the Form of Children's Books." So, Stanley Tookie Williams establishes the Crips with the ill-conceived notion that it'll help his crime-ridden neighborhood. Along the way, he kills some people. In 1981

Ghostly Car Commercial

This is from an email I received a while back. It's a stupid, cheesy story, but just read it, and then watch the commercial. This is a car advertisement from Great Britain. When they finished filming the ad, the film editor noticed something moving along the side of

Installing a JAR without a JAD

Apparently that's supposed to mean something to me. It sounds pretty funny. I guess I need to keep reading the manual. I just a got a new phone, you see, and it'll supposedly run little Java programs ... they call them MIDlets. Like Applets. Only smaller. Stupid.

Concoctions of Caliginosity #1

I intend to shamelessly substitute substance with grotesque imagery in my new series, Concoctions of Caliginosity; this being the first in the series. I give you, psychotic cat. Click for a larger view. Then just stare. I start laughing after about 2.3 seconds. It sees into your soul. Use

Computer Programmer or Serial Killer?

This is great. Ten pictures. Determine whether the person is a Computer Programmer or a Serial Killer. Update: I got 8/10. It seems that I gave less credit to programmer's and their personal hygene than I ought; twice.

Steam Powered Harleys

Here is an interesting article on Slashdot about BMW and its new steam engine that re-claims lost energy from the exhaust by using the heat. Seemingly brilliant. And since I am not a mechincal engineer, that seemingly is there to protect me. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/

When in Doubt....

So everyone knows of the two Air Marshals (what a dumb title) who shot the bi-polar dude who claimed to have a bomb. And rightly so. And despite this being a fairly non-humorous situation, this bit from ABC News made me laugh: "After the shooting, investigators spread passengers'

Daimler Chrysler and the Java Crisis

According to statcounter, someone at Daimler Chrysler (who was using Windows XP and a screen resolution of 1024x768 ... eek) needs help "converting" an OutputStream to an InputStream. The exact question was phrased, convert outputstream to inputstream. I think that there could be at least a couple fairly legitimate

The Super Secret InputStream

According to the log file, some poor soul stumbled across my blog while searching for covert inputstream to string on Google. And sure enough ... second site. Sweet. Anyway, going out on a limb here, I think he was probably meaning convert. For the benefit of Google indexing, I'll

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