Jason Wright

Jan 2025

Spotted yen and yang on the river ice while biking the greenbelt yesterday. IF city rec dept does a good job of clearing this multi use path, too.

Jan 2025

AoC 2024

To work on my C++ skilz over the holiday I worked on the advent of code. The semester is about to start, so I think I ha...
Dec 2024

Early morning fatbike trip with friends on the South Leigh Creek trail near Tetonia. The trail was a little chewed up, but the company and the views made it all worth it.

Dec 2024

Yea! Finally enough snow on the ground to use the fat bike for my commute. I’ll enter final grades for the semester then start planning winter activities for the break.

Nov 2024

Saintcon 2024 HC: Toddler

I wrote several challenges for the Saintcon 2024 Hackers Challenge. Here’s the challenge and solution for one of t...
Nov 2024

One of my favorite parts of my bike commute is a floating bridge under highway 20 north of downtown. It connects the trail Freeman Park near University Place in Idaho Falls (where I teach). Given today is the 2nd of below freezing temps, it will be disassembled soon and removed for winter.

Jul 2023

US Fleet MPG and Gas Consumption Per Capita is nearly constant since 1980's

Per capita gasoline usage for transport in the USA has remained almost constant since the 1980s. This is despite advanc...
Jul 2023

Covers of the Highway Statistics book

Every year since 1946, the US Government has produced a book of statistics detailing many aspects of federal and state i...
Jun 2023

Gasoline Consumption in the USA

How is gasoline consumption changing in the United States? While we are increasing the fuel efficiency in our vehicles,...
Jan 2018

Graduates into CS

I have a BSci in Computer Sciences from UNC-Greensboro and a MSci in Computer Science from the University of Idaho. And ...
Nov 2017

Go: buffered I/O FTW!

I recently started playing with the computer science puzzles on codeforces.com (my contest history, rather short at this...
Oct 2017

Hitcon 2016 Writeups

The Hitcon 2016 CTF looks like it was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I didn’t participate when it was live. Luckily,...
Oct 2017

Saintcon 2017 writeups

I attended Saintcon 2017 and participated in their HackersChallenge. I also wrote up some of my solutions. Binary L33tn...
Sep 2016

First astrophotography

I have a Nikon D5500 that I bought for our family last Christmas. We were traveling to visit family and it made sense to...
Sep 2016

Observations (Sep 26, 2016)

Tonight, the girls and I watched Stargazers #16-39 which describes how to find Cygnus the swan. I had no trouble locatin...
Sep 2016

Starting Off...

I’m an amateur (heavy emphasis on amateur) astronomer. I thought it might be interesting to blog about my observat...