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Pork and beans is a great combination!
Interesting that black-eyed beans are called "garbanzos" in Hungary. I thought that was for chick peas.

@JohnRaff: The short answer to 'can you get a keyup event in OB' is "Yes." It doesn't matter what the wm is, keyups always exist. As far as adding them to your scripts, Python has some fantastic abstractions to make it easier to access them without having to actually dig into the back-end...

Toggle Conky (or any other process). I wanted to have conky come up with a keypress instead of being up all the time, but hidden behind windows. (Edit conkyrc to have it on top, maybe give it a background colour too.) At first I was trying to do this with PIDs stored in files, child processes and th...

Of course you all know this already, but if you don't want a command to go in your bash history start it with a space.

The much-feted IT leader South Korea is in fact a major Windows stronghold. You have to use Internet Explorer to do any financial stuff at all - by law! http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/due-to-security-law-south-korea-is-stuck-with-internet-explorer-for-online-shopping/2013/11/03/ffd...

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I love classics (Davis, Mingus, Coltrane and Dolphy mainly) and something more recent (Massimo Urbani). But I like digging through the giants discography just to getting to know them better. With Davis, it's a never-ending journey for instance. Favorite Davis: On The Corner I must check out On The ...

^ though not my favorite Davis's, Kind Of Blue is one of the first jazz album I bought. Along with Coltrane's A Love Supreme brought me to jazz years ago. A Love Supreme is also a classic! That and "My Favourite Things" were how I discovered Coltrane. He's on Kind of Blue too of course. I...

just heard this song on the radio that reminded me of DJ's hate for stupid blues: (George Thoroughgood) boring as fuck. Well... personally, I quite like tunes that only have one chord. I saw G T and the Destroyers at a smallish club in Nagoya many years ago and they were pretty good I thought. But ...

Thing about the Blues Scale .... a lot of the great Blues players don't stick to it as closely as the rock guys do. Go listen to Waters or Hooker, and compare them to the Cream-era Clapton (back when he was angry and used humbuckers). This is it. The real "blues scale" isn't pentatonic mi...

^there are such people?

You can also totally avoid grep for searching with regexps using awk. For example: awk '/(^Mary)|(^Elizabeth)/{ print $3 }' /home/joe/blackbook ...awk is nuts with what all you "can" do with it, such as in-line iterating, but I'll just leave it at that. Yes! Awk (and Dillo) fan here. You ...

Abe is starting to worry me.

Shisaku's not a bad blog if you're interested in Japanese politics. (thought not)

cat-killing is a time-homoured geek sport of course.

Thanks dkeg - alternatives to conky are always welcome! Is bar lighter/have more features? Wonder if you could simplify those functions, like perhaps temp() { tempstat=$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp | awk '{print $1/1000}') echo "$tempstat" } could be temp() { cat /sys/class/t...

machinebacon wrote:Can't be worse than Android :sorry:

...sigh... My wife's Nexus 10 is driving us both crazy. Hiding information to make things "user friendly"?

(I've got pages of random passwords written down, so if a burgular got physical access and figured out what they were for I'd be done I suppose.) If someone broke into my home and got my passwords, I think I'd be far more concerned about the fact that someone broke into my home than them having acc...

Actually we have some tea bushes at our place out in the country. If left alone they grow big (imagine a camelia forest) so I clip them now and then, but they get little use otherwise. My wife picks some leaves and makes her own tea, which is quite nice and aromatic, but it takes so long to pick eno...

btw amazing thing about that parasitic fungus - it can change the behaviour of its host insect. eg an infected ant is made to climb up a plant and attach itself at the top to give the fungus a good spot to release spores after the ant dies! Is that ultra-creepy or what?

Term paper:
"Stockhausen had the blues." Discuss.