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Thu Jun 18 2020
I let some collectible cards go for a ridiculously low price. I feel meh about it. Part of me needed the sales, the other part knew that I could have gotten more if I were just more patient. The buyer is in Germany, which means I had to shell out $15 to get it mailed […]
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Fri Jun 12 2020
A group made a HTML5 port of Counter-Strike 1.6! https://game.cs-online.club/ I played a match. The default mouse sensitivity was way too low. I couldn’t figure out how to bring up the menu so I just hid in a corner and waited for the T’s to come find me. I got flash banged. Luckily it seemed […]
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Wed Apr 22 2020
Another day, another post. The days are all flowing together now that I’m back on a polyphasic sleep schedule. This is not a complaint, just an observation. I just walked to Albertson’s and back. This morning I took 4 or 5 packages to the mailbox, and I was thinking about putting off the trip to […]
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Thu Feb 20 2020
I want to write a new novel. How cool would it be to be an author? Wait a minute, I’m already an author. Let me rephrase. How cool would it to be a prolific author? Like, a novel a year for the rest of my life? That would be something. Then if or when a […]
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How to programmatically open gnome-pomodoro timer window
I’ve been enjoying streaming on Twitch for a few weeks while I work on my daily tasks. I have gained a bit of a productivity boost because of the accountability effect of being on camera in front of a small audience. One of the important self-care items for me while I stream is to take […]
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How to close Firefox from the Ubuntu command line
About five years ago I answered a question on Superuser.com — Can I close firefox browser tab or firefox browser from ubuntu terminal? My answer to this question was to use wmctrl, a CLI program to interact with an X Window Manager. For closing the browser gracefully, wmctrl should do the trick: you may need […]