Found: two lettuces, one fennel plant.
Picked: one bucket of olives (now salting), one bucket lemons, several mandarins, four unripened avocados, one handful spring onion sprigs,
Planted: several lettuces, several broccoli plants.
Still haven't got those chickens.
Deviator, the show I worked on with PVI Collective and friends, is playing in Sydney, Australia starting tomorrow night. Get in there, tickets sell fast!
A family of 8 people can live off 2 kilograms of rice per day. 5 paddy fields will produce about 300 kilograms of rice per harvest, and you can harvest 2 times per year. 2 kilograms of rice per day costs about 8000 rupiah, which is about 78 US cents. An average wage is around 4 US dollars per day.
Snug.
Here is how you can have a lockscreen on Xubuntu that just displays a custom logo/graphic and asks for your password. The graphic I have used is a white logo on black background, so the background/foreground settings reflect that but you can change these colours to match whatever graphic you use.
First, you need to create a script in $HOME/bin/xflock4 - this should override the default xflock4 script on your system that XFCE uses as a proxy for launching the lock screen. Here are the contents, which just run the xlock program:
#!/bin/sh
xlock
Don't forget to make it executable with chmod 755 ~/bin/xflock4.
Next, you should create an xpm version of the graphic that you want to use, for example in $HOME/.lock.xpm - you can use the Imagemagick convert program (sudo apt-get install imagemagick) to convert some other image into the correct xpm format like this:
convert myimage.png ~/.xlock.xpm
Make a note of the dimensions of your image as you will need them for the 'icongeometry' option below. The largest size appears to be 256x256 pixels and the man page advises to make it as close to square as possible. You will set the 'image.bitmap' setting below to the location of the xpm file. Finally, you should add the following configuration options to a file called $HOME/.Xdefaults:
XLock*mode: image
XLock*image.bitmap: /home/chrism/.lock.xpm
XLock*image.count: 1
XLock*image.erasedelay: 0
XLock*erasedelay: 0
XLock*icongeometry: 180x180
XLock*background: Black
XLock*foreground: White
XLock*description: off
XLock*info:
You can find out other options by running man xlock.
To test select 'Lock Screen' from the user menu.
Enjoy!
A few weeks ago I made a little book of advice for my daughter in a what-if-i-die-in-a-plane-crash frenzy before taking an international flight. The content comes mostly from a blog post I wrote during the week after her birth. Here is the book on Archive.org if you are interested. It is Creative Commons licensed so go nuts. This is a technical blog post about getting the book ready for the JIT printing process.
I used several free software tools in the process:
I used blurb.com to print the book.
The following makefile converts the source SVG files for each page and the cover into separate PDF files, then assembles them into a single document, and then transforms the document into the PDF-X3 format that blurb.com requires.
SVGS=$(shell ls pages/*.svg)
PDFS=$(SVGS:.svg=.pdf)
PDFS_BLANK=$(foreach pdf,$(PDFS),$(pdf) page-blank.pdf)
all: we-can-do-this-cover_x3.pdf pages_x3.pdf
%.pdf: %.svg
inkscape --without-gui --file=$< --export-pdf=$@ #--export-text-to-path
pages.pdf: $(PDFS) page-blank.pdf
pdftk $(PDFS_BLANK) cat output pages.pdf
%_x3.pdf: %.pdf
gs -dPDFX -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOOUTERSAVE -dUseCIEColor -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sProcessColorModel=DeviceCMYK -sOutputFile=$(<:.pdf=_x3.pdf) -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress ./PDFX_def_wecandothis.ps $<
clean:
rm -f pages/*.pdf
rm -f *.pdf
rm -f _x3.pdf
To get these programs issue sudo apt-get install inkscape make pdftk
ghostscript on Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu. You can get the complete
source files for the book on
GitHub so that you can use
this as a template to make your own book. The SVG images for the pages
are in the pages subdirectory and the cover is
we-can-do-this-cover.svg. The makefile builds a "Small Square" (7 Ã 7
in / 18 Ã 18 cm) book but you should be able to change the source SVG
sizes to make a different sized book.
The font is my own handwriting. The original TTF is here.
Almost certainly exhibits tripedal gait during locomotion.
This is a Hexadecimal die that you can 3d print. Download the STL file or get the source code on GitHub. Hopefully useful when generating private keys and the like.
This is a Hexadecimal die that you can 3d print. Download the STL file or get the source code on GitHub. Hopefully useful when generating private keys and the like.
We have gone nomadic. We are having a great time!
Some things/talks I am attending/doing and showing PdDroidParty and algorithmic music stuff at:
April 6th - Los Angeles. Patching circle at Crashspace. That's probably today if you are reading this in the USA. Sorry for the late notice.
April 11th - New York. Patching circle at NYU. I will be co-presenting with Dan Wilcox on Pure Data on Android and iOS.
Early May - Virginia Tech patching circle and a small performance as part of DISIS. Not much detail yet. Will post when I know more.
May 7th - New York. Dorkbot presentation on PdDroidParty.
This next one is later in the year when we are in the EU:
June 26th/27th - Portugal. Algorave performance at xCoAx.
If you are on the east coast of the USA, or in northern Italy, or southern France, or London, we will be located in those regions in the next months, so let me know if you want to have a beer or for me to deliver a talk at yr thing or what have you.
I have not worn a wristwatch for more than a decade. Feels pretty futuristic.
Here is the source code for my custom Pebble app, which is a forked version of another app that fetches information from my server and displays it to me. Notifications are by a different app.
Of course, the compiler is Richard Stallman's.
Scout came up with this character and I drew them.
