Rich Seymour’s stochastic statements.

X11/KDE one-liner to set window opacity from the command line

Hot on the heels of my post about doing laundry, comes the fact that Cheryl Mendelson has written (or self excerpted) the laundry section of Home Comforts into its own book, Laundry (reviewed here).

In a move that will clearly bring jeers from certain members of the viewing audience, I am going to detail a fast way to clean the hell out of clothing. This works best for shirts.

Get some dirty shirts, some Woolite (or something tougher but you’d probably want rubber gloves then), and some bleach [...]

Much talk of productivity on the silver wavelengths of the internet. It so often seems like people chatting at a bar or coffeeshop about the things they would be doing. That is the things they would be doing if they weren’t at the bar or coffeeshop. But sometimes, you are a bartender or a barista and you are really about to just go wild producing some fantastic beveridges.

Given that the President of the United States of America was playing an approximation of a G-chord one fret too high on his presidential cutaway acoustic while New Orleans flooded, its easy to see how procrastination gets the better of us. Well maybe not. Luckilly most procrastination doesn’t contribute to the death of [...]

So, many are proclaiming this the absolute end of our president Bush’s masquerade as someone who knows what’s happening. I don’t really want to go into it in public. Donate to the Red Cross.
Hrm. Spent most of today hacking at some numerical recipes, which I got to work. Then I began [...]

Back in the day I wrote a blogging application. Well… more like a translated a short cgi script from perl to ruby.

For the first time in 37 years, federal budget cuts have all but stopped major work on the New Orleans area’s east bank hurricane levees… (full 2004 article that people seem to be quoting re: budget vs. new orleans)