Month: November 2009

Family

A Dish Best Served Cold

Actually, I served this one warm- too warm. The lass complained it was hot and she couldn’t eat it. I told her to stuff it- just not in so many words.

The great-lunch-debacle from the other day concluded today when I realized that there were leftovers in the fridge. For her part, the lass saw what I was doing and was hoping that I was preparing my lunch. When I explained what was going on, she started to protest. At which point I turned to her and made it clear that she would eat the food I was about to give her; that she would not be allowed to leave the table until the food was finished; and that there would be no negotiating whatsoever about the food. By the way her demeanor changed, she got the message and she ate, grudgingly.

I think that evens the score, for now.

UPDATE- Thinking it over, “debacle” really isn’t the right word. Perhaps “caper” or something…

Computers

Awesome Popup Run Prompt

With a little help from the obvious library for awesome, I’ve replaced the stock run prompt in awesome with a popup run prompt. The popup is nice for no other reason than it’s easier to see the command being entered since it doesn’t conflict with task list and the tag list.

The popup is actually pretty straight forward to work. Simply create a wibox with a prompt widget in it and initialize the visibility to false. Then, on whatever keystroke, switch the visibility to true and use a callback function to hide it on completion.

I’ve also leveraged the prompt so that I can launch uzbl at a certain url or with a search. Also, while uzbl is running I can use the popup to change the url.

The slickest thing about the prompt; however, is that you can specify a history file for each prompt use. Now I have a history that I can scroll through when I launch the prompt. The same technique works for search strings as well. Awesome.

Admin

Shopkeeping

I’ve added an “armoire” category under the woodworking category. My guess is there are plenty more posts and pic’s to come on this project, so that will be a nice way to pull all the posts up in one shot.

Armoire Woodworking

Visible Progress

All right, here’s a shot of what’s been accomplished so far. Nothing is glued up here, everything is just dry fit. I still have to mill dado’s for the rear panel and I also have to put a taper on the adjacent inner sides of each of the posts. That will all be easier to do if it isn’t glued up. I’ll also put a fairly wide chamfer on the front corners of the posts. Again, easier to do if everything isn’t assembled. Mainly it’s assembled to make sure the panels don’t warp.

Family

Outfoxed

Post author By Gerry
Post date November 2, 2009
1 Comment on Outfoxed

The lass decided that she didn’t like dinner last night, so she refused to eat it.

The way she operates; however, is not nearly in so straight forward a manner. Instead, she sits there and dithers. Then she wants some milk. She eats some applesauce. She plays with the dogs and “rewards” them for doing tricks like “sit.” Then she says that she isn’t hungry. Five seconds later, she wants more applesauce. “But you weren’t hungry a second ago” we reply. “I wasn’t hungry for that.” she replies pointing at the food on her plate.

Misc

Progress

Post author By Gerry
Post date November 1, 2009
1 Comment on Progress

I don’t have time at the moment, but I’ve finally made some visible progress on the armoire. In short, I’ve got the frame and the side panels put together. What I’ll need to do for the drawers is also becoming more clear. I’ll be more specific tomorrow when I have time. I’ll also get a pic up.

Daylight savings was a nice treat for today. An extra hour, however manufactured, is always nice.

More tomorrow.