I don’t know when I discovered the WMX window manager. Probably about the time I discovered CTWM, when I was exploring the weird, old avenues that Linux had once traveled down. I was struck immediately by how different it looked. Instead of the title at the top of the window, it runs down the side!Continue reading “Desktop Minimalism at Its Finest”
Elbow’s 2025 North American Tour
Elbow is playing Washington, DC tomorrow night. I bought my ticket the day they went on sale. The last time I saw Elbow was… 2017? After the release of Little Fictions? That feels right. Yes, November 4th. It rained in Washington that evening, and I stood outside in the rain outside the 9:30 Club. LittleContinue reading “Elbow’s 2025 North American Tour”
Fifty Years of the Cube
I was at Ollie’s Bargain Outlet earlier this week, where they were setting up the Christmas toys section. I poked my head into the section, not wanting to get in the way, and they had Spin Master’s 50th-anniversary edition of the Rubik’s Cube for five dollars. The anniversary cube featured the original Rubik’s Cube logoContinue reading “Fifty Years of the Cube”
The Wistful Adventure
A fun little piece of sponsored content dropped into my Facebook feed earlier this week — Dark Horse Comics is making figures based on the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit of the 1970s. The Hobbit I grew up with. The Hobbit whose songs I know — “The Greatest Adventure,” “That’s What Bilbo Baggins Hates.” Mock-ups of DarkContinue reading “The Wistful Adventure”
Coverflow!
Things I learned today. The Coverflow alt-tab behavior in Linux Mint even works when you’re playing a Windows game through WINE. I realize that is absolutely cryptic as mud, but I thought it was cool. By “alt-tab,” I mean using Alt-Tab on the keyboard to switch between open applications on your computer. I used toContinue reading “Coverflow!”
Installing LMDE7
The Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 beta, based on Debian 13 Trixie, was released last week. I had been planning to do a clean install, replacing my LMDE6 install and reinstalling the apps I needed, for a lot of reasons — putting the install on my system’s NVMe, LMDE6 was originally installed on an IntelContinue reading “Installing LMDE7”
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
This came up in my Facebook memories today from 2017, a Google Doodle about Fred Rogers taking the Trolley for a ride through the Land of Make Believe. It’s cute and worth sharing. Daniel Tiger made an appearance at a Harrisburg Senators game in 2019, and I made a point of getting in line toContinue reading “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
The Man on the Moon
The amount of Oasis content in my Facebook feed is decreasing from its peak at the beginning of the month, probably inevitably, but two pieces of unlicensed merchandise crossed the feed that I thought were worth sharing. An Oasis baseball jersey! I don’t need it and wouldn’t buy it — I wore the Washington NationalsContinue reading “The Man on the Moon”
The Drives of Theseus
I have arrived in the world. I have “installed” a hard drive in my tower with a ziptie. 🙂 Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is coming out in the near future — the latest Mint blog post said the beta would be out this month, and it was approved for release yesterday — and IContinue reading “The Drives of Theseus”
Tales of Diamond: The Great Pwnage of 2012
Last Wednesday, my eighteen year career at Diamond Comic Distributors drew to a close, all part of the ongoing clusterfuckery that is the Diamond bankruptcy. But my Diamond career almost didn’t reach five years. The tale was semi-legendary within Diamond Towers. It would be spoken of in hushed whispers, that someone did this, and whoContinue reading “Tales of Diamond: The Great Pwnage of 2012”