{"id":34731,"date":"2025-09-22T21:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T02:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34731"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:22:58","slug":"coverflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34731","title":{"rendered":"Coverflow!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things I learned today.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Linux<\/p>\n

By “alt-tab,” I mean using Alt-Tab on the keyboard to switch between open applications on your computer. I used to use this in Windows all the time. I’d have Excel and Word open at the same time, I was working with documents in both, and I’d used Alt-Tab to go back and forth without resorting to the mouse.<\/p>\n

I remember a time where I was showing someone how to do something at Diamond with one of the Microsoft Office programs, probably Word, and I was all keyboard, and the person had no idea that one could do anything like that from the keyboard<\/i>. I keep thinking about learning Emacs, but its keyboard shortcuts are famously completely, wildly non-standard.<\/p>\n

But, we learn by doing, the journey of a thousand miles begins with the smallest step, yadda yadda yadda.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I thought the Alt-Tab coverflow with Age of Empires II<\/i> looked pretty cool and wanted to share. The fun thing was watching the lumberjacks chop wood while I held the Alt-Tab keys down.<\/p>\n

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In my Facebook memories today was a post I made three years ago today about something I had picked up at a Harrisburg Senators game a few days earlier — a plaque dedicated to the late PA announcer, Chris Andree.<\/p>\n

\"Box<\/p>\n

It was a good post, and I’m not sure why I didn’t post it here to the blog, so I retroactively added it to the archives<\/a>. (I went through a period where WordPress and the Vivaldi browser were not<\/b> playing nicely together, so it may have been then.) It’s worth checking out.<\/p>\n

This plaque was the first thing I brought home from the office, even before I started packing things up. With the bankruptcy, I was concerned that we would shut down operations immediately — I’d come in one day and find the key card deactivated and the office chained shut — and if there were anything I would take it would be that.<\/p>\n

I can’t really articulate why. I didn’t know Andree, and the tone of his voice is fading from memory as the years pass. I deemed it the most important thing in the office, and that was all that mattered.<\/p>\n

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My cardiologist appointment was postponed again. I’m not terribly worried. I saw the write-up of my echo in June, and my blood pressure tracking has been good.<\/p>\n

Hopefully I’ll have a new job by then and less stress and worry in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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