John Baber-Lucero

Computers 2007-05-22 The city's central computer told you?!

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Beautiful Things 2008-01-07 The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Cairo Composite Manager 2011-10-11 This is what I had to do to get Cairo Composite Manager working to get expose-like behavior for normal Gnome.

Person - Action - Object 2014-03-23 My person-action-object (PAO) system using major system words exclusively.

Today I Learned "Meta" meant "after" in Greek, not "about" since the Metaphysics section came literally after the Physics section in the organization of Aristotle's treatises. (2020-09-07) Penguin and Random House merged in 2013 . (2020-06-12) " Selfie s"…

Wishlist And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Now These are things I'm doing now: Married to Laarni Raising two boys Living in Columbia, Maryland, USA .

Laarni Marital status: Married (to John ) Eye color: Brown Hair color: Black

Capitalism is a caged tiger 2026-09-07 Capitalism is a caged tiger that poops gold.

Hex ⟷ Sing-song 2026-09-04 Hex to Sing-song (and back) converter link

Man 2025-03-25 That's just like, your opinion, man.

Monosyllables 2025-03-25 Short words are best and old words, when short, are the best of all.

Save and compare elements 2024-09-16 scripts The javascript below makes it so double clicking an element on a webpage gives the option to save its contents or compare to what was previously saved. function get_display() { return document.querySelector("…

Spicy Cabbage Soup 2024-06-10 recipes Adapted from this recipe to Reduce salt Add heat Reduce carbohydrates Simplify cooking If I prepare the vegetables for storage long before cooking, I keep the onions separate and still chop the garlic fresh at cooking…

Brother printers 2023-08-25 2023-08-25 I buy genuine Brother toner out of gratitude . short

Yara Lightfoot 2023-06-05 60% of quotes I like have dubious attribution.

Gerrymandering 2022-11-13 Gerrymandering is a nasty thing only a politician would like.

Python packaging 2022-10-22 This keeps happening.

Correlation vs. causation 2021-10-21 Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb Parents observed nerds' tastes and made their kids listen to Mozart and play chess.

Philosophical Positions 2020-08-19 Black's spheres Previous position: The spheres are distinguished by a property called "identity".

Robot Pancakes 2020-04-27 2024-05-11 My son has gotten accustomed to pre-made frozen pancakes.

Building edbrowse on raspbian 2018-09-23 cmake: sudo apt-get install cmake xsltproc: sudo apt-get install xsltproc tidy-html5: git clone git://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5 cd tidy-html5/build/cmake cmake ../.. make sudo make install curl: sudo apt-get inst…

Doomsday practice page 2017-02-12 This must be Thursday.

Hedcut 2015-07-21 Thanks to this gimp script you can now make a hedcut of yourself to pretend you’ve appeared in the Wall Street Journal.

Things to read online 2015-07-13 A pixel artist renounces pixel art SVG by hand list links

2048 2015-05-05 The difference between 2048 and gambling is that now that I've won 2048 once, I never have to play again. link short

Some good things about computers 2015-05-05 Computers are useless.

RAS Syndrome 2015-05-05 Not that I have anything much against redundancy.

Tutorials 2015-05-05 How to make movie posters of different types short list links

Good things microsoft has invented 2015-05-05 2023-06-22 Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft.

How to fold a US letter to fit in a small sized business envelope 2014-05-10 I never remember this and it's the kind of thing older people make fun of young ones for not knowing.

Joni Mitchell 2014-05-10 Joni Mitchell is great, but I try to think of her lyrics as nonsense (a la Tori Amos 1 ) because they're always "introspective" 2 .

XKCD Plotting with Matplotlib 2014-04-22 The latest Matplotlib now lets you make plots that look hand drawn .

Games I'll play if I ever get the time, money, and equipment 2014-03-25 When I was a kid we had role models.

Trivia 2014-03-25 Alex Trebek: He took control of the Ford Motor Company after Henry Ford's death.

How to write in pig-elvish 2014-03-22 Eplacéra nyäen etterló "K" ithwó äen etterlí "C" Ovémí héten irstfë etterlä fóen achéï ordwó óten héten ndéen Fíen héten ordwá síen esslú hantë 4 etterslï onglá, ddäen héten ndingéa -en Fíen héten ordwí síen ongerlá u…

Links 2014-03-20 Mostly Moleman Pentadactyl SDF Oh, that scene in Bladerunner actually makes sense.

Math Links 2014-03-20 Oh, that scene in Bladerunner actually makes sense.

How to only highlight comments in vim 2011-12-16 I prefer * to parse code and literature with my mind and eyes, not weird highlighting.

The Metric System 2011-11-11 Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Meter A centimeter?

xbindkeys 2011-10-11 This is what I had to do to compile xbindkeys-1.8.5 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwahl).

Responsibility 2011-02-08 Death, then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Diginumeracy 2010-06-23 Hey, as long as he's got eight fingers and eight toes, he's fine by me.

Mario Adventure 2010-03-31 Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.

L.A. 2009-08-19 This post used to have a long rant about how much I hated L.A. because idiots kept slamming their cars into me.

脏话 2008-09-10 Yes, Cuban 'b'.

Community College Addresses in the Los Angeles area 2008-01-08 It took me a while to find all of these addresses; I hope this does somebody some good.

Applications I need to remember exist 2008-01-06 Software and cathedrals are much the same -- first we build them, then we pray.

Decadence 2006-11-28 This morning I ate a piece of Dove Promises candy that I'd received as a gift.