Handy Tools for the GNU/Linux Shell

Handy Tools for the GNU/Linux Shell

Once you’ve picked up the very basics of the command line in whatever variant of UNIX, GNU/Linux, etc you have handy, you’ve just scratched the surface of “expert mode” on your way to “wizard mode”. Command line tools are something...

I Made A Thing!

Hey kids! With help from HackerBoxes and Adafruit, I have made a video xmas tree ornament, and it’s way...

Underneath an Acnalbasac Noom

Hey kids, Slapp Happy was a German/English avant-pop group, formed in Germany in 1972. Let’s sample some of their wisdom: He used to wear fedorasNow he sports a fezThere’s cabalistic innuendoesIn everything he saysSucking at a...

Facebook Poetry

Poetry I found this post on Facebook. I added some line breaks, and now it’s poetry. Take it for a taste: I can smell the dog poop and rotting pearswafting in from the yard that I couldn’t clean upwhile the world was on fireRGB has died.
El Sonido Agresivo De Los Yaki

El Sonido Agresivo De Los Yaki

Hey Teen Gang! It’s 1966, it’s Mexico and it’s damn fine. You can read a wee bit more about these fine lads here on Discogs. I was fortunate to pick this LP up at a garage sale here in Portland. These gents took British Invasion pop hits of the...

Orange Astronauts

Back before time was invented, I donated some money to KPSU, the student radio station at Portland State University. In return I got a box of CD’s, I guess of stuff they had lying around. This included two CD’s by a group or a guy at least calling himself...