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Sat Jan 24 08:23:03 EST 2015 Woke up at 7:30. Slept OK. I'm getting tired of winter. The weather hasn't been bad (20's, some snow), but I'd enjoy a few warmer days. I use a program called redshift to automatically adjust the color temperature/brightness of my monitor based on time of day. Actually, based on longitude and latitude, so I presume it's pulling some kind of sunrise and sunset data. Anyhow, this morning it was just too damn bright, so I set my latitude to be significantly north, somewhere near Nagagamisis Provincial Park. What would be ideal is to set the maximum brightness based on the current weather (i.e. dimmer on overcast days, brighter on sunny days). I've also just noticed that while I was messing with my key map last night, I seem to have cleared my right control key. Not sure I want to fix it right away, not after last night's xmodmap adventures. I made plans with Ed for D&D tomorrow. Goals: - Clean kitchen and bathroom Wiped down kitchen and bathroom counters, dusted, vacuumed, cleaned toilet, mopped floors, and watered plants. - Do laundry Done. - Work on systemd notes Not today. - Register a freenode nick Done. - Write a script that can be run as a cron job to set maximum redshift brightness based on weather. Started. See below. - Write blog post about (lack of) modernism/abstraction in D&D art Wrote and didn't post a thing about D&D art and Modernism vs pop that didn't go anywhere. I did make this: http://paulgorman.org/roleplaying/dnd/misc/goldenbooklotfp.jpg Longer-term goals: - Clean out my cabinets, closets, and basement storage before spring. Questions: - What are the possible NOAA sky condition values (`weather -q --headers='Sky conditions' KVLL`)? http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/forms/resources/SFCTraining.pdf - Chapter 5 covers sky conditions; table 5-1 (p. 66) probably cover the values we're interested in. We'll say that: 1.0 max brightness = 'sky clear'/SKC 0.9 max brightness = 'few'/FEW 0.8 max brightness = 'scattered'/SCT 0.75 max brightness = 'broken'/BKN 0.7 max brightness = 'vertical visibility'/VV or 'overcast'/OVC - Why are the Nimbus fonts so damn ugly, and why the hell is Firefox using them as substitutes? I run into this every time I reinstall a workstation. Why isn't this fixed yet? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/41411 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/203824 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/42559 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=299697 For the love of God, why?!: --- 556 --- bava ~ $ fc-match Helvetica n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular" --- 557 --- bava ~ $ fc-match Times n021003l.pfb: "Nimbus Roman No9 L" "Regular" Substitution mapping in: /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf ? This bug has been floating around for a decade. It looks hard to solve because no one can agree who to blame, or what the fix should look like. Despite all the bits spilled on this issue, the easiest fix for users still seems to be rewriting 30-metric-aliases.conf, despite the potential issue with font metrics in print documents: cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/ sudo cp 30-metric-aliases.conf dist-30-metric-aliases sudo sed -i 's/Nimbus Sans L/DejaVu Sans/g' 30-metric-aliases.conf sudo sed -i 's/Nimbus Roman No9 L/DejaVu Serif/g' 30-metric-aliases.conf sudo sed -i 's/Nimbus Mono L/DejaVu Sans Mono/g' 30-metric-aliases.conf fc-cache

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