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Tue Nov 15 07:31:18 EST 2016 Slept from around ten to six. Woke briefly around four. High of fifty-eight and partly sunny today. Goals: Work: - Finish adding devices to collectd Done. > A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window. The window manager composites the window buffers into an image representing the screen and writes the result into the display memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compositing_window_manager#Linux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compton % compton -b --backend glx --vsync opengl-swc --paint-on-overlay --glx-no-stencil --glx-no-rebind-pixmap That seems to solve tearing with Intel graphics. Twenty minute walk at lunch. Nice out. Mostly blue sky. Not cold. Saw a blue jay and a seagull. Home: - SEMIBUG? No, skipped it. - Brainstorm rules for D&D chases Difference between movement speeds of each side? Speed corresponds to dice size for opposed rolls (e.g. 30' = d4, 60' = d6, 90' = d8)? - Encounter distance (divided by ten or whatever, if we want a single digit) is the base distance number (or zero if already in melee) - +1 if side with initiative runs away Found by chance: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LukaRejec/posts/MCN3ZqDLTF5 - Test. On fail, the slowest member gets caught. Do the other stop or leave him? - Some sort of linear track mechanic (i.e. number line, or something like Traveller combat)? - Drop backpack for a re-roll (pack contents lost to pursuers). http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/11/irrational-rationality-jonathan-swift http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/why-its-fair-and-necessary-call-trumps-chief-strategist-stephen-bannon-white-nationalist Sunset with pink and purple clouds around a big orange sun. Breakfast: carrots, yogurt with berries, coffee with half-and-half Lunch: chicken tacos Dinner: macaroni

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