Playing with geektool (first the lyrics)
I always work with music, and I sometimes like to sing, so I want to see the lyrics of the current song, without opening itunes, and then the properties, so I use the Geektool project (a little old, but it works wih 64bits kernel), this app, will enable you to run commands and put the output on the wallpaper, you can see a lot cool screenshots on the developer site.
I will stick on the basics, I only want my lyrics (and some ps ax info).
So this scripts will help you to do this, there are 3, “itunes_artist_lyrics.sh” will get you both artist name/title and lyrics, and “itunes_artist.sh” will get you only the artist name/title, and itunes_lyrics.sh will get you the lyrics (if you want to run it on different output windows). By the way, this script don’t open itunes if it’s not running .
You can download it here -> (or download the git repository)
http://github.com/warstories/Geektool-Scripts
If you don’t want to clone the git repository, I added you a zip on github:
Download release 1.0 from git
This is a screenshot on how I show the lyrics, may be simple, but It works :
(you can se the lyrics on the left, some process information on the center, and the day on the right just above the watermark)
Next time I will try to load the artist cover and get it on the desktop with geektool, but for now, lets just listen to Arctic Monkeys, 505 (I can’t stop listening this song).
09.21.09Psychedelic process
I really like this process, To bad is not 64 bit xD
lsd process in snow leopard
Complaints about blocked pages
I was forced to block access to a few pages from my work, so I started to be hated, my good friend from “Full of caffeine” help me writing a little script to send me your comments.. source below:
complains_about_blocked_internet.sh
echo $1 > /dev/null
echo "Polo says: Thanks for your feedback!"
(this is supossed to be a joke, only runs on *nix compatible OS)
who wants to a pretty desk?
A friend of mine send me this collection of photos of workplaces…
Makes me feel awful about my own, but nevertless is inspiring
Uncanny valley
I was always amazed how humans react to the fact to robots, CGI, and animations. There’s a theory that calls that we get repulsion to the fact that they look more and more like humans.
I was always amazed of robots, thats why I think I don’t care about this, but they offer a very good explanation, so I guess I have some of this… who knows
A very interesting reading, while we try to get a break of our jobs
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