Thanks to all of you who made it to the gig on Friday, it seems most of you thought it was “less s##t” than you’d expected. We aim to please.

For those of you who couldn’t make it, you lazy bastards! no hard feelings – hopefully there’ll be another time.

We took a few shots with my camera, but most of them aren’t much good (it was a bit dark) although there’s a few decent ones.

Thankfully Hugh was there to save the day, and spent most of the gig putting me off by poking his freakin’ huge lens in my face! But I guess that’s the price you pay for being a rock star.

It turns out it was worth it though, he took some awesome shots, which he’s put up here. I’ve collected a few here for the impatient.

As Robert Plant would say, see you next tiiiiiiiMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Photos which are in focus are © Hugh Blemings

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Martin mentions one way to avoid getting distracted while waiting for jobs to finish. Working in an office I can’t hear sounds unless I happen to have my headphones on, and even then it might get drowned out by the music.

Instead I have this little script …

#!/bin/bash

eval $@
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
    kdialog --msgbox "Command '$@' in $PWD completed." 2> /dev/null
else
    kdialog --error "Command '$@' in $PWD failed!" 2> /dev/null
fi

Which you use like so …

concordia ~/src/work/kexec$ mn make

And when it’s finished it pops up a dialog on your current virtual desktop, which is pretty hard to ignore. Back to work!

Via bje, via the less than impressed Frank Ch. Eigler, some nice sentiments from the city of Toronto:

“If only”

.. sit around and wait ’til some local entrepreneur does the job for you:

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… to a little house on the prarie, where we’ll sing you some country rock ballads and comb your hair.

Be there or be spared!