Veo la cola desde lejos ¿Ya estoy acá? Reviso el lugar. Sí, es acá. ¿Dónde está Matías? Me llueve fino en el mediodía del domingo y estoy enfrentándome a gente vestida de animé. No puedo hacer esto solo.
Me paro en la vereda de enfrente y veo la cola. Más gente de la que pensaba. En toda la cola no se a nadie exhalando humo: nadie fuma. ¿Dónde está Matías? Llega tarde y a mi me llueve lo suficientemente poco como para que no valga la pena abrir el paraguas. Un chico en bici sale por alguna puerta escondida, cigarrillo en boca. Mira la cola mientras se aleja en la dirección a la que todos dan la espalda.
Aspiro un poco de rapé para parecer más malo de lo que soy, no sea de que alguien me quiera cortar con una katana o similar.
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lunes, 16 de septiembre de 2013
jueves, 19 de abril de 2012
Workaround for multimedia keys not working with Banshee on Xubuntu
Why am I writing in English? Well, because I think most of the people googling this would at least understand it, and I haven't seen this information posted anywhere, so writing in English will make it reach a wider audience.
Anyway, I've recently installed Xubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 and the media keys of my keyboard were not working with Banshee. As far as I can tell, this is not a bug on Xubuntu (the keys do work with Parole and other programs) but with Banshee, probably with the Banshee Media Keys plugin.
After suffering for something like 3 hours and not being able to find a solution, I thought of this pretty and easy workaround. The fist important thing is that Banshee allows us to control it with the terminal, you'll be able to see how with the command:
This gives back all available commands to control Banshee from the terminal, and an explanation of what each of them do.
My keyboard only has four multimedia keys (I reckon most of them do), and they are Play/Pause, Stop, Previous and Next, so I'm interested in only these commands:

Note that I've added some shortcuts to add ratings to my songs as well (I'm a rating freak, I have 4.000+ songs and everyone is rated), but that is completely optional and up to you! Of course you can create shortcuts for some other things as well, just remember to check out Banshee's help (the first command I wrote here)
Hope it was useful!
Anyway, I've recently installed Xubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 and the media keys of my keyboard were not working with Banshee. As far as I can tell, this is not a bug on Xubuntu (the keys do work with Parole and other programs) but with Banshee, probably with the Banshee Media Keys plugin.
After suffering for something like 3 hours and not being able to find a solution, I thought of this pretty and easy workaround. The fist important thing is that Banshee allows us to control it with the terminal, you'll be able to see how with the command:
banshee --help-playback
This gives back all available commands to control Banshee from the terminal, and an explanation of what each of them do.
My keyboard only has four multimedia keys (I reckon most of them do), and they are Play/Pause, Stop, Previous and Next, so I'm interested in only these commands:
--next
--restart-or-previous
--toggle-playing
--stop
Now that we know this, we can actually set any shortcut to them. Of course I chose my shortcuts to be my multimedia keys, but you can set them to anything you want.
To do this, we just go to Xubuntu's keyboard configuration and to the "Shortcuts" tab and you need to manually set every shortcut as you want. Look at my shortcut configuration screen (the highlighted ones are Banshee's)
Note that I've added some shortcuts to add ratings to my songs as well (I'm a rating freak, I have 4.000+ songs and everyone is rated), but that is completely optional and up to you! Of course you can create shortcuts for some other things as well, just remember to check out Banshee's help (the first command I wrote here)
Hope it was useful!
domingo, 4 de diciembre de 2011
viernes, 2 de diciembre de 2011
miércoles, 30 de noviembre de 2011
Sé feliz.
Mi despedida (que a muchos le resulta rara) suele ser "Sé feliz". Sólo porque tenía ganas de ver que tan bien voy en mis idiomas, y porque supongo que a alguno le resultará curioso, porque de los seis idiomas hay tres para los que no van a encontrar un traductor:
- ¡Sé feliz! (español)
- Be happy! (ingles)
- Être heureux/e (francés)
- Estu feliĉa! (esperanto)
- lon pona! (toki pona)
- Ver glaður / glað! (feroés)
martes, 11 de enero de 2011
Mi teoría
Ir a la ópera es como ir con un travesti. Si querés música, anda escuchá música. Si queres teatro, anda ve una obra. Pero no la mitá y mitá.
Conclusión a la que llegué luego de una larga discusión con @madre
jueves, 23 de diciembre de 2010
martes, 7 de diciembre de 2010
Wikileaks y Julian Assange
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