90’s era Staedtler Mars-780 lead holder

90’s era Staedtler Mars-780 lead holder

Staedtler Mars-780

Found this old friend while sorting through some old art supplies in my home office last night. Probably purchased it between late ’96 and ’98 for a drafting course. Staedtler makes their carbon lead for this ranging from 4H to 4B and I forgot how much I loved sketching with this thing. At closer inspection … Continue reading “90’s era Staedtler Mars-780 lead holder”

Creating a simple Pomodoro timer for i3

A terminal based Pomodoro coountdown doesn’t appear to exist but can be created simply in i3’s config file. It requires the following packages to enable “notify-send” which is a simple gtk popup notification. libnotify-bin libnotify4 # Pomodoro start and end notifications bindsym $mod+Control+p exec notify-send –icon=gtk-info Pomodoro “Focus for 25 minutes” && sleep 2500 && … Continue reading “Creating a simple Pomodoro timer for i3”

Debian Stretch Desktop Update

My Debian Desktop

I’m giving my Debian Stretch drive a little attention and running updates. It’s home is a 1TB 7400 RPM hard drive and serves as home to my personal and server backups as well as this machine’s Steam library. Currently I’m running Peppermint 8 on my main SSD drive and Ubuntu 16.04.3 running i3 on my … Continue reading “Debian Stretch Desktop Update”