The Random Thoughts of GeniusMusing

Kind of... This is post 23 of 52 on week 28. In theory this should be post 28 but it is not. This is not to say I have been lazy, I actually have seven posts in different stages of research that are not yet ready and am in the process of changing four of our five computers from Fedora to OpenSuse. I have one done (this desktop), well mostly done except for things I am trying out like the K* things for email/calendar/etc [...] Read more

Well... maybe more of a mouse. Actually a trackball. A Logitech MX Ergo to be specific. Details can be found here. Logitech MX ERGO Advanced Wireless Trackball with Tilt Plate And what do you use to catch a rat mouse? Well... that depends on if you are running Xorg or Wayland and if you switch between both. For Xorg I am using xinput to configure my mouse and on Wayland I am using ratbagd. As I sometimes bounce between [...] Read more

I think I finally have a flavor of Linux and much moar This post is to wrap up several threads left hanging in other posts and my latest adventures in Linux-landia. TLDR: I am now in the lounge1 with the other lizards and have almost everything I need to kick Windows to the curb. In post 13, I was complaining about not being able to program my mouse buttons, solved mostly now. In post 14 I had complained about the [...] Read more

So a while back I had an idea. Yea, I know, dangerous. Music and songs typically tell a story in lyrics. What if I took the songs and reversed it to make a story out of a song? While the story could be just a longer version of the lyrics, this is not my goal. Music can evoke many different emotions and even instrumental works can lay the groundwork for a story. While I am working on a few other things I thought I would [...] Read more

Almost five years ago my father passed, I wrote this as a way to deal with his loss. It seems like a good time to post this. My dad was a teacher, not just in history and economics but in my life as well. He taught me the normal things like how to throw, catch and hit a baseball and how to ride a bike. He also let me learn about things like force, velocity and gravity at the same time, like what happens when you suddenly [...] Read more