Okay, so this isn’t really a "production system", but I’m sick of accidentally killing the XGL server while typing. I was 3/4 of the way through this blog post and accidentally hit "backspace" while pressing Shift.
However, XGL and Compiz behaved themselves during last night’s demo, except for the usual issues about darkening the screen during gksudo and the logout menu. Compiz has recently developed a nasty habit of randomly shifting windows off the top of the screen! I figured out how to get them back:
1. Move the cursor to the bottom-left to activate the Expose feature. (which I forgot to show my friend)
2. Click the window’s thumbnail
3. It will then move so that part of the window is on the screen.
4. Right-click its entry on the taskbar and select "move"
5. Move the window back where it should be then press Escape to stop moving.
But yeah, my demo went well. I expected XGL to crash my login screen when I logged out; but that didn’t happen, and I demo’ed KDE and XFCE. I decided not to show "two DEs running at once", because the demonstration was taking a little longer than I hoped.
It’s all good.
Today I had a strange Skype conversation. I got a message from some guy in the UK, asking if he could interview me on the radio. He claimed to be an early-morning radio host for a BBC station, and his show from 4 to 5 am was just calling people up on Skype and chatting to them, to see how far afield he could get.
So yeah, I plugged in my microphone and called him, having no evidence that he was really a radio host. I don’t think he was. He coughed a couple of times and he didn’t talk like a commercial radio DJ. I thought it strange that an early-morning host would have a producer as he claimed he did.
But I got an idea for an interesting podcast: Call up people on Skype with the same story, and interview them just like I was. Only, pretend to go to a commercial break, and during the break tell the person that their interview wasn’t interesting enough, and that you were going to make up some harmless lies and that the person should just "play along" with it.
Then when you get back from the imaginary commercial break, introduce some ridiculous subject like:
1. "During the break, Rosemary told me that she also works at nights as an exotic dancer. So, how long have you been in the stripping game?"
2. "Please relate the story of how you were trapped in New Orleans during the hurricane, and how your dog led you to safety"
See how the person handles the ad-libbing, and you can ask follow-up questions that make the story much more difficult!
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