On the Desktop

<p>I have now gotten back to the OS X world and am setting up my computer for productive use in my studio. One of my favorite system applications is <a href="http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/">GeekTool</a>, a very nifty little program which lets you display information from various sources directly on your desktop. As you see below, I have made my clock and calendar information run on the desktop, so all I need to do is glance at it. I love doing this. I’ve also written a little python script that calculates the days since or until the Solstices, Equinoxes and the Cross-Quarter celebrations which happened in between them. This is a fun little script that I <a href="https://github.com/n8k99/adf-astrocalc">host on github</a>. It was super nice to write this, although to run it on your machine, I must note that it depends on another package called <a href="http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/">pyephem</a>. You can see the results of this program in the light blue text. And where did I get that wallpaper from, geez, I really can not remember, possibly <a href="http://www.wallconvert.com/search/world+map/">here</a>.</p> <p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="screengrab 0.png" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqDIDtl3_CRgF8nLL1wvQbL0-v57WdkX6miyIp8-RcsgC2Mp1AY-cYBOuURWffz9DIwkTYZ8Y2sgJML6NGR0FkpFfgcSRr_Z4jZFoC4_3K-IARMZ0V4P02oHg4kpT8R_OH9M108JogZ7Q/?imgmax=800" alt="Screengrab 0" width="600" height="337" border="0" /></p>