Pot Prohibition

“Using a drug to put your brain in an altered state is not recreation. That is self-destructive behavior and escapism.”

Reading books, video games, music, or movies spring to mind as common forms of recreational escapism. Pretty sure when you are experiencing them, your brain state is altered. What about roller coasters and water slides? Outlaw those too?

What about emotions in general? Why not forbid weddings or death? Certainly that would prevent changing brain states and even some self destructive behavior.

I don't use marijuana. When exposed to it as a young man it put me to sleep in minutes every time. Even so, I find this kind of intolerance for how other people want to live their lives offensive. Who the hell is Scott Chipman to try to tell me or anyone else how we should live our lives?

Ubuntu Brightness By Command Line

From:

user@laptop:~$ ls /sys/class/backlight/
acpi_video0
user@laptop:~$ cat /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness 
1
user@laptop:~$ cat /sys/class/backlight/*/max_brightness 
7
user@laptop:~$ sudo su -c "echo 7 > /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness"
user@laptop:~$ cat /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness 
7

Linux Search PDFs

Thanks Stack Overflow.

find /path -name '*.pdf' -exec sh -c 'pdftotext "{}" - | grep --with-filename --label="{}" --color "your pattern"' \;

Tuesday: Blizzard flight woes peak; 8,000 cancellations since Sunday

My expectations were about a World of Warcraft story where Blizzard angered a ton of customers when I opened this link. Turns out, no.