oblique_notify 0.0.1

data/README.markdown

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+Oblique Notify
+==============
+
+Oblique Strategies displayed via libnotify.  This is a modified copy
+of [oblique_strategies](https://github.com/hgillane/oblique_strategies).  Check
+that project out if you prefer Growl notifications.
+
+[More about Oblique Strategies](http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/)
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+You'll need to install `libnotify-dev` via apt and `libnotify` via gems:
+
+    sudo apt-get install libnotify-dev
+    gem install libnotify
+
+You'll clearly need a ruby installation.
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+As of the current release, either run the script from the command line 
+`ruby oblique_notify.rb` or move it to `~/bin`, make it executable,  and run 
+it via synapse or gnome-do.  I hope to have a swanky interface built for it 
+in the future.
+
+Laundry List
+------------
+
+- Package as a gem
+- Verify that all strategies are included
+- Add a nice interface or create applet

data/bin/oblique_notify

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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+#
+# oblique_notify - send oblique strategies to lib-notify
+# https://github.com/hooobs/oblique_notify
+
+require 'libnotify'
+
+strategies = [ 
+  "(Organic) machinery",
+  "A line has two sides",
+  "A very small object -Its centre",
+  "Abandon desire",
+  "Abandon normal instructions",
+  "Accept advice",
+  "Accretion",
+  "Adding on",
+  "Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)",
+  "Always first steps",
+  "Always give yourself credit for having more than personality",
+  "Always the first steps",
+  "Are there sections? Consider transitions",
+  "Ask people to work against their better judgement",
+  "Ask your body",
+  "Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group",
+  "Back up a few steps. What else could you have done?",
+  "Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle",
+  "Be dirty",
+  "Be extravagant",
+  "Be less critical more often",
+  "Breathe more deeply",
+  "Bridges -build -burn",
+  "Call your mother and ask her what to do.",
+  "Cascades",
+  "Change ambiguities to specifics",
+  "Change instrument roles",
+  "Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency",
+  "Change specifics to ambiguities",
+  "Children\'s voices -speaking -singing",
+  "Cluster analysis",
+  "Consider different fading systems",
+  "Consider transitions",
+  "Consult other sources -promising -unpromising",
+  "Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element",
+  "Courage!",
+  "Cut a vital connection",
+  "Decorate, decorate",
+  "Define an area as \'safe\' and use it as an anchor",
+  "Describe the landscape in which this belongs. (9 August)",
+  "Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing",
+  "Discard an axiom",
+  "Disciplined self-indulgence",
+  "Disconnect from desire",
+  "Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them",
+  "Discover your formulas and abandon them",
+  "Display your talent",
+  "Distorting time",
+  "Do nothing for as long as possible",
+  "Do something boring",
+  "Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable",
+  "Do the last thing first",
+  "Do the washing up",
+  "Do the words need changing?",
+  "Do we need holes?",
+  "Don\'t avoid what is easy",
+  "Don\'t be afraid of things because they\'re easy to do",
+  "Don\'t be frightened of cliches",
+  "Don\'t be frightened to display your talents",
+  "Don\'t break the silence",
+  "Don\'t stress one thing more than another",
+  "Emphasize differences",
+  "Emphasize repetitions",
+  "Emphasize the flaws",
+  "Faced with a choice, do both",
+  "Feed the recording back out of the medium",
+  "Feedback recordings into an acoustic situation",
+  "Fill every beat with something",
+  "Find a safe part and use it as an anchor",
+  "First work alone, then work in unusual pairs.",
+  "From nothing to more than nothing",
+  "Get your neck massaged",
+  "Ghost echoes",
+  "Give the game away",
+  "Give way to your worst impulse",
+  "Go outside. Shut the door.",
+  "Go slowly all the way round the outside",
+  "Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place",
+  "How would someone else do it?",
+  "How would you explain this to your parents?",
+  "How would you have done it?",
+  "Humanize something that is free of error.",
+  "Idiot glee (?)",
+  "Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar",
+  "Imagine the music as a series of disconnected events",
+  "In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly",
+  "Infinitesimal gradations",
+  "Instead of changing the thing, change the world around it.",
+  "Intentions -credibility of -nobility of -humility of",
+  "Into the impossible",
+  "Is it finished?",
+  "Is something missing?",
+  "Is the intonation correct?",
+  "Is the style right?",
+  "Is the tuning appropriate?",
+  "Is the tuning intonation correct?",
+  "Is there something missing?",
+  "It is quite possible (after all)",
+  "It is simply a matter or work",
+  "Just carry on",
+  "Left channel, right channel, centre channel",
+  "List the qualities it has. List those you\'d like.",
+  "Listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly",
+  "Listen to the quiet voice",
+  "Look at a very small object, look at its centre",
+  "Look at the order in which you do things",
+  "Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify.",
+  "Lost in useless territory",
+  "Lowest common denominator check -single beat -single note -single riff",
+  "Magnify the most difficult details",
+  "Make a blank valuable by putting it in an excquisite frame",
+  "Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate",
+  "Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list",
+  "Make it more sensual",
+  "Make what\'s perfect more human",
+  "Mechanize something idiosyncratic",
+  "Move towards the unimportant",
+  "Mute and continue",
+  "Not building a wall but making a brick",
+  "Once the search has begun, something will be found",
+  "Only a part, not the whole",
+  "Only one element of each kind",
+  "Overtly resist change",
+  "Pae White\'s non-blank graphic metacard",
+  "Pay attention to distractions",
+  "Picture of a man spotlighted",
+  "Put in earplugs",
+  "Question the heroic approach",
+  "Remember those quiet evenings",
+  "Remove a restriction",
+  "Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics",
+  "Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities",
+  "Remove the middle, extend the edges",
+  "Repetition is a form of change",
+  "Retrace your steps",
+  "Revaluation (a warm feeling)",
+  "Reverse",
+  "Short circuit (example; a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into his lap)",
+  "Shut the door and listen from outside",
+  "Simple subtraction",
+  "Simply a matter of work",
+  "Slow preparation, fast execution",
+  "Spectrum analysis",
+  "State the problem in words as simply as possible",
+  "Steal a solution.",
+  "Take a break",
+  "Take away as much mystery as possible. What is left?",
+  "Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance",
+  "Take away the important parts",
+  "Tape your mouth",
+  "The inconsistency principle",
+  "The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten",
+  "The tape is now the music",
+  "Think - inside the work -outside the work",
+  "Think of the radio",
+  "Tidy up",
+  "Towards the insignificant",
+  "Trust in the you of now",
+  "Try faking it",
+  "Turn it upside down",
+  "Twist the spine",
+  "Use \"unqualified\" people.",
+  "Use an old idea",
+  "Use an unacceptable color",
+  "Use cliches",
+  "Use fewer notes",
+  "Use filters",
+  "Use something nearby as a model",
+  "Use your own ideas",
+  "Voice your suspicions",
+  "Water",
+  "What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving",
+  "What context would look right?",
+  "What do you do? Now, what do you do best?",
+  "What else is this like?",
+  "What is the reality of the situation?",
+  "What is the simplest solution?",
+  "What mistakes did you make last time?",
+  "What most recently impressed you? How is it similar? What can you learn from it? What could you take from it?",
+  "What to increase? What to reduce? What to maintain?",
+  "What were the branch points in the evolution of this entity",
+  "What were you really thinking about just now? Incorporate",
+  "What would make this really successful?",
+  "What would your closest friend do?",
+  "What wouldn\'t you do?",
+  "When is it for? Who is it for?",
+  "Where is the edge?",
+  "Which parts can be grouped?",
+  "Who would make this really successful?",
+  "Work at a different speed",
+  "Would anyone want it?",
+  "You are an engineer",
+  "You can only make one dot at a time",
+  "You don\'t have to be ashamed of using your own ideas",
+]
+
+# send our notification
+Libnotify.show :summary => "Oblique Strategy:", :body => strategies[rand(strategies.size)]

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+authors: 
+- Christopher M. Hobbs (nilmethod, hooobs)
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+
+date: 2011-02-16 00:00:00 -06:00
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+  name: libnotify
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+  type: :development
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+description: oblique_notify sends oblique strategy strings to ubuntu notifications via libnotify
+email: chris@altbit.org
+executables: 
+- oblique_notify
+extensions: []
+
+extra_rdoc_files: []
+
+files: 
+- README.markdown
+- bin/oblique_notify
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+homepage: http://www.5dollarwhitebox.org/
+licenses: []
+
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+summary: send oblique strategies to ubuntu notification
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