Klaatu reviews the card game “Gloom”, including its strengths, weaknesses, and potential for player mods.

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12692/gloom

New hosts

Welcome to our new host:

norrist.

Last Month's Shows

Id

Day

Date

Title

Host

2109

Thu

2016-09-01

Hacking my inner ear

Dave Morriss

2110

Fri

2016-09-02

Overhauling a Bicycle Hub

Jon Kulp

2111

Mon

2016-09-05

HPR Community News for August 2016

HPR Volunteers

2112

Tue

2016-09-06

My old home server

MrX

2113

Wed

2016-09-07

sqlite and bash

norrist

2114

Thu

2016-09-08

Gnu Awk - Part 1

b-yeezi

2115

Fri

2016-09-09

Apt Spelunking 3: nodm, cmus, and parecord

Windigo

2116

Mon

2016-09-12

Duffer Gardening

Dave Morriss

2117

Tue

2016-09-13

What's in my bag for Podcrawl?

thelovebug

Set up your git remotes (‘origin’ and ‘foo’)

Create a new remote (‘all’) entry to encompass the existing targets

Adjust ssh config as needed

git push all HEAD

Gnu Awk - Part 2

This is the second episode in a series where b-yeezi and I will be looking at the AWK language (more particularly its GNU variant gawk). It is a comprehensive interpreted scripting language designed to be used for manipulating text.

I have written out a moderately long set of notes for this episode and these are available here http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2129/full_shownotes.html.

Links

GNU Awk User’s Guide: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/index.html

Awk - A Tutorial and Introduction: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html

Wikipedia article on AWK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK

Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger (1988). The AWK Programming Language. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 9780201079814

Previous show on HPR:

“Gnu Awk - Part 1”: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=2114

Resources:

Example data file 1 - whitespace delimited “file1.txt”: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2129/file1.txt

Example data file 1 - comma delimited “file1.csv”: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2129/file1.csv

Example Awk file 1 “example1.awk”: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2129/example1.awk

Example Awk file 2 “example2.awk”: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr2129/example2.awk

This episode describes various methods of glass bottle cutting and my experience

Klaatu ponders analogue programming and tabletop gaming.

It took a while, but I finally figured out how to install custom recovery and flash a new OS on my $1 tablet.

I use a Plantronics USB headset, my Chromebook, Linux, and Audacity to record on the go.

In this episode I repair one of the straps/handles of a cloth shopping bag. I talk about using a sewing machine, about those dreadful bobbins, and about sewing a Halloween costume one time. I actually cut out about four or five minutes of near silence from when I was trying to get the thread to go through the needle. That's getting much harder to do as I get older. See the Pictures too.

The coffee gator is a pretty nice device, as is the swan-necked kettle they have. I recommend both.