[geeks] Alarms, or why I hate computers

[Dan Sikorski]

On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 03:30, jodys at helluin.org wrote:
> So, I haven't needed my alarm for awhile, and it's power socket is now
> being used by the monitor. Well I need to wake up at a certain time
> tommorow. So, stupidly enough, I decided that I should use my workstation
> (an Indy running Irix 6.5.16m) to wake me up instead. I decided to do
> this about 1:00AM, it's now 1:45AM and I need to be up at 9:00AM.

Here's my solution:

motomo at Skyfire:~$ sleep 8h; mpg123 /mp3/Iron\ Butterfly/in\ a\ gadda\
da\ vida.mp3

Then turn up the volume on the speakers, turn off the monitor and go to
sleep. Optionally, add a few more semicolons with 5m sleeps and more
iron butterfly for a Ctrl-c snooze feature.  Sure, it's far less elegant
a program, but i could trust it to do what it needs (assuming the
computer is on a UPS that would wake me up in the event of a power
failure)

But then, i the only things in my bedroom that use electricity are my
light fixture/ceiling fan, and alarm clock.    It's quiet and peaceful
in there.

	-Dan Sikorski