[[Two men talking]]
Man 2: Last night I was watching videos with this girl and my monitors kept turning off - even though I had disabled power save.
Man 1: Odd.
Man 2: However! I wrote a command to jiggle the mouse pointer every couple minutes to keep it from going idle.
Man 1: Not the first hack I'd try, but see? Linux has problems, but it gives you the tools to deal with them - and save your date!
Man 2: Actually, I was half an hour into the pointer scripting documentation when she got dressed and left.
{{title text: When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.}}
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