$Id: README,v 1.1 2003/12/01 15:19:21 shaper Exp $

2003/12/01 - Walter Korman (shaper@waywardgeeks.org)

Overview
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On my 30th birthday my friend Yang Lim e-mailed me a "life.jpg" file that
displayed my life as a progress bar. I was struck by the sheer quantity of
life that had elapsed, and was motivated to write this so that I could
keep a closer eye on things.

It seems a useful tool for one of a few possible reasons:

- motivational purposes.
- de-motivational purposes.
- dock app space occupance.

Any one of which is surely, taken alone, reason enough for its existence.

Installation
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See the INSTALL file for installation instructions.

Just For Fun
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For the non-X-enabled folks among us, or for those who care to tie their
percent-life-elapsed value into other programs easily, there is a simple
Perl script in bin/life.pl that just outputs the percent life elapsed to
stdout.
