Reminds you to do your work

wp.sh

#!/bin/zsh

# Fri Nov 23 03:17:47 CET 2012
# https://gist.github.com/4133872
# Copyright 2012 (C) René Wilhelm <rene.wilhelm@gmail.com>
# Use at your own risk.

# A simple timer to remind you to do your work and do something else in given
# intervals. Somewhere else these kind of reminders are known as pomodoro
# anti-procrastination (whatever) timers. In addition to this you could put
# festivals saytime into your crontab. See below.

# Put the following lines into your ~/.festivalrc. Be sure to have festival and
# the appropiate voice installed.
#
# (set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts)
# (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
# (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")
# (set! default_after_synth_hooks
#   (list (lambda (utt) (utt.wave.rescale utt 1.6 t))))

# The next makes a great crontab companion:
# */15 1-8 * * * /usr/bin/saytime

# To update the gist:
# jist -u 4133872 -f wp.sh =wp

# Too many comments.

if [[ ! $#@ == 2 ]]; then
	echo "Usage: $0 <work minutes> <play minutes>"
	return
fi

while true; do
	echo work $1 minutes | festival --tts
	sleep $(($1*60))
	echo play $2 minutes | festival --tts
	sleep $(($2*60))
done