On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 00:48, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:

> The key word in the above is "simple." Cron is a thousand times more
> program than I need or care to take the time to learn.

then meet cron's little brother at, already installed and running on
your machine.  a demo session:

at 7:23 tomorrow
at> DISPLAY=:0 xmessage "time to go"
at> <EOT>
job 2 at Tue Mar 14 07:23:00 2012

you said "at some human readable time"
linux gave you an at> prompt
you told it what to run (xmessage is the simplest "pop up a little
message" utility that is probably already on your system.  you told it
to show this on your main desktop by specifying a $DISPLAY.)
linux gave you another at> prompt in case you had more commands.  you
hit control-d to exit.
linux told you it had reached the end of your transmission and when it
was going to run your command.
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