If Yer gettin’ Cows

To promote their upcoming “Boobies” record, Karl’s Shyhhy Records have released a ‘net only vidyo of “If Yer gettin’ Cows”. You heard it here first, folks.

Bumfly

Take a look at bumfly for cheap flights.

Basically, you enter in your trip details (which cities, approximate flight dates and other options) and the site will start to monitor cheap-flights websites for the fares for that trip. Then, anytime the flight drops in price, you’ll get an email notification.

A lot of people want to travel somewhere for a weekend or a couple of days, but don’t mind the exact date. Fares can differ greatly from one weekend to the next, so it’s good to know when’s cheapest to fly.

The idea sprang from an old script on one of the netsoc machines that would monitor the Ryanair website for cheap flights and tell you when was best to fly. I’ve taken that idea and made it all “Web 2.0″.

It’s a simple enough idea, but hopefully will be useful to some folks and might make me some revenue on ad clicks.

Fallas 2008

The madness has ended.

Fallas 2008 was a good one: 19 days of festivities including 4 nights of fireworks, street parties, paella and setting fire to things. The concluding night saw us moving from plaza to plaza taking in the bands and DJs, buying cans of beer from crusties with freezer bags, talking to randomers, eating churros and chocolate, dodging firework battles, dancing to the music outside someone’s window with a thousand other people, drinking chupitos in a Scottish bar at 7am and finally helping the brass bands and firecracker throwers wake everyone up at 8am. Thanks to everyone that came over to help us celebrate. Here’s to 2009!

After all that we needed some R&R, so we headed to the mountains near Cuenca for some fresh air and banger-free tranquility.

Time Pope

Speaking about leap years and generally time befudgery, can you imagine the Y2K-type bugs that would have happened if Cobol had been around when Pope Gregory XIII’s calendar reforms eventually caused half of September, 1752 to be done away with? At least we’ve retrospectively sorted it:

betsie:~ mackers$ cal 9 1752
   September 1752
 S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
       1  2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

You What?

In Spanish, there are at least 48 ways of saying what would suffice in English with the phrase “you were”. Depending on who was, when it was and if it wasn’t really, we have:

* They sometimes use the perfect like we would the imperfect, so I’m including it for the sake of argument.

Some of these are probably never actually used. However, it does show the kind of mental jiggery needed to actually have a conversation about anything that happened before today.

[Updated with some corrections]