Cool stuff

[avram]

• Check out Kris Dresen’s journal. She’s got some gorgeous artwork in there. (Scroll down past the bit about how she lusts after Yanni’s violinist.) Also look at her website. (I’ve used the imperative, so now ya gotta.)
• This plan for a new Battlestar Gallactica miniseries actually sounds interesting. Might grab my eyeballs for at least an episode or two. (via BoingBoing)
• Ah, the units command. I love having a Unix command line on my Mac.
• Which reminds me of the cal command, which displays a one-month calendar. Get to a Unix prompt, type cal 12 2002 (or just 12 2002 into this online version) and you’ll get this:

     December 2002
   S  M Tu  W Th  F  S
   1  2  3  4  5  6  7
   8  9 10 11 12 13 14
  15 16 17 18 19 20 21
  22 23 24 25 26 27 28
  29 30 31
  

  Best part is, if you type cal 9 1752 you get this:

     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
  

  Gotta love that kind of attention to detail.

Comments

unix calendars

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

That is incredibly, inspiringly useful. And I had no idea you could do it. And I have no idea how I could possibly find out that I could do it. I need someone to write "100 nifty things you can do right now on the Terminal that even you, Alison, will instantly see the purpose of." Rather than what I seem to be mostly offered in the way of command line magic, which is "if you know the exact right combination of letters and numbers (which will take you some hours to work out), you can write a command that will do a particular feat in seconds that would take half an hour in a GUI."

[akawil]

Unfortunately, no one's made a version of cal with a localizable Gregorian transition. That September 1752 is only valid for the then-British Empire, after all...