Flight deals
Blog Written with a loving hand by kitt some time around 19:03 on 12 March 2015Paul asked, "Quick travel question for you - do you have any suggestions to find deals on international flights?"
My answers for finding good international travel deals:
Hipmunk: I like hipmunk's interface for the Agony search filter, as well as the display of flight times in a line chart for easier comparison of flight durations, departure times, and landing times.
I mentioned Kayak to him, mostly out of default, since I used to use the site a lot before Hipmunk.
Now the one I really like is The Flight Deal, which is also on twitter at @theflightdeal. There's a companion account at @FareDealAlert, since the Flight Deal is for good flights out of specific airports, and the Fare Deal is out of other airports.
Both of these sites reference details you can find on http://matrix.itasoftware.com/, a site recently purchased by Google, and is the consumer interface for the system travel agents used to use. THIS is the site for finding flights, if you don't have a very specific journey in mind. That's the one I really like.
So, there are my suggestions.
With summer break coming up, I feel I best arrange my travel plans soon, in order to visit Paul, before he and his family high-tail it out to destinations far and wide.
Wool
Book Notes Instead of being asleep at 13:59 on 12 March 2015, kitt created this:
Recommended by Luke.
Okay, wow. When Luke recommended Wool (Amazon affliliate link), I had four other books going, and wanted to finish those before getting too far into Wool. I kinda wish I hadn't delayed. This book is great. Read the basic plot on the Amazon page, if you'd like. The back reads something like:
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside.
His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising.
The thing about Hugh Howey's writing is that it's isn't eye-rolling absurd. Given the basic premise (societies living in underground silos), the characters are believable, the dialogue reasonable and the actions plausible. I really enjoyed that about the book, being able to be lost in the dystopian world for hours.
Luke says the following two books in the series, Shift and Dust (also affiliate links), are great, too. And now quickly added to my to-read reading list.
Recommended.
Have ruby irb console save history
Blog kitt decided around 14:22 on 11 March 2015 to publish this:Add this to your ~/.irbrc file (creating one if it doesn't already exist):
require 'irb/ext/save-history'
IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] = 200
IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-history"
Boom! Last 200 commands are saved, such that you can up arrow / command-p or down arrow / command-n to move through your ruby console history!
Whoo!
Wisdom from Ivan
Blog Posted by kitt at 11:57 on 11 March 2015"He's so small for what he's carrying."
"Well, bees fly, and they're not supposed to."
BINGO!
Blog Instead of being asleep at 10:42 on 11 March 2015, kitt created this:Her: "Tomorrow is the 2015 Support Summit!"
Me: "What is the Support Summit?"
Her: "We talk about 2015 strategic initiative for 2015."
Me: "..."
Me: "..."
Me: "..."
Me: "I think I just won buzzword bingo."