Sarx

Being a Calendar Geek, I love anything to do with calendars. My favourite real-world calendar is the Mayan combo of the tzolk’in and the Haab’. So I was rather happy to find it this morning as a (Mac) Dashboard Widget available for free download. I’d like it as a Menu Bar app, but ok. This produces a full stele for each day. Clicking around the new software, however, I found the next best thing! If you use a “My Google” homepage you can add the tzolk’in to that page!

Today’s Stele

The calendar is very complex, using a 20 day cycle in a 13 day month and an 18/20 day cycle on a 365 day year… It moves through multiple permutations like a full community of whirling dervishes with symbols on their robes.

My favourite non-real world calendar is the Shire calendar from Middle Earth. I like it because it’s regular, not fluctuating. All months are 30 Days. The same day of the month falls on the same day of the week. Sunday is always the first of the year, the 3rd of April is always a Monday. The seasons are regular, the quarters as well. It’s logical, like a computer. (There is a LOTR Calendar hidden in your OS X but, sadly, it’s not a cool widget.)