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A look back at 2008
Jan. 7th, 2009 04:53 amSo it looks like I've been more or less off the blogging bandwagon for a few weeks now, so my final days of 2008 and initial ones of 2009 have thus far gone unrecorded. Big whoop, frankly, but I'll throw some stuff on here eventually. Before that happens, though, I thought I'd run through a few highlights of the 2008 edition of my blog. Why? No clue. But I saw John Scalzi do a "Best of 2008" thingy, so...you know. Plus...apparently I never really got around to New Years post for 2008, so I don't really have any kind of hard benchmarks to look at for 2009. I realize, too, that this will be a kind of self-perpetuating problem unless I put together a 2009 New Years post, but, uh...well, we'll see.
So what was my 2008 like? ( Long-ish review follows )
Here are some of my favorite posts from the year:
"Perspective" - My post about Smith's Cloud, the gigantic hydrogen cloud rocketing toward us that will in all probability completely obliterate us. In about 40 million years.
"I'm a mess" - The lamentations of my one (and I think only) attempt at any kind of serious exercise this year.
"Awesome" - By far my favorite news bite of the year: the Grey Poupon shooting.
"You can't go home again" - The epic failure I produced in attempting to write a computer program for the first time in years. Never did pick that project up again, by the way.
"Juxtaposition" - Basically the closest I came to talking about the race for the presidency, in which I really don't say anything about it. Also related: part 2 and the unofficial part 3. (Come to think of it, I probably did more image editing in 2008 than in recent previous years. Chocolate Blast-ems, son.)
"A little something" - The spiritual descendant of the "Perspective" post, my introduction to pulsars.
A few more blog highlights:
My favorite comment exchange on my blog here:
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metalepticfit: I tend to confuse Electric Company and Sesame Street.
flatvurm: That's fucked up!
Hands down, my favorite "By this time I've completely forgotten the context for this" moment here:
jammie718: Come up to NYC and show us your fat, flappy junk!
My new favorite motto picked up in 2008 here: "Speak in a straightforward and brief manner."
Finally, it's nice to know that, if you can generalize based on bookends, then it seems my usual parade of inane nonsense continues fairly consistently on this here blog. My first post of 2008 remarked on finding a g-string hanging from a tree on my block. My last post of 2008 was regarding the relative demerits of a diet consisting solely of milk and potatoes. So rock on, everybody. Here's to a new and exciting 2009!
So what was my 2008 like? ( Long-ish review follows )
Here are some of my favorite posts from the year:
"Perspective" - My post about Smith's Cloud, the gigantic hydrogen cloud rocketing toward us that will in all probability completely obliterate us. In about 40 million years.
"I'm a mess" - The lamentations of my one (and I think only) attempt at any kind of serious exercise this year.
"Awesome" - By far my favorite news bite of the year: the Grey Poupon shooting.
"You can't go home again" - The epic failure I produced in attempting to write a computer program for the first time in years. Never did pick that project up again, by the way.
"Juxtaposition" - Basically the closest I came to talking about the race for the presidency, in which I really don't say anything about it. Also related: part 2 and the unofficial part 3. (Come to think of it, I probably did more image editing in 2008 than in recent previous years. Chocolate Blast-ems, son.)
"A little something" - The spiritual descendant of the "Perspective" post, my introduction to pulsars.
A few more blog highlights:
My favorite comment exchange on my blog here:
metalepticfit: I tend to confuse Electric Company and Sesame Street.flatvurm: That's fucked up!Hands down, my favorite "By this time I've completely forgotten the context for this" moment here:
jammie718: Come up to NYC and show us your fat, flappy junk!My new favorite motto picked up in 2008 here: "Speak in a straightforward and brief manner."
Finally, it's nice to know that, if you can generalize based on bookends, then it seems my usual parade of inane nonsense continues fairly consistently on this here blog. My first post of 2008 remarked on finding a g-string hanging from a tree on my block. My last post of 2008 was regarding the relative demerits of a diet consisting solely of milk and potatoes. So rock on, everybody. Here's to a new and exciting 2009!
