Club Admiralty Blog

A blog about life in general, in as many languages as I can manage. Ενα ιστολόγιο περι ζωής, πολυγλωσσο - σε όσες γλωσσες εχω μεράκι να γράψω.

2020 Travel in Review

Saturday, Feb 6 2021, 11:36Google, travel, YearInReviewPermalink

While most 2020 travel was from home to the supermarket and back, there was a brief period before the lockdown where we could move around. Here's my New England roaming last year 😜

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2020 Decade in Achievements

Sunday, Jan 31 2021, 11:07achievements, Entertainment, trueAchievements, video games, VideoGames, XBOX, YearInReviewPermalink

For the second year in a row, Microsoft didn't do an achievements year-in-review (boo😜), so I got an updated Decade In Review from TrueAchievements. It looks similar to what I posted last year (in fact I don't see anything for 2020... Looking at my TA for 2020 I see a lot of skewing toward older games (completed before 2020) and a big skew in January when I joined TA and all of my achievements were imported. So, lots of junk data... Oh well, maybe 2021 will have better data ;-)

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2020 Year In Beer

Saturday, Jan 30 2021, 14:00Social Media, Social Networking, Social Networks, untappd, YearInReviewPermalink

Another Year In Review from a social site. This time on Untappd, which I use to keep track of various beers I've tried (so that I can remember whether I liked or didn't like them when I see them in the store). I don't expect of Untappd usage in 2021 since I've decided to take a break from beer in 2021, but we'll see. Here's what happened in 2020:

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2020 Year In Books

Friday, Jan 29 2021, 16:30Books, Comic Book, goodreads, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Networks, YearInReviewPermalink

I usually post these a bit earlier in January, but here is my 2020 Goodreads year in review 🙂. I guess I met my minimum reading for 2020, even in a pandemic lockdown ;-)

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Xbox decade in review

Tuesday, Jan 21 2020, 01:30achievements, Entertainment, video games, VideoGames, XBOX, YearInReviewPermalink

Well, I guess that there was one "x in review" that I missed. TrueAchivements did the Decade in Review if you have an account with them. The Rarest achievements were a bit of a surprise for me (especially for Defiance and Zombi, which were sort of palate cleanser games for me). The most-played series was not a surprise, even though there are some errors in it (I've actually played 3 out of 4 Mass Effect games), but it's overall accurate. What's counted here (I think) is achievements earned and not necessarily overall playtime. I do find the breakdown of year/month for playtime quite interesting :-)

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Year in review: xbox

Thursday, Jan 9 2020, 11:38Assassins Creed, Entertainment, Microsoft, Technology, video games, VideoGames, XBOX, YearInReviewPermalink

Unfortunately this year the Microsoft Xbox team didn't do a year-in-review graphic for their plays 😢. It would have also been an opportunity to do a decade-in-review, but oh well. Missed opportunity. I guess they are working hard on the next Xbox, which is slated to be released December 2020.

I connected my Microsoft account with True Achievements to get a sense of what was played last year on my Xbox. It's no surprise that Assassin's Creed is my top game. I was surprised that Bionic Commando was the next big game on my list considering I didn't go out of my way to get those achievements. It's also no surprise that the months I am most active are months when the semester ends, or is not in session. The one thing that is missing from TrueAchivements is a metric for time played. You could have played very little and earned a lot of achievements, or played a lot, and earned very little. I don't like the badge metric as being the only one that matters.

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Year in Review: Google reviews

Tuesday, Jan 7 2020, 16:36Google, review, Technology, YearInReviewPermalink

I guess last year I decided to leave some reviews for various venues using Google's "leave review" functionality. I guess it was a combination of free time and prompts of my phone to leave reviews (seems like I am quite susceptible to such behavioral suggestion...at least for a few weeks) :p

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Year in Beer: An untappd Year in review

Saturday, Jan 4 2020, 17:21beer, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Networks, Technology, untappd, YearInReviewPermalink

Every year some social sites tend to a year in review with data from your activity on the networks. This year is no different. I thought I'd post some of the data that came my way. Today I have some data from Untappd. I started using Untappd in 2014 when I went to Edmonton for my Doctoral Cohort's initiation into the EdD program. I was trying out new beers and wanted to keep track of what I liked, and more importantly what I did not like! Who knew that there was more to beer than Heineken, Amstel, and Coors? Anyway, here's a year in Beer! Not sure if the second graphic zooms, so here's the Flickr link.

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Year in Review: Goodreads

Friday, Jan 3 2020, 03:30Books, Comic Book, goodreads, Sci-Fi, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Networks, StarTrek, Technology, TheExpanse, YearInReviewPermalink

Every year some social sites tend to a year in review with data from your activity on the networks. This year is no different. I thought I'd post some of the data that came my way. Today I have some data from Goodreads. I always choose a low number of books to read each year. I'd much meet and exceed my goal rather than not reach anything. My goal this past year was to catch up with The Expanse series and read a lot of Star Trek. I am mostly caught up with the Discovery era Novels. I finished off the Enterprise era novels, and I am mostly caught up on the 24th century (post-crossover). I am not sure yet what by 2020 goals will be. I am thinking of introducing some Assassin's Creed this year. I am not sure if this graphic zooms in, so here's a link to Flickr (link)

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Year in Review: Swarm

Thursday, Jan 2 2020, 04:00#FridayMusic, Location, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Networks, swarm, Technology, travel, YearInReviewPermalink

Every year some social sites tend to a year in review with data from your activity on the networks. This year is no different. I thought I'd post some of the data that came my way. Today I have some data from Swarm (what used to be foursquare). Location check-ins don't seem to be as big of a deal these days (with most competitors having gone the way of the dodo), but swarm still persists. I do like using it because it gives a sense of what I've been up to over the past year.

As you can see most of my year has been pretty "normal" - not a ton of travel, mostly going to and from work. This past year I did go to Winter Island and The Willows pretty often in the summer. One of my favorite places to walk, and to also stretch one's legs when on a work break. I hope 2020 has more travels!