Alright, one final movie review before the fall semester starts! The funny thing is that this series of movies was what I watched first on the way to Greece this summer 😂. Saved the best for last?  Maybe. Or maybe they were just popcorn flicks and I left that for last.  Either way, here we are.I've loved the Mission: Impossible universe since I was a kid watching the 1988 series (which

One more "watch on the plane" film.  This was also on my to watch list for a while since I've seen most Karate Kid films.Right off the bat, I will say that it's a disappointment that none of the Karate Kid spin-offs since the original trilogy recognize The Next Karate Kid (1994), which is the only one I watched in the movie theaters (and probably one of my first films watched in the theaters

My Swarm Year In Review is rather bland and uninteresting. I didn't really travel all that much in 2025, so my major destinations were the dog park (at least my dog isn't unhappy 😂), super markets, work, and places that I went to for walks, runs, and just to touch grass. I think the farthest I went was to Maine to drop off a laptop to a colleague who couldn't make it to campus... Maybe 2026 will

2024 was the year that FourSquare stopped having a separate product and they open-sourced their location database.  Swarm remains their check-in social network, which I and a few contacts still use.  The verb "to swarm" was something that was popular back in the FourSquare days, but I doubt anyone is swarming these days. I still call the app/service foursquare, and wish they'd change swarm

I don't drink as much beer as I used to, but I still check into Untappd periodically to mark which beers I have consumed and rate them, so I don't fall into the trap of ordering a beer that I have tried in the past and disliked. Untappd had both a billboard style Year In Beer, and a more animated version.  Only the billboard was downloadable, so I used SnagIt to do a screen capture of the video.I

 One last Year in Review came in, this one from Swarm, formerly known as FourSquare.I don't know who is still using Location-Based check-ins these days. I do get a kick from seeing the random "this is a place you visited 10 years ago" pop-ups every so often.  I am surprised that even though I didn't travel any great distance, I still managed to find over 60 new places to visit locally.

 Yes, I still use swarm (although I still prefer the old name: Foursquare). 2021, unsurprisingly, was another year of staying local.  The most frequented places of the year is all the dog park visits that I had for Fred 😂, and the places I went walking to be away from humans yet still stretch my legs a bit.

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 😜

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),

Swarm really hammers in the point that I basically spend a lot of time at work and traveling to work haha.  In 2017 I spent most of my places at train-stations and universities. Although it did surprise me that I checked in to 85 new places. Wonder what 2018 will bring? (other than a mostly done dissertation...I hope :p )