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

I listen to a lot of podcasts.  Not as many as I used to when I commuted to work pre-covid, but still a lot.  My summer months, when I can get out and walk a bit more than I do in the cold winter months, are filled with lots of podcast binging.  Here's a partial summary of my PocketCast Year in Podcasts.  Since every item is a screen/card, this year I decided to not share every

My complete and utter 🐂💩 cardWell, this was a weird one for me. I saw this posted on people's timelines on LinkedIn, and I thought I'd give it a try to see what kind of things it gleaned about me.  I didn't change any of the automatically generated text (I assume it's some kind of GPT). I used LinkedIn more in 2023 than I had used it in the past.  And, mostly to boost messages posted

Well, it's that time of year! This is the time of year that many social media services use your data to create a Year In Review for the things you did on their platform. My cynical side is thinking that this is one of those "hey! pay attention to this, and not what else we do with your data" but I'll take it...I guess!I've been thinking about moving away from GoodReads over this past year, something

Χρόνια πολλά και καλά Χριστούγεννα! Όσοι διαβάζετε ακόμα αυτό το μπλόγκ (🙃) ότι ποθείτε μπροστά σας να το βρείτε

Here's a game that I made my way through just before the fall semester started! I finished this one just before the Labor Day holiday 😅.Now, I don't know if I'd call this a "game" per se. It feels more like an interactive novel where you have some spots where you need to do some actions (that feel like mini games), and some spots where you need to direct the dialogue and story, and as such your

Many TV shows I let ripen in my "to watch" queue for months (sometimes a semester, sometimes a year...).  This one I watched as soon as it was released on Netflix last month, and it didn't disappoint!On the one hand the formula is well known for this kind of film. There is someone from the future that sends back someone (or some machine) to the past so that they can save the future.  Spoiler

Here's a series that we finished in August 2024. This series was on Paramount+ (yeah, the streaming network that isn't huge and is currently struggling).  I wish that this series had more seasons, but I think the streaming service's financial woes made it necessary to wrap things up.I would best describe this series as What if X-Files didn't deal with extraterrestrials (most of the tie) but with

Here's a fun watch from earlier this month.  It's KAOS and it's on Netflix!  What is it? KAOS answers the question of what if the Ancient Olympian Gods (you know, Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, and the gang) were real and what if they were still around today?  What would their lives (and ours as mere mortals) looks like?And, on top of that, what if the folks we see in Greek mythology, like Eurydice,

I finally caught up with The Acolyte, a Star Wars universe adventure. The series is a typical streamer length (8 episodes) and sadly it was cancelled shortly after it was release.  As the expression goes, the body wasn't even cold yet 🫤.I rather liked the series because it paints a picture that is a bit more complicated than the typical Jedi = Good, Anger/Sith = Bad. In fact, in this series