With all of the social media sites doing year-in-review infographics from the data that they've collected from you over the period of the year, I thought I would check out xbox to see what sort of year-in-review they have in store.  This year, along with the statistics that they provided me with, I got my own - customized and customizable gamer crest (presumably based on the games that

Figured out how to extricate this from facebook and upload it to YouTube. It's a little inaccurate (some old photos of me where tagged by someone, and I don't often post photos of myself on facebook, so that isn't as accurate as people who post a lot of Fb) - but it's fun to look at anyway. Και του χρόνου!

Kirk had a kid?! Wonder if we are going to see this in the NuTrek ;-) (original archive here)

Last week I headed off to the movie theaters to see the new Assassin's Creed movie, which I have been waiting for with great excitement for a while (now, if only the Splinter Cell movie were to come out soon!). We also went during the day when there were only about 10 of us in the movie theater (seems like a waste, but I did like having more room to spread out, and if I laughed out-loud it wouldn't

Couldn't escape the GoodRead year-end-review! I am generally very conservative when I set my reading goals each year because I tend to think of books as thick things that take a long time to get through.  However, as this year has proven again I've read more books than I expected.  If you notice, you'll see that it's a lot of comic books and star trek novels (audiobook or text-to-speech

The other day Publons, a service in which people can get credit for performing peer reviews for academic journal articles, sent me a link to my year-end-review.  Just like other year-end-reviews, I don't really treat it as a report card, but rather  as a "huh!, ain't that interesting!".  I think the old saying of you get out of something what you put into it is quite true with these

Saw this on facebook earlier today. Some interesting K-Pop that is holiday themed (at least from the visuals) ;-)  I guess  I need to go back and discover new K-Pop.  This song is by Crayon Pop 크레용팝 꾸리스마스 and it's called Lonely Christmas

Καλά χριστούγεννα και χρόνια πολλά!  Άντε, πάμε στην πλάζ για έκα κρύο μπάνιο (τώρα που κάνει και αρνητικούς βαθμούς έξω! :p). And for the rest of the world... Frohe Weihnachten! Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël! Buon natale! Feliz navidad! Счастли́вого Рождества́!

Καλή Χριστούγεννα! Σκεφτόμουν να βρω ένα τραγούδι από τα παλιά που να είναι και χριστουγεννιάτικο, και το iTunes μου θύμισε την Βανδή

Χρόνια πολλά και καλά χριστούγεννα σε όλους :-)