Year in review
Dec. 17th, 2010 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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silmaril I take my cues. Here's what's been going on for me in 2010 — as captured by first sentences of first post of every month.
January A new year.
An retrospective and prospective post about decades past and future.
February But #House doesn't do funded research does he?
My twitter feed, reacting to someone else tweeting about the latest House MD episode
March Today I went to the anarchist book faire in the Golden Gate Park.
All of March had exactly one post, and it was complaining about the anarchist sub-culture.
April Sometimes I have these instances where my life takes on a strong taste of having been scripted by primetime TV series authors...
Once I shut off the twitter-to-LiveJournal feed, my posting waned egregiously. Only a single post in April too.
May Dearest @Susanne Vejdemo, dearest amerikabrev, it's been a decade.
Commemorating a decade as a committed couple. The other post that same day was a photographic manifesto.
June I'm in Ναύπακτοϛ for the International Conference on Topology and its Applications; and that is as good a reason as any to write a little Travelogue.
Posting picked up once conference travel got started.
July There are more pictures.
Continuing the travelogue started above.
August With inspiration from my beloved amerikabrev, here's the lyrics, and a rough translation (by me) thereof, of one of the ABSOLUTELY biggest summer hits of all time.
A view into the Swedish psyche.
September Dear Editor. I'm a 3rd year grad student. Some of my friends say there is no Bourbaki. My advisor says “If you see the personality in the lemmas, it's so.” Please tell me the truth: Is there a Bourbaki?
And we're back to once a month. This was the “Yes Virginia, there IS a Bourbaki” random burst of creativity. I picked more than one sentence from this just to get the mood.
October On Richmond at Dufferin in London, ON, you'll find the neat little restaurant Garlic's.
November As stolen from fluffboll who took it from a number of Facebook friends of hers.
December: As usual, it is fromsilmaril I take my cues.
Why, yes, that last one is self-referential. As it turns out, my LiveJournaling has waned a bit lately — in part due to increased twitter activity, and to a large extent due to frantic, but not very creative or mind-engaging activities attacking the academic job market this year.
This past year I've gone low traffic on my LiveJournal, and almost no traffic on my mathematics blog (last two posts are from August and April). On the other hand, I post daily on my Twitter, and I've started a daily photo blog, that I'm still maintaining. My LiveJournal posts are moved explicitly by engaging ideas that capture me enough to sit down and do something about them — between the summer travelogue and the bursts of creativity (August, September) I feel that possibly the quality of my posts has gone up. At least compared to the twitter feed.
What do you think?
silmaril I take my cues. Here's what's been going on for me in 2010 — as captured by first sentences of first post of every month.January A new year.
An retrospective and prospective post about decades past and future.
February But #House doesn't do funded research does he?
My twitter feed, reacting to someone else tweeting about the latest House MD episode
March Today I went to the anarchist book faire in the Golden Gate Park.
All of March had exactly one post, and it was complaining about the anarchist sub-culture.
April Sometimes I have these instances where my life takes on a strong taste of having been scripted by primetime TV series authors...
Once I shut off the twitter-to-LiveJournal feed, my posting waned egregiously. Only a single post in April too.
May Dearest @Susanne Vejdemo, dearest amerikabrev, it's been a decade.
Commemorating a decade as a committed couple. The other post that same day was a photographic manifesto.
June I'm in Ναύπακτοϛ for the International Conference on Topology and its Applications; and that is as good a reason as any to write a little Travelogue.
Posting picked up once conference travel got started.
July There are more pictures.
Continuing the travelogue started above.
August With inspiration from my beloved amerikabrev, here's the lyrics, and a rough translation (by me) thereof, of one of the ABSOLUTELY biggest summer hits of all time.
A view into the Swedish psyche.
September Dear Editor. I'm a 3rd year grad student. Some of my friends say there is no Bourbaki. My advisor says “If you see the personality in the lemmas, it's so.” Please tell me the truth: Is there a Bourbaki?
And we're back to once a month. This was the “Yes Virginia, there IS a Bourbaki” random burst of creativity. I picked more than one sentence from this just to get the mood.
October On Richmond at Dufferin in London, ON, you'll find the neat little restaurant Garlic's.
November As stolen from fluffboll who took it from a number of Facebook friends of hers.
December: As usual, it is from
silmaril I take my cues.Why, yes, that last one is self-referential. As it turns out, my LiveJournaling has waned a bit lately — in part due to increased twitter activity, and to a large extent due to frantic, but not very creative or mind-engaging activities attacking the academic job market this year.
This past year I've gone low traffic on my LiveJournal, and almost no traffic on my mathematics blog (last two posts are from August and April). On the other hand, I post daily on my Twitter, and I've started a daily photo blog, that I'm still maintaining. My LiveJournal posts are moved explicitly by engaging ideas that capture me enough to sit down and do something about them — between the summer travelogue and the bursts of creativity (August, September) I feel that possibly the quality of my posts has gone up. At least compared to the twitter feed.
What do you think?
