And that was the year that was… getting close to to that time, and we’re watching Superbad. Last year at this time, we were asleep by 9, and up the next morning by 5 so that we could drive the Saddle Road to Kailua-Kona for a New Year’s Day cruise.
It was worth it.
Tonight we just hung out. And put together this little list of lists.
14 Lists for 2007
3 Best Concerts
- Delerium, Cirque de Soleil
- Matthew Good, Jack Singer
- Weakerthans, Mac Hall
My 10 Top iTunes Songs
- When You Were Young, The Killers
- Myriad Harbour, New Pornographers
- My List, The Killers
- Certamente, Madreblu
- Live It Out, Metric
- Black Helicopter, Matthew Good
- We`re From Barcelona, I’m From Barcelona
- The Magic Position, Patrick Wolf
- Leave The Bourbon On The Shelf, The Killers
- House of Cards, Radiohead
My 5 Top iTunes Bands
- The Killers
- Matthew Good
- The Weakerthans
- The Tragically Hip
- The Shins
My 3 Favourite New Artists
- Beirut
- Madreblu
- Of Montreal
My 5 Most Viewed on Flickr
My 5 Most Viewed on tblog (2007)
- Escape Stories – January 3, 2006
- Three Memories – November 11, 2005
- To The Red Desert – October 10, 2005
- Whither Globalisation – July 28, 2005
- Bargaining Like A Berber – January 16, 2006
My 6 Favourite Photos
5 Great Books Read (yeh, I read them)
- A Brief History of Globalization, Alex MacGillivray
- Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam
- The End Of The Alphabet, CS Richardson
- Crawling, Elisha Cooper
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Rajiv Chandrasekaran
5 Books on the To Read List
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
- Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
- The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
- Adventures of Ideas, Alfred North Whitehead
- jPod, Douglas Coupland
7 Great Movies
- Away From Her
- Before The Devil Knows Your Dead
- Darjeeling Limited
- Das Leben der Anderen
- Hot Fuzz
- Once
- Paris, Je T’aime
5 (bad) Movies Purposely Snubbed
- Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (2007)
- Hairspray
- Transformers: The Movie
- Spider-man 3
- I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
7 Hucking Filarious
- Where I hide my porn
- Edit Menu
- Mr. Deity
- xkcd. Anything from it.
- Techno Viking
- Muhammed, the Bear
- Abstinenance
6 Interesting Bloglines Subscriptions
- Bldg Blog
- The Long Now
- Dilbert Blog
- Geekologie
- The Superest (start at the beginning of this one)
- Better Living Through Design
10 Great Essays From The Year
Noah Shachtman (Wired Magazine) – How Technology Almost Lost the War
Charles Darwin – Religious Belief
Freeman Dyson – Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society
W. Daniel Hillis (Physics Today) – Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
Orson Scott Card – Oil – Past the Peak
Luis Sinco (L.A. Times) – Two lives blurred together by a photo
Penn Jillette (NPR)– There Is No God
Rolling Stone Magazine – How America Lost the War On Drugs
Stephen Hawking – Gödel and the End of Physics
Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair) – A Death in the Family