31 Dec
Posted by Liam in Book Reviews. Tagged: 2008, Books, Lists, Metapost, Reviews. Leave a Comment
Here’s my annual list of my ten favorite books read in the year. As always, this is merely the best books I read this year not books published in 2008. For previous years see 2007 and 2006, and of course Every Book I’ve Ever Read are cataloged in Library Thing.
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy [...]
28 Dec
Posted by Liam in Movie Reviews. Tagged: 2008, Lists, Metapost, Movie, Reviews. Leave a Comment
Listed below are all the movies I’ve watched in the past year. Much like last year, I’ve rated all the movies on a five star scale. Five stars is an all-time classic, three stars is the baseline for an enjoyable film end-to-end, one star is a bad movie with perhaps one good sequence or performance. [...]
4 Dec
Posted by Liam in Metapost. Tagged: History, Holidays, Metapost. 1 Comment
Today Panorama of the Mountains celebrates its second birthday. Hurrah for me! Now I’m the parent of a blog in it’s terrible twos.
A lot’s changed over two years, but much has remained the same. Here’s what Panorama of the Mountains looked like on January 11th, 2007, the oldest page saved at the Internet archive. Wow, [...]
19 Nov
Posted by Liam in Frolics and Frivolities. Tagged: Libraries, Links, Memes, Metapost. Leave a Comment
Via Phil Bradley, a quiz to convert your name into a Dewey Decimal Classification class.
Liam Sullivan’s Dewey Decimal Section: 002 The book
Class:
000 Computer Science, Information & General Works
Contains:
Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.
What it says about you:
You are very informative and up to date. You’re working on living in the here [...]
18 Nov
Posted by Liam in Metapost. Tagged: Holidays, Metapost. 2 Comments
I remember being seven years old when the realization came to me that in just…three…years I would be ten and I’d be so old and wouldn’t be able to play and have fun anymore. It’s good to get one’s midlife crisis out of the way early because now that I’m five times seven I’m much [...]
3 Nov
Posted by Liam in Link Dump. Tagged: del.icio.us, Links, Metapost. Leave a Comment
Today I posted my 500th link in my link of the day series on delicious. The story that gets the honor is this article about Harvard refusing Googles terms for book scanning in hopes of preserving open access to the scanned works. I started Link of the Day on February 25th as a cleaner and [...]
28 Sep
Posted by Liam in Boston Life and Culture. Tagged: Boston, Local, Massachusetts, Metapost, Somerville. 1 Comment
On this date in 1998, I pulled my rental van into Somerville and became a resident of Massachusetts. Ten years later I’m still here, now in Boston, having now lead nearly a third of my life in this Commonwealth.
Here were some of my hopes and goals when I made the move:
Escaping the heat & humidity [...]
29 Feb
Posted by Liam in Travelogue. Tagged: Metapost, nothingness. Leave a Comment
There was no 29 February 1998. Not only do I get a day of from writing my travelog, but I get to ponder the fascinating fact that there was no ten years ago today. Nor was there a year ago today. The mind boggles.
Happy Leap Day!
25 Feb
Posted by Liam in Link Dump. Tagged: Links, Metapost. 1 Comment
I’ve decided to can the Link of the Day posts. For one reason, I find it burdensome to find time to format the post to my liking so they sit there for days until I finally get around to it and the links are no longer “fresh.” Second, I rarely made comments on the [...]
1 Jan
Posted by Liam in Metapost. Tagged: History, Metapost. Leave a Comment
Back in 1996, I decided to make a list of the most memorable events of my life for the year. I came up with exactly 20 events and ever since then it’s been my annual exercise to recall the 20 memorable events of the year on New Years Day. Similar to Time magazine’s [...]
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