2010: Journal in Review
Dec. 31st, 2010 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerOnce again, I'm keeping up the experiment (which I have just seen other people trying) of going back to the first sentence of the first post for each month in the year. As for what might be a bigger "personal experiment," while being put back on shift has sort of meant I'm not updating my journal as often as I used to, I'm still managing to plug away.
January: It was, I suppose, the comparison that both got me interested in the book and thinking it would be easy enough to read it. When![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
incisivis mentioned having read "The House on the Borderlands" and said that it read like "Lovecraft before Lovecraft," remembering when H.P. Lovecraft started writing made me think books that preceded him had to be in the public domain, and perhaps even available on Project Gutenberg.
February: So far as seeing the fifth episode of each season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 goes, I've already commented on "The Magic Voyage of Sinbad," and so I'm moving ahead to the sixth season and the "Mike era."
March: Thanks to the gracious notification of their author, I now have some new MSTings linked to at the end of the MSTing Mine.
April: With another three months gone by, once again I'm looking back at the anime I watched during them.
May: I was reading the entertainment section of my newspaper this morning (with its feature article of an alphabetized list of complaints about the final season of "Lost") when I noticed a small article inside it proclaiming today "Star Wars Day."
June: I managed to hear today that the first flight of the Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX did get into orbit, and given that four flights of their previous model were needed before one worked, and I noticed a certain amount of trying to manage expectations beforehand, things seem to have worked well.
July: Three months have gone by since the last time I did this, and once again I'm taking a look back at the anime I watched during them.
August: A while back, I happened to notice someone propose that the Star Wars movies could be watched not in "production" nor in "numerical" order, but by starting with Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, going on to all three new movies in a row, and then finishing with Return of the Jedi.
September: With the number of remaining space shuttle missions counting down towards zero, the thought does occur to me that I could start spending more time keeping track of what's happening on the space station.
October: This look back at all the anime I've watched in the past three months may be one I've been thinking about in advance and even looking forward to a bit more than usual, and that's because I can also look back a lot further than three months.
November: Just like clockwork, Shout! Factory keeps announcing upcoming Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD collections just as their latest one is about to come out.
December: Keeping up my occasional interest in "old computers," I took another look at a mailing list about TRS-80 computers and saw a link to an emulator that runs in a browser.
It does sort of look like a variety of interests are showing up in these opening sentences. Given that my getting out into the real world got into this journal when I went to see one of the last space shuttle launches this year, I'm perhaps most interested that some posts referred to space.
See you in the new year!
January: It was, I suppose, the comparison that both got me interested in the book and thinking it would be easy enough to read it. When
incisivis mentioned having read "The House on the Borderlands" and said that it read like "Lovecraft before Lovecraft," remembering when H.P. Lovecraft started writing made me think books that preceded him had to be in the public domain, and perhaps even available on Project Gutenberg.February: So far as seeing the fifth episode of each season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 goes, I've already commented on "The Magic Voyage of Sinbad," and so I'm moving ahead to the sixth season and the "Mike era."
March: Thanks to the gracious notification of their author, I now have some new MSTings linked to at the end of the MSTing Mine.
April: With another three months gone by, once again I'm looking back at the anime I watched during them.
May: I was reading the entertainment section of my newspaper this morning (with its feature article of an alphabetized list of complaints about the final season of "Lost") when I noticed a small article inside it proclaiming today "Star Wars Day."
June: I managed to hear today that the first flight of the Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX did get into orbit, and given that four flights of their previous model were needed before one worked, and I noticed a certain amount of trying to manage expectations beforehand, things seem to have worked well.
July: Three months have gone by since the last time I did this, and once again I'm taking a look back at the anime I watched during them.
August: A while back, I happened to notice someone propose that the Star Wars movies could be watched not in "production" nor in "numerical" order, but by starting with Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, going on to all three new movies in a row, and then finishing with Return of the Jedi.
September: With the number of remaining space shuttle missions counting down towards zero, the thought does occur to me that I could start spending more time keeping track of what's happening on the space station.
October: This look back at all the anime I've watched in the past three months may be one I've been thinking about in advance and even looking forward to a bit more than usual, and that's because I can also look back a lot further than three months.
November: Just like clockwork, Shout! Factory keeps announcing upcoming Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD collections just as their latest one is about to come out.
December: Keeping up my occasional interest in "old computers," I took another look at a mailing list about TRS-80 computers and saw a link to an emulator that runs in a browser.
It does sort of look like a variety of interests are showing up in these opening sentences. Given that my getting out into the real world got into this journal when I went to see one of the last space shuttle launches this year, I'm perhaps most interested that some posts referred to space.
See you in the new year!