I checked out my TrueAchivement's YearOnXbox summary first this year. Similar to Untappd, they have a billboard-style summary, and a rolling video, which I used SnagIt to capture. I was surprised that I spent THAT much time on a casual game! It started with a round of Wordle (which is untracked) Solitaire every evening while watching TV, and by the end of 2024 it was Wordle, MS Solitaire, MS Wordament,

Reddit has the weirdest measuments for how long you've been on their platform.  They measure time spent on there as "bananas scrolled" - which brings to mind jokes like "Americans will use almost anything to measure things, except metric" 😹.  After being presented with communities like ForgottenTV and MartialArts, I joined those.  Nostalgia is a powerful drug, and old TV shows, and

2024 was the year that FourSquare stopped having a separate product and they open-sourced their location database.  Swarm remains their check-in social network, which I and a few contacts still use.  The verb "to swarm" was something that was popular back in the FourSquare days, but I doubt anyone is swarming these days. I still call the app/service foursquare, and wish they'd change swarm

I don't drink as much beer as I used to, but I still check into Untappd periodically to mark which beers I have consumed and rate them, so I don't fall into the trap of ordering a beer that I have tried in the past and disliked. Untappd had both a billboard style Year In Beer, and a more animated version.  Only the billboard was downloadable, so I used SnagIt to do a screen capture of the video.I

I listen to a lot of podcasts.  Not as many as I used to when I commuted to work pre-covid, but still a lot.  My summer months, when I can get out and walk a bit more than I do in the cold winter months, are filled with lots of podcast binging.  Here's a partial summary of my PocketCast Year in Podcasts.  Since every item is a screen/card, this year I decided to not share every

My complete and utter 🐂💩 cardWell, this was a weird one for me. I saw this posted on people's timelines on LinkedIn, and I thought I'd give it a try to see what kind of things it gleaned about me.  I didn't change any of the automatically generated text (I assume it's some kind of GPT). I used LinkedIn more in 2023 than I had used it in the past.  And, mostly to boost messages posted

Well, it's that time of year! This is the time of year that many social media services use your data to create a Year In Review for the things you did on their platform. My cynical side is thinking that this is one of those "hey! pay attention to this, and not what else we do with your data" but I'll take it...I guess!I've been thinking about moving away from GoodReads over this past year, something

Χρόνια πολλά και καλά Χριστούγεννα! Όσοι διαβάζετε ακόμα αυτό το μπλόγκ (🙃) ότι ποθείτε μπροστά σας να το βρείτε

Here's a game that I made my way through just before the fall semester started! I finished this one just before the Labor Day holiday 😅.Now, I don't know if I'd call this a "game" per se. It feels more like an interactive novel where you have some spots where you need to do some actions (that feel like mini games), and some spots where you need to direct the dialogue and story, and as such your

Many TV shows I let ripen in my "to watch" queue for months (sometimes a semester, sometimes a year...).  This one I watched as soon as it was released on Netflix last month, and it didn't disappoint!On the one hand the formula is well known for this kind of film. There is someone from the future that sends back someone (or some machine) to the past so that they can save the future.  Spoiler