tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46426423837359301112025-07-04T13:05:28.567-04:00Club AdmiraltyA blog about life in general, in as many languages as I can manage. Ενα ιστολόγιο περι ζωής, πολυγλωσσο - σε όσες γλωσσες εχω μεράκι να γράψω.Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.comBlogger3428125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-14496193720482990432025-06-30T13:21:00.001-04:002025-06-30T13:21:00.121-04:00Robocop | TV ReviewA while back, I came across another forgotten 90s era TV series, Robocop! This was a one-season series, Canadian-made, which really felt a lot like the first Robocop movie. The small interludes and news commentary from OCP-sponsored television shows really captured the dystopian capitalistic and consumeristic culture portrayed by Verhoven's Robocop.The pilot episode runs two hours, and was Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-85635974827581681852025-06-29T08:38:00.035-04:002025-06-29T08:38:00.111-04:00Adieu, PocketOh, come on, Mozilla!Looks like Mozilla is shutting down Pocket (originally known as "Read it later").The move is not unexpected, if you've been paying attention to Mozilla's developments over the past few years. They've divested from the Open Badges things that they helped create, they divested from the VR stuff they also created, and now they are killing off another legitimately useful Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-71990912687679054602025-05-01T08:40:00.006-04:002025-05-01T08:40:31.608-04:00Καλό μήνα! Και αφού είναι εργατική πρωτομαγιά, να και ένα επίκαιρο πόστερ 😉Ήρθε η άνοιξη νομίζω! Καιρός να βγάλω και τα καλοκαιρινά από την αποθήκη.Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-89807401596019028662025-02-19T14:44:00.001-05:002025-02-19T14:44:00.227-05:00TV - GlowI finished this a month or so ago, but decided to jot down a couple of thoughts before this totally escapes me. As I am going through a wrestling phase again (what am I? I teenager? jeez...), I came across this show on Netflix.The story starts 1985 LA. Ruth Wilder is a struggling actress who auditions for a wrestling circuit called Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW). She and GLOW's Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-61373934615084046102025-02-17T14:56:00.001-05:002025-02-17T14:56:00.229-05:00TV - What If... Recently I binged the first three seasons of What If, so I thought I'd write a few short thoughts on it. The premise of the story is that there are Watchers who sit outside of space and time, and they are observers of the multiverse. So...what if Agent Carter took the Supersoldier Serum instead of Steve Rogers. What if there were zombies? (this was interesting) What if the Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-49338085850836311942025-02-15T09:02:00.001-05:002025-02-15T09:02:00.110-05:002025 Battle of the BirdsOne of the local competitions is back! The North Shore is host to a small local fried chicken sandwich chain called Flip the Bird and since 2021 they've had a little friendly competition between their various locations. Each location develops its own signature sandwich for the month, and customers are encouraged to visit all locations, try them out, and then vote. There's also a raffle at Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-55874516004686979682025-02-01T11:07:00.001-05:002025-02-01T11:07:00.236-05:00Wolfenstein New Colossus | DoneAlright! After a false start, I got to play and finish the New Colossus. I finished this game just before the start of the new school semester on 1/20/25, both the core Blazkowicz story, and the Freedom Chronicles.Some things that stood out to me in the game included going to Venus where a very senile and paranoid Hitler resides and he is trying to make a movie about "Terror Billy" (Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-6639126475350701182025-01-31T22:06:00.001-05:002025-01-31T22:06:00.118-05:00Section 31 | A short review Last week Paramount released the Section 31 (made for TV) movie, set in the Star Trek Universe. As a fan of Trek I watched it, so here are a few thoughts, along with spoilers. Don't claim you weren't forewarned ;-)There's a lot of hate about this film online, even before it dropped on Paramount+. The familiar chorus of "It's not Star Trek" or "This isn't Star Trek, where's the Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-56999999259070047632025-01-26T18:55:00.001-05:002025-01-26T18:55:00.231-05:00TV - Heels 2024 was a very Wrestling year. I came across a few documentaries and docuseries on Netflix about the WWE (aka WWF when I was a kid), and this kind of kickstarted my interest in watching additional content with this kind of theme. Once I finished the various documentaries, I started watching Heels, which follows two brothers who have inherited a small-town wrestling circuit, the DuffyΟ Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-90403656239867686182025-01-25T11:07:00.001-05:002025-01-25T11:07:00.243-05:00TVTime Rewind 2024
And...here's my TVTime Year In Review, which they call a Rewind (do people get the reference anymore? 😅).I am not surprised that my first tracked viewing was Googlebox UK, there is usually some Christmas or New Year's special that's available on Channel 4. I am also not surprised at the "Drama Devotee" style of watching because last year I spent a lot of time binging all the variousΟ Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-47897124590782717972025-01-23T12:06:00.001-05:002025-01-23T12:06:00.119-05:00TV - Agatha All AlongAnother quick binge near the end of 2024. This one is Agatha All Along, on Disney+. The idea behind this series is that three years after being trapped under a magical spell in the town of Westview, New Jersey (at the end of WandaVision), the witch Agatha Harkness escapes with the help of a mysterious teenager who wishes to face the trials of the legendary Witches' Road. Without her magical Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-1895984092254210262025-01-22T12:05:00.002-05:002025-01-22T12:05:00.230-05:00TV - Superman & Lois2024 saw the final hoorah for the Arrowverse with the end of Superman & Lois. With this finale, we ended the10 year arc of the Arrowverse, or 23 years of broadcast TV DC Universe if you count Smallville since Superman & Lois is a bookend to the Smallville series which started in 2001.Anywho... Superman & Lois is actually one of those parallel universe shows which was initiated by the Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-18940566747531649442025-01-20T14:33:00.003-05:002025-01-20T14:33:00.112-05:00Wolfenstein: The New Order | Done (again?)Another looking back at 2024. This one I finished (again) on 11/3. I thought that I had played this game a while back, but I either didn't write about it, or both the search capabilities of Blogger and Xbox stink.Anyway, I started playing the New Colossus, when I realized that it was a sequel to The New Order, so I went back to this, only to realize that I had played it back in the Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-35758069087740750302025-01-19T11:06:00.000-05:002025-01-19T11:06:00.120-05:002024 in PhotosBoth Google Photos and Flickr got into the "year in review" trend. I decided to include them both here because they are both photo-related. Flickr is a bit more basic with some stats, whereas Google creates some nice videos for you. If you've gone through and have tagged people in your photos, one of the recap videos it creates is your most photographed people (which Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-40082191881175601922025-01-18T14:36:00.002-05:002025-01-18T14:36:00.230-05:00TV - Motherland Fort SalemCatching up on writring a little bit about TV and video games I watched (or played) this past year... To kick it off, I thought I'd write a little bit about Motherland: Fort Salem. For October I meant to watch themed movies and shows (you know, horror and witchy stuff), but I only managed to binge this series 🙃. I finished it just before Halloween so I was within my self-imposed time frameΟ Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-59549654179241201082025-01-12T10:24:00.000-05:002025-01-12T10:24:00.291-05:00Grammarly Year in Grammar Well...this one was a suprise... Grammarly is doing a Year in Review, and I guess by whatever metrics they've collected and measured from the emails, proposals, and papers I've written in 2024 I am an "inventor" 😹
Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-43541029387536239102025-01-11T18:21:00.004-05:002025-01-11T18:21:00.230-05:00Steam ReplayIt's a truism that I don't play a ton of Steam games. I have Steam, GOG, and Epic (and Amazon) installed on my Windows Partition on my MacMini, and while I spend about half my computing time on Windows, I don't really play enough to make a dent in statistics for some kind of year-in-review algorithm to give me something interesting. The only thing you can tell from this is that I like Star Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-57313786590415183922025-01-10T18:15:00.001-05:002025-01-10T18:15:00.115-05:00XBox Year In ReviewMicrosoft is doing a Year In Review for Xbox again! Woohoo!!!This one (compared to TrueAchivements) gives you your playstyle. No surprises there, I play a lot of FPS games, but the surprise is that casual card games overshadow my more console-y games. You can still see Assassin's Creed Mirage, and Wolfenstein: The New Order in my top games, but Star Trek Resurgence didn't make it. I Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-32725582278126834782025-01-09T18:16:00.007-05:002025-01-09T18:16:00.114-05:00Xbox (TrueAchivements) Year In ReviewI 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 Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-77488096287638424872025-01-07T18:14:00.001-05:002025-01-07T18:14:00.116-05:00Reddit Year in ReviewReddit 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, Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-6091511008772676682025-01-06T18:18:00.001-05:002025-01-06T18:18:00.121-05:00Swarm Year In Review2024 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 Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-81176202661619976782025-01-05T18:16:00.001-05:002025-01-05T18:16:00.121-05:00Untappd Year In BeerI 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 Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-38281083849585831442025-01-04T18:19:00.001-05:002025-01-04T18:19:00.113-05:00PocketCast Year In ReviewI 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 Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-35184584202665345202025-01-04T15:27:00.001-05:002025-01-04T15:27:00.113-05:00LinkedIn RewindMy 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 Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-91218249931156042612025-01-02T13:04:00.001-05:002025-01-02T13:04:00.115-05:00GoodRead year in reviewWell, 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, Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0