tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46426423837359301112025-01-23T12:06:32.976-05:00Club 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.comBlogger3418125tag: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.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-42919242448629073942024-12-25T10:58:00.006-05:002024-12-25T10:58:58.636-05:00Χρόνια Πολλά!Χρόνια πολλά και καλά Χριστούγεννα! Όσοι διαβάζετε ακόμα αυτό το μπλόγκ (🙃) ότι ποθείτε μπροστά σας να το βρείτεΟ Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-84156038795605989582024-10-03T15:34:00.001-04:002024-10-03T15:34:00.230-04:00Star Trek Resurgence | DoneHere'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 Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-7584234424865718772024-09-29T15:34:00.000-04:002024-09-29T15:34:00.116-04:00TV - Terminator ZeroMany 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. Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-89960001476070242742024-09-24T14:48:00.000-04:002024-09-24T14:48:00.133-04:00TV - Evil Here's a series that we finished in August 2024. This series was on Paramount+ (yeah, the streaming network that isn't huge and is currently struggling). I wish that this series had more seasons, but I think the streaming service's financial woes made it necessary to wrap things up.I would best describe this series as What if X-Files didn't deal with extraterrestrials (most of the tie) but Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-58055946397704609882024-09-19T21:58:00.001-04:002024-09-19T21:58:00.227-04:00TV - KAOSHere's a fun watch from earlier this month. It's KAOS and it's on Netflix! What is it? KAOS answers the question of what if the Ancient Olympian Gods (you know, Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, and the gang) were real and what if they were still around today? What would their lives (and ours as mere mortals) looks like?And, on top of that, what if the folks we see in Greek mythology, like Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-81620388628680622282024-09-17T14:45:00.001-04:002024-09-17T14:45:00.144-04:00TV - The AcolyteI finally caught up with The Acolyte, a Star Wars universe adventure. The series is a typical streamer length (8 episodes) and sadly it was cancelled shortly after it was release. As the expression goes, the body wasn't even cold yet 🫤.I rather liked the series because it paints a picture that is a bit more complicated than the typical Jedi = Good, Anger/Sith = Bad. In fact, in this seriesΟ Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-56797647936158613202024-09-14T12:23:00.001-04:002024-09-14T12:23:00.114-04:00Star Trek Legends | DoneHere's a game I "finished" this month. I was curious about this game as it was an iOS Arcade exclusive for a while and the free three month trial of Apple Arcade was like a siren call... In the end, I skipped the mobile experience and decided to buy this on sale on Steam some time over the summer (or was it in the spring?)By "finished" I mean that I earned all Steam achievements, I finishedΟ Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-63454399340925863812024-09-12T11:04:00.001-04:002024-09-12T11:04:00.113-04:00TV- Jack Ryan | ReviewHere's a show I finished last month (August 2024) and thought I'd write a few things about it before it completely faded from memory. This is a Tom Clancy adaptation for Amazon Prime. The series had four seasons, and the first two were the strongest in my view. The series stars John Krasinski (of The Office fame) as Jack Ryan, and Wendell Pierce as James Greer (Ryan's Boss).The first Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-44518470200574182912024-08-24T14:59:00.001-04:002024-08-24T14:59:00.225-04:00Assassin's Creed Mirage| DoneHere's a game that took WAY too long for me to finish (considering how much I like this series). I finished June 2024 but I started October 2023.I was reluctant to start this game. I love the setting. I love the size of the map, and I love its "simplicity" when compared to the ENORMOUS maps that came with Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed those gamesΟ Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4642642383735930111.post-41636571136640965022024-08-22T13:32:00.001-04:002024-08-22T13:32:00.227-04:00TV - Flash GordonHere's another TV show I started a while back, but I just got around to finishing. I came across this one on Plex one afternoon while browsing the free streaming offerings a year or so ago. I had never watched Flash Gordon (the original movie), but I think I need to track it down and see how it compares. I guess this 2007-era TV show is loosely based on the comic strip.The one Ο Φοβερόςhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11271799697272705417noreply@blogger.com0