Therapy projects

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Feb 152011
 

Regular gigs and movies (in theatres, that is) have been semi-disrupted by the move to suburbia.

Last year failed the traditional new year’s resolution on both (once a month, at least on averages).

Hence decided to formalize some activites as year-long therapy projects:

  • Go see a movie every month.
  • Go see live music monthly.
  • Learn a new board game every month.
  • Cook something new (using a new ingredient, method or something else) monthly.
  • Set up the balcony gardens as soon as feasible.
  • Play a new interactive fiction game every month.
  • Program something meaningful.

The list is open-ended, and will be extended as time passes – the relevant blog entries will be tagged with a “therapy project 2011″-category retroactively.

Potential awesome service award nailed already in January?

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Feb 012011
 

Had not one, but two packages from the co.uk instance of Amazon go M.I.A.

One order, two packages, both missing, ten days past the calculated delivery date.

As the finnish postal service provides no tracking service for packages, the only recourse was to turn to the amazon customer care.

Who delivered in spades. At least in theory: my order got forked into a new copy, and the second run is set to arrive at the end of the month.

2010 in review

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Jan 032011
 

General retrospective, in no specific order.

  • Still working for Nokia.
  • Released no new phones, only a couple of SDKs.
  • Still living in Espoo (and commuting without a car).
  • Visited only one new country: Poland (and even that was an unplanned extra leg).
  • Saw fewer movies and live concerts than I planned.
  • Blogged quite a bit.
  • Still busy in Facebook.
  • Less so in Twitter.
  • Quite busy on Gowalla.
  • Less so on Foursquare (and other location-based services).
  • Even less so (pitifully, actually) geocaching/waymarking.
  • Bought an iPad and a new Macbook Pro.
  • Took plenty of photographs.
  • Spent a gloriously good nine days in Japan.
  • Visited Lapland for the first time in wintertime.
  • Didn’t set up the aquarium (actually booted it on account of the bottom plate having cracked).
  • The sequel to Guns n’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy was not released.
  • Did some actual therapy projects: chili grew well and the first Rails-project got off to a decent start.

No links.

Previous years’ analyses are also available:
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004

Best of 2010

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Jan 032011
 
  • Album: Live on Lansdowne, Boston, MA by Dropkick Murphys.
  • Song: Raptori’s remake of Tosi Tarttuva Täytebiisi.
  • Concert: Turisas in Nosturi.
  • Movie: Toy Story 3.
  • Book (fiction): Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell.
  • Book (non-fiction): Aitoa Ruokaa by Mats-Eric Nilsson.
  • Television show: Castle.
  • Gadget: iPad.
  • Game: Mass Effect 2.
  • Portable game: Tilt to Live.
  • Webgame: Frontierville.
  • Dinner: Farang.
  • Comic: Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley.
  • Web-comic: XKCD.
  • Sports-related: Spain’s world cup victory.
  • Person of the year: Bradley Manning.
  • Bar: American Bar, once again.

Previous years listings are also available:
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005.

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Sep 262010
 

Bitch Slap posterWent on a rampage in the last few weeks to purchase dvds to tide over a rainy and boring autumn.

Only two of these were full-priced. No prizes for guessing which.

  • Whole Ten Yards.
  • Mindhunters.
  • The Faculty.
  • Stranger Than Fiction.
  • Brokeback Mountain.
  • Public Enemy #1, parts 1 and 2.
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Plan.
  • Bitch Slap.
  • Precious.
  • The X-Files: Fight The Future.
  • The X-Files: I Want To Believe.
  • Edge of Darkness (the Mel Gibson version).
  • The Cove.
  • Sherlock (Steven Moffat’s).
  • Night At The Museum.
  • Night At The Museum 2.
  • The Warriors.
  • Australia.
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • Exit Through The Gift Shop.
  • The Spirit.
  • A Scanner Darkly.

Therapy counters w36

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Sep 062010
 

Mass Effect 2 cosplay Jack

  • Books catalogued in LibraryThing: 362 (two weeks – still no prohress).
  • Stars discovered in Super Mario Galaxy: 28 / 120 (Freezeflame Galaxy proved too much for flu-slowed hand-eye coordination).
  • Crew members recruited and made loyal in Mass Effect 2: 11 / 12, 7 / 12 (recruited Tali, loyalized three more crewmembers).
  • Pending movie review articles: 6 (Toy Stories and GET LAMP added to the backlog).
  • Pending game of the week articles: 5 (no progress).

The attached image is a Mass Effect 2 cosplay.

Therapy counters w35

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Aug 302010
 

Super Mario Murder

  • Books catalogued in LibraryThing: 362 (two weeks – no progress).
  • Stars discovered in Super Mario Galaxy: 28 / 120 (Gusty Garden Galaxy done).
  • Crew members recruited and made loyal in Mass Effect 2: 10 / 12, 4 / 12 (no change).
  • Pending movie review articles: 3 (did Heat).
  • Pending game of the week articles: 5 (Plants vs. Zombies).

The attached image, very appropriate to progress in Super Mario Galaxy depicts what could happen if goombas weren’t just bits.

Therapy counters, w33

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Aug 162010
 
  • Books catalogued in LibraryThing: 362 (still going through the living room).
  • Stars discovered in Super Mario Galaxy: 23 / 120 (getting back to an old classic).
  • Crew members recruited and made loyal in Mass Effect 2: 10 / 12, 4 / 12 (with the intention of ALL/ALL before going through the Omega relay).
  • Pending movie review articles: 5.
  • Pending game of the week articles: 6.
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