Post tagged: travel

Infoglut 2020

What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...

Read ...

  • Agency - William Gibson
  • Stop Reading the News - Rolf Dobelli
  • The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

Saw ...

  • Mr Robot, season 2
  • Preacher, season 2
  • Hypernormalisation
  • El Angel
  • La Casa de mi Padre
  • Western Stars
  • Hobbes and Shaw
  • Ford vs. Ferrari
  • JoJo Rabbit
  • John Wick 3: Parabellum
  • Ready or Not
  • Knives …

Infoglut 2019

What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...

Read ...

  • The War Nerd Iliad - John Dolan
  • God'll Cut You Down - John Safran
  • Trust Me, I'm Lying - Ryan Holiday
  • What if This Were Enough - Heather Havrilesky
  • Deep Work - Cal Newport

Saw ...

  • Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Spiral (Engrenages), season 6
  • Fool for Love
  • Gomorra, seasons 3-4
  • Ant-Man and …

Infoglut 2018

What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...

Read ...

  • The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin
  • Bad Blood - John Carreyou
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson

Saw ...

  • Un Chance de Trop (No Second Chance), season 1
  • Lucky Logan
  • Coco
  • Disaster Artist
  • The Room
  • Time Flies
  • Rawhide
  • The Trouble with Harry
  • Aguirre, Wrath of God
  • Baby …

Infoglut 2017

What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...

Read ...

  • Something Coming Through - Paul J McAuley
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
  • Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari
  • The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin - Masha Gessen

Saw ...

  • Disparue (The Disappearance), season 1
  • Tickled
  • Baron Noir, season 1
  • Pontypool
  • War on Everyone
  • Mafiosa, season 1 …

Things I'm done with

What I'm no longer bothering with

Some years ago, overwhelmed by the amount of books, movies and TV to choose from and mindful of the ever-decreasing amount of time left for it, I started to deliberately cutout things from my life. Some of these were things I once enjoyed but was only hanging onto out of …

Travel bucketlist

Places to go, things to do

Going everywhere seems like too much, and perhaps un-necessary, so my ambition is to clear half this list. There's some arbitrary qualifications - I must have a "substantial experience" in the country (at least on the level of days) and a "country" is fairly flexible, especially given the passage of time …

Infoglut 2016

What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...

Read ...

  • Dark Eden - Chris Becket
  • The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott - Andrew Street
  • Black Hawk Down - Tom Bowden
  • Pontypool Changes Everything - Tony Burgess
  • How to fail at almost everything and still win big: kind of the story of my life - Scott Adams
  • Every Time I Find the …

Infoglut 2015

What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...

Read ...

  • The Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang
  • Across Realtime - Vernor Vinge
  • A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula LeGuin
  • 10% Happier - Dan Harris
  • Dear Leader - Jang Jin-Sung
  • Hawkeye, n1-18 - Matt Fraction & David Aja
  • Saga, n13-24 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
  • Underbelly 11 - John Silvester & Andrew Rule
  • My Antonia - Willa Cather
  • Batavia's …

Infoglut 2014

What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...

Read ...

  • The Last Help Book You'll Ever Need - Paul Pearsall
  • Vidocq - James Morton
  • Nothing to Envy - Barbara Meddick
  • The Antidote - Oliver Burkeman
  • Cheap Complex Devices - John Sundman
  • A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
  • The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! - Gideon Defoe
  • Let the Right One In - John Ajvide …