A year in review. Everyone else is doing it...
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matgbCan't sleep. Clowns threatening to eat us. This weird shared brain thing means we both get insomnia at the same time. So how about those annual round up memes that everyone's been doing for the last month?
Right, not going to do "first post" stuff, because I find that pointless. So instead, most commented on post per month:
January: The one about the Deadlands CCG survey was popular with 42 comments, partially because I linked it elsewhere, but it's not a general interest post, so joint tied in second place with 27 apeice were the Big Brother racism row and my story of flat-hunting woes.
February: Hmm, yeah. A linkspam with the VW Beetle sex (52 comments) and me complaining about my 'net connection (26 comments), both mostly notable for the obvious flirting with Jennie before we actually got together.
March: Most commented on post was actually filtered so just Jennie could see it(52 comments). So top open post is about my weekend again, us spamming each other (37 comments), and a linkspam post discussing Facebook, feed aggregation and general daftness (30 comments).
April: Clear lead with 51 comments is the discussion on Lush cosmetics and how to wash your hair while taking a bath. 2nd was a 'comment here' meme, the sort of thing I rarely do but was knackered with 47 comments, so third place with 30 comments is the one about the petition to get Terry a knighthood.
May: A locked post about sex, filters and online discussions thereof, viewable to friends only, got 60 comments (you really are a filthy lot). On the subject of filth though, my post about the first Livejournal mass deletions mess up (Strikethrough) got 42 comments, and the icons and interests meme got 32 comments.
June: Poll on the Olympics logo got 40 comments, and thanks for all the congrats on the "I got a new job" post (34 comments).
July: Clear win here, the poll about Serenity/Firefly not only got 67 comments on its own, but the follow up post on midwifery after the comment drift also got 54. One of the things I like about you guys is the vast spread of knowledge you've got, I learnt a lot from that discussion.
August: No contest, clear winner for the month with 81 comments (plus a bunch more on the Facebook import), was our announcement that we got engaged. Second place was the Political Compass/You know you're a Conservative meme post, which again was interesting (44 comments).
September: The Civic Literacy thing showing that a bunch of us score better on a test about the US civics than Harvard students (scary) got 50 comments, and the Tate/Tennant video got 32.
October: 92 comments on the cupcake poll. And now that I'm up here, I can confirm it's not just Jennie, they're all a bit weird on the subject. 46 comments on my "favourite things to do in London" question. Didn't get around to that many of them, but it's not like I won't be back. There were 45 comments on the Rick Astley poll as well, in case anyone didn't go look at that site.
November: The Noah's Ark Zoo Farm post got 44 comments here, and inspired posts by a few others as well. Scary British creationists. The 5th November post got 32 as well.
December: My "didn't notice the date of the article" post on Charles Clarke got 40 comments. Regardless of timeliness, he's still an arse. And the Doctor Who poll got 25 comments, which given I've not really replied there much is mostly you lot talking to each other, whcih is nice.
From just about everyone already, the annual round up quiz:
1.What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Lived in London, spent more than a week unemployed, worked in Westminster, fell in love, got engaged, moved to Yorkshire.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Not really. The plan for the year was enjoy London and try to sort my life out. That's a yes to both then.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not this year.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Close? No, an Uncle, but hadn't seen him for years.
5. What countries did you visit?
Yorkshire. That counts.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Money.
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Feb 15th, probably.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Decent(ish) job. Oh, and getting engaged. That probably counts as an acheivement.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not getting enough paid work early in the year. Not getting the sideline web business up and running.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Lots of flu and colds, but nothing serious.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Bus tickets I suspect. Haven't really bought anything major this year myself, fair few books. Oh, new mobile phone/MP3 player? Jennie bought the engagement rings so I can't count that.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Que? I understand not the question. Can I nominate Vince Cable?
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Nothing really springs to mind.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Food, rent, travel tickets. Oh, a fair bit of booze.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Jennie.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Do you remember the first time by Pulp.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier.
b) thinner or fatter? About the same, I did lose some weight but gained it back again.
c) richer or poorer? Poorer, slightly.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Paid work.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Skiving.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
In t'pub then at a friend of Jennie's.
21. What was your favourite month of 2007?
Um. March. Our first 'proper' dates.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Let's think about this one for a second. Yes, yes I did.
23. How many one-night stands?
None, on a technicality.
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Doctor Who was pretty much the only show I watched anything of. But if you count DVDs, an equal tie with Battlestar Galactica.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
What is this hate thing of which people speak?
26. What was the best book you read?
Fiction: The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gollancz S.F.) by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scott_lunch
History: The Glorious Revolution: 1688 - Britain's Fight for Liberty by Edward Vallance
General interest: The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
undercover_econ/tim_harford_fd)
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing really, didn't get into any new music this year.
28. What did you want and get?
Apart from Jennie? Job.
29. What did you want and not get?
Well paid succesful job. Except I didn't really try there.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Stardust, mostly for lack of competition.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
33, worked during the day then met up with a bunch of people in a pub near Victoria in the evening. Was good.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Actually sorting out a bunch of politicians websites rather than just planning to do so and talking about it lots.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
"you can have any colour you like, as long as it's black"
34. What kept you sane?
Jennie.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Sue Perkins. Jessica Alba is still near the top, but she did nowt this year...
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
ID cards, still. Did more actual campaigning on SOCPA though, but there's less directly I can do for ID cards currently.
37. Who did you miss?
Parents, spent all my free time and travelling coming up to Yorkshire, so barely went back to Devon.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Um, can't think, no idea. Oh, wait, Jennie.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
Do not discount the power of female insanity.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
My brain has gone blank. Sorry.
Well, that took awhile to write. It's now silly o'clock in the morning, and we're meeting friends to go shopping in Leeds in less than three hours, think I've had about 4 hours sleep total. Ah well. In case I don't post again till tomorrow, happy new year y'all.
Right, not going to do "first post" stuff, because I find that pointless. So instead, most commented on post per month:
January: The one about the Deadlands CCG survey was popular with 42 comments, partially because I linked it elsewhere, but it's not a general interest post, so joint tied in second place with 27 apeice were the Big Brother racism row and my story of flat-hunting woes.
February: Hmm, yeah. A linkspam with the VW Beetle sex (52 comments) and me complaining about my 'net connection (26 comments), both mostly notable for the obvious flirting with Jennie before we actually got together.
March: Most commented on post was actually filtered so just Jennie could see it(52 comments). So top open post is about my weekend again, us spamming each other (37 comments), and a linkspam post discussing Facebook, feed aggregation and general daftness (30 comments).
April: Clear lead with 51 comments is the discussion on Lush cosmetics and how to wash your hair while taking a bath. 2nd was a 'comment here' meme, the sort of thing I rarely do but was knackered with 47 comments, so third place with 30 comments is the one about the petition to get Terry a knighthood.
May: A locked post about sex, filters and online discussions thereof, viewable to friends only, got 60 comments (you really are a filthy lot). On the subject of filth though, my post about the first Livejournal mass deletions mess up (Strikethrough) got 42 comments, and the icons and interests meme got 32 comments.
June: Poll on the Olympics logo got 40 comments, and thanks for all the congrats on the "I got a new job" post (34 comments).
July: Clear win here, the poll about Serenity/Firefly not only got 67 comments on its own, but the follow up post on midwifery after the comment drift also got 54. One of the things I like about you guys is the vast spread of knowledge you've got, I learnt a lot from that discussion.
August: No contest, clear winner for the month with 81 comments (plus a bunch more on the Facebook import), was our announcement that we got engaged. Second place was the Political Compass/You know you're a Conservative meme post, which again was interesting (44 comments).
September: The Civic Literacy thing showing that a bunch of us score better on a test about the US civics than Harvard students (scary) got 50 comments, and the Tate/Tennant video got 32.
October: 92 comments on the cupcake poll. And now that I'm up here, I can confirm it's not just Jennie, they're all a bit weird on the subject. 46 comments on my "favourite things to do in London" question. Didn't get around to that many of them, but it's not like I won't be back. There were 45 comments on the Rick Astley poll as well, in case anyone didn't go look at that site.
November: The Noah's Ark Zoo Farm post got 44 comments here, and inspired posts by a few others as well. Scary British creationists. The 5th November post got 32 as well.
December: My "didn't notice the date of the article" post on Charles Clarke got 40 comments. Regardless of timeliness, he's still an arse. And the Doctor Who poll got 25 comments, which given I've not really replied there much is mostly you lot talking to each other, whcih is nice.
From just about everyone already, the annual round up quiz:
1.What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Lived in London, spent more than a week unemployed, worked in Westminster, fell in love, got engaged, moved to Yorkshire.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Not really. The plan for the year was enjoy London and try to sort my life out. That's a yes to both then.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not this year.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Close? No, an Uncle, but hadn't seen him for years.
5. What countries did you visit?
Yorkshire. That counts.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Money.
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Feb 15th, probably.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Decent(ish) job. Oh, and getting engaged. That probably counts as an acheivement.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not getting enough paid work early in the year. Not getting the sideline web business up and running.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Lots of flu and colds, but nothing serious.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Bus tickets I suspect. Haven't really bought anything major this year myself, fair few books. Oh, new mobile phone/MP3 player? Jennie bought the engagement rings so I can't count that.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Que? I understand not the question. Can I nominate Vince Cable?
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Nothing really springs to mind.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Food, rent, travel tickets. Oh, a fair bit of booze.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Jennie.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Do you remember the first time by Pulp.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier.
b) thinner or fatter? About the same, I did lose some weight but gained it back again.
c) richer or poorer? Poorer, slightly.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Paid work.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Skiving.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
In t'pub then at a friend of Jennie's.
21. What was your favourite month of 2007?
Um. March. Our first 'proper' dates.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Let's think about this one for a second. Yes, yes I did.
23. How many one-night stands?
None, on a technicality.
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Doctor Who was pretty much the only show I watched anything of. But if you count DVDs, an equal tie with Battlestar Galactica.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
What is this hate thing of which people speak?
26. What was the best book you read?
Fiction: The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gollancz S.F.) by
scott_lunchHistory: The Glorious Revolution: 1688 - Britain's Fight for Liberty by Edward Vallance
General interest: The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford (
undercover_econ/tim_harford_fd)27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing really, didn't get into any new music this year.
28. What did you want and get?
Apart from Jennie? Job.
29. What did you want and not get?
Well paid succesful job. Except I didn't really try there.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Stardust, mostly for lack of competition.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
33, worked during the day then met up with a bunch of people in a pub near Victoria in the evening. Was good.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Actually sorting out a bunch of politicians websites rather than just planning to do so and talking about it lots.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
"you can have any colour you like, as long as it's black"
34. What kept you sane?
Jennie.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Sue Perkins. Jessica Alba is still near the top, but she did nowt this year...
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
ID cards, still. Did more actual campaigning on SOCPA though, but there's less directly I can do for ID cards currently.
37. Who did you miss?
Parents, spent all my free time and travelling coming up to Yorkshire, so barely went back to Devon.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Um, can't think, no idea. Oh, wait, Jennie.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
Do not discount the power of female insanity.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
My brain has gone blank. Sorry.
Well, that took awhile to write. It's now silly o'clock in the morning, and we're meeting friends to go shopping in Leeds in less than three hours, think I've had about 4 hours sleep total. Ah well. In case I don't post again till tomorrow, happy new year y'all.
