I'm Older Than My Years

I was planning on doing a fancy retrospective for this year, pulling out tweets from 2012 and plotting them on a map using D3.js to show where I’ve been this year. But it seems that tweets downloaded from Twitter’s archiving option are stripped of their geotags. Or at least mine are. So, here’s your list of where I’ve been this year:

• California
• North Carolina
• Illinois
• Virginia
• London
• Oxford
• Bicester

There you go. Not as fancy, but you get the same information. Edward Tufte would be proud. Maybe.

Another year down, my first full year living in the US. Still can’t drive. But back in Durham. Strangely missing Santa Monica every now and then, but that gets put back in its box pretty quickly when I remember the long hours of the Crunch and living in a hotel room for many months. Or the time early this year when I wandered around in the rain trying to find an Urgent Care facility that would take my insurance.

I suppose I could do an infographic of my donations to the Obama campaign, but that would scare me as much as it scares you. Likewise my Amazon purchases for 2012. All I’ll say on that front is that I started with four bookcases and will probably get my fifth shortly, as well as undertaking an experiment to see just how much Target’s basic bookcases can hold on a single shelf (they can bow quite impressively!).

What to look out for in the New Year? More Fallout Durham, hopefully, as well as a few other new things here and there. Another visit back to the UK, hopefully. And, of course, more bookcases…