Best of 2012

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* Guelph Park is unofficially renamed to [http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/Artist+behind+Dude+Chilling+Park+sign+comes+forward/7602959/story.html Dude Chilling Park]
* Guelph Park is unofficially renamed to [http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/Artist+behind+Dude+Chilling+Park+sign+comes+forward/7602959/story.html Dude Chilling Park]
* A 5125-year-long cycle in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar Mesoamerican Long Count calendar] ends, triggering cataclysm-themed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon random hysteria] instead of simply incrementing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baktun b'ak'tun] to 13 (Long Count 13.0.0.0.0).
* A 5125-year-long cycle in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar Mesoamerican Long Count calendar] ends, triggering cataclysm-themed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon random hysteria] instead of simply incrementing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baktun b'ak'tun] to 13 (Long Count 13.0.0.0.0).
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* [http://www.whoismcafee.com/ John McAfee], of anti-virus software fame, [http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/john-mcafee-last-stand-ebook/ goes totally bananas in Belize], flees to Guatemala, and is caught [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/how-vice-got-john-mcafee-caught/ thanks to GPS data in a Vice photo].
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Revision as of 05:26, 11 December 2012

Contents

Events

TV

  • Girls
  • New Girl (started towards the end of 2011, but close enough)

Films

  • Live at the Beacon Theater (November 2011, but close enough) - Louis CK releases his comedy special through his web site for $5 instead of through HBO or another distributor, and makes Internet history. Also, it's funny.
  • Dangerously Delicious - Aziz Ansari went the same route as Louis CK and it was also funny.
  • Samsara, the HD (8K) eye-candy followup to Baraka for your balls tripping pleasure.

Notable HD Releases

Film Technology

  • High frame rate (48Hz+) enters the movie mainstream with The Hobbit (2012), hopefully putting an end to juddery 24Hz vomit vision.

Books

Written and read in 2012:

Read in 2012:

Theatre / Other

  • Venus In Fur on Broadway. Wickedly sharp, funny, and erotic. Nina Arianda won 2012 Best Actress at the Tony Awards for her performance.

Music

Live Music

Music Videos

Technology

Games

Hardware

  • 13" MacBook Pro with "Retina" Display. Finally some high DPI love in a compact laptop!
  • T+A DAC8 High end DAC performance at mid-range prices. Computer audio (USB inputs in addition to SP-DIF/AES) DACs are finally coming into their own in ~2012.

Software

  • Fusion Drive - Because spinning drives are slow and SSDs are small and expensive. I'm classifying this as software instead of hardware because the cool business is in the logical volume special sauce that makes the 2 discrete drives work together.
  • Mountain Lion (10.8)
  • Windows 8 Microsoft steps out on a limb and makes some significant changes to their desktop OS. Including in this Best Of list for their risk taking (compared to the OS X 10.7 -> 10.8 evolution) rather than any specific feature of the new OS.
  • Pixelmator 2.0 (late 2011, close enough) introduced content-aware fill and other fancy features
  • Tower is a pretty good Git GUI for OS X, although it's pretty slow with big repos

Food & Drink

Lunch Spots

Dinner Spots

See also

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