Best of 2012
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Events
- Amy and Warren got married
- Madeleine and Ben got married
- Guelph Park is unofficially renamed to Dude Chilling Park
- A 5125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar ends, triggering cataclysm-themed random hysteria instead of simply incrementing the b'ak'tun to 13 (Long Count 13.0.0.0.0).
TV
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
- In The Mood for Love (2002)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Books
Written and read in 2012:
- Andrew McCarthy - The Longest Way Home
Read in 2012:
- Annie Dillard - An American Childhood
- David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
- John Jeremiah Sullivan - Pulphead Essays (written late 2011)
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
- Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
- Gonzales - Solo Piano II
- Japandroids - Celebration Rock
- The Weeknd - Trilogy
Live Music
- Gonzales supporting Solo Piano II
- Moogfest 2012
Music Videos
Technology
Games
- Letterpress
- Sega's been doing some good work releasing classic Dreamcast games for iOS, like Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio. Also Sonic CD.
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.
- High frame rate (48Hz+) enters the movie mainstream with The Hobbit (2012), hopefully putting an end to juddery 24Hz vomit vision.
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
- Cafe Rolle, Sacramento
Dinner Spots
- Magpie Cafe, Sacramento
