Amazing 2004–never before has any year been described by so many different top ten lists!
Now, as for the top ten events in cryptozoology–that would probably be among the top ten things I know nothing about. Still, I can’t help wanting to jump in the game, if only by picking out my ten favorite blogposts from 2004. In chronological order, that would be:
- Return of the King: The absolute best moment (January 11)
- Re-thinking the virtues of fire-engine red (April 3)
- The fog of Robert McNamara (April 6)
- Look–up in the sky–it’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a … journalist? (April 25)
- Bullied by bullet points (May 2)
- Garlic salt and bacon grease (May 27)
- The broken internal clock of Gerald Jay Sussman (June 3)
- Travel broadens the…something (June 15)
- Dramatic theory with mosquito continuo (July 23 — this is my favorite of all, being mostly Frank)
- Angst of a modern Hamlet (November 11)
- The Nobel Prize from our dog’s point of view (October 6)
- We are in a metastable state (November 30)
- 1,000,000,000 seconds ago (December 4)
- Up to and including the Nobel Prize ceremony (December 10)
- Food presentation that will be hard to live up to (December 11)
After whittling down all my posts to a favorite ten, I suddenly realized–I’d forgotten to check the entire Nobel category. Drat, and now it’s after midnight. Well, here are my five favorite Nobel-related posts.
Am I egotistical, picking out ten favorite blogposts? Go thou and do likewise, if you haven’t already…