Yes, I have to take a moment to type 2015. I’m sure I’ll write the wrong date plenty of times over the next week or two.

Today has been a bit disjoint. Sleeping late. Picking up Fiona from one party. Going to another party. I’m tired and not very focused.

I continue to go through my standard set of online media. On Facebook, people are wishing one another Happy New Year. Some are remembering things that made 2014 such a challenging year for them. Over on Twitter, everyone seems to be talking about football games.

Glancing at Open Culture led me to spending some time looking at images from the Metropolitan Museum in New York. They have some nice fairly high resolution pictures of various paintings. For example Summer Day on Conesus Lake by John Frederick Kensett is 2691x1768 and Poppy Fields near Argenteuil by Claude Monet 3811x2819.

I’ve been reading a little bit about ultra high definition and 4K monitors. I watch very little television, and most of the stuff I view online is on a laptop, so 4K monitors haven’t really been all that interesting to me. Yet viewing some of the Met’s paintings on a large UHD or 4K monitor would be pretty impressive and the prices have been dropping. Maybe this year we’ll get around to upgrading the old analog television in the family room.

I skimmed the daily office and then glanced at various news sites. Nothing really jumped out at me on Google News, or Newstrust. Yet Hijacked Printers in Eastern Ukraine and Russia Print Pro-Ukraine Messages jumped out at me on Global Voices. I’ve wondered why we haven’t heard about this elsewhere. I suspect many printers are pretty easily accessed.

The article had one comment, “Russia is responsible for MH17 !!!!” MH17, or Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was the passenger jet that was shot down near the Russian/Ukraine boarder back in July. A search on MH17, points to, among other sites, the #MH17 hashtag.

This got me thinking about the top hashtags of 2014. Of course the lists depend on the medium being used, the location the medium is being used in, and probably a bit of subjectivity of the author of the article about popular hashtags. From #EuroMaiden to #mh17. From #BlackLivesMatter to #ICantBreathe. From #BringBackOurGIrls to #WhyIStayed

I could go on with any of these topics for a while, but I’m pretty tired, so I’ll leave off here.