List #769: A Few Things About the Digital World that Bother Me a Lot

 A Few (among many) Things About the Digital World that Bother Me a Lot

1. the balkanization of media outlets (why can I buy DC comics from comixology's website, but not their "app")

2. privacy vs commerce  (I am Google's product)

3. idiots who write comments on youtube, amazon, etc. (no comment)

4. proprietary formats (this is better)

5. net neutrality being threatened 

6. the appification of the internet and the death of the web. 

7. leasing things in the cloud instead of having them

8. the "bleed" of the major tech companies in their quest for dominance (Facebook should not be a search engine, Google should not be a social networking site,  apple should make cool devices,  Amazon should sell content and products)

List #765: A Few Thoughts on the Future of These Lists

List #765: A Few Thoughts on the Future of These Lists

1. I've completed my second full year (with a ~35 list interlude in 2010

2. They are still fun to write, but less so now that Facebook doesn't import them

3. I may shift it to a different hosting service if Google is still ticking me off

4. I will probably not do them daily for 2012

5. It would be nice to get to #800 and restart in 2013

6. I was less diligent about daily updates the second time through

7. I enjoy getting comments

8. My requests for audience participation went largely unanswered

9. I might work on the Nic-ipedia again

10. Thanks for reading. Happy New Year.

List #638: 3 Sports I'd Like to Try

List #638: 5 Sports/Athletic Competitions I'd Like to Try

1. Biathalon

2. Team Handball

3. Indoor Field Hockey

List #627: Things I'd like to do in the next few months

List #627: Things I'd like to do in the next few months

1. Have another Soup and Settlers day

2. Have a non-MtG, non Settlers game night

3. Get caught up on "Breaking Bad"

4. Run a bit more

5. Wash my car (sooner rather than later)

List #590: Names I Might Give A Dog If I Were Ever Going to Own One (which is very very unlikely)

List #59X: Names I Might Give A Dog If I Were Ever Going to Own One (which is very very unlikely) (also, not all names work for all breeds)

1. Page

2. Mr. Poopytimes

3. Ogden (Oggy-Doggy)

4. Molly

5. Rerun

6. The Beast

List #562: Things I'll Never Be

List #562: Things I'll Never Be

1. A Long Distance Runner

2. A Doctor

3. Rich

4. A Snake-handler

5. A Hi-rise Window Washer

List #523: Things I'd Like to Happen in the Future of Magic: the Gathering

List #523: Things I'd Like to Happen in the Future of Magic: the Gathering

1. Legendary Creatures that are 4-colored for use as EDH generals

2. For Innistrad to be about wherever Baron Sengir came from

3. Foil Zephyr Falcons

4. The Blue-Green planeswalker to be printed (and a Black-White one that makes tokens!)

5. A return to Ravnica

6. Functional reprints of the original Dual lands (even though they said they won't)

7. A 5-color "Lord" card for the "Ally" creature type

8. Allied-color 'Sword of __ and ___'

9. Riggers assembling Contraptions!

10. Something to remove poison counters, other than Leeches

List #476: TV Stuff I'm Excited For

List #476: TV Stuff I'm Excited For

1. The Killing

2. Game of Thrones

3. Smallville to finally be done (if I ever get caught up), and to have Booster Gold

4. To see if the David E. Kelley 'Wonder Woman' show is any good

5. That Fringe got picked up for another season.

List #401: 32 Years I Would Time-Travel To

List #401: 32 Years I Would Time-Travel To if Time-Travel Were Possible (and I didn't have a strict "No Time Travel!" policy). Note: tampering with major world events is generally avoided.

1. 1991 (to re-watch the World Series)

2. 2112 (to see if Rush was right)

3. 2179 (its a good number)

4. 2010 (to remind myself to get an absentee ballot)

5. 1983 (because being 4 is the perfect age)

6. 1937 (to buy Action Comics #1)

7. 1999 (to party with Prince)

8. 1679 (I just like that number)

9. 1588 (so I can defeat the Spanish Armada)

10. ~1455 (Printing of Gutenberg Bible)

11. 1986 (to read Watchmen, Maus and DKR as they were published)

12. 2008 (to remind my brother not to climb. Also to fix a number of other things
(not a great year))

13. 2012 (late-year, to make sure the world's still here)

14. 1965 (to watch the World Series)

15. 1947 (to attend my Grandmother's Carleton graduation)

16. 1977 (to see Star Wars. To see Weather Report)

17. 1997 (to do a better job on my final presentation for "Musical Biography and Autobiography")

18. 1976 (to lobby against the Copyright Act of 1976)

19. 1992 (to not cross-out "sugarcane". to avoid an embarrassing and inaccurate photo)

20. 1858 (to see Minnesota join the Union)

21. 1413 (to hide-out with Owain Glyn Dwr)

22. ~65,000,000 BCE (Dinosaurs!)

23. 1961 (to hang out with Stan Lee)

24. 2000 (to shoot more accurately in overtime)

25. ~1400 (to see Great Zimbabwe)

26. 1954 (to attend the Comic Book Hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency)

27. 1587 (to see what happened to the Roanoke Colony)

28. 2080 (to grab at the chance and be handsome farmers)

29. 1984 (to tell myself to be less weird in Kindergarten)

30. 3030 (because I love intergalactic rap battles)

31. ~20,000 BCE (most recent Glacial Age)

32. 1979 (because it would just be weird to see yourself right after you were born)

List #382: Future Teaching Pet Peeves

List #382: Future Teaching Pet Peeves

1. Having to explain the difference between UR and U R.
2. Marking off points for mistakes that predictive-text makes
3. When kids get too lazy to even have to learn _skills_ (since "content" is already going out of vogue) because an App can do it for them.
4. Enforcing avatar dress-codes ('skin'-codes?)
5. Cheat code enhancement scandals for virtual athletes in "Madden 2020: Homecoming"

List #366: 12 Important Pieces of Information for Likers and Lovers of Lists

List #366: 12 Important Pieces of Information for Likers and Lovers of Lists

1. "My Year in Lists" was always intended to be a list per day for 1 year.
2. I have another daily writing project that is going to be my main focus for this year
3. It is called the "Nic-ipedia" and you can find it here http://nic-ipedia.blogspot.com/
4. I still have lists that I want to write
5. I will continue to write lists as I find time, but I'm not going to do a list-a-day this year
6. I can only have one blog automatically upload as Facebook Notes, as of today, that will be my new blog-project
7. I will try to remember to post links to my lists when I update the blog, but
8. If you really like the lists, you should keep checking http://nicsyearinlists.blogspot.com (maybe even add the RSSfeed to your reader, etc) to see them, and
9. You can and should still suggest list ideas.
10. I will continue with the consecutive numbering of the lists (as you can tell by this one)
11. Thanks for reading :)
12. San Dimas High School football Rules!!!!!!

List #311: Things that would cause me to disown my (imaginary/potential children)

List #311: Things that would cause me to disown my (imaginary/potential children)

1. Matri-/Fratri-/(Soro- (?))/Patri-/Genocide
2. Not eating crusts

List #209: Things I would like to make

List #209: Things I would like to make

1. Deep dish pizza
2. Some sort of funny video
3. Some sort of cool Google Earth .kmz
4. not my bed
5. innovative changes to my 9th grade curriculum
6. a t-shirt quilt
7. an alphabet book
8. a pop-up book
9. something out of clay
10. a disc golf course

List #204: My projected fall TV watching schedule, with commentary

List #204: My projected fall TV watching schedule, with commentary


1. How I Met Your Mother, Monday 8-8:30 CBS (Heroes has become 'wait til DVD')
2. Big Bang Theory, Monday 9:30-10 CBS (need to find something to kill the 8:30-9:30 block)
3. Glee, Wednesday 9:00-10:00 Fox (gonna give it a try. liked the pilot)
4. Bones, Thursday 8:00-9:00 Fox (usually Likeable)
5. The Office, Thursday 9:00-9:30 NBC
6. 30 Rock, Thursday 9:30-10:00 NBC (once it starts)
7. Smallville, Friday 8:00-9:00 CW (why does it have to conflict with Heroclix!)
8. Dollhouse,Friday 9:00-10:00 Fox

Bonus: Things I will probably watch once they start, mostly out of habit, and that, If Jesus really loved me, would be on either Wednesday or Tuesday nights so that I don't have to choose between obligation to them and my desire to watch the better Monday/Thursday stuff.
1. 24
2. Lost

Bonus: Something I'd watch if I still have cable and didn't conflict with anything else.
1. Caprica

List #202: Things I'm excited for in the upcoming future

List #202: Things I'm excited for in the upcoming future

1. Field Hockey season
2. cooler weather
3. the continuation of Blackest Night
4. "throw down your heart" DVD
5. Getting Groceries
6. New TV season
7. Christmas break

List #146:TV Shows I'm considering starting to watch

List #146:TV Shows I'm considering starting to watch or purchase

1. Fringe
2. True Blood
3. House (have the DVDs of 1, but still averse to it)
4. Breaking Bad
5. The Tudors
6. Deadwood
7. Batman: The Animated Series
8. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (on order (since I've just rewatched both Sports Night and 30 Rock)

List #65: Things to look forward to this week

List #65: Things to look forward to this week

1. Bela Fleck and the Africa Project concert on thursday
2. Mock debate in comic book class
3. Three and a half day school week
4. Long weekend
5. the Frozen Four (let's go Bemidji)
6. Baseball season opens
7. Putting laundry away (since I haven't done it yet)
8. Eating leftover venison shepherd's pie for lunch
9. Eating Buffalo Wings and venison burgers tomorrow (though I have to watch basketball in trade)
10. Being 1 week closer to summer