The Ryndex

Welcome to naught-eight! Can you believe it? Crazy times, and we’re already 8% into the new year! The talented Frog with a Blog put together a nice retrospective video (check me out licking my fingers at 2 minutes, 15 seconds). In the same spirit, I’d like to present my annual report for 2007.

Guests and Travel

I didn’t have many guests in 2007, but they were awesome. I went to Lisbon with JJ and London with Zed. Nanners and Susan came down from Jolly Old for a weekend, and Mo and Afraa came up from Montpellier for a weekend.

I started and finished 2007 with my Christmas vacations to Canada. I lost a trip to Lisbon, because I went to the wrong airport (non-modifiable, non-refundable ticket).

Movies

Note that all star ratings have been normalized to a 0.0 to 1.0 (inclusive) interval.

• Total: 53
• Average rating: 0.7 stars
• Worst movie: Solaris, starring George Clooney. 0.15 stars
• Best movies: A three-way tie (at 0.9 stars) between C.R.A.Z.Y., The Science of Sleep and Hairspray
• Number watched on planes: 6

Although I watched slightly more than one movie a week, there was a 51 day period in the summer where I didn’t watch any.

Books

• Total: 28
• Average rating: 0.71 stars
• Total pages: 10,990 (average 29.5 a day)
• Average reading time: 8.18 days
• Number in french: 18
• Number read on my mobile phone: 3
• Worst book: No One to Trust by Iris Johanssen, 0.4 stars. It wasn’t that bad, either, but it was obviously an airport book.
• Best books: Once again, a three-way tie, but all by the same author. Peter Watt‘s books Blindsight, Maelstrom, and Starfish each earned 0.9 stars. He is a lunatic. And he gave away these three books on his website for free…
• Fastest read: Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom (260 pages, 0.6 stars) read in the morning of May 19th. And Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (383 pages, 0.6 stars) read on the airplane on December 28th.

Running

• Total distance: 640.2km
• Total time: 55.52 hours
• Number of sessions: 60
• Overall average speed: 5min12 per kilometer, or 11.5 km/hr.
• Longest run: 42.195km, of course, on April 15th. My chip time was 3h58 (5min36 per km, or 10.61 km/hr).
• Fastest run: 14.5km on December 16th, at 4min27 per km, or 13.44 km/hr. This was in the Jardin du Luxembourg.

Work

• Total hours: [redacted]
• Average lunch break: 1h13
• Total commute time: (estimated) 450-500 hours
• Total vacation days: [redacted]
• Total RTT days (time off in lieu of overtime): [redacted]
• Total supplementary holidays: [redacted]
• Total statutory (bank) holidays: 8
• Total sick days: 1

Miscellaneous

• Total number of birthdays: 1
• Number of times dumped by email: once, I think…
• Blogged: 11
• Blog comments: 8 (not too bad!)
• Unique visits: 15,022, of which 85.7% were robots.
• Top keyword: gallette de roi.
• 2007 New Years Resolutions: 3/5.