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• Tue, 12:10: Trying out my new stainless steel cafetiere. Mmm. Coffee.
• Tue, 12:14: Recent Reads: Forbidden Fruit. Kerry Greenwood's Corinna Chapman bakes up a mystery of cherries, donkies, vegans, and a missing couple. Fun.
• Tue, 12:16: @robdudley With a nice single estate Kona too...
• Tue, 12:25: RT @petstarr: I just heard someone refer to the selfie stick as "the wand of Narcissus". I think we can all agree that's its official name …
• Tue, 12:49: Golden Beach https://t.co/38NpFNSn4d
• Tue, 13:57: New frying pan has had traditonal baptism of bacon and tomatoes. Mmmm.
• Tue, 15:16: Hail Bob. Hail Eris. Hail the Train Set of Slack! http://t.co/BLyGNmrtMR
• Tue, 17:00: RT @ZDNet: London: The Information Capital, book review: Data visualisation done right http://t.co/ZppJatQGNT by @marypcbuk
• Tue, 17:21: I misread @proj_spark as Project Spork. Now I need to create a game with sporks in it.

Reading 2014

Long list of books read in 2014 behind the cut. The TL;DR is 93 books, a mix of mystery, SF, urban fantasy, and graphic novels:

( See the list )

Actually, thinking about it, there are a couple more that came off Mary's list - a handful of Westlake Dortmunders and a couple of Kerry Greenwood Phyrne Fishers. So a total closer to 100 than it looks.

Standouts were Ramez Naan's Crux series, Max Gladstone's metropolitan fantasies, and the conclusion to Brenda Cooper's SFnal Evita, Ruby's Song.

The 2014 Travel Meme

Time for the 2014 travel meme.

First, a list of the places stayed overnight in 2014, with multiple nights indicated by *:

Kingman, AZ
Page, AZ,
Springdale, UT*
Las Vegas, NV*
Mojave, CA*
Paso Robles, CA*
San Jose, CA*
Skyote Mountain, CA*
San Francisco, CA*
New Orleans, LA*
Santa Monica, CA*
Laguna Beach, CA*
Bellevue, WA*
Barcelona, Spain*
Jersey, CI*
Redmond, WA*
Vancouver, BC
Portland, OR
Roseburg, OR
Dallas, TX
Houston, TX*
Austin, TX
Carlsbad, NM
Santa Fe, NM
Kingman, AZ
Berkeley, CA*
Bakersfield, CA*
Palm Springs, CA*

Road trips:
Houston - Austin - Carlsbad - Santa Fe - Kingman - Laguna Beach
Los Angeles - San Francisco - Roseburg - Portland - Bellevue - Vancouver

Airports:
LAX, SFO, JER, LGW, LHR, LAS, SEA, YVR, AMS, MSY, DFW, BCN

Airlines:
Virgin Atlantic, British Airways, KLM Cityhopper, Virgin America, Alaska Airlines, Southwest, Delta

Aircraft Types:
B747-400, A340-400, A340-600, B737-800, B737-900, A320, A321, A319, Embraer 190