In a scene in the movie Manhattan, the main character Isaac, played by Woodie Allen, reflects upon all the things that make life worth living. I was thinking about that particular scene when I read this post with Matt Kayes’ favourites. I always enjoy a good list, especially lists that explore a variety of themes and topics.
In this post I bring my own list of favourites as of June 2024. I have added the probability that I will have the same entry as my favourite within the category in, say, five years time in parenthesis. This is similar to what Future Perfect at Vox is doing when they assign a numerical probability to each of their predictions. The list is in alphabetical order.
- Album. Endtroducing….. (70%)
- Art movement. Minimalism (90%)
- Author. Karl Ove Knausgård (93%)
- Background colour. #fafafa (67%)
- Bedtime. Midnight (30%)
- Beer style. IPA (99.9%)
- BI tool. Evidence (50%)
- Big Five trait. Agreeableness (60%)
- Blogger. Tyler Cowen (80%)
- Book. Sult (85%)
- Breakfast. Skyr (84%)
- Browser. Firefox (91%)
- Card suit. ♥ (78%)
- Chess opening. 1. d4 (63%)
- Coffee. Americano (99%)
- Comic strip. Calvin and Hobbes (95%)
- Conceptual artist. On Kawara (82%)
- Counter-Strike map. de_ancient (70%)
- Cuisine. Italian (91%)
- Dash. Em dash (93%)
- Dutch painter. Vincent van Gogh (96%)
- Electoral system. Party-list proportional representation (98%)
- Essayist. Chuck Klosterman (80%)
- Film director. Stanley Kubrick (95%)
- Football club. Arsenal (96%)
- ggplot2 theme.
theme_minimal()(97%) - Graphic novel. Maus (79%)
- Ham. Prosciutto (81%)
- Hogwarts house. Slytherin (82%)
- IDE. Visual Studio Code (90%)
- Indoor plant. Laurentii (87%)
- Learning platform. DataCamp (50%)
- London blog. diamond geezer (82%)
- London Tube line. Circle (91%)
- Mausoleum. Taj Mahal (99%)
- Movie. Annie Hall (75%)
- Multiplication table. 9 (52%)
- Museum. Guggenheim (86%)
- Music app. Spotify (95%)
- Musical. Hamilton (88%)
- Newsletter. Webcurios (75%)
- Newspaper. The Economist
- Number. 17 (19%)
- Outdoor temperature. 19°C (17%)
- Painter. Edward Hopper (72%)
- Philosopher. Søren Kierkegaard (50%)
- Perfume. Allure Homme Sport by Chanel (83%)
- Pianist. Philip Glass (79%)
- Pixar movie. Toy Story 2 (50%)
- Podcast. Han Duo (1%)
- Pokémon. Charmander (95%)
- Pub game. Table football (97%)
- Relational database management system. MySQL (54%)
- RSS reader. NetNewsWire (70%)
- Running distance. 10k (20%)
- Season. Fall (75%)
- Shell environment. Zsh (87%)
- Sit-com. Seinfeld (92%)
- Sport. Squash (94%)
- Strategy video game subgenre. Tower defense (86%)
- Superhero. Batman (93%)
- Tea. Fresh mint with saffron rock sugar stick (90%)
- Television series. The Wire (96%)
- Time standard. ISO 8601 (100%)
- Toy. Lego (97%)
- Typeface. IBM Plex (80%)
- Video game. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (91%)
- Whisky. The Balvenie (75%)
- Wine. Burgundy (94%)