{"id":704,"date":"2012-01-01T21:03:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T21:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=704"},"modified":"2012-01-01T21:03:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T21:03:46","slug":"hello-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/hello-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent the last few days of 2011 in Myrtle Beach, finishing several projects that I’d left undone through the year. Now, it seems appropriate to start 2012 with a “year in review” post.<\/p>\n

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\nHappy New Year 2012!<\/a> by Creativity103<\/a>, on Flickr <\/p>\n

\nMy biggest news of 2011 was having “Therapeutic Mathematics and the Physics of Curve Balls” published in the September 2011 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other 2011 news, I got involved in filk, which is fannish folk singing — i.e., writing and performing folk songs with a science fiction or fantasy focus. A few of my meager efforts are now on YouTube, and they’ve generally been well-received … especially “The Monster Hunter Ballad”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for the goals I set myself in 2011, I had mixed results:<\/p>\n