I’ll wait for the formal introspection stuff until my 35th birthday on the 28th, when I plan to have a full-on mid-life crisis. But in general terms, 2011 was a pretty stellar year – one we worked pretty hard to make happen. I feel very lucky to have an awesome partner in life who works really hard with me to achieve our goals. We seem to be doing a lot of stuff right and making really good decisions, and they’re paying off with really exciting opportunities and experiences.

We made lots of amazing new friends over the past year who deserve a shout-out, kudos to the awesome people I hang out with who keep blowing my mind with their incredible accomplishments.

2012 will probably be mostly about fine-tuning things that are already working, and finding time to spend on cool people and projects. I’d also like to focus more on charity – my employer fosters a really altruistic work culture and I’m happy to run bake-sales until I’m blue in the face, but I’m really inspired by some of the “on-the-ground” work my friends are doing to help people and I’d like to somehow give more of my time and skills to the community. (Short of flying to Africa and starting a music festival – jeez louise you guys set the bar high!)

Have an amazing 2012!

As a connoisseur of disaster flicks, I can say that 2012 is an epic masterpiece boldly spreading destruction far and wide – brilliant. I don’t know if it’ll ever be topped. It took a special kind of absurd disaster movie making genius to come with the completely insane wanton destruction in this film. I applaud you, Roland Emmerich.

The acting and everything were surprisingly not bad, considering the gratuitous ultra-shallow plotline. My only beef is with the very end of the film, which feels tacked on: this family makes it through a hundred impossible escapes by the skin of their teeth only to finally spend 30 minutes trying to close a submarine door… anticlimactic.