Some of my favorite things from 2022

Music

• Albums: Un Verano Sin Ti (Bad Bunny), Multitude (Stromae), and Jack in the Box (j-hope)
• Classical: Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (Karl Böhm and Vienna Philhamonic), Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas (Igor Levit)

Books

• Fiction: My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Ottessa Mosfegh) and The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin)
• Nonfiction: What You Have Heard Is True (Carolyn Forché)

Movies

Blade Runner 2049 and Everything Everywhere All At Once

Papers

• Metropolis, et al. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines J. Chem. Phys. 1953. (The original Metropolis algorithm!)
• Bender, et al. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 In Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’21) 2021.
• Mariño-Peréz, et al. Visualizing protein breathing motions associated with aromatic ring flipping Nature 2022.

Food

Looking back at my photos from this year, it was filled with lots of delicious things ranging from the simple to the complex. I tried to pick a few (I admit I didn't do that good of a job narrowing it down) which I found most memorable. (Slideshow with pictures below.)

• Steamed clams and oysters at Golden Bull (Chicago, IL)
• Fried oyster taco with squid ink tortilla and tlacoyo at Mi Tocaya Antojería (Chicago, IL)
• Pastries from Jonquils (Boston, MA)
• Detroit-style pizza at Pauli Gee's (Chicago, IL)
• Tsukemen at Chicago Ramen (Des Plaines, IL)
• Tteokbokki at Her Name is Han (New York, NY)
• Seaweed-fried yellow croaker at Shine (Chicago, IL)
• Fried clams at Legal Seafood (Boston, MA)
• Green peppercorn fish soup at Szechuan Mountain House (New York, NY)
• Steamed black rockfish at H. L. Peninsula (Milpitas, CA)
• Calamari at Koi Palace (Milpitas, CA)
• Choripan at Chori (Buenos Aires)
• Shrimp on hot rock at Aramburu (Buenos Aires)
• Potato bread cooked in embers at Boragó (Santiago de Chile)
• Heirloom tomato salad with puffed rice at Wickman House (Ellison Bay, WI)
• Pastrami and poutine at Schwartz's Deli (Montréal)
• Tiger skin eggs and fried fish at Pichai (Montréal)
• Seafood hot pot at Cho Dang Gol (New York, NY)
• Tamales with mole and ayocote at Tamales Doña Emi (Mexico City)
• Cream pastry from Pan Montserrat (Mexico City)
• Tacos al pastor at Taqueria La Tapatia (Mexico City)
• Roast suckling pig from BBQ King House (Chicago, IL)


























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