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1. Learn Japanese
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2. master the Jouyou kanji
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3. learn lojban
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4. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
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5. Run every day
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6. move to Japan
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7. exercise regularly
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8. Develop games
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9. gain weight
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10. Learn Morse code
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11. Learn Chinese
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12. get my BSc in Computer Science
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13. Get a masters degree
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14. Do more sports
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15. Always check if there's a book version before watching a movie
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16. Walk the "Caminito del Rey" deathpath
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17. Ride the "Bergstrasse" (mountain road) with a bike
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18. write a novel
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19. become ambidextrous
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20. penspin
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21. Learn drawing
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22. Learn to fly a plane
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23. Skydive with a wingsuit
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24. Ride the tour de France
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25. shoot a bow and arrow
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26. Visit Dreamhack and/or The Gathering
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27. read more
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28. Write Shorthand
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29. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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30. become financially independent
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31. tell a judge: "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"
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32. whistle with my fingers
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33. learn to cook ..a bit
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34. Sleep 8 hours every night
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35. have a lifework
1 person
36. find out what my blood type is
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37. learn OGRE
1 person
38. tell a taxi driver to "follow that car!"
366 people
39. destroy religion
29 people
40. Learn all alphabets
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41. Get a digital SLR camera
761 people
42. learn photography
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43. get a motorcycle licence
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How I did it

How to learn Dvorak

It took me

2 months

It made me

indifferent

How I did it: During military duty (meh, we still have this in Germany) I had a lot of spare time at my hands, and couldn't do any other tasks but office work and some occaisional browsing. So I decided to spend my time learning Dvorak in hope of it being of some use later on. So I mostly used the typing applet on hi-games.net/typing-test, nearly every day. I think it's much more important to train regulary than long, so about 30 minutes a day will be … Read how I did it…

Oct 06, 2008, 05:41AM PDT | 0 comments | 1 cheer

Recent entries

Learn Dvorak

Accomplished 13 months ago

My challenge to learn Dvorak just was marked as FAILED. But actually I didn’t fail. I learned Dvorak while I was in the army, and by now I’m even faster with it than with QWERTY. (about 70 – 80 wpm) Sadly that still doesn’t mean that I use it. I haven’t typed Dvorak for like two months now. The good thing is, that I recall it really easily. I’m typing this in Dvorak at this very moment, and it is proof enough that I leared the layout! Cheers.

Oct 05, 2008, 01:40PM PDT | 0 comments

do 100 pushups

100 pushups program 14 months ago

I’ve found http://hundredpushups.com/ a little more than a month back and decided to give it a try.
The first three weeks were actually taking it a little to light on me, and I feel they did’t really pay off. However, week 4 got hard and I actually had to repeat it. Just finished it on a second go-through and will proceed with week 5 on monday. Let’s see!

Sep 12, 2008, 01:39PM PDT | 0 comments

Ride the "Bergstrasse" (mountain road) with a bike

Seems like a nice trip 15 months ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergstra%C3%9Fe
Having moved in this area recently, I think this is a nice day-trip to go by bike. No idea if I could make it back on the same day, as that’s about 140 or so km.

Aug 11, 2008, 07:37AM PDT | 0 comments

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