ExperimentMonty

is reading and learning like a madman! That is, when he's not working



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ExperimentMonty's Life List

  1. 1. run a sub 5 minute mile
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    8 people
  2. 2. learn PHP
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  3. 3. run a marathon
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  4. 4. learn to play the harmonica
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  5. 5. learn how to drive stick
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  6. 6. stop biting my nails
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  7. 7. learn yoga
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  8. 8. read 50 books in 2008
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    194 people
  9. 9. write a screenplay
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  10. 10. update and add to this list of things to do once a month
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  11. 11. Finish the Ironman triathalon
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  12. 12. i want to be a hacker
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  13. 13. learn spanish fluently
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  14. 14. Complete "The Artist's Way"
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  15. 15. Make a massive zombie-survival videogame
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  16. 16. make a webcomic
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  17. 17. Be Batman
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  18. 18. brew my own beer
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  19. 19. get my scoutmaster into a Batman comic
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  20. 20. Send a message in a bottle
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  21. 21. mosh in a moshpit
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  22. 22. start a Free Hugs campaign
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  23. 23. hit all the buttons in a crowded elevator
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    203 people
  24. 24. Read the entire Bible
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    2,218 people
  25. 25. Do NaNoWriMo
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  26. 26. learn sign language
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  27. 27. change my name for a year
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  28. 28. dreamwalk
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  29. 29. break down a door
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  30. 30. learn to pick locks
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  31. 31. learn how to hotwire a car
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  32. 32. Kick my addiction
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    2 people
  33. 33. Burn down or blow up some junkyard car I bought for just this purpose
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  34. 34. Read "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman
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    11 people
  35. 35. call 10 random people and ask them for book reccomendations
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  36. 36. drink absinthe
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  37. 37. complete all tasks in "This Book Will Change Your Life"
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  38. 38. Learn Chi Running
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  39. 39. learn to swing dance
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  40. 40. build a secret lair behind a bookcase
    12 people
  41. 41. Start a blog providing C++ tutorials and help
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Recent entries
read 50 books in 2008 (read all 9 entries…)
Last book before my school started 1 month ago

29. “If You Really Loved Me” by Jason Evert

A very good book, lots of factual information, but also lots of practical info on love, life, and relationships.

Tragically, school is starting now, so my book reading will probably slow down a bit as I get stuck reading textbooks, but I do have two books I’m in the process of reading right now, both religious, one is “Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin” by St. Louis de Montfort, and “The Practice of the Presence of God” by Brother Lawrence. After those two, it’ll probably be mainly technical books I get stuck reading, haha.



read 50 books in 2008 (read all 9 entries…)
Aliens and Joan of Arc 2 months ago

Not in the same book, although that would be a pretty epic combination.

27. “Dreamcatcher” by Stephen King
28. “St. Joan of Arc” by John Beevers

Honestly, I think I liked the ending of Dreamcatcher in the movie better than in the book. St. Joan of Arc is awesome too. I don’t think anyone can deny that a 17-year-old girl, leading an army against English longbowmen, the deadliest soldiers in the Middle Ages, and defeating them or scaring them away at every turn, is totally badass. You have no concept of badass if you can’t picture that as being badass.



read 50 books in 2008 (read all 9 entries…)
Love is Stronger than Death 3 months ago

26. “Love is Stronger than Death” by Dr. Peter Kreeft

A good philosophical read, tough to understand at points, but I think his final section, the “gut” of the book, as opposed to the mind, sums up pretty much all of the stuff you might not have understood with your mind.



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