 I'm doing 30 things |
| 1. |
build an aircraft
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3 people |
| 2. |
learn to fly
1 entry |
2,141 people |
| 3. |
complete the day skipper course
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3 people |
| 4. |
get a dive leader qualification
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1 person |
| 5. |
get some answers
1 entry |
3 people |
| 6. |
work with vso
1 entry |
1 person |
| 7. |
disappear
1 entry |
123 people |
| 8. |
read classic literature
1 entry |
24 people |
| 9. |
get my ARPS
1 entry |
2 people |
| 10. |
know more
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34 people |
| 11. |
Learn to code
1 entry . 1 cheer |
53 people |
| 12. |
Travel more
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2,915 people |
| 13. |
Get a design placement
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1 person |
| 14. |
Pass my exams
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423 people |
| 15. |
design
1 entry |
214 people |
| 16. |
learn japanese
1 cheer |
9,741 people |
| 17. |
study design
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6 people |
| 18. |
write an interesting blog
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4 people |
| 19. |
learn to play guitar
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4,291 people |
| 20. |
wake up when my alarm clock goes off
1 entry |
7,534 people |
| 21. |
make films
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130 people |
| 22. |
impress people at dinner parties
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1 person |
| 23. |
write for a magazine
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261 people |
| 24. |
get buff
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274 people |
| 25. |
Learn Flash
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995 people |
| 26. |
work as a bicycle courier
1 entry |
6 people |
| 27. |
get rich quick
1 cheer |
173 people |
| 28. |
chill out
1 cheer |
151 people |
| 29. |
sell my photographs
1 cheer |
86 people |
| 30. |
graduate
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2,015 people |
...because I have the photographic skills, I have the ability, I have the equipment. I just need the commitment, and a little inspiration. Maybe I can do a photographic project on my next overseas trip?! (Maybe it’d be quicker if I just scaled my plans down a bit and did a photo project here in Glasgow?)
more so I can keep up in informed dinner party conversation with the literary semi-elites than for any sense of interest in the stories, however I’m more than willing to discover a couple of good reads :)
...just to see how difficult it would be, to erase all trace of myself from formal society. Thinking about it, it is a monumental challenge; all the places my name appears, all the people who have my details on some expansive database. Passports; Credit cards; Bank accounts; Driver’s license; Rental agreements; Phone books; Internet sites; Email accounts; Social networking sites; National insurance; Employer’s records; University records; Mailing lists; Student support; Mobile phone bills; etc; etc; etc.
All this information that is out there, sitting on computers, idly tracing me finacially, geographically, logging my health, my ‘contribution to society’, feeding the institution’s greed for data, for any information that they could use to pigeon hole me.
So, before the eventual introduction of the dreaded id card; before all innocence and annonimity is lost to the great database, I would like to (just for a short time) dip off the radar, create a little discontinuity in my trace, just to see if I can.
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Matt Butterworth wants to Read more
ride a motorcycle
Get my Master's
drink more water
lose 10 lbs
get married
Watch AFI's 100 movies
Create a budget
not sell out
tainamite wants to lose weight
ride my bike to San Francisco
take one picture a day to document my life
learn Vietnamese
work because I like to, not because I have to
find a mentor
learn to play reels and jigs on the fiddle
watch more anime
learn to skateboard
organize my closet
have a family
get ripped
do something daring
Free spirit, restless soul wants to learn to wink
figure out how many minutes I have left on my cell phone
memorize V's "V Alliteration" speech from "V for Vendetta" and recite it every hour on the hour next Halloween
