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Ryan Kuykendall




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Ryan Kuykendall's Life List

  2. 1. Focus on making Poll Stacks successful
    1 entry     		1 person
  3. 2. Surf on all continents in every ocean
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  4. 3. Ride RAMROD (Ride Around Mt. Rainier in One Day)
    		3 people
  5. 4. Direct the publication of a book on the artwork of Czech Artist Mikulas Medek
    1 entry     		1 person
  6. 5. Ride my bicycle from Fairbanks, AK to Tierra Del Fuego
    3 cheers     		1 person
  7. 6. Make a quilt
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		1,237 people
  8. 7. take back America from the jerks
    1 entry . 9 cheers     		122 people
  9. 8. Design and build my own house
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		1,739 people
  10. 9. Study under Robert Sapolsky at Stanford University
    2 cheers     		1 person
  11. 10. Join the Slow Food Movement
    3 cheers     		24 people
  12. 11. Design a famous chair
    1 cheer     		3 people
  13. 12. Be interviewed by John Stewart on the Daily Show
    4 cheers     		1 person
  14. 13. Go to Culinary School
    2 cheers     		413 people
  15. 14. Ride the Death Ride in California
    		2 people
  16. 15. Surf Teahupoo in Tahiti
    1 cheer     		2 people
  17. 16. Get Doctorate in Cellular Biology and/or Genetics
    3 cheers     		2 people
  18. 17. Spend my Autumns living in San Sebastian, Spain
    		1 person
  19. 18. elect a woman as president
    6 cheers     		72 people
  20. 19. Study under Lawrence Lessig at Stanford University
    		1 person
  21. 20. Attend a World Cup Soccer Game
    2 cheers     		25 people
  22. 21. Direct the production of a DVD Set of William Kentridge's Art and Animation
    1 entry     		1 person
  23. 22. Rewrite a play for the stage
    1 cheer     		2 people
  24. 23. startup company
    1 entry     		8 people
  25. 24. Spend 15 Minutes a day writing about my 43Things
    		1 person
  26. 25. Write a play for the stage
    1 entry     		1 person
  27. 26. win a Pulitzer or Nobel prize
    1 cheer     		8 people
  28. 27. Spend 15 Minutes a Day Helping other people with their 43Things
    1 cheer     		1 person
  29. 28. love everyone that I know
    1 cheer     		1 person
  30. 29. Have lunch with Thomas Friedman
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		1 person
  31. 30. Live off the Grid in an Urban Environment
    2 entries . 4 cheers     		5 people
  32. 31. Find a meaningful job.
    1 cheer     		69 people
  33. 32. Create a Non-profit to provide pitching machines to inner-city youth baseball teams
    1 cheer     		1 person
  34. 33. bicycle from Fairbanks to Fort Lauderdale
    		1 person
  35. 34. Buy and drive hybrid cars for the rest of my life (unless of course something more fuel efficient or cleaner comes along)
    2 cheers     		1 person
  36. 35. Own a home on Hollister Ranch
    		1 person
  37. 36. Read 250 Science books before I am 40
    38 entries . 1 cheer     		1 person
  38. 37. start a woodworking collective in Seattle
    2 team members . 3 entries . 1 cheer     		22 people
  39. 38. see the northern lights
    3 cheers     		19,100 people
  40. 39. 10 Patents by the time I am 40
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		3 people
  41. 40. Start my own business
    1 cheer     		9,321 people
  42. 41. work because I like to, not because I have to
    3 cheers     		3,485 people
  43. 42. Learn Sketchup
    1 entry     		15 people
Recent entries
Focus on making Poll Stacks successful
PollStacks.com has Launched

I just finished the initial version of Poll Stacks, and now I am in the process of getting friends and relatives to test it out. The reception so far have been very positive, although there are a number of things I could do to improve the design. For fun I decided to skin the site without images, and instead opted to use Javascript and Canvas/VML. It was an interesting experiment, but I may get better performance using a number of small images.

Check out those concentric circles…

Dec 10, 2007, 08:36PM PST | 0 comments


Keep a Learning Log (read all 6 entries…)
I think I did this for about a day

I don’t know why I didn’t give up sooner!

Dec 10, 2007, 08:22PM PST | 0 comments


write an application on Rails
The New, Rebranded Jobster (now two months old)

Laurel, Ray, Joe, and I rebuilt the consumer side of Jobster (including the search front end) using Ruby on Rails. Laurel kept telling the director of product development, Allan, that we could build features ten times faster if we were using Rails. He encouraged us to adopt it for the new Jobster consumer site. It has been a wonderful change over the mod_perl/Template Toolkit setup we used to have. In fact with our last release, we completely removed our dependence on mod_perl on our front-ends.

Sep 05, 2006, 09:03AM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments


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