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Ryan Kuykendall




I'm doing 42 things
  

Ryan Kuykendall's Life List

  1. 1. Focus on making Poll Stacks successful
    1 entry     		1 person
  2. 2. Surf on all continents in every ocean
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person
  3. 3. Ride RAMROD (Ride Around Mt. Rainier in One Day)
    		3 people
  4. 4. Direct the publication of a book on the artwork of Czech Artist Mikulas Medek
    1 entry     		1 person
  5. 5. Ride my bicycle from Fairbanks, AK to Tierra Del Fuego
    3 cheers     		1 person
  6. 6. Make a quilt
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		925 people
  7. 7. take back America from the jerks
    1 entry . 9 cheers     		136 people
  8. 8. Design and build my own house
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		1,340 people
  9. 9. Study under Robert Sapolsky at Stanford University
    2 cheers     		1 person
  10. 10. Join the Slow Food Movement
    3 cheers     		23 people
  11. 11. Design a famous chair
    2 cheers     		2 people
  12. 12. Be interviewed by John Stewart on the Daily Show
    4 cheers     		1 person
  13. 13. Go to Culinary School
    2 cheers     		313 people
  14. 14. Ride the Death Ride in California
    		2 people
  15. 15. Surf Teahupoo in Tahiti
    1 cheer     		2 people
  16. 16. Get Doctorate in Cellular Biology and/or Genetics
    2 cheers     		2 people
  17. 17. Spend my Autumns living in San Sebastian, Spain
    		1 person
  18. 18. elect a woman as president
    7 cheers     		80 people
  19. 19. Study under Lawrence Lessig at Stanford University
    		1 person
  20. 20. Attend a World Cup Soccer Game
    2 cheers     		24 people
  21. 21. Direct the production of a DVD Set of William Kentridge's Art and Animation
    1 entry     		1 person
  22. 22. Rewrite a play for the stage
    1 cheer     		2 people
  23. 23. startup company
    1 entry     		6 people
  24. 24. Spend 15 Minutes a day writing about my 43Things
    		1 person
  25. 25. Write a play for the stage
    1 entry     		1 person
  26. 26. win a Pulitzer or Nobel prize
    1 cheer     		7 people
  27. 27. Spend 15 Minutes a Day Helping other people with their 43Things
    1 cheer     		1 person
  28. 28. love everyone that I know
    1 cheer     		1 person
  29. 29. Have lunch with Thomas Friedman
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		1 person
  30. 30. Live off the Grid in an Urban Environment
    2 entries . 4 cheers     		4 people
  31. 31. Find a meaningful job.
    1 cheer     		48 people
  32. 32. Create a Non-profit to provide pitching machines to inner-city youth baseball teams
    2 cheers     		1 person
  33. 33. bicycle from Fairbanks to Fort Lauderdale
    1 cheer     		1 person
  34. 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
  35. 35. Own a home on Hollister Ranch
    		1 person
  36. 36. Read 250 Science books before I am 40
    38 entries . 1 cheer     		1 person
  37. 37. start a woodworking collective in Seattle
    2 team members . 3 entries . 1 cheer     		16 people
  38. 38. see the northern lights
    3 cheers     		14,284 people
  39. 39. 10 Patents by the time I am 40
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		4 people
  40. 40. Start my own business
    1 cheer     		7,200 people
  41. 41. work because I like to, not because I have to
    3 cheers     		3,169 people
  42. 42. Learn Sketchup
    1 entry     		8 people
Recent entries
Focus on making Poll Stacks successful
PollStacks.com has Launched 7 months ago

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…

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Keep a Learning Log (read all 6 entries…)
I think I did this for about a day 7 months ago

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

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write an application on Rails
The New, Rebranded Jobster (now two months old) 1 year ago

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.

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I want to:

The world wants to...

learn Korean learn to use a sewing machine exercise more learn to play the mandolin not take things so personally Katherine wants to identify 100 things that make me happy. change my top 8 to top 16 live in a cabin graduate from college make music take guitar lessons make something beautiful Travel to Alaska meet panic! at the disco Taylor wants to Remember to take my vitamins Read all of Shakespeare's plays go on a three day juice fast learn to speak another language fluently not eat out for 1 month go to cancun figure out what to do with my life make a film dance like nobody's watching ride a horse on the beach be a better daughter improve the world buy a vacation home