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Apollo Lee




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Apollo Lee's Life List

  2. 1. ride a five-hour century
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  3. 2. write a science fiction novel
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		61 people
  4. 3. finish college
    4 cheers     		3,180 people
  5. 4. get in shape
    3 entries . 2 cheers     		9,387 people
  6. 5. learn jazz piano
    2 entries . 11 cheers     		155 people
  7. 6. bicycle the perimeter of the United States
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		5 people
  8. 7. learn a new language
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		1,651 people
  9. 8. love myself completely
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  10. 9. Go to the dentist
    3 entries . 3 cheers     		1,030 people
  11. 10. re-establish lost friendships
    6 cheers     		110 people
  12. 11. get out the door on time
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  13. 12. clean my room
    2 cheers     		2,671 people
  14. 13. Write and record an album
    4 entries . 9 cheers     		254 people
  15. 14. Be a better Father
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  16. 15. travel around the world
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  17. 16. simplify everything
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  18. 17. try
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  19. 18. be happy
    1 entry . 5 cheers     		21,899 people
  20. 19. get rich
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  21. 20. visit all 50 states
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  22. 21. Become Financially Independent
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		5,437 people
  23. 22. cruise route 66
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  24. 23. pay off my student loans
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		2,846 people
  25. 24. eat healthier
    1 entry . 3 cheers     		10,141 people
  26. 25. get an extensive understanding of OOP
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  27. 26. ride my bicycle across continents
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  28. 27. update my website more frequently
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  29. 28. Learn Perl
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  30. 29. make friends
    2 cheers     		1,747 people
  31. 30. become a world-class web programmer
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  32. 31. get good credit
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  33. 32. be more confident
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  34. 33. go to SXSW
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  35. 34. write a novel
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  36. 35. Get a barbell and bumper plates
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  37. 36. Get CrossFit certification
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  38. 37. manage my time better
    3 cheers     		1,427 people
  39. 38. learn how to shut up
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  40. 39. learn to sail
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  41. 40. realize my potential
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  42. 41. master ruby on rails
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How I did it
How to look great naked
It took me
140 days
It made me
awesome

How I did it: On July 27, 2007, I weighed myself and saw 196 pounds on the scale, so starting out with my old Army PT routine and transitioning to CrossFit on September 18, 2007, was the answer to getting rid of a number of years of accumulated weight.By New Year's Eve, I'd lost 46 pounds and stood on the scale to see 150 looking up at me.  Doing the CrossFit workout of the day with my own equipment, walking 1.5 miles each way to the train, and tr… Read how I did it…

Jun 06, 04:25PM PDT | 0 comments


Recent entries
move to San Francisco (read all 2 entries…)
Probably Never Really Wanted To 5 months ago

As of this moment, I’ve lived in California for exactly ten years. If I haven’t moved to San Francisco before now, I’m never going to. Every time I contemplate the idea, I think of one reason I’d want to and 20 reasons I wouldn’t. Obviously, I don’t belong in the city. And I’m now sort of done apologizing for that fact.

Somebody’s got to be the disco freak of the Valley anyway, right?

Jun 01, 05:50PM PDT | 1 cheer | 3 comments


Write and record an album (read all 4 entries…)
52 Tracks in 52 Weeks 13 months ago

I set a New Year’s goal in 2008 to write 52 Tracks in 52 Weeks. As of October 8, I’ve posted 39 to my music blog. I’ve got 13 more to go and there are 12 weeks left in the year.

Surprisingly, a staggering majority of the tracks are improvised ambient compositions at about 40 beats per minute. Creating these slow, lethargic, sleepy time pieces tunes my ear to mix issues that I wouldn’t notice if the tempo was higher. Plus, it gets me in the practice of trusting my musical skill enough to play music while the record button is on, with no idea where I’m going with this.

It also gives me the realization that not every track I write has to be great for me to let the world have it. Of the 36 ambient tracks I’ve written so far this year, I doubt very many of them are amazing. The point is that musical output often looks like a bell curve, with a small number of As, a bigger number of Bs, a great number of Cs, a few Ds, and a smattering of Fs. Even if your favorite artist can do no wrong, we never hear the army of turds they wrote to get to their greatest hits. Even some of the songs on Stevie Wonder’s albums are filler (Cs).

Onward!

Oct 13, 2008, 10:00AM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments


Get a barbell and bumper plates
CrossFit needs weight 16 months ago

I’ve found a couple of places online where I can get a bar and 300 pounds of rubber bumpers for under $750. I have room in my garage, provided I shift things around. I could get 750 pounds of iron plates and a barbell used for $120 around here (lots of people buy exercise equipment, use it once, and sell it), but I want rubber bumpers. With iron, if you start to fail, you still have to lower the weight to the ground.

With bumpers, you reach lock out and you drop the bar. Since I always work out alone (although I’ve invited my housemate to join me), having equipment that doesn’t require a spotter is key. With bumpers I can put them in the back of my new car with a barbell, drive to the park and do Fran as RXed.

(Fran = 3 rounds for time (21, 15, and 9 reps) of: 95 pound thrusters, pullups)

I’ve been using dumbbells and kettlebells. Time to raise my game.

Jul 07, 2008, 04:34PM PDT | 1 cheer | 1 comment


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design clothes Oryx wants to read a book a week Be a better friend read at least one book a week be financially free Become a model sing in a nightclub Learn to play the piano get laser eye surgery become a father List ways I can be more green. open a restaurant read all of Jane Austen's novels Learn to read Binary Get better at tennis somethingbetter wants to Write more exercise Be more sociable Deal better with ADHD finish my degree stop biting my fingernails create my own advice column Get a tattoo Travle the world J B wants to identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money) Learn how to do capoeira stop stressing skinny dip
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