Why 8:36pm? Precisely because of it’s lack of significance. Also, because evening time is when you’ll likely be doing things that you actually want to be doing (not “debugging IE6 again at work”). The 8:36pm slice has the potential to be completely mundane or very interesting—just like real life.
Chadwick Dahlquist's Life List
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1. write bathroom graffiti
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2. Get rid of one possession every day
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3. Make more music.
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4. Make new friends.
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5. Contribute to an Open Source project.
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6. find a nice hip flask
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7. Have a literal pissing contest
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8. Start an empire of decent people
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9. See a UFO
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10. Get a gold tooth
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11. ))<>((
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12. have a custom tailored wardrobe
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13. get a business license
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14. develop a useful and popular web application
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15. learn quick books
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16. start a web development collective
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17. put my stuff in nice boxes
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18. become 40 per cent cleverer
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19. host a party
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20. touch my toes
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21. live in berlin
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22. stock a mini-bar
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23. Take [my] protein pills and put [my] helmet on
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24. never settle
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25. make a video for youtube
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26. allow myself to be vulnerable
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27. take massage lessons
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28. get a tattoo that has no significant meaning
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29. get a tattoo that has a significant meaning
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30. Be one of Bjork's laptop-twiddling, beat-making, record-producing lovers.
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31. Write piano arrangements for 10 of my favorite songs
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32. Get a waffle.fm invite since OiNK was taken down
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33. post to Twitter and Flickr at 8:36pm every day for a while
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I currently obsessed with engineering a setup that will allow me to improv/perform my music live. The idea is nearly complete in my mind, and the gear is on the way. Just now I got a bit carried away in SketchUp trying to figure out how to arrange all this stuff in a portable box.
I thought this day would never come. So much has happened in the past 7 months, and the whole time I had these ‘bear traps’ attached to my mouth. Well, today I got them off. They snapped off without much ceremony, and most of the time was spent cleaning up the mess that all that coffee and tobacco made. If you look closely, you’ll notice that the tips of some of the teeth were smoothed out using a diamond-tipped sander thing.
It’s a bitter-sweet (and also slimy-smooth) feeling. I actually enjoyed my visits to the orthodontist’s office. The staff there was friendly, and it was always a treat for my inquisitive mind to witness these professionals at work. I’m going to … sniff … miss them.
But enough of all that—it’s time to go celebrate!

