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  1. 1. Watch all the awesome TED.com/talks
    2 team members . 11 entries . 13 cheers
    6 people
  2. 2. become a morning person.
    3 entries . 21 cheers
    1,443 people
  3. 3. get a green card
    5 entries . 13 cheers
    79 people
  4. 4. godisimaginary.com
    6 team members . 28 entries . 6 cheers
    9 people
  5. 5. leave this town
    3 entries . 5 cheers
    87 people
  6. 6. find my soulmate
    2 entries . 23 cheers
    3,084 people
  7. 7. Promote English as a global language
    4 team members . 9 entries . 4 cheers
    4 people
  8. 8. Master the Catalyst Perl framework
    5 entries . 1 cheer
    9 people
  9. 9. Learn DOM Scripting
    3 cheers
    8 people
  10. 10. Start my own business
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    8,556 people
  11. 11. continue to encourage the separation of church and state
    2 team members . 3 entries . 18 cheers
    23 people
  12. 12. Watch truly moving pictures
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    1 person
  13. 13. Never give up
    2 entries . 9 cheers
    344 people
  14. 14. Watch a space shuttle launch
    2 entries . 12 cheers
    958 people
  15. 15. bungee jump
    5 cheers
    3,414 people
  16. 16. Spread the word about Jesus
    4 entries . 5 cheers
    3 people
  17. 17. Buy a House
    8 cheers
    12,535 people
  18. 18. Spread the truth about the Bible
    7 team members . 9 entries . 4 cheers
    9 people
  19. 19. learn photography
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    2,643 people
  20. 20. figure out a single phrase which will convince those who hold religious beliefs to become atheists
    2 team members . 6 entries . 7 cheers
    5 people
  21. 21. Drive across the USA
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    2,165 people
  22. 22. Enter a topcoder competition
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    4 people
  23. 23. Make love in front of a log fire
    2 team members . 3 cheers
    8 people
  24. 24. go zorbing
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    305 people
  25. 25. join the Mile High Club
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    902 people
  26. 26. witness the end of the Imperial Unit System
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    6 people
  27. 27. hang glide
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    680 people
  28. 28. invent something
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    1,295 people
  29. 29. see the northern lights
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    16,842 people
  30. 30. Read "The Selfish Gene"
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    4 people
  31. 31. go skinny dipping
    2 team members . 4 cheers
    3,080 people
  32. 32. Swim in a bioluminescent bay
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    277 people
  33. 33. get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
    2 entries . 10 cheers
    1,892 people
  34. 34. colonize mars
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    25 people
  35. 35. reform English spelling
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    2 people
  36. 36. find 43 bugs in 43 things
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    65 people
  37. 37. visit Romania
    1 entry
    35 people
  38. 38. Help defeat Prop 8!
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    5 people
  39. 39. Find more people who enjoy the inane and celebrate the nonsensical
    2 team members . 2 entries . 1 cheer
    87 people
  40. 40. Start and Finish P90X
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    103 people

How I did it
How to publish a perl module on cpan
It took me
1 week
It made me
\o/


How to skydive
It took me
1 day
It made me
exhilarated


How to buy a new car
It took me
2 weeks
It made me
Lexus IS250 AWD


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Recent entries
Thank God for all the blessings he brings into my life and be thankful; show gratitude everyday
To all people who do this 2 months ago

This study is from “bread for the world”, www.bread.com, A Christian Voice for Ending Hunger:

http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html

Hunger Facts: International

World Hunger and Poverty: How They Fit Together

  • 1.02 billion people across the world are hungry.
  • Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes—one child every five seconds.

Let me emphasize this:

one child dies every five seconds

To all people who thank God for blessings – isn’t it a little too self-centered to thank God for His blessings to you (what? passing an exam? not having pimples before that date? a better job?), while all these tens of thousands of children die? If God doesn’t listen to their prayers, what makes you think He’ll listen to yours?



figure out a single phrase which will convince those who hold religious beliefs to become atheists (read all 6 entries…)
26,000 children die each day 2 months ago

26000 children die each day. Do you still believe in a good God?

The usual replies I get to this one:

  • it’s actually our fault that the children die, not God’s, because: we have freedom of choice / rich nations don’t help the poor children / etc.
  • we can never understand God / there is a reason for everything

Nobody, and I mean none of the religious people I’ve confronted with this sick truth even bother to say “Wow I had no idea about that” or “That’s really horrendous”. Nope. They all defended God in one way or another.

This just shows how brainwashed religious people are, and how beyond any hope of recovery. I’m thinking of giving up this goal.



continue to encourage the separation of church and state (read all 3 entries…)
The Romanian state advertises its partnership with the Orthodox Church 3 months ago

http://www.romania.gov.ro/index.php?page=parteneriate-stat-biserica

Romania’s e-portal web page has been recently launched. It awaits content, but it translates to “List of partnerships between the state and the church”.

If I needed one more reason not to ever return to Romania, this was it.



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