Thomas Knoll

I want to get to the place in my life where I can afford to become a TED Associate

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some is more than none right?

I’ll just pretend like the “I give up” section works for this

it was fun while it lasted

I don’t talk to people anymore, so I don’t need to know how to remember names anymore.

score.

I’m kinda trading in Benedict for Albert. Benedict is cool and all, and I still have a lot to learn from him. But lately I’m more interested in the Carmelite Rule, which has grown out of one given by St. Albert.

someday.
maybe.

novels are dumb, I’d rather write a book

I’ve wanted a digital camera for a long time. Recently, however, I’ve become much more interested in shooting video. Now that storage cost is coming down, and bandwidth is getting cheeper, and everyone and their grandmother has a video blog, I feel like it will be a good investment.

Someday, I would love to own a Canon XL2 someday, but until then, my camera of choice is a Sanyo VPC-C6

leaves to hold his breath

I would love to move to Norway someday. But I’d also like to move to Seattle, or San Antonio, or Southern California, or the hill country of Texas, or anyplace with mountains, or Brazil, or Italy, or…

I’d rather move all over the place for a year or two at a time.

So, I’m retiring my goal to move to Norway since it isn’t actually a specific goal I expect to attain.

yeah, I did that once.

Dang, I lost the notecard that had my first 25 Kanji words on it (all related to organization and thinking). At this point, I think it will be easier to start over than to keep looking for it.

(If you find it, let me know? Thanks.)

I have been attending Mass every weekday morning for the past three weeks. In and of itself that is a very sacred thing. But it has been seeping into the rest of my day. The Word finds His way into my thoughts and conversations. And, you’d have to verify this with my wife, but apparently I’m easier to live with.

Hopefully things continue to leak across boundaries until they are no more.

I have to start over. But now I’ve got my Duluth Pack Nalgene and my cell food drops, so I should do better this next time around. The nice thing about clear goals, is it’s clear when you achieve them and clear when you fail.

We have slowly worked ourselves up to at least 60% organic, so we’er a little past this goal, but this is a great way to spread the message.

I am going to read at least 30 books in 2007. I really believe I will learn more this year than any 6 of my last 26 years in school combined. If you have any suggestions (no mystery, millitary, or romance) let me know. You can view my toread list on LibraryThing.

It just kinda stopped

A couple little fish happened to hear about water one day and they became very intrigued. They wanted to know what water was. So they darted here and there, busily exploring every corner of the ocean trying to figure it out. Finally, they found a very, very, old turtle, and asked her their important question.

She responded, “If you just slow down, be still, and look around, you will realize you are surrounded by the ocean.”

Rather, I’m giving up the goal to exercise regularly. It wont happen. It just wont. Plus it’s not measurable. And from now on I’m “only” going to put measurable goals on 43things.