hackasaurus




I'm doing 43 things
 

hackasaurus's Life List

  1. 1. Learn Rails better
    1 person
  2. 2. do Ruby Quiz
    1 person
  3. 3. Get my website hosted
    1 person
  4. 4. be more organized
    1 entry
    2,686 people
  5. 5. be more self disciplined
    159 people
  6. 6. do my physical therapy
    5 people
  7. 7. stop drinking soda
    1,198 people
  8. 8. drink tea everyday
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    11 people
  9. 9. see the northern lights
    14,418 people
  10. 10. write a book
    1 cheer
    21,290 people
  11. 11. learn spanish
    1 cheer
    12,779 people
  12. 12. Sleep more
    1 entry
    1,397 people
  13. 13. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
    1,157 people
  14. 14. find 43 bugs in 43 things
    66 people
  15. 15. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    16,175 people
  16. 16. Become a certified Toastmaster
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    29 people
  17. 17. join 2600
    1 person
  18. 18. live outside the united states
    200 people
  19. 19. get my bachelor's degree
    273 people
  20. 20. Attend the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
    45 people
  21. 21. Attend RailsConf
    3 people
  22. 22. Go to Defcon
    11 people
  23. 23. Get a PhD
    2,375 people
  24. 24. get a masters degree
    2,413 people
  25. 25. Become a Project Manager
    35 people
  26. 26. Keep a journal
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    2,301 people
  27. 27. Be debt free
    1,600 people
  28. 28. pay off my student loans
    2,358 people
  29. 29. Learn Japanese
    8,416 people
  30. 30. start a webcomic
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    96 people
  31. 31. become more organized
    716 people
  32. 32. write a song
    3,428 people
  33. 33. pose nude
    414 people
  34. 34. Learn how to remember peoples' names
    1,499 people
  35. 35. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
    6,927 people
  36. 36. win my lawsuit
    4 people
  37. 37. make a game
    1,049 people
  38. 38. Contribute to an open source software project
    811 people
  39. 39. Get a job where I can code in Ruby all day
    52 people
  40. 40. identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
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    6,010 people
  41. 41. pay off my loans
    108 people
  42. 42. Finish creating my website
    2 people
  43. 43. study music
    22 people
Recent entries
be more organized
Getting into things... 6 months ago

Working on Getting more organized

Slowly (very, very slowly) reading and adapting the practices of Getting Things Done. Been using Remember the Milk as my primary tool for a while and it has been working well, but I’m looking into moving to another one, which incorporates goals. Woo! I hope I get better at organizing my physical goods next. :(

Anybody out there got any good hints for keeping your crap together?


Sleep more
Untitled 6 months ago

Sleep more
I committed to this goal some time ago, and felt I better update myself on the situation.

I hadn’t done much to work on this goal, admittedly. I’ve been sleeping more this past week, but at what cost? I’ve barely gotten any of my chores done, but my wife has helped pick up the slack, so I’ve only lost study-time and playtime. She says it’s been good for my shattered health; I can only hope she’s right.


Read at least one book a month
Untitled 8 months ago

This has been going rather well. Unlike most of my goals… but this will change! Latest neat book read: The Uses of Paradox: Religion, Self-Transformation, and the Absurd. Wild stuff, but very useful philosophically.



 

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