hillbert




I'm doing 41 things
 

hillbert's Life List

  1. 1. meet someone with the same name as me
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    7 people
  2. 2. Learn to play the piano
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    7,418 people
  3. 3. learn sign language
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    7,670 people
  4. 4. Join a community theater
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    22 people
  5. 5. understand music theory
    19 people
  6. 6. learn to ride a unicycle
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    258 people
  7. 7. learn chinese
    2,369 people
  8. 8. see the northern lights
    16,874 people
  9. 9. be less shy when practising other languages
    1 person
  10. 10. exercise regularly
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    10,505 people
  11. 11. be in a band
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  12. 12. build an igloo
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    98 people
  13. 13. Visit every Canadian Province and Territory
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  14. 14. teach
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    804 people
  15. 15. Learn to Salsa
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    1,349 people
  16. 16. Take more pictures
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  17. 17. earn $100 per hour
    1 person
  18. 18. give blood 50 times
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    3 people
  19. 19. List 10 tips from things I have learned the hard way for the next generation
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    12 people
  20. 20. stand by my atheism but not be condescending about it
    3 people
  21. 21. be in some sort of hall of fame
    1 person
  22. 22. Learn circular breathing
    33 people
  23. 23. expand my vocabulary
    2,609 people
  24. 24. perform standup comedy
    124 people
  25. 25. learn to write with my left hand
    636 people
  26. 26. be less stubborn
    48 people
  27. 27. Go skydiving
    6,566 people
  28. 28. travel to every continent
    1,408 people
  29. 29. Learn Violin
    370 people
  30. 30. Join Mensa
    292 people
  31. 31. meet more interesting people
    52 people
  32. 32. change the world
    3,308 people
  33. 33. become bilingual
    146 people
  34. 34. witness the end of IE
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    741 people
  35. 35. Photograph 43 things with the number 43 on them
    77 people
  36. 36. juggle 5 items
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    25 people
  37. 37. become a certified First Responder
    2 people
  38. 38. sleep in a hammock
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    208 people
  39. 39. stop biting my nails
    7,038 people
  40. 40. go on more dates
    67 people
  41. 41. blog more often
    393 people

How I did it
How to stand on the border, with one foot in one country and the other in another
It took me
1 day
It made me


Recent entries
Get all my mp3's properly tagged
Three Down, Forty To Go 2 years ago

For some reason, when I was first introduced to MP3s, my nice but somewhat misinformed friend told me that it’s better to rename the files and then remove the ID3 tags from the file. Sigh… how wrong we were in our youthful innocence! In the time since, I’ve accumulated rather a large chunk of music, and was just starting to figure out how to program my own tag-fixing thing when I came across the incredible creation that is MusicBrainz . It took a couple days to run through all the files, auto-group them into albums, and tag, rename, and move them appropriately, but was it ever worth it!



Build a snowman
Two Down, Forty-One To Go 2 years ago

Did this back in February at university. We had an unexpected snow day, so I went around the floors in my residence – I’m a Don or RA – and told people to come downstairs and build a snowman. In the end, about fifteen (out of 70) people showed up, and after a little bit of a snowball fight, we put our collective minds together and built ourselves the biggest snowman I’ve ever seen! We had one guy from the Yukon who really knew his stuff. There were also, in the end, five people who had never built a snowman, from wonderful faraway places like Pakistan and Malaysia and Dubai. It was a great feeling getting everyone together and seeing what a bit of fun in the snow could do!



bake twelve dozen cookies
One Down, Forty-Two To Go 2 years ago

I did this almost entirely by accident—I was planning on baking maybe six dozen cookies to get rid of some excess ingredients. (My apples were going bad; they were apple cinnamon cookies.) Somehow between the recipe on the internet and the kitchen counter, all the quantities got doubled twice! So, of course, I ended up with about a hundred and fifty cookies. Luckily, it was the end of exam season and just before the winter break, so I was able to pawn them off on a whole bunch of friends.
Definitely worth doing, but the story’s much less interesting if it was done deliberately (unless you have a cookie party… that would be fun!)




 

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