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!
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2. juggle 5 items
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3. Graduate
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4. Learn to play the piano
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5. Join Mensa
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6. Learn Violin
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7. Take more pictures
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8. Visit every Canadian Province and Territory
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9. travel to every continent
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10. sleep in a hammock
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11. learn to ride a unicycle
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12. Join a community theater
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13. meet someone with the same name as me
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14. Go skydiving
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15. be less stubborn
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16. learn sign language
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17. learn to write with my left hand
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18. witness the end of IE
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19. be in a band
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20. perform standup comedy
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21. expand my vocabulary
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22. meet more interesting people
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23. volunteer in Africa
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24. Learn to Salsa
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25. teach
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26. be in some sort of hall of fame
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27. change the world
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28. List 10 tips from things I have learned the hard way for the next generation
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29. go on more dates
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30. build an igloo
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31. give blood 50 times
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32. stop biting my nails
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33. become a certified First Responder
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34. Photograph 43 things with the number 43 on them
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35. become bilingual
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36. Learn circular breathing
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37. stand by my atheism but not be condescending about it
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38. exercise regularly
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39. be less shy when practising other languages
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40. see the northern lights
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41. learn chinese
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42. understand music theory
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43. Stand on the border, with one foot in one country and the other in another
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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!
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!)


