Jarkko Laine

interested in everything



I'm doing 37 things
 

Jarkko Laine's Life List

  1. 1. run barefoot
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    10 people
  2. 2. read 52 books in 2009
    1 entry
    19 people
  3. 3. Grow my blog to 1000 RSS readers
    1 person
  4. 4. create a business that helps fight poverty
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    1 person
  5. 5. start a coworking place
    2 people
  6. 6. write a book
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    26,116 people
  7. 7. read the Bible in a year
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    248 people
  8. 8. Become carbon neutral
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    77 people
  9. 9. Go to the dentist
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    1,030 people
  10. 10. make a profitable web application
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    5 people
  11. 11. play Sam & Max episode 1
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    1 person
  12. 12. lose some weight
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    888 people
  13. 13. Become A Better Speaker
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    29 people
  14. 14. recover from relationship laziness
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    1 person
  15. 15. work because I like to, not because I have to
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    3,439 people
  16. 16. Write a story that brings someone to tears
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    1 person
  17. 17. Write a story that makes someone laugh
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    1 person
  18. 18. Have a happy 50th wedding aniversary with my wife
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    1 person
  19. 19. Be able to choose where I work and when
    1 person
  20. 20. pay off my mortgage
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    391 people
  21. 21. teach my children to love books
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    1 person
  22. 22. teach my children to dream big
    1 person
  23. 23. make a documentary film
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    550 people
  24. 24. Pick a master's thesis topic
    10 people
  25. 25. fly in a hot air baloon
    609 people
  26. 26. take my kids to Disneyland
    39 people
  27. 27. make cheese
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    113 people
  28. 28. write a blog post about 43things
    1 person
  29. 29. open a bakery
    226 people
  30. 30. Don't interrupt
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    3 people
  31. 31. Get a Story on front page of Digg!
    2 people
  32. 32. write a children's book
    1,324 people
  33. 33. sleep in an igloo
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    63 people
  34. 34. Run the Great Wall Marathon
    29 people
  35. 35. go camping
    2,509 people
  36. 36. build an electric car
    65 people
  37. 37. translate a book
    44 people

How I did it
How to own a Mac
It took me
5 years
It made me
Satisfied


How to run a half marathon
It took me
4 months
It made me
a runner


How to brownbag my lunch every day for a month
It took me
1 month
It made me
rich


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Recent entries
run a marathon (read all 2 entries…)
Going to do this in less than two weeks 2 months ago

...scared…excited…waiting for the race…hoping it would never come…

With mixed feelings, I’m getting ready to run the big race on September 12th.

Check out these photos from my training runs: http://jarkkolaine.com/2009/08/30/8-photos-that-will-turn-you-into-a-runner/



run barefoot
Check out the Vibram Five Fingers 2 months ago

I’m living in a city so going completely barefoot sounds maybe a bit too extreme for now. So, I ended up buying a pair of Vibram Five Fingers KSOs, and have been really happy with them!

It’s not quite the same as going completely barefoot, but close enough to be the first step along the path to becoming a barefoot runner :)



read 52 books in 2009
22 read so far, 30 to go 4 months ago

Looks like although I’ve been reading a lot, with this pace I won’t be able to get over 38 books this year :)

I hope the summer vacation will be the time for finishing some books and I can still keep chasing the magical limit of one book per week. Not that reading really is about quantity or anything, but still…



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