rubyyot




I'm doing 39 things
 

rubyyot's Life List

  1. 1. spend more quality time with my wife
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    4 people
  2. 2. Tame my consumerist, money wasting impulses and learn to be happy with what I have.
    1 entry . 38 cheers
    4 people
  3. 3. Be more supportive of my wife and kids
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    1 person
  4. 4. Be creative and productive throughout 2007 so that I can give art for Christmas
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    1 person
  5. 5. finish my NANO novel
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    33 people
  6. 6. self-publish on lulu.com
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    36 people
  7. 7. Use Sharpies and index cards to create a series of cards that will help me to learn Hiragana & Katakana
    20 entries . 16 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. Spend at least 30 minutes with my kids a day
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    1 person
  9. 9. Make art each day for 43 days.
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    1 person
  10. 10. Master sourdough baking.
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    3 people
  11. 11. Get organized
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    4,829 people
  12. 12. master Ruby
    2 entries . 8 cheers
    177 people
  13. 13. master linux
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    77 people
  14. 14. learn to raise just one eyebrow
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    239 people
  15. 15. Memorize 50 kanji
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    5 people
  16. 16. sell my art
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    495 people
  17. 17. Learn: Farsi
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    265 people
  18. 18. live below my means
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    86 people
  19. 19. Make a list of 43 things I know very little about, & then learn at least 3 things about each of them
    8 entries . 9 cheers
    102 people
  20. 20. Learn to throw knives
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    87 people
  21. 21. Get everyone I know to watch Kyashaan (Casshern)
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    1 person
  22. 22. Get a job where I can code in Ruby all day
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    52 people
  23. 23. Find things that I can do that I enjoy doing and have the added benefit of relieving stress
    2 entries . 6 cheers
    1 person
  24. 24. Learn Japanese
    6 entries . 7 cheers
    8,343 people
  25. 25. Finish my website
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    845 people
  26. 26. roast my own coffee
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    52 people
  27. 27. Learn 100 sentences in farsi
    2 entries
    134 people
  28. 28. learn Chinese calligraphy
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    32 people
  29. 29. learn about Buddism
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    63 people
  30. 30. Make my own Hipster PDA
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    1 person
  31. 31. drink 43 types of tea
    6 team members . 2 entries . 5 cheers
    28 people
  32. 32. Read 50 books in 2007
    22 entries . 5 cheers
    541 people
  33. 33. save more money,a min of $50 a month, a REAl savings account for EMERGENCIES!!
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    14 people
  34. 34. Learn to love my race (½Persian/½American)
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    2 people
  35. 35. Index blog every day for a month
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    1 person
  36. 36. change somebody's life (for the better)
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    74 people
  37. 37. Upload my paintings on Flickr
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    1 person
  38. 38. Master ASP.NET
    7 people
  39. 39. implement GTD
    449 people
Recent entries
Read 50 books in 2007 (read all 22 entries…)
21) The Fountainhead 8 months ago

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked this up. I was interested in reading something by Ayn Rand and this is what was available at the library. Now that I’ve read it, it’s one of my favorite books. Howard Roark is an amazing character, as are the remaining two of the big three in this book. Recommended to any and all.


Read 50 books in 2007 (read all 22 entries…)
20) Antipatterns 9 months ago

Good book, but not great. Excessive repetition and strong focus on CORBA.


Read 50 books in 2007 (read all 22 entries…)
19) Pragmatic Unit Testing with NUnit in C# 9 months ago

This was a great read, as I would expect from the pragmatic programmers. I have now wired up a few tests with NUnit, and am evangelizing, or trying to. I hope to be coding again soon in .NET (must be a good book, right) to use some more of what I’ve learned.


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