mpt




I'm doing 40 things
 

mpt's Life List

  1. 1. prepare for disaster
    5 people
  2. 2. organize my finances
    333 people
  3. 3. cook excellent meals
    1 cheer
    1 person
  4. 4. learn Python well
    1 person
  5. 5. learn C well
    2 people
  6. 6. learn sign language
    8,461 people
  7. 7. learn Morse code
    1 cheer
    293 people
  8. 8. speak Portuguese fluently
    36 people
  9. 9. speak French fluently
    2,288 people
  10. 10. speak Māori fluently
    8 people
  11. 11. speak Mandarin fluently
    49 people
  12. 12. fix bug #1
    1 entry
    1 person
  13. 13. exercise every day
    1 cheer
    923 people
  14. 14. run a marathon
    12,468 people
  15. 15. learn to juggle
    1,326 people
  16. 16. go ice skating
    326 people
  17. 17. learn to rollerblade
    339 people
  18. 18. swim 5000 metres
    1 person
  19. 19. ride a unicycle
    169 people
  20. 20. reach Aoraki's summit
    1 person
  21. 21. learn lucid dreaming
    202 people
  22. 22. marry my soulmate
    632 people
  23. 23. start a business
    2,387 people
  24. 24. go to Antarctica
    413 people
  25. 25. buy a piano
    233 people
  26. 26. circumnavigate New Zealand
    2 people
  27. 27. build a house
    1,360 people
  28. 28. learn to sail
    2,250 people
  29. 29. write a novel
    2 cheers
    11,083 people
  30. 30. learn first aid
    263 people
  31. 31. go hang gliding
    468 people
  32. 32. go water-skiing
    38 people
  33. 33. build a radio
    9 people
  34. 34. master Doomsday calculation
    1 cheer
    4 people
  35. 35. catch a boomerang
    2 people
  36. 36. learn Go/weiqi
    1 person
  37. 37. record my ancestry
    2 cheers
    2 people
  38. 38. know my grandchildren
    6 people
  39. 39. save the world
    1,369 people
  40. 40. write my autobiography
    583 people
Recent entries
skydive for fun
Don't forget to breathe

I went tandem skydiving with an instructor from Skydive Abel Tasman at Motueka in 1994. Tipping out of the plane was surprisingly easy. The hardest part was breathing with air rushing at my face. And the most painful part was the strain of the harness as soon as the chute opened. But it was lots of fun.



fix bug 1
What's bug #1?

Bug #1 is that “Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world’s population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential”.

Bug #1 will be fixed when most people using computers are using Free Software.




 

I want to:
43 Things Login