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.
mpt's Life List
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1. prepare for disaster
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2. organize my finances
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3. cook excellent meals
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4. learn Python well
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5. learn C well
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6. learn sign language
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7. learn Morse code
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8. speak Portuguese fluently
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9. speak French fluently
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10. speak Māori fluently
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11. speak Mandarin fluently
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12. fix bug #1
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13. exercise every day
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14. run a marathon
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15. learn to juggle
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16. go ice skating
326 people -
17. learn to rollerblade
339 people -
18. swim 5000 metres
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19. ride a unicycle
169 people -
20. reach Aoraki's summit
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21. learn lucid dreaming
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22. marry my soulmate
632 people -
23. start a business
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24. go to Antarctica
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25. buy a piano
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26. circumnavigate New Zealand
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27. build a house
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28. learn to sail
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29. write a novel
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30. learn first aid
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31. go hang gliding
468 people -
32. go water-skiing
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33. build a radio
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34. master Doomsday calculation
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35. catch a boomerang
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36. learn Go/weiqi
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37. record my ancestry
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38. know my grandchildren
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39. save the world
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40. write my autobiography
583 people
Recent entries
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.
