Simon Strandgaard




I'm doing 37 things
 

Simon Strandgaard's Life List

  1. 1. Fall in love
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    23,787 people
  2. 2. read more philosophy
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    97 people
  3. 3. make a 64k demo
    2 entries . 3 cheers
    5 people
  4. 4. write a book
    1 entry . 10 cheers
    24,970 people
  5. 5. Visit Japan
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    5,369 people
  6. 6. learn to master the gimp
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    52 people
  7. 7. Learn Japanese
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    9,422 people
  8. 8. witness the end of Microsoft
    1 entry . 12 cheers
    46 people
  9. 9. Understand quantum mechanics
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    51 people
  10. 10. learn about wine
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    817 people
  11. 11. Visit Brazil
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    348 people
  12. 12. learn how to prepare 10 excellent meals
    1 entry . 20 cheers
    823 people
  13. 13. invent artificial intelligence
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    3 people
  14. 14. Have cybernetic implants
    3 team members . 4 cheers
    53 people
  15. 15. Go skydiving
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    6,278 people
  16. 16. write the perfect operating system
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    2 people
  17. 17. start a revolution
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    1,023 people
  18. 18. Learn to speed read
    1 entry . 8 cheers
    465 people
  19. 19. become better at small-talk
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    1,900 people
  20. 20. travel to iceland
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    396 people
  21. 21. ride an elephant
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    740 people
  22. 22. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    5,445 people
  23. 23. live in Paris
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    803 people
  24. 24. Stop eating junk food
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    437 people
  25. 25. milk a cow
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    494 people
  26. 26. Learn to whistle with my fingers
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    1,103 people
  27. 27. own a kitchenaid mixer
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    8 people
  28. 28. Learn to Salsa
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    1,320 people
  29. 29. become linux certified
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    6 people
  30. 30. speak at RubyConf
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    7 people
  31. 31. Ride a Camel
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    382 people
  32. 32. get a cat
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    842 people
  33. 33. eat less candy
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    52 people
  34. 34. be less lazy
    1 entry . 6 cheers
    430 people
  35. 35. Write a video game
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    36 people
  36. 36. make a living writing open-source software
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    24 people
  37. 37. Have better handwriting
    5 cheers
    524 people

How I did it
How to purchase a button-maker and make fun illustration faces for everyone :)
It took me
1 day
It made me


How to change the world
It took me
5 years
It made me
happy


Recent entries
Write a successful piece of software (read all 3 entries…)
Toolbox, graphics program for Mac 18 months ago

homepage + videos
toolboxapp.com

purpose
For seamless textures and photos

Finally, I have just released my first commercial program, which I believe is a success. I started working on this in 2004 and a good friend of mine happened to work on a similar project, so together we refined our ideas. I have been working full time on it for 1 year now.



make art (read all 15 entries…)
PART REMOVAL CORP. 22 months ago

It has taken me 2 hours to create the creapy background texture, and 5 minutes to write some terrible text.



make art (read all 15 entries…)
rule 30 23 months ago

cellular automatas makes fantastic patterns.



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