I'm doing 43 things
74.6 kg :)
3 days ago
Slowly but firmly losing weight. First time I achieve this weight eating a varied and balanced diet :)
Eynar Oxartum's Life List
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1. Work on my secret goal
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2. Get used to do interesting experiments every day
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3. Spread my father's ashes in India
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4. Publish a paper
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5. Get a PhD
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6. Get a masters degree
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7. Run a sub 7min/mile 10k
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8. Run a marathon
2010 resolution . 10 entries . 13 cheers10,448 people -
9. Get more sleep
2010 resolution . 18 entries . 11 cheers4,123 people -
10. Understand quantum field theory
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11. Reach my ideal weight
2010 resolution . 6 entries . 10 cheers134 people -
12. Make a smaller ecological footprint
2010 resolution . 2 entries . 13 cheers1,040 people -
13. Learn Irish
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14. Cycle from Dublin to Madrid
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15. Use three new English words every day
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16. Be proficient in Java
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17. Be fluent in German
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18. Make my own light alarm clock
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19. Be more charismatic
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20. Get my driving licence
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21. Collect myself a pebble, stone or mineral from every EU country
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22. Learn Russian
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23. Go to the Kerguelen Islands
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24. Learn Hungarian
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25. Create a board game and have it produced
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26. Write a science fiction novel
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27. Live in Berlin
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28. Plant trees
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29. Improve my Portuguese
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30. Teach my partner Italian
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31. Collect euro coins of each value from every country in the Eurozone
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32. Be able to name all 16 of my great great grandparents
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33. Write a book about astronomy in Veneto
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34. Write a guide to Dublin in Esperanto
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35. Start my own company
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36. Learn the constellations
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37. Teach Esperanto to ten people
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38. Learn to identify plants, flowers, and trees
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39. Learn to speak Latin fluently
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40. Learn more about India
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41. Learn Hindi
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42. Learn to speak Toki Pona
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43. Finish reading Don Quixote
2010 resolution . 9 cheers13 people
How I did it
It made me
a newbie go player 
How I did it: I love maths and physics. In these areas people speak and think about very simple systems that become complex. I always heard go has very simple rules, but it is very difficult to play well. The great chess player Edward Lasker said once "While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, th… Read how I did it…
It made me
PhD student
How I did it: I have studied Physics, but I always liked science in general, and I knew that, to feel fulfilled, I had to be part of an interdisciplinary team.A few months before finishing my degree in physics, I started to check several laboratories that worked in something related to bioinformatics.After having checked several options, I realised that the most interesting was a laboratory about proteomics in Madrid. Even if I preferred to live in a n… Read how I did it…
It made me
multilingual
How I did it: I had a lot of time in summer, so I picked up a book from the local library about that interesting language I had heard about when I was too busy with highschool homework.I just started teching myself Esperanto, which was not difficult, as it is very easy: no exceptions, fexible, regular spelling and easy vocabulary (when you don't know the word for something, you can create a word just using the roots and suffixes you already know). As I… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
Luxembourger 1 euro coin
5 days ago
What a piece of luck! I have found this specimen of 1 euro coin from Luxembourg yesterday. A classmate gave it to me to pay for a beer, and I just checked the coin as I usually do.
Usually coins here are always Spanish coins (not surprisingly, I am in Spain), and checking that does not seem very fruitful. But from time to time, I am lucky, so it is worthy ;)
Working hard on my Biophysics Masters
5 days ago
I am not writing a lot on this goal, but I am working really hard about it. I mean, it would not be that hard if it were the only thing I have to do, but I am working at the lab as well, which leaves very few time for other things in my life for the moment.
However, combining Physics and Biology is really interesting. It is very rewarding to see how many things I understand now, so every moment I spend here is a good one.
Hope to mark it as done by February.
