prayformojo




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prayformojo's Life List

  1. 1. build a synthesizer
    13 people
  2. 2. increase my stamina
    42 people
  3. 3. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
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    1,095 people
  4. 4. Learn Flash
    949 people
  5. 5. take more photographs
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    1,754 people
  6. 6. Start doing crunches every day
    76 people
  7. 7. have better posture
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    8,067 people
  8. 8. cook more often
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    686 people
  9. 9. Build a Personal Video Recorder
    36 people
  10. 10. minimize my material possessions
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    144 people
  11. 11. live off of freelance work
    107 people
  12. 12. draw a graphic novel
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    52 people
  13. 13. Never stop learning
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    4,081 people
  14. 14. take a sabbatical year and hit the open road
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    4 people
  15. 15. know exactly what I want
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    30 people
  16. 16. Walk the Great Wall of China
    648 people
  17. 17. hike the inca trail to machu pichu
    249 people
  18. 18. trek the Inca trail
    18 people
  19. 19. have a body like iggy pop
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    1 person
  20. 20. Start my own business
    9,321 people
  21. 21. start producing and stop consuming
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    4 people
  22. 22. export this data in RDF/XML
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    7 people
  23. 23. become a journalist
    431 people
  24. 24. age gracefully
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    355 people
  25. 25. master Rails
    28 people
  26. 26. Learn Ruby
    1,859 people
  27. 27. Help test Tootietails: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op
    175 people
  28. 28. Learn Lisp
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    261 people
  29. 29. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
    390 people
  30. 30. smoke DMT
    47 people
  31. 31. Drink Ayahuasca
    30 people
  32. 32. Practice Yoga
    4,279 people
  33. 33. get in shape
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    10,337 people
  34. 34. go to burning man
    1,614 people
  35. 35. make meditation and creative visualization daily practices
    32 people
  36. 36. improve my guitar playing
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    298 people
  37. 37. Get better at chess
    1 entry
    198 people
  38. 38. improve my juggling
    56 people
  39. 39. Learn clever magic tricks
    2 team members . 1 entry
    159 people
  40. 40. Read Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
    2 entries . 1 cheer
    84 people
  41. 41. read Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" this summer
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  42. 42. travel to every continent
    1,511 people
  43. 43. Peyote
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    7 people
Recent entries
Read Proust's Remembrance of Things Past (read all 2 entries…)
I've got to do it by January 18th, 2006

That’s when I’m leaving the country and I don’t plan on taking the books with me. I may have to cheat because I keep starting other books, plus I’m preparing for this upcoming trip.



Get better at chess
Chess website

http://www.chesstactics.org is an online book that aims to teach chess tactics by example. Also includes a quiz that will show you random situations and an explanation.



see the strokes play
Most Pretentious. Band. Ever.

I saw them at Randall’s Island with The Raveonettes, The New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, etc. They were definitely not that impressive. The lead singer looked like he’d gained 30 pounds from the last time I saw him on TV and he just didn’t seem that into it. He had this smarmy, condescending attitude the entire time. They played pretty well, but no one was really into it, because the guy was being such a jackass.



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