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sehrgut




I'm doing 42 things
  

sehrgut's Life List

  2. 1. blog consciously
    1 cheer     		2 people
  3. 2. Be a hoopy frood
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		7 people
  4. 3. count to infinity
    1 entry     		9 people
  5. 4. Learn to pick locks
    		1,483 people
  6. 5. finish building my darkroom
    1 cheer     		4 people
  7. 6. own a used bookstore
    		54 people
  8. 7. Write for a living
    1 cheer     		330 people
  9. 8. shoot the messenger
    1 cheer     		1 person
  10. 9. learn how to fence
    		73 people
  11. 10. Stop caring what other people think of me
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  12. 11. use GPG frequently
    		1 person
  13. 12. use pgp
    		2 people
  14. 13. find a reason to use PGP
    1 entry     		3 people
  15. 14. play scrabble
    2 team members     		77 people
  16. 15. catalogue and organize my library
    1 entry     		36 people
  17. 16. Visit Ireland
    1 cheer     		2,453 people
  18. 17. hang up my laundry
    		1 person
  19. 18. Activly maintain and improve my open-source projects
    		9 people
  20. 19. Contribute to an open source software project
    		802 people
  21. 20. play more chess
    		132 people
  22. 21. host a keysigning party
    		2 people
  23. 22. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
    1 cheer     		412 people
  24. 23. never lose touch with those who matter
    2 entries . 4 cheers     		33 people
  25. 24. Publish a poem
    1 cheer     		189 people
  26. 25. Relax in a rainforest
    2 cheers     		1 person
  27. 26. Return to the foot of holiness and walk simply
    		1 person
  28. 27. Get nowhere fast
    		1 person
  29. 28. Play the piano more
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		235 people
  30. 29. Buy original art
    5 entries . 4 cheers     		89 people
  31. 30. Suffocate on false hope
    		1 person
  32. 31. Become a past master at something
    		1 person
  33. 32. Coin a new term
    1 entry     		10 people
  34. 33. Be happily married
    2 entries . 1 cheer     		141 people
  35. 34. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    3 cheers     		18,611 people
  36. 35. write a book
    1 entry     		26,122 people
  37. 36. Have daily devotions
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		35 people
  38. 37. Nuke the whales and tuna the dolphins
    1 entry     		1 person
  39. 38. Get a new Macintosh
    1 cheer     		2 people
  40. 39. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1,106 people
  41. 40. Kiss in the rain
    2 team members . 4 cheers     		14,625 people
  42. 41. Go to graduate school
    3 entries . 4 cheers     		1,191 people
  43. 42. "Simplify, simplify."
    1 cheer     		47 people

How I did it
How to build a high-voltage power supply
It took me
1 day
It made me
DUUUUUUDE!

How I did it: Not terribly difficult, really. Built a Cockroft-Walton multiplier out of surplus HV diodes and ceramicaps, connected it across the poles of a disposable camera inverter circuit, and let 'er rip. Not the highest voltage in the world, but more than enough to step up further by driving a little Tesla coil. Read how I did it…

Jan 29, 09:40AM PST | 0 comments


Recent entries
catalogue and organize my library
Writing my own software 1 month ago

Yeah, yeah, I know . . . but I started one evening thinking I’d just whip up a quick MySQL database in an hour or so and start popping books in.

And I did it.

Until I came to a book with two authors.

sigh

I almost added another column, then I realised how stupid that would be and added an “authors” table.

Which helped me exactly zilch when I got to a book with an editor and two authors.

Then I discovered MARC, and saw a bit bigger of a task before me.

That was a year and a half ago. Maybe someday I’ll have my catalogue written so I can start filling it. grin

Oct 08, 08:14AM PDT | 0 comments


count to infinity
I can divide by zero! 9 months ago

snickers

Jan 29, 09:46AM PST | 0 comments


Be happily married (read all 2 entries…)
Head over blasted heels . . . 9 months ago

That’s a good thing, right?

smiles like a besotted mooncalf

Jan 29, 09:34AM PST | 1 cheer | 1 comment


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