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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     		6 people
  4. 3. count to infinity
    1 entry     		9 people
  5. 4. Learn to pick locks
    		1,482 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     		329 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
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		3,969 people
  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     		2,448 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
    		801 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     		413 people
  24. 23. never lose touch with those who matter
    2 entries . 4 cheers     		33 people
  25. 24. Publish a poem
    1 cheer     		188 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     		232 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     		140 people
  35. 34. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    3 cheers     		18,535 people
  36. 35. write a book
    1 entry     		25,998 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     		1,104 people
  41. 40. Kiss in the rain
    2 team members . 4 cheers     		14,595 people
  42. 41. Go to graduate school
    3 entries . 4 cheers     		1,188 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 4 weeks 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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I want to:

The world wants to...

See New Moon! own more anime. make love in the rain learn fencing witness the end of IE MorningThunderstorm wants to redecorate my living room Have my first kiss Believe in myself WATCH THE WHOLE NARUTO SERIES go skiing again love and be loved get a meaningful tattoo Be fluent in Italian ugogrl wants to Read more Learn to play tabla Read all of the books from Rory Gilmore's bookclub scrapbook my life sing in a band design clothes Take a cooking class find myself change my life bench press 250 pounds find new authors to read learn to swing dance Make new friends Gertie wants to Visit a foreign city for every letter of the alphabet Be happy and make others happy too
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