I'm doing 40 things
I can divide by zero!
5 months ago
snickers
sehrgut's Life List
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1. blog consciously
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2. Be a hoopy frood
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3. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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4. Become a past master at something
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5. Suffocate on false hope
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6. Buy original art
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7. Play the piano more
1 entry . 2 cheers224 people -
8. Get nowhere fast
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9. Return to the foot of holiness and walk simply
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10. Relax in a rainforest
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11. Publish a poem
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12. Coin a new term
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13. Be happily married
2 entries . 1 cheer135 people -
14. Go to graduate school
3 entries . 4 cheers1,169 people -
15. Kiss in the rain
3 cheers14,425 people -
16. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
1 entry . 1 cheer1,109 people -
17. Get a new Macintosh
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18. Nuke the whales and tuna the dolphins
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19. Have daily devotions
1 entry . 1 cheer35 people -
20. write a book
1 entry24,983 people -
21. "Simplify, simplify."
1 cheer46 people -
22. never lose touch with those who matter
2 entries . 4 cheers33 people -
23. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
1 cheer416 people -
24. Release 100 books on BookCrossing
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25. Stop caring what other people think of me
1 entry . 1 cheer3,888 people -
26. learn how to fence
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27. shoot the messenger
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28. Write for a living
1 cheer315 people -
29. own a used bookstore
55 people -
30. finish building my darkroom
1 cheer5 people -
31. Learn to pick locks
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32. count to infinity
1 entry8 people -
33. use GPG frequently
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34. use pgp
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35. find a reason to use PGP
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36. host a keysigning party
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37. play more chess
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38. Contribute to an open source software project
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39. Activly maintain and improve my open-source projects
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40. hang up my laundry
1 person
How I did it
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…
Recent entries
Head over blasted heels . . .
5 months ago
That’s a good thing, right?
smiles like a besotted mooncalf
Current Collection
5 months ago
Okay, I’m not going to list the artists because you’ve never heard of them—all local or friends.
- A “derelicts in the harbour” painting of junks
- A matched pair, one beach the other wharf
- A very large, immpressive tall-ship
- A sumi-e eagle
- A pen-and-ink “library owl”
- Poppies I and II (below)
- “Moon Walks with Me” (below)
- A couple small cafe-style paintings in the kitchen: a pear and a street scene
- The photo mentioned below still needs to be framed. \sigh\
- My one print currently displayed: a print of “Flaming June” from the Ponce Museum—current holder of that work
- Three Escher prints I’m going to hang in the library, simply because they’re Escher and I’ll never have an original Escher, so I may as well have quality prints. \grin\
I know, I know . . . I said no prints. Well, phooey. Some prints, I’ve found, are worth it.
