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sehrgut




I'm doing 42 things
  

sehrgut's Life List

  2. 1. blog consciously
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  3. 2. Be a hoopy frood
    1 entry . 4 cheers     		8 people
  4. 3. Stop caring what other people think of me
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		4,569 people
  5. 4. finish building my darkroom
    1 cheer     		5 people
  6. 5. Activly maintain and improve my open-source projects
    		8 people
  7. 6. Contribute to an open source software project
    		779 people
  8. 7. Write for a living
    1 cheer     		335 people
  9. 8. Play the piano more
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		256 people
  10. 9. Go to graduate school
    3 entries . 4 cheers     		1,173 people
  11. 10. never lose touch with those who matter
    2 entries . 4 cheers     		34 people
  12. 11. Publish a poem
    1 cheer     		202 people
  13. 12. Be happily married
    2 entries . 1 cheer     		147 people
  14. 13. Kiss in the rain
    2 team members . 4 cheers     		15,297 people
  15. 14. play scrabble
    2 team members     		86 people
  16. 15. Visit Ireland
    1 cheer     		2,746 people
  17. 16. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
    3 cheers     		21,235 people
  18. 17. Buy original art
    5 entries . 4 cheers     		85 people
  19. 18. catalogue and organize my library
    1 entry     		33 people
  20. 19. hang up my laundry
    		1 person
  21. 20. count to infinity
    1 entry     		7 people
  22. 21. Coin a new term
    1 entry     		10 people
  23. 22. play more chess
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  24. 23. publish something in a respectable journal, magazine, or edited website
    1 cheer     		398 people
  25. 24. Get a new Macintosh
    1 cheer     		2 people
  26. 25. learn how to fence
    		76 people
  27. 26. Have daily devotions
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		33 people
  28. 27. write a book
    1 entry     		30,184 people
  29. 28. Nuke the whales and tuna the dolphins
    1 entry     		1 person
  30. 29. Return to the foot of holiness and walk simply
    		1 person
  31. 30. Get nowhere fast
    		1 person
  32. 31. Suffocate on false hope
    		1 person
  33. 32. "Simplify, simplify."
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  34. 33. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1,110 people
  35. 34. host a keysigning party
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  36. 35. find a reason to use PGP
    1 entry     		3 people
  37. 36. use pgp
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  38. 37. use GPG frequently
    		1 person
  39. 38. Relax in a rainforest
    2 cheers     		3 people
  40. 39. shoot the messenger
    1 cheer     		1 person
  41. 40. Learn to pick locks
    		1,514 people
  42. 41. own a used bookstore
    		53 people
  43. 42. Become a past master at something
    		1 person

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, 2009, 09:40AM PST | 0 comments


Recent entries
catalogue and organize my library
Writing my own software

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, 2009, 08:14AM PDT | 0 comments


count to infinity
I can divide by zero!

snickers

Jan 29, 2009, 09:46AM PST | 0 comments


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

That’s a good thing, right?

smiles like a besotted mooncalf

Jan 29, 2009, 09:34AM PST | 1 cheer | 1 comment


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have groupies find my biological grandfather learn yoga Be the best Mum I can be Care less about what people think of me be polyamorous Sing in front of a crowd tamaribu wants to practice discardia lose weight and keep it off dream lucidly Learn to say no get my ged online for free watch Grey's Anatomy forgive learn python eat mexican food be a beautition go to chile figure out if i'm pregnant...? save more money shapeshifter wants to do first things first Learn Ruby Get out more design my own tattoo Find someone who loves me for me Find out what the little pockets on cats' ears are for Finish my website
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