Riley

is footloose and fancy free.



I'm doing 40 things
 

Riley's Life List

  1. 1. do one thing every day that scares me
    2 cheers
    270 people
  2. 2. record my dreams
    1 entry . 12 cheers
    332 people
  3. 3. master grade 1 Kanji
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    18 people
  4. 4. Research my genealogy
    2 entries . 4 cheers
    217 people
  5. 5. learn German
    10 cheers
    4,533 people
  6. 6. train as a barista
    13 cheers
    20 people
  7. 7. eat bread and cheese more often
    17 cheers
    1 person
  8. 8. find the locations in Spain where the spaghetti westerns were shot
    4 cheers
    1 person
  9. 9. read Ancient Greek
    7 cheers
    9 people
  10. 10. see 43 great films
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    1 person
  11. 11. rid myself of envy
    14 cheers
    10 people
  12. 12. learn to catch
    1 entry . 4 cheers
    2 people
  13. 13. rank the Presidents of the United States
    4 cheers
    2 people
  14. 14. formulate a coherent political philosophy
    12 cheers
    2 people
  15. 15. find out how a college education got so expensive
    9 cheers
    3 people
  16. 16. repeal the U.S. drinking age
    1 entry . 1 cheer
    1 person
  17. 17. learn chess openings
    8 cheers
    6 people
  18. 18. Learn to identify plants, flowers, and trees
    17 cheers
    107 people
  19. 19. never get a tattoo
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    19 people
  20. 20. let people know about "Open Source" radio
    3 entries . 2 cheers
    1 person
  21. 21. understand Rhetoric
    3 entries . 2 cheers
    1 person
  22. 22. write a play
    6 cheers
    597 people
  23. 23. be more like Camus and less like Sartre
    10 cheers
    1 person
  24. 24. convert Robert Moses' grave into a highway traffic divider
    2 cheers
    1 person
  25. 25. warn people about Constance Garnett's translations of Dostoyevsky
    3 cheers
    1 person
  26. 26. recognize musical intervals
    5 cheers
    1 person
  27. 27. learn walking bass
    4 cheers
    2 people
  28. 28. Improve my photography
    1 cheer
    592 people
  29. 29. Stop using paper cups
    4 cheers
    2 people
  30. 30. make a will
    158 people
  31. 31. learn more about statistics
    1 entry
    4 people
  32. 32. Understand game theory
    2 cheers
    3 people
  33. 33. learn to invest
    7 cheers
    226 people
  34. 34. take the MAT
    2 cheers
    3 people
  35. 35. learn ANTLR
    1 entry
    2 people
  36. 36. learn natural language processing
    2 people
  37. 37. stop hoarding data
    1 entry
    1 person
  38. 38. get rid of everything I don't need
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    126 people
  39. 39. put William James' words to the test: "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
    8 cheers
    2 people
  40. 40. learn to play a new song on the guitar every day
    2 people

How I did it
How to report an earthquake to USGS ("Did you feel it?")
It took me
1 day
It made me


How to renew my passport
It took me
17 days
It made me
go "whew".


Recent entries
never get a tattoo
In other words 8 months ago

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learn how to use git (read all 2 entries…)
Cold turkey 8 months ago

Signed up for github today, and imported my current project from subversion. Keeping the Cheat Sheet close at hand.



get rid of everything I don't need
In the process of moving... 14 months ago

...one realizes that at heart we’re all compulsive hoarders, albeit some of us less consistently than others.



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