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