Matt Maldre




I'm doing 41 things
 

Matt Maldre's Life List

  1. 1. Pick a book in the Bible and study it closely.
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    2 people
  2. 2. Play 25 different pinball machines
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    1 person
  3. 3. watch a real badminton tournament live
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    8 people
  4. 4. play croquet in my apartment building's courtyard
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    1 person
  5. 5. Go to Chicago Movies in the Park
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    1 person
  6. 6. Ride to all stops of all the Chicago "L" lines
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    53 people
  7. 7. In one day get off and on every Metra stop on one line
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    1 person
  8. 8. take classes at the National Croquet Center
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    1 person
  9. 9. memorize all the 2 and 3 letter words in scrabble
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    9 people
  10. 10. eat chocolate sushi
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    9 people
  11. 11. Have one month of my electricity bill be below 5.0kWh
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    2 people
  12. 12. Eat six saltine crackers under sixty seconds
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    1 person
  13. 13. Learn 10 estonian words
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    1 person
  14. 14. Play croquet with 100 different people
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    1 person
  15. 15. Chew an entire pack of Trident White at once
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    1 person
  16. 16. Have a race to see who can fit 3 feet of gum in their mouth the fastest
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    1 person
  17. 17. memorize the block numbers of major Chicago streets
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    2 people
  18. 18. Take my favorite blog entries and make a book
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    1 person
  19. 19. Act goofy in an elevator with someone else
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    1 person
  20. 20. Become a checker ninja
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    1 person
  21. 21. Photograph the "gateway buildings" of Chicago
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    1 person
  22. 22. Read all 26 articles on The Truth Behind Common World Climate Myths
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    1 person
  23. 23. Install a nerf basketball hoop at work
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    1 person
  24. 24. Sticker-bomb my co-workers
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    1 person
  25. 25. Submit some of my favorite quotes to Matt Maldre to put in the newspaper
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    2 people
  26. 26. Everyday email one person in my address book anagrams of his/her name
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    1 person
  27. 27. Have everyone you know sign one baseball
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    2 people
  28. 28. 'cleansweep' my life up to 100% (http://betterme.org/cleansweep.html)
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    94 people
  29. 29. have an online Bible study group.
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    15 people
  30. 30. Say "thank you" in a different language every week in my emails
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    1 person
  31. 31. Identify three things to do every day
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    1 person
  32. 32. Bike to work
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    210 people
  33. 33. make a smaller ecological footprint
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    1,028 people
  34. 34. Install a thermometer inside my refrigerator
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    1 person
  35. 35. Write more meaningful blog posts where I open up more about myself
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    1 person
  36. 36. Try as many different kinds of hot chocolate Chicago has to offer
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    1 person
  37. 37. find a unique, cute little travel mascot to take with me on all trips and photograph "him" next to touristy sites wherever i go...(kind of like the traveling gnome).
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    152 people
  38. 38. art challenge
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    3 people
  39. 39. Revive my 43things list
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    1 person
  40. 40. find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year
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    935 people
  41. 41. Make a hand-drawn maze
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    1 person
Recent entries
find a unique, cute little travel mascot to take with me on all trips and photograph "him" next to touristy sites wherever i go...(kind of like the traveling gnome). (read all 2 entries…)
Godzilla? 1 month ago

i like the idea of using Godzilla as my little mascot to photograph on trips. It’s like Godzilla is attacking whatever is in the photo. RAWRRR!
Here’s an example that inspired me:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lala/2440797363/

The only thing is that I don’t know if I’d legally be allowed to sell photographs that use King Kong in them.


find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year (read all 20 entries…)
6/13, 6/14, 6/15: bus on southside, hang out at home, cheese 2 months ago

I spent the weekend at my parents on the south side of Chicago…

Fri 6/13: bus on southside
Got off the wrong Metra stop. But a Western Avenue bus came right away, as did the 103rd street bus. It was interesting riding through my south-side childhood/teen-years neighborhood on a bus. The CTA bus and train is how I get around my north-side neighborhood now. But growing up on the south-side, we always drove. So it was an interesting two worlds colliding riding the bus on the south side of Chicago.

Sat 6/14: hang out at home
It was nice hanging out at my parents house with my sis and mom (dad was at a conference).

Sun 6/15: cheese
Seeing my niece on father’s day. She can say:
  • Mama
  • Arf (when she hears a dog, one of her favorite words)
  • Dada
  • Uh-oh (when something is dropped)
  • Up (when she’s about to crawl up the stairs)
  • Apple
  • Out (used sparingly, sometimes when her shoes are being put on)

I taught her to say cheese (when she’s holding her string cheese, not when taking a photo). I don’t know if she’ll remember it. But she kinda uttered a “eez” a couple times.


find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year (read all 20 entries…)
6/12: comments working 2 months ago

After changing hosts for spudart.org, everything looked good. But then someone told me the comments form was busted. OH NO! After a long day struggling with actionscript at work, I wasn’t in the mood to fix this problem.

Spudart.org uses pmachine pro, which stopped development in 2004. Thankfully, they still have a forum! WOOOOOOOOOT-A! The problem ended up having an easy fix.


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