anders pearson




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anders pearson's Life List

  1. 1. learn erlang
    54 people
  2. 2. visit all the endpoints of the NYC subway lines
    2 people
  3. 3. visit antarctica
    419 people
  4. 4. relearn the math i've forgotten since high school
    1 person
  5. 5. travel to venice before it sinks
    1 person
  6. 6. live forever
    748 people
  7. 7. pay off all my debts
    402 people
  8. 8. sleep regularly
    176 people
  9. 9. visit every continent on earth
    6 people
  10. 10. learn sign language
    7,418 people
  11. 11. complete the Great Work
    1 person
  12. 12. take over the world
    728 people
  13. 13. visit sweden
    172 people
  14. 14. rock climb
    732 people
  15. 15. hike the inca trail to machu pichu
    223 people
  16. 16. set foot on another planet
    2 people
  17. 17. visit my own gravestone
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    1 person
  18. 18. build a tesla coil
    29 people
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visit my own gravestone
my gravestone 2 years ago

I got an email from my dad one day talking about how he and my mother had finally gone up to New Sweden, Maine for the Midsommarstag festivities they have up there. During a break, they wandered the town a bit and ended up in the cemetery. In the cemetery was one large, white, marble stone much larger and fancier than the rest. When they came around, they saw that the name on it was mine (I have a relatively uncommon, though very Swedish, name). There was apparently someone quite wealthy and important in New Sweden in the 1800’s with my name.

It freaked my mom out pretty badly, but now I really want to go see it for myself and take my picture with “my” gravestone.




 

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