anders pearson




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anders pearson's Life List

  1. 1. learn erlang
    55 people
  2. 2. visit my own gravestone
    1 entry
    1 person
  3. 3. set foot on another planet
    2 people
  4. 4. hike the inca trail to machu pichu
    228 people
  5. 5. rock climb
    744 people
  6. 6. visit sweden
    180 people
  7. 7. take over the world
    731 people
  8. 8. complete the Great Work
    1 person
  9. 9. learn sign language
    7,658 people
  10. 10. visit every continent on earth
    7 people
  11. 11. sleep regularly
    179 people
  12. 12. pay off all my debts
    410 people
  13. 13. live forever
    765 people
  14. 14. travel to venice before it sinks
    1 person
  15. 15. relearn the math i've forgotten since high school
    1 person
  16. 16. visit antarctica
    439 people
  17. 17. visit all the endpoints of the NYC subway lines
    2 people
  18. 18. build a tesla coil
    31 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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