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Chris Chapman




I'm doing 41 things
  

Chris Chapman's Life List

  1. 1. get in shape
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  2. 2. blog more often
    2 cheers     		377 people
  3. 3. stop procrastinating
    1 cheer     		22,994 people
  4. 4. climb all 214 Wainwrights
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		2 people
  5. 5. move out
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  6. 6. write a book and have it published
    2 cheers     		2,455 people
  7. 7. work through 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain'
    1 cheer     		51 people
  8. 8. learn to draw
    1 entry     		1,679 people
  9. 9. Watch a space shuttle launch
    1 cheer     		905 people
  10. 10. spend less time on irc
    		1 person
  11. 11. Think more
    		67 people
  12. 12. stop wasting time
    		3,169 people
  13. 13. eradicate the greengrocer's apostrophe
    7 cheers     		25 people
  14. 14. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
    		1,106 people
  15. 15. read and implement Getting Things Done
    1 cheer     		119 people
  16. 16. Drink eight glasses of water each day
    		1,637 people
  17. 17. watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies
    1 entry     		915 people
  18. 18. stare at screen <12hrs/day
    1 cheer     		14 people
  19. 19. organize my mp3s
    		86 people
  20. 20. buy and sustain my first houseplant
    4 cheers     		11 people
  21. 21. Contribute to an open source software project
    		810 people
  22. 22. do a crossword puzzle every day
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		12 people
  23. 23. pay off my student loans
    1 cheer     		2,331 people
  24. 24. learn ruby on rails
    		1,318 people
  25. 25. Learn AJAX style programming
    		546 people
  26. 26. be a more conscious consumer
    2 cheers     		75 people
  27. 27. make a difference
    		6,047 people
  28. 28. eat healthier
    2 entries     		8,170 people
  29. 29. do the coast to coast walk
    		8 people
  30. 30. Learn to play the guitar
    2 cheers     		10,738 people
  31. 31. become a better photographer
    		1,745 people
  32. 32. learn card magic
    		3 people
  33. 33. learn clever magic tricks
    1 cheer     		134 people
  34. 34. spend less time on the computer
    		830 people
  35. 35. work because I want to, not because I have to
    1 cheer     		294 people
  36. 36. see the northern lights
    		14,284 people
  37. 37. declutter my house
    		829 people
  38. 38. juggle Mills Mess
    		3 people
  39. 39. read 12 books in 2007
    1 entry     		11 people
  40. 40. learn to ride a bike
    		494 people
  41. 41. read the Harvard Classics
    		39 people
Recent entries
read a book chapter for Librivox
Definitely worthwhile 11 months ago

The community is friendly and the experience is very rewarding. It’s quite time-consuming (especially the editing, at least for me) but I get a warm fuzzy feeling every time I upload a finished chapter.

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get to level 60 on World of Warcraft.
wasn't worth it for me in any way that mattered 11 months ago

I made level 60 after a few months of fairly relaxed play, but realised that all there was left to the game after that was either tedious grinding, or the promise of rewards awarded infrequently and at random. A week later I vended everything I had, gave away the gold, and cancelled my account. I’ve never regretted it, and the free trial copy of Burning Crusade that Blizzard sent me sits here untouched and unwanted.

If you’re considering getting out of WoW, don’t think of it as quitting, think of it as winning the game. If that seems like an artifice, realise that you have to make up your own victory condition, because Blizzard is never going to give you a way to win.

For me, the lesson of my time spent playing WoW is summed up by a comment I saw somewhere: “Never pay someone for the privilege of letting them control your sense of accomplishment.”

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hit level 60 in World of Warcraft
wasn't worth it for me in any way that mattered 11 months ago

I made level 60 after a few months of fairly relaxed play, but realised that all there was left to the game after that was either tedious grinding, or the promise of rewards awarded infrequently and at random. A week later I vended everything I had, gave away the gold, and cancelled my account. I’ve never regretted it, and the free trial copy of Burning Crusade that Blizzard sent me sits here untouched and unwanted.

If you’re considering getting out of WoW, don’t think of it as quitting, think of it as winning the game. If that seems like an artifice, realise that you have to make up your own victory condition, because Blizzard is never going to give you a way to win.

For me, the lesson of my time spent playing WoW is summed up by a comment I saw somewhere: “Never pay someone for the privilege of letting them control your sense of accomplishment.”

2 cheers | 0 comments

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