Chris Chapman




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Chris Chapman's Life List

  1. 1. get in shape
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    9,359 people
  2. 2. blog more often
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    393 people
  3. 3. stop procrastinating
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    26,927 people
  4. 4. climb all 214 Wainwrights
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    1 person
  5. 5. move out
    3,043 people
  6. 6. write a book and have it published
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    2,698 people
  7. 7. work through 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain'
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    56 people
  8. 8. learn to draw
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    1,986 people
  9. 9. Watch a space shuttle launch
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    956 people
  10. 10. spend less time on irc
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  11. 11. Think more
    77 people
  12. 12. stop wasting time
    3,556 people
  13. 13. eradicate the greengrocer's apostrophe
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    24 people
  14. 14. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
    1,107 people
  15. 15. read and implement Getting Things Done
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    114 people
  16. 16. Drink eight glasses of water each day
    1,735 people
  17. 17. watch the IMDB.com Top 100 movies
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    1,015 people
  18. 18. stare at screen <12hrs/day
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    13 people
  19. 19. organize my mp3s
    85 people
  20. 20. buy and sustain my first houseplant
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    12 people
  21. 21. Contribute to an open source software project
    801 people
  22. 22. do a crossword puzzle every day
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    15 people
  23. 23. pay off my student loans
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    2,841 people
  24. 24. learn ruby on rails
    1,343 people
  25. 25. Learn AJAX style programming
    533 people
  26. 26. be a more conscious consumer
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    71 people
  27. 27. make a difference
    6,770 people
  28. 28. eat healthier
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    10,093 people
  29. 29. do the coast to coast walk
    8 people
  30. 30. Learn to play the guitar
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    12,629 people
  31. 31. become a better photographer
    1,974 people
  32. 32. learn card magic
    3 people
  33. 33. learn clever magic tricks
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    144 people
  34. 34. spend less time on the computer
    949 people
  35. 35. work because I want to, not because I have to
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    332 people
  36. 36. read the Harvard Classics
    52 people
  37. 37. learn to ride a bike
    599 people
  38. 38. see the northern lights
    16,864 people
  39. 39. juggle Mills Mess
    3 people
  40. 40. declutter my house
    931 people
Recent entries
read a book chapter for Librivox
Definitely worthwhile 2 years 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.



get to level 60 on World of Warcraft.
wasn't worth it for me in any way that mattered 2 years 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.”



hit level 60 in World of Warcraft
wasn't worth it for me in any way that mattered 2 years 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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