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