tropicalathome




I'm doing 32 things
 

tropicalathome's Life List

  1. 1. Become Financially Independent
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  2. 2. write some songs and record them
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  3. 3. make sure I get enough sleep
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  4. 4. keep my kids happy and be a good parent
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  5. 5. create a peer-to-peer video distribution application
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  6. 6. do more to prevent health problems later in life
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  7. 7. Write more books
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  8. 8. get rid of my clutter
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  9. 9. start selling my lomography
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  10. 10. design and build the ultimate guitar amplifier
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  11. 11. build some guitars
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  12. 12. get a house that doesn't constrain me
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  13. 13. move to somewhere sunny
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  14. 14. find a way to invent for a living
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  15. 15. get my patents filed fully
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  16. 16. create a new media authoring and distribution application
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  17. 17. create a new peer-to-peer collaborative working application framework
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  18. 18. write some audio processing applications
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  19. 19. get to grips with photoshop
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  20. 20. Start a company that survives longer than 2 years
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  21. 21. record a solo album in one month
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  22. 22. read some books on graphic design and typography
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  23. 23. make a documentary film
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  24. 24. Minimize existing clutter and excess possessions
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  25. 25. find the perfect web application development framework
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  26. 26. be confident and courageous, consistently.
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  27. 27. live passionately
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  28. 28. be happy
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  29. 29. lose weight
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  30. 30. Learn to play Brazilian drums in an ensemble
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  31. 31. get out of debt
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  32. 32. learn python
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Recent entries
Learn to play the guitar
Playing Even a Little Bit Is Worth the Work 3 years ago

You don’t need to learn much to sound fine. It’s hard work, but you can do yourself a lot of favours by getting some good lessons from a good teacher (learning on your own usually sucks) and by getting some advice on buying a playable guitar. Some guitars are inherently hard to play (a.k.a. “character building”). This can discourage you so much, when you are learning, that you quit.

Play to enjoy and you will enjoy to play.


learn Russian
It's damn hard work 3 years ago

i studied Russian at adult evening class once a week for several years, but in the end I got an A grade GCSE (something 16 year old school kids get). The problem is you reach a point where you need to immerse yourself in the language and culture and speak Russian with natives everyday for like six months. I didn’t get that far. It’s very easy to forget what you have learned if you don’t use it.


Write a technical book
You need to be lucky 3 years ago

I was in the right place at the right time, knowing the right people and was asked to write Streaming Media Demystified. They say writing a book changes your life and that was true for me, only the changes were a mixed blessing. On the whole, it was worth doing and I developed a taste to write more, though I don’t have a current publishing deal for other things.


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