I'm doing 28 things
Started an open source project
1 year ago
cizra (no files yet) is a forum engine for Ruby on Rails that I have started. It’s going slowly, so I figure once it’s done this goal will be complete.
Mike Zink's Life List
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1. watch every freakin' south park episode
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2. Build a portable cell phone jamming device
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3. have musical talent
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4. stop procrastinating
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5. Fall in love
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6. explore the city i live in
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7. Stop being a pirate... Arrr
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9. never stop thinking
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10. learn german
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11. Visit Germany
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12. get a job
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13. get in shape
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14. walk 500 miles, and walk 500 more, just to be the man who walked 1000 miles.
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15. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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16. pull a prank involving 100 lawn gnomes
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17. find someone foreign to eat with food
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18. cause the apocalypse by accident; preferably one involving some sort of unique confectionary concoction and a menagerie of animals
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19. fight for civil lefts
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20. witness the end of IE
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21. Contribute to an open source software project
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22. Read the Bible
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23. Drink eight glasses of water each day
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24. learn lojban
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25. stop procrastinating on stopping procrastinating
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26. stop procrastinating, stop cramming
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27. Start using SVN.
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28. buy a macBook
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Recent entries
Probably my favorite book ever.
1 year ago
It’s hilarious. If you liked it, I would recommend getting The Salmon of Doubt, which is a compilation of various works by Douglas Adams including articles written about himself and other such stuff for magazines. It also has some excerpts from his not-so-popular Dirk Gently series, which by the way is almost as funny.
Also, if you read any of the HG2G, then you have to read the entire trilogy (which consists of 5 books :p). Or else I will have to cause undetermined amounts of pain to this small dog I have here. How would you like that? Read the books!
Oh, and remember Towel Day, March 25th.
This language is awesome.
1 year ago
I’m taking German in high school right now, and it is my favorite class. I thought it would be really difficult to learn a new spoken language (programming languages aren’t a problem for me though), but it is my easiest class, and probably the only one I actually learn in. Since most of my time is spent on my computer, I’ve installed a German keyboard layout. It’s nifty. Now I can type German too.
I have also gotten my hands on a copy of Rosetta Stone German, and that’s helping a lot.
I am now far enough in learning German to where I can carry on a completely lame conversation about massively unimportant things, like the color of the car (Das Auto is weiß.), the length of the girls hair (Das Mädchen hat langes Haar.). Yep, so far It’s going very well. I think that this will be my easiest goal on 43 things, although it will probably take the longest.
