This is my 100 in 1001 days list starting 2/8/2009. I decided to do this instead of any sort of New Year's resolutions and am much more excited about it. The basic idea is simply to come up with 100 things you want to complete in 1000 days. Wish me luck!
- Total completed line items: ??
- Read one scientific paper per week (2/143)
- Read remaining textbooks on visual perception (2/2)
- Read book on Celtic culture (0/1)
- Read book on world religions (0/1)
- Introductory text on economics (0/1)
- 1 US History (0/1)
- 1 world history book (01)
- 1 book on Lincoln (0/1)
- 1 on Washington (0/1)
- 3 books on Civil War (1/3)
- Learn a foreign language (0/1)
- Learn sign language (0/1)
- Study dictionary.com word of the day, read daily quotes, complete puzzler
- Read the chess books that I have (0/3)
- Re-read Linear Algebra book (0/1)
- Read an Abstract Algebra book (0/1)
- Learn more about Typography (intro and TDR) (0/2)
- Learn functional programming (F# or ocaml most likely) (0/1)
- Finish vimtutor, become a vim master (0/2)
- Give Arch Linux another try as a VM (1/1)
- Turn game mechanic from the Design list into an actual playable game (0/1)
- Read through Underground Guide to Unix, learn linux better (0/1)
- Contribute to an open-source project or write one of my own (1/1)
- Same as #8, but part of a larger project (to complete 8 I posted some code on my website) (0/1)
- Complete all the DailyWTF programming praxis challenges in a variety of languages
- Get the texture synthesis paper polished and submit to a conference
- No longer in school so this is (for now) no longer relevant.
- Stocks (Jubak's Picks, Either/Or Investor by Winter, Fool Investment Guide) (1/3)
- Read all Pulitzers in fiction (4/61)
- Finish off all the classics I already have (3/?)
- Read the Harry Potter series (7/7)
- Catch up on the pile o' magazines (16/~30)
- Read Pillars of the Earth by Follett and talk to Dr. C. about it (2/2)
- Read On the Origin of Species and an Intelligent Design book
- Read Dune and watch the movie
- Finish 100 push-up program
- Be able to complete the Pilated advanced workout from my book
- Be able to jump rope for 10 minutes straight
- Try one new recipe every month (10/29)
- Do Meatless Mondays (17/123)
- Complete the (Zen) Big Sit (http://www.tricycle.com/-practice/the-big-sit)
- Re-design website (0/1)
- Charcoal drawing (0/1)
- Ink drawings (1 color, 1 B&W) (0/2)
- Make a stop-animation short (0/1)
- Come up with a simple "one week" style game mechanic (0/1)
- Write a short story
- Yo-yo tricks
- Finish a Rubik's cube
- Juggle 4 balls
- Card Tricks
- Sleight of hand
- Whittle (http://www.wikihow.com/Whittle-a-Ball-in-a-Cage) (0/1)
- Read Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things and actually try them out (0/1)
- Complete (or at least attempt) one crossword puzzle per week (13/139)
- Learn how to play Go (0/1)
- Home brew a batch of beer
- See AFI's top 100 films (4/100)
- Learn FF Decisive Battle for guitar (http://grahamchoo.blogspot.com/2007/05/decisive-battle.html) (0/1)
- Learn Drifting by McKee on guitar (http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/a/andy_mckee/drifting_ver2_tab.htm) (0/1)
- Learn piano (0/1)
- Learn mandolin ($$ permitting) (0/1)
- Learn banjo ($$ permitting) (0/1)
- Put all the small pieces I have together (or write new stuff) for at least one complete song (0/1)
- Learn to read music
- Get settled in my apartment: unpack everything, get rid of extra clothes/stuff, organize, and decorate.
- Finish room organization (1/1)
- Get a nice banker's chair with a j-fit for the seat (0/1)
- Get bookmarks and computer files in order (0/2)
- Clean and tune-up bike (.5/1)
- Upgrade computer (0/1)
- Play through Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG on emulator (or virtual console) (0/2)
- Go on another long distance hike in the US (0/1)
- Go to another country (0/1)
- Get a passport (0/1)
- Visit Katie in DC (1/1)
- Visit Katie and Kate in Nashville (1/1)
- Grow some of my own food (tomatoes, possibly herbs, space permitting on porch) (0/1)
- Put this list on my website and make web friendly (2/2)
- Finish off the family letters (1/4)
- Start my blog (3/3 - get the domain, get the site up, start posting)
- Skydiving or bungee jumping
- Fly a plane or hang glider
- Contribute to a wiki entry (1/1)
- Submit a secret to Postsecret
Education/Learning
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School
Reading
Exercise/Health
Art/Creativity/Design/Entertainment
Talents or Hobbies
Entertainment
Music
Organize/Home
Games/Computer
Travel
Misc
| American Film Institute's Top 100 (2007 edition) | |
| Title | Completed |
| Citizen Kane, 1941. | |
| The Godfather, 1972. | |
| Casablanca, 1942. | X |
| Raging Bull, 1980. | |
| Singin' in the Rain, 1952. | |
| Gone With the Wind, 1939. | |
| Lawrence of Arabia, 1962. | |
| Schindler's List, 1993. | |
| Vertigo, 1958. | X |
| The Wizard of Oz, 1939. | |
| City Lights, 1931. | |
| The Searchers, 1956. | |
| Star Wars, 1977. | |
| Psycho, 1960. | |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968. | |
| Sunset Blvd., 1950. | |
| The Graduate, 1967. | |
| The General, 1927. | |
| On the Waterfront, 1954. | |
| It's a Wonderful Life, 1946. | |
| Chinatown, 1974. | |
| Some Like It Hot, 1959. | |
| The Grapes of Wrath, 1940. | |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982. | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962. | |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939. | |
| High Noon, 1952. | |
| All About Eve, 1950. | |
| Double Indemnity, 1944. | |
| Apocalypse Now, 1979. | |
| The Maltese Falcon, 1941. | |
| The Godfather Part II, 1974. | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975. | |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937. | |
| Annie Hall, 1977. | |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957. | |
| The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946. | |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948. | |
| Dr. Strangelove, 1964. | X |
| The Sound of Music, 1965. | |
| King Kong, 1933. | |
| Bonnie and Clyde, 1967. | |
| Midnight Cowboy, 1969. | |
| The Philadelphia Story, 1940. | |
| Shane, 1953. | |
| It Happened One Night, 1934. | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951. | |
| Rear Window, 1954. | |
| Intolerance, 1916. | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001. | |
| West Side Story, 1961. | |
| Taxi Driver, 1976. | |
| The Deer Hunter, 1978. | |
| M-A-S-H, 1970. | |
| North by Northwest, 1959. | |
| Jaws, 1975. | |
| Rocky, 1976. | |
| The Gold Rush, 1925. | |
| Nashville, 1975. | |
| Duck Soup, 1933. | |
| Sullivan's Travels, 1941. | |
| American Graffiti, 1973. | |
| Cabaret, 1972. | |
| Network, 1976. | |
| The African Queen, 1951. | |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981. | |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966. | |
| Unforgiven, 1992. | |
| Tootsie, 1982. | |
| A Clockwork Orange, 1971. | |
| Saving Private Ryan, 1998. | |
| The Shawshank Redemption, 1994. | |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969. | |
| The Silence of the Lambs, 1991. | |
| In the Heat of the Night, 1967. | |
| Forrest Gump, 1994. | |
| All the President's Men, 1976. | |
| Modern Times, 1936. | |
| The Wild Bunch, 1969. | |
| The Apartment, 1960. | |
| Spartacus, 1960. | |
| Sunrise, 1927. | |
| Titanic, 1997. | |
| Easy Rider, 1969. | |
| A Night at the Opera, 1935. | |
| Platoon, 1986. | |
| 12 Angry Men, 1957. | |
| Bringing Up Baby, 1938. | |
| The Sixth Sense, 1999. | |
| Swing Time, 1936. | |
| Sophie's Choice, 1982. | |
| Goodfellas, 1990. | |
| The French Connection, 1971. | |
| Pulp Fiction, 1994. | |
| The Last Picture Show, 1971. | |
| Do the Right Thing, 1989. | X |
| Blade Runner, 1982. | X |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942. | X |
| Toy Story, 1995. | |
| Ben-Hur, 1959. | X |
| Pulitzer Winners in Fiction | |
| Title | Completed |
| 2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz | |
| 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy | |
| 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks | |
| 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson | |
| 2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones | |
| 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo | |
| 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon | |
| 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham | |
| 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth | |
| 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser | |
| 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford | |
| 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields | |
| 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx | |
| 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler | |
| 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley | |
| 1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike | |
| 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos | |
| 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler | |
| 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison | |
| 1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor | |
| 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry | |
| 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie | |
| 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy | |
| 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker | |
| 1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike | |
| 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole | |
| 1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer | |
| 1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever | |
| 1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson | |
| 1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow | |
| 1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara | |
| 1973 The Optimists Daughter by Eudora Welty | |
| 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner | |
| 1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford | |
| 1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday | |
| 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron | |
| 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud | |
| 1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter | |
| 1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau | |
| 1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner | |
| 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor | |
| 1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee | |
| 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury | |
| 1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor | |
| 1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee | |
| 1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor | X |
| 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner | |
| 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | X |
| 1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk | |
| 1951 The Town by Conrad Richter | |
| 1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie | |
| 1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens | X |
| 1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener | X |