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Destonius
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Jan 31, 2005, 03:22 AM
 
I'm putting together my list of 100 things to do in my life now and am curious what other people have in their imaginations. It could be anything and everything.

And no, you don't have to list all 100 things.

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Jan 31, 2005, 04:21 AM
 
get tasered
     
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Jan 31, 2005, 04:23 AM
 
#1 - Live to be 1000.
#2-#100 - Plenty of time to worry about 'em later.
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Jan 31, 2005, 06:48 AM
 
Reproduce with Kylie Minogue!
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Jan 31, 2005, 07:07 AM
 
Become president of the United States of America... JK
     
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Jan 31, 2005, 09:16 AM
 
Skydive.
Go through some of the hardest training it the world.(done)
Become a software engineer.
Stay married.
Own a Lamborghini Diablo.
Maybe possibly some day have kids.

But for the most part just make it back to God.
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Jan 31, 2005, 09:52 AM
 
1. Stop making lists.
2. When the urge to make a list arises, see number 1.
     
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Jan 31, 2005, 09:56 AM
 
1. Stop procrastinating.

2. Umm, I'll come up with the rest later.

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Jan 31, 2005, 10:10 AM
 
Getting adopted by Bill Gates in the next 2 years is right up there.

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Jan 31, 2005, 10:34 AM
 
#1 Design and build my own car. Not a track car but a real road GT.
#2 badidea's idea ain't a bad idea either.

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Jan 31, 2005, 11:47 AM
 
Set foot on every continent (besides Antarctica)
I still have South America and Australia to go (and probably Asia .. I went to the Suez area when I was studying in Cairo. Technically Asia .. but sorta hard to really count that).

Things I have done that I would suggest to Destonius:
Go to a major Mardi Gras (either New Orleans or Rio) or major New Year's celebration (Times Square).
Go on a Safari in Africa.
Do a long distance trip by train.
     
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Jan 31, 2005, 11:49 AM
 
Originally posted by i_rooster:
Getting adopted by Bill Gates in the next 2 years is right up there.
I knew something was wrong with you.

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Jan 31, 2005, 11:51 AM
 
Find a genie who'll give me 100 wishes.
     
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Jan 31, 2005, 12:15 PM
 
Originally posted by Krusty:
Set foot on every continent (besides Antarctica)
I still have South America and Australia to go
Exactly the same is on my list, too! (If Honduras and Guatemala would count as South America, then there would only be Australia left...)
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Jan 31, 2005, 12:17 PM
 
Originally posted by f1000:
Find a genie who'll give me 100 wishes.
You know that 1 would be enough!?
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Jan 31, 2005, 12:35 PM
 
Great topic.

Any talk about life lists should mention the originator and most famous life lister - John Goddard. Learned about him and his list when I was in high school. It's a pretty inspirational story. Here's a couple of links to his list: #1 & #2.

As for my list, it's something I look at and maybe revise every few months. It's stayed relatively stable since the beginning but it gets harder to check off stuff when you get a career and all. Still, it's a great motivational tool.
     
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Jan 31, 2005, 01:46 PM
 
(1) Reproduce with a pair of hot twins. Investigate the offsprings for pure scientific puropse.

(2) Whack a brand new PC, probably a Dell.

(3) Goto war with some middle-east country, free them all by first bombimg their arses.

(4) Lap the N'ring in Germany with a mighty fast car.

etc.
     
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Jan 31, 2005, 02:36 PM
 
Originally posted by Sealobo:
(1) Reproduce with a pair of hot twins. Investigate the offsprings for pure scientific puropse.
i like that one!
probably high up on my list is take on an entire race of aliens and own them master chief style.
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Jan 31, 2005, 02:49 PM
 
Originally posted by Mafia:
high up on my list is to be taken by a race of aliens and then be de-boned by them master chef style.
     
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Jan 31, 2005, 05:11 PM
 
Fyre4ce

Let it burn.
     
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Jan 31, 2005, 07:32 PM
 
I would like to feel the intense love of lord krisna and become immortal through a union with that mighty force of godly love and rejoice in everlasting peace.
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Jan 31, 2005, 08:00 PM
 
Well, seeing as how you asked. My list is a work in progress, I try and tick a few things each year, have some great ones organised for this year, including attending burning man.

Long list, that's constantly being modified.

To Visit
Visit an active volcano Hawaii, 2002
Tomatina festival
Burning man festival
Stay at the Ciprianni in Venice
Visit San Francisco 2001
Visit Yosemite 2001
Visit Death Valley 2001
Sunrise from Mt Haleakela 2002
Visit Victoria Falls 1995
Stay on a tiny island in the Maldives 1998, Honeymoon
Madagascar
Archangel, Russia (what a great name)
Northcape
New York
See the northern lights
Stay at the Barge Al Arab, Dubai.
Pyramids/Valley of the Kings
Stay at the Ice Hotel, Jukkarsvik, Finland
Wander through Paris for a week. Multiple times
Attend a masquerade ball during Carnevale, Venice
See the Hong Kong waterfront from the Kailoon ferry.
Galapagos
Visit Pompei
Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia
Helicopter down the Grand Canyon 2001
Barcelona
Hear the call to prayer in Istanbul
Sunrise at the Taj Mahal
New Zealand. 2003
Acropolis 1994
Float in the Dead Sea
Spend a night out in Wadi Rum, Jordan
Walk through Petra, Jordan.
Sunset at Ayers rock.
Visit Iceland, and soak in the blue lagoon.
Watch the solstice sunrise at Stonehenge
Space/Orbit

To Do
Hike the annapurna circuit 2003
African Safari 1995, just us a tent and a landrover, Zimbabwe.
Swim with dolphins 1996, Florida
Ski the Haute Route, european alps
Skydive from a hot air balloon. 1998, world Freefall Convention
Run round central park, NY.
The cresta run
Build and fly my own plane.
Make love under the African sun 1995
Lap the nurburgring on my bike.
Jump the 727 jet 1998, world Freefall Convention
Learn to drive a dogsled Jan 2004.
Marry the woman I love 1998
Base jump angel falls. Promised Kath I wouldn�t.
Bungee Jump 1995, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Learn to juggle clubs 1991
Scuba the barrier reef
Climb the Nose on El Capitan
Learn to fly 1998
Learn to play the saxaphone
Race Kona
Kayak with whales
Learn to fly aerobatics In process.
Race the Paris-Dakar
Climb the north face of the Eiger
Drive across the sahara in a Landrover
Stay at a Japanese Ryokan
Fly on Concorde Bugger!
Learn to Speak another language fluently
Drive a 1958 Ferrari 250 testarossa
Learn to Tango
Design and build my own house
Learn to surf
Ride the orient express
Hike the inca trail up to Macchu Piccu, Peru.
Sail around French Polynesia for a few months.
Play blackjack in Las Vegas 2001
Drive Highway 1, California 2001

To Own
Buy a REALLY good tailor made suit
Aston Martin V8 Vantage
my own plane.

Misc
Live abroad 1998-present
Eat at the French Laundry, napa valley
Eat at the Jules Verne restaurant, Eiffel Tower, Paris.
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Jan 31, 2005, 08:02 PM
 
Originally posted by FulcrumPilot:
I would like to feel the intense love of lord krisna and become immortal through a union with that mighty force of godly love and rejoice in everlasting peace.
Nice. Such a wish top ranks.
     
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Feb 4, 2005, 03:10 AM
 
Cool lists. It's strange that I find it challenging to come up with things that I really want to do in life. I guess I need to create categories first.

PS : air pollutino here in Bangkok is disgusting, not to mention hot and humid. Yuck!!

...explosante fixe...
     
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Feb 4, 2005, 04:31 AM
 
hmmmm...

definetly travel a lot and visit:

hawaii (already did that in '78, but want to go there again)

san fransisco (ride one of those cablecars and go to the applestore )

cuba (hit the beaches and soak up the culture...maybe even live there for a while)

norway and sweden (just hang out and enjoy the scenery...maybe party a bit...do some snowboarding)

italy (especially milano and rome...an absolute must. do as many things as possible)

india/seychelles (sight seeing...and for the food. and of course beach life)

thailand (if i could i'd probably spend a year there or so. travel around etc.)

bali (scenery, people etc.)

and last but not least, - japan! (visit tokyo and get to explore a truly unique and fascinating culture)



...over the next 20 years or so.

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Feb 4, 2005, 05:04 AM
 
1. To make a 100 things to do in life list.

2. Goto 1
     
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Feb 5, 2005, 01:28 AM
 
Originally posted by roberto blanco:
hmmmm...

definetly travel a lot and visit:

san fransisco (ride one of those cablecars and go to the applestore )



...over the next 20 years or so.

wow .. i take the cable car atleast four days a week and the applestore is a short walk from my workplace (and one block away from my cable car stop!)

me = jaded

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Feb 5, 2005, 01:57 AM
 
Free love and drugs......

Wait, I have to worry about my career now.....
     
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Feb 5, 2005, 10:46 AM
 
...to finish the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs or less.
     
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Feb 5, 2005, 03:05 PM
 
- travel in airplane without ticket and without paying (a buim flight)
- live and work in every continent, excluding antarctis
- get married (for visa)
- try cocaine (once)
- drive a ferrari
- drive a commercial airplane

those are still on the list to do..
::1 ::2 ::3 ::
     
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Feb 5, 2005, 03:08 PM
 
Originally posted by Mulattabianca:
- travel in airplane without ticket and without paying (a buim flight)
- live and work in every continent, excluding antarctis
- get married (for visa)
- try cocaine (once)
- drive a ferrari
- drive a commercial airplane

those are still on the list to do..
you can't try cocaine just once!
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Feb 5, 2005, 03:09 PM
 
Originally posted by Lancer409:
wow .. i take the cable car atleast four days a week and the applestore is a short walk from my workplace (and one block away from my cable car stop!)
*grrrrrrr* i hate you!

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Feb 5, 2005, 04:36 PM
 
1. Have sex in the Eiffel Tower
2. Have sex in the Taj Mahal
3. Have sex somewhere in the Vatican
4. Have sex in Yellowstone National Park (done)
5. Have sex on the beach
6. Have sex in the Kremlin
7. Have sex on a train, in motion
8. Have sex on a plane, in flight (i.e., join the mile high club)
9. Have sex in a wheatfield
10. Have sex in the snow
11. Have sex in the Hague
12. Have sex in the Met
13. Have sex in a supermarket, preferably in the produce section
14. Have sex in a hot air balloon
15. Have sex in Buckingham palace
16. Have sex on the Great Wall of China
17. Have sex in zero-gravity

That's all so far....
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Feb 5, 2005, 05:12 PM
 
� New Zealand road trip

� Moose Hunting in Sweden

� Camp the Pacific Northwest
     
   
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