Tuesday, March 1, 2011

My Summer Bucket List (Draft)

I will soon begin my summer list.  I want suggestions so that I can get to 50 items and I want people to do things with me. Give me feedback !
 
  1. Run a half marathon
  2. Joggle 10 k
  3. Bench 200 lbs.
  4. Run a 6 minute mile
  5. Skydive
  6. Drive a motorcycle
  7. Fire a gun
  8. Play paintball
  9. Learn to drive stick
  10. Try acupuncture
  11. Climb a mountain (e.g. Mt Washington, NH or higher)
  12. Compete is a food eating contest or win restaurant eating challenge
  13. Learn html and make some blog improvements
  14. Break a Guinness record
  15. Write a movie pitch
  16. Tell a moth story
  17. Write 5 minutes of standup
  18. Apply for a reality TV show (e.g. The Amazing Race)
  19. Complete 100 catches with 5 ball
  20. Flash 6 balls
  21. Learn stairway to heaven on the guitar
  22. Beat black ops
  23. Learn to surf (catch a 5 ft. wave)
  24. Post a youtube video every day for a week
  25. Go to a music festival (e.g. bonaroo)
  26. Walk to the length of Manhattan
  27. Bike from bear mountain to new york city
  28. Walk from 34th street to central park south without walking up any avenues
  29. Win a poker tournament
  30. Learn to whistle with 2 fingers
  31. Do a sales job and make a sale (e.g. sell a car)
  32. Read a book in Russian (e.g. children's book)
  33. Read a fiction book
  34. Fight in a boxing match
  35. Build a table or bookshelf (or something cool)
  36. Volunteer with old people
  37. Don’t eat meat for 2 weeks
  38. Complete a NTY Sunday Crossword Puzzle
  39. Go biking down a mountain (mountain biking)
  40. 2 new business ideas every day for a week
  41. Teach a class
  42. Beat a hobo at chess in a new york city park
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5 comments:

  1. AngadMarch 1, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    I think #17 would be more impressive if you performed 5 minutes of stand-up comedy. Writing it is first is good, but then you should perform it

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  2. ShehziMarch 1, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    26, please.

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  3. dgMarch 1, 2011 at 1:00 PM

    Ok. Let's try to be thorough here:

    5: let's do this together
    11: let's do this together
    13: if you are going to learn HTML, first, you'll be learning XHTML; second, you should also learn CSS, XML, and some JS. Happy to help; I'd suggest doing W3C schools
    14: seems pretty aggressive; I feel like it defeats the purpose of the list if things are out of reach
    16: this will be hard
    21: extend this to something like "busk and earn $20"
    27: let's do this together
    28: that was a sweet New Yorker article
    32&33: these overlap
    38: eh

    You should add (feel like it should be fun things, not just 'impressive' things):
    1) do mushrooms
    2) go to every yankee's game for a week (& catch a foul ball?)
    3) ride the entire length of every subway line & mnr line
    4) go sailing
    5) hike the entire long trail in VT
    6) be able to go into a restaurant and be offered "the usual"

    I'll keep thinking

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  4. boriMarch 1, 2011 at 1:12 PM

    Let's definitely do those together. Let me know when you have time and I'll pencil you in.

    1) I had this on there but then took it off because I had been showing too many people my list and was embarrassed (I also had beer, bong, shot in one breath and removed that)
    2) I don’t like baseball, but maybe another sport can substitute
    3) Is ridiculous, but I may add something like explore “the end of the line”
    4) I will add sailing if you and Turner will invite me sailing.
    5) Does the long trail involve VT breweries?
    6) I will add to the life list, but it’s unlikely to occur this summer

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  5. dgMarch 1, 2011 at 1:18 PM

    1) fair
    2) fair
    3) yeah; that's what I meant
    4) will do
    5) I'm not sure...it goes through VT and ends in Candada
    6) lame

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