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99 Things me
Via http://voorerbij.blogspot.com/2009/01/99-things-meme.html I found these 99 things to do in life.
So the rules are:
Things you’ve already done: bold
Things you want to do: italicize
Things you haven’t done and don’t want to - leave in plain font
Here we go—
1. Started your own blog. (you’re reading it)
2. Slept under the stars.
3. Played in a band.
4. Visited Hawaii.
5. Watched a meteor shower. (don’t you need an awfully big bathroom for that?)
6. Given more than you can afford to charity.
7. Been to Disneyland/world.
8. Climbed a mountain.
9. Held a praying mantis. (If I ever run into one, sure, I’ll hold it)
10. Sang a solo. (On stage. With all my friends & loved ones watching. Once)
11. Bungee jumped.
12. Visited Paris.
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea.
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch. (Is web design an art?)
15. Adopted a child.
16. Had food poisoning.
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
18. Grown your own vegetables. (Once you’ve grown your own tomatoes, you’ll never enjoy supermarket tomatoes again)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France. (Been in Paris more than once, why didn’t I see the ML?)
20. Slept on an overnight train.
21. Had a pillow fight.
22. Hitch hiked.
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill. (Is my boss reading my blog? Mmmm)
24. Built a snow fort.
25. Held a lamb. (That’s lamb with a ‘b’, I misread it the first time)
26. Gone skinny dipping.
27. Run a marathon. (Honestly swear I never will)
28. Ridden a gondola in Venice.
29. Seen a total eclipse. (of the heart?)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset. (Would there be anybody in this world who hasn’t?)
31. Hit a home run. (Full disclosure: playing softball)
32. Been on a cruise. (When I’m old & wise)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person.
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors. (My ancestors? How far back is that?)
35. Seen an Amish community.
36. Taught yourself a new language. (But been thought 6, not counting HTML ;-)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied. (To be honest: almost every day)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person. (But am looking at a model of it right now, thats should count for something?)
39. Gone rock climbing.
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David in person. (I think)
41. Sung Karaoke. (There’s even a video of that, I’m not too proud to say)
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt.
43. Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant. (A homeless guy, I’m like a saint you know ;-)
44. Visited Africa.
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight.
46. Been transported in an ambulance. (No I don’t want this, but If I lie bleeding on a street I might think different)
47. Had your portrait painted. (A caricature)
48. Gone deep sea fishing.
49. Seen the Sistine chapel in person.
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
51. Gone SCUBA diving or snorkling
52. Kissed in the rain.
53. Played in the mud.
54. Gone to a drive-in theater.
55. Been in a movie.
56. Visited the Great Wall of China.
57. Started a business. (Although I do freelance work)
58. Taken a martial arts class (I can kick ass in 3 sports)
60. Served at a soup kitchen.
61. Sold Girl Scout cookies. (Mmmm, don’t think that would be a good idea)
62. Gone whale watching.
63. Gotten flowers for no reason. (If I don’t do it, nobody buys me flowers ;-)
64. Donated blood. (Do vampires count?)
65. Gone sky diving. (Close to the top of todo list)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp.
67. Bounced a check.
68. Flown in a helicopter.
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy. (But there’s some things lying around my parents house)
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial.
71. Eaten Caviar.
72. Pieced a quilt. (A quilt. Really…)
73. Stood in Times Square.
74. Toured the Everglades.
75. Been fired from a job.
76. Seen the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace.
77. Broken a bone. (Not my own)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle.
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person.
80. Published a book. (Co-authorized does count?)
81. Visited the Vatican.
82. Bought a brand new car.
83. Walked in Jerusalem.
84. Had your picture in the newspaper.
85. Read the entire Bible. (when I’m old & wise)
86. Visited the White House.
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating. (But only with Ray Mears present)
88. Had chickenpox.
89. Saved someone’s life. (Again: I don’t want to, but if somebody needs saving when I’m there…)
90. Sat on a jury.
91. Met someone famous.
92. Joined a book club. (Bad, bad idea)
93. Lost a loved one.
94. Had a baby. (well, not me personally)
95. Seen the Alamo in person.
96. Swum in the Great Salt Lake.
97. Been involved in a law suit. (Long story)
98. Owned a cell phone. (I’m on my 11th one)
99. Been stung by a bee.
So, is that the story of my life? Not really, but is is great fun. Would love to see yours.
Found a neat Photoshop trick to make planet-like orbs from panoramic photos. Here’s planet Rotterdam.
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Twitter is down. Now what?
Twitter is down. The official Twitter status blog states that the site is under a Denial of Service (DOS) attack and will be up again soon.
It is a known fact that you don’t know what you’ve got until you loose it. This is typically the case with Twitter: I feel cut of from the world, missing the permanent flow of updates, interesting links, fun, the little ‘divertissement’ Twitter is on a long day.
Expecting most Tweets when the site comes back will be something like YOOHOO, WE’RE BACK, I MISSED YOU ALL. Mine will ;-)
Cool. Catching laser with your hands.
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How personal will our museum get?
Interesting discussion in our 2 weekly web meeting, and later on in the Twitterverse: If you comment on an external web service, e.g. Flickr, from the museum perspective, do you use your personal account, the corporate account, our a combination of both?
When I look at my own behaviour in web 2.0 services I always look for actual people, not anonymous organisations. So if I respond to a photo on Flickr, even in my museum ‘role’, I use my personal account. Most of my team disagreed: when you present yourself as a represetative from the museum, you should use the museum’s account. @pollekes even mentioned it as a way to create a corporate fan base.
Which is all good and nice, but aren’t social networks about people, not organisations? What do you think: personal or company?
Amazing 3D illusion media screen on Hamburg Kunsthalle. More: urbanscreen.com
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God has a Mac
This weekend I spent camping with my family (as you can see from my previous post, which in incidentally posted here, some setting, somewhere, but I’ll keep it it up to prevent topicide). Over a glass of wine at the camping table we were discussing what Saint Peter would say to each of us when we would present ourselves at the pearly gates. We imagined he would open up his big book, look up your name and…
That really does not make sense. Why would st. Peter, or God for that matter, still use an old-fashioned book, while all of us here below use computers to look up stuff? Surely there would be a HWW (Heaven Wide Web) by now?
So OK, we decided, st. Peter does not have a big book at the gates, but a computer. So what sort of computer would st. Peter have? Of course: an Apple! Big laughs at the camping table, we were all amazed we never saw the obvious biblical reference in the Apple logo.
Mac Museum
Today I looked it up (on the WWW ;-) and there is actually some truth in this. On the amusingly dull Apple Museum site I found he story behind the Apple logo
“In 1977 Jobs asked the art designer Rob Janoff to design the new Apple logo. The new logo had a simple shape of an Apple, bitten into, with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. The bite symbolized knowlegde (in the bible the apple was the fruit of the tree of knowledge) and the bite could also be pronounced “byte”, a reference to computer technology.
When Jean Louis Gassée was asked about his thoughts to the Apple logo he answered: “One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn’t dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy.” (via)
The part of the story that made me smile the most however was another piece:
“Steve Jobs came up with the name in early 1976. At the time, he was often visiting and working on a small farm friends of his owned. It was a hippie commune where Steve spent a few months of the year.”
So Jobs started out as a hippie and ended up the president of one of the most shamelessly capitalist companies in the world. Mmmm…
