The Non-To-Do-List List Thread

[Jeesh_girl15]

Um, oops...

[Young Val]

A place for those who like to make lists just for the hell of it.



5 Trivial Things I Want To Learn How To Do
*Finger whistle
*Burp on command
*Snap a towel
*Open a Starburst with my mouth
*Double Dutch (jump rope)

the first and last are probably in the dangerous book for girls the second and third are in, iirc, the dangerous book for boys.

THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS is amazing. THE DARING BOOK FOR GIRLS sucks. I plan to buy the former for myself after giving it as a gift to just about every guy I know. The latter's glittery cover can gather dust on the Barnes and Noble shelves for all I care.

[ender1]

Books I Want

The Theory and Practice of Photography. Special Printing Processes 1 and 2. n.d. 2 volumes. Paper.
The Principles of Optics
Beyond Monochrome : A Fine Art Printing Workshop
History and Practice of Carbon Processes
Post Exposure: Advanced Techniques for the Photographic Printer
SPSE Handbook Of Photographic Science And Engineering
Seizing the Light: A History of Photography
Experimental Photography Workbook, 5th Edition
Wall's Dictionary of Photography Sixteenth Edition
Spirits of Salts: a Working Guide to Old Photographic Processes
Handbook of Alternative Photographic Processes
The Handbook Carbro-Carbon Monochrome - Trichrome
The World of Lith Printing: The Best of Traditional Darkroom and Digital Lith Printing Techniques
Platinum and Palladium Printing, Second Edition
Bromoil: A Foundation Course
History of Color Photography
The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography
Modern Photographic Processing (Wiley Series on Photographic Science & Technology & the Graphic Arts)

[Jeesh_girl15]

Thing I'm feeling right now/recently
Tired
This weird giddy happiness that I don't know what came from
Excited for my sisters
Curious what will happen in my book
Tired
P.O.'ed that I haven't seen many of my friends lately
comfortable laying on my bed a few minutes ago
*yawns* Tired
My contacts are bugging me. I shouldn't wear them to the pool as often as I do.
Dry
Hungry. I had three bugles (the little triangle/cone shaped chips) for breakfast
(one more for the heck of it)Tired

[Aesculapius]

Five things I wanna do before I die
Go Skydiving
Live in the Himalayas/French Alps
Go Scuba diving
Learn how to Salsa
Write a book

[BonitoDeMadrid]

4 Shows I wish would never end:
- South Park
- The Simpsons
- Spongebob (yes, I love Spongebob. Sue me)
- That 70's Show (a little too late for that, but still. Also, while we're talking about that, Just Shoot Me! was pretty nice as well)

[Gravity Defier]

My Top Ten Michael Jackson Songs, In Approximate Order

1. The Way You Make Me Feel*
2. I'll Be There (technically Jackson 5 but he was the lead, it counts)
3. She's Out Of My Life
4. Billie Jean
5. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
6. In The Closet*
7. Beat It
8. Remember The Time
9. Smooth Criminal
10. You Rock My World

This was an insanely hard list. Between Jackson 5 and his solo efforts, he made some crazy good music.

*I actually think these songs are sexy. The intro on TWYMMF and the whole feel to ITC.

[Mich]

4 Shows I wish would never end:
- South Park
- The Simpsons
- Spongebob (yes, I love Spongebob. Sue me)
- That 70's Show (a little too late for that, but still. Also, while we're talking about that, Just Shoot Me! was pretty nice as well)

Stick Futurama on there. I've now, finally, watched every episode, and I wish they would keep making those movies...

[ender1]

4 Shows I wish would never end:
- South Park
- The Simpsons
- Spongebob (yes, I love Spongebob. Sue me)
- That 70's Show (a little too late for that, but still. Also, while we're talking about that, Just Shoot Me! was pretty nice as well)

Stick Futurama on there. I've now, finally, watched every episode, and I wish they would keep making those movies...

I take it you haven't heard they have the original voice actors back for a new season next year?

[Mich]

!

[Eddie Pinz]

Things I'm Never Gonna Do
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around and desert you
- Make you cry
- Say goodbye
- Tell a lie and hurt you

[Gravity Defier]

Things I'm Never Gonna Do
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around and desert you
- Make you cry
- Say goodbye
- Tell a lie and hurt you

Where do I sign up for this service?

[Eddie Pinz]

I am currently accepting resumes, but the line is fairly long. But you know what? I like your style. So I am going to bump you to the front of the line. Would you be interested in an interview?

[Gravity Defier]

In this economy? Hell yes, I would. If I'm unimpressed, I can always turn you down.

[Janus%TheDoorman]

Things I would be happy to die in

The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor
A debate over man's ability to determine his own fate
A Spacecraft
Beyonce Giselle Knowles
A Ferrari FXX/Enzo/F430/599GT...
Service to my ideals
Service to my goals
Service to my family
Service to my libido
Winter Snows
Autumn Leaves
Spring Flowers
Summer Glau
Venice, Italy
Paris, France
Tokyo, Japan
Beijing, China
London, England
Lima, Peru
Lima, Adriana


"Puns aren't the lowest form of wit. They aren't even wit."

I do hope someone sees it before it gets modded.

[Eddie Pinz]

If I'm unimpressed

Well this is just not possible...

[locke]

Things I would be happy to die in
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor
A debate over man's ability to determine his own fate
A Spacecraft
Beyonce Giselle Knowles
A Ferrari FXX/Enzo/F430/599GT...
Service to my ideals
Service to my goals
Service to my family
Service to my libido
Winter Snows
Autumn Leaves
Spring Flowers
Jewel Staite
Venice, Italy
Paris, France
Tokyo, Japan
Beijing, China
London, England
Lima, Peru
Lima, Adriana

"Puns aren't the lowest form of wit. They aren't even wit."

I do hope someone sees it before it gets modded.

Fixed that for you.

[Gravity Defier]

*sigh* You two...

[Petra456]

Things I plan to own eventually:

A real picnic basket.
A couple sets of chop sticks.
An amazing cat condo for my cats (even though they'll probably just sleep near the condo).
A giant heavy duty book case, possibly made out of some sort of dark wood.
A dog (but only when I don't' have to worry about having enough room).
An ice cream maker.

Right now I'm focusing on the picnic basket.

[Mich]

To do:

√ Decide upon Halloween costume several months early
√ Get jeans
√ Get ratty tennis shoes
- Get red jacket or windbreaker
- Get orange hair dye
- Get several other friends to also be characters from Futurama.

[Jeesh_girl15]

To do:

√ Decide upon Halloween costume several months early
√ Get jeans
√ Get ratty tennis shoes
- Get red jacket or windbreaker
- Get orange hair dye
- Get several other friends to also be characters from Futurama.

Up til the last one, I thought you were going to be a pumpkin.

[Gravity Defier]

5 Hollywood Men I Am Dating In My Head Since Real Men Won't Touch Me With A Ten Foot Pole (Or A ...Nevermind, Too Obvious)

1) Edward Norton, always him first. Next year is our 10 year anniversary.
2) Joseph Gordon-Levitt
3) Luke Wilson
4) Enver Gjokaj
5) Gerard Butler

[Gravity Defier]

Movies I've Seen For the First Time In 2010
9
2012
All About Steve
Avatar
The Back-up Plan
Before Sunrise
The Blind Side
Book of Eli
The Bounty Hunter
Braveheart
Breaking Upwards
Brothers
Case 39
Clash of the Titans
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
The Crazies
Daybreakers
Dear John
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Disfigured
District 9
Down in the Valley
Easy A
Eclipse
Fame
Four Christmases
Gamer
G.I. Joe
Going the Distance
Grave of the Fireflies
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
How Do You Know
Hurt Locker
I Hate Valentine's Day
I Shot Andy Warhol
Inception
Informant!
Invention of Lying
Iron Man 2
Julie & Julia
Just Wright
Leap Year
Legion
Letters to Juliet
The Losers
Love and Other Drugs
Love Happens
The Machinist
Management
New In Town
New York, I Love You
Nothing Like the Holidays
Outsourced
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
The Pick-Up Artist
Pollock
Precious
Princess and the Frog
Revolutionary Road
The Road
Run, Fat Boy, Run
St. Elmo's Fire
Say Anything
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
The Search for Santa Paws
She's Out of My League
Shutter Island
Slumdog Millionaire
The Social Network
Some Kind of Wonderful
Sundays at Tiffany's
Surrogates
Takers
Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue
Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure
The Town
Tron: Legacy
Valentine's Day
Where the Wild Things Are
Whip It

[megxers]

My to-be-read pile (also known as books sitting on my floor)

Library books:
Asylum- McGrath
Family Trade- Stross
Bellwether-Willis
The Worst Hard Time- Egan
Years of Salt & Rice- Robinson
Land of Marvels- Unsworth
Spin State
Conspirata-Harris
The Brief History of the Dead- Brockmeier
The Pluto files- Tyson
Confessions of an Alien Hunter
Mappa Mundi-Robson
Empire- Card
Carrion Comfort- Simmons

My books:
Neuromancer- Gibson
Perdido Street Station- Mieille
Kavalier & Clay- Chabon
Lyra's Oxford- Pullman
America America- Canin
The Silver Swan= Black
Cryptonomocin- Stephenson
The Wilderness Warrior, Theodore Roosevelt- Brinkley
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Vol. 1
Scott Pilgrim Book 2
BSG Vol. 1

Books from Friends/Family:
Mistborn Series
Maus
Olivia Kitteridge-Strout
The Men Who Stare at Goats- Ronson

Library Holds list:

The stone gods / Jeanette Winterson.
Darwinia / Robert Charles Wilson.
Galileo's dream / Kim Stanley Robinson.
The department of mad scientists : how DARPA is remaking our world
The absolute sandman. [Volume one] / written by Neil Gaiman ;
Infoquake : Volume I of the Jump 225 trilogy / David Louis Edleman.
Chill / Elizabeth Bear.
Remarkable creatures / Tracy Chevalier.
The six directions of space / Alastair Reynolds.
Dying inside / Robert Silverberg.
Julian Comstock / Robert Charles Wilson.
Cyberabad days / Ian McDonald.
A thousand sons / Graham McNeill.
The best science fiction and fantasy of the year. Volume three / Jonathan Strahan.
House of suns / Alastair Reynolds.
Ender's shadow. Battle school / Orson Scott Card ;


It looks so much more manageable in list rather than pile. Also taking recs on what to read ASAP.

[Luet]

How long does your library let you keep books? Mine is only 3 weeks and that is a LOT of books out at once!

[megxers]

4 weeks. But I've gotten through 1.5 books on that list + one not on it since I posted...I'm also at least 50 pages into about a quarter of those. Now to just finish them....

[zeroguy]

Although some of these are much less suited to it than others... videogame music I like to whistle along with/to:

Knytt Stories: Nurykabe - Hors du grenier, Nifflas - Snow Is a Chiptune.

I Wanna Be the Guy: "Chased by Spike and Fruit" (actually the Kirby music), "Megaman Junction" (actually Dr. Wily's music in Megaman 2), "The 10,000Km Journey Beneath the Stars" (actually the moon stage music in that ducktales NES game), "The Palace of The Guy" (actually 'monty on the run' music)

Super Mario 64: main theme, slider, snow mountain, file select,

Super Mario RPG: the mushroom kingdom music, uh... "boss theme 1", "boss theme 2", midas river theme, the pre-geno-scene-music, geno's wood, "margarie margarita".

Battletoads: Turbo Tunnel Bike Race (I'm sure I've heard this a lot when I was younger), Arctic Caverns.

Secret of Mana: into the thick of it, what the forst taught me, did you see the ocean, calm before the storm, leave time for love (difficult to whistle!)

Seiken Densetsu 3: nuclear fusion, frenzy, powell.

Final Fantasy V: clash on the big bridge.

Final fantasy VI: Terra's Theme (or "War of the Magi"? I have it under both...), Slam Shuffle.

Tyrian: Come Back to me Savara, "Gyges, will you please help me", Return me to Savara.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Mystic Cave Zone. (well, actually, "all of them", but mystic cave in particular)

Command & Conquer Red Alert: Hell March.

Chrono Trigger: Kaeru's Theme, Kingdom Trial, Robo's Theme, Delightful Spekkio, Corridors of Time,

[Mich]

Command & Conquer Red Alert: Hell March.

I don't care about anything else on the list, because this makes me approve of it.

[locke]

Chrono Trigger: Kaeru's Theme,

gonna take a stab in the dark and say Kaeru is japanese for Frog? Agree on the others. Love Corridors of Time. Godamn trial goes on forever, who doesn't have the music embedded in their cerebellum?

[Sonikku13]

My plans for summer break.

1. Take the ACT.
2. Get a summer job.
3. Buy a Phenom II X6 1090T.
4. Overclock CPU to 4.0 GHz.
5. Save the rest of my money.
6. Start the process of narrowing down colleges.
7. -uncertain- Go to the Philippines.
8. -uncertain- Return the day before school.

I'd say it'll be more of having "no life" in other people's perspectives. In my perspective, it's just same-old same-old. Other than a vacation and a job, I'll most likely be holed up in my house all summer long. Social isolation is the norm for me. Meh, at least there's Facebook.

[Gravity Defier]

Because it's getting easy to hate everything about my state (and because I constantly update my movies list and dislike having to dig a page or two back to do so):

10 Things I Love About Arizona

1. Monsoon storms - Tucson
2. Slide Rock State Park - Sedona
3. Saguaro National Park - Tucson
4. In the top 5 states for most sunshine a year
5. Taliesin West - Scottsdale
6. Cacti to pine trees in 40 minutes - Tucson-Mt Lemmon/north of Phoenix (sedona-ish)
7. Grand Canyon
8. No DST (except for Navajo nation)
9. Mexican food!
10.Sunsets over the Tucson Mountains and the view of the stars by the Catalinas



Since I've never actually been to these two places but think I'd love them if I went, honorable mentions to:

Canyon de Chelly
The Wave

[Eaquae Legit]

That sounds like a great list of reasons. If I visit someday, will you stuff me full of delicious Mexican food while showing me the sights?

[Gravity Defier]

While I hope to no longer reside here at some point, it'll always be mine and I have so much pride for the land itself. The desert, in all its different forms, is beautiful and I'd be beyond honored to share it. Mexican food is a given.

[Eaquae Legit]

I feel the same about my home-land. When you get out of the city, it can just take your breath away.

And on the topic of Mexican food, if you ever go to England, DO NOT go to a "Mexican" restaurant. The one in York has, for decoration: an old football helmet, a Jamaican flag, a poster of Bob Marley, some paintings of northern Plains Indians, and an assortment of other non-Mexican junk. And "spicy" apparently means that someone waved a bottle of tabasco over your food and figured that'd do the trick.

[LilBee91]

Why this Summer has been/will be Awesome

1. Lots and lots of sun
2. The smell after it rains
3. Super Mario Galaxy (1 & 2)
4. My soon-to-be-in-progress Tetris Quilt
5. My awesome man
6. My roommate coming to visit
7. Alaska=beautiful
8. Mom's cooking
9. Fun days on the lake
10. Sleeping in and staying up late