Category: Net: Memes

Well, after a very laszy weekend (awake around 4 hours out 24 yesterday – went to bed around 10pm on Friday night and “properly got up” at 11am this Sunday morning: mainly because of a wrong number telephone call), I now need to start designing our next “killer app” for work (yeah, I know we’re mainly in the web hosting biz, but we need the technology behind it to make things “work brilliantly”). However, until I’ve spec’d things out in my head and my work emails finished downloading (only another 228 emails to go), I thought I’d add a blog entry and since Jay Allen’s done it, Christine’s done it, Neil’s done it and Daisy’s done it (along with many others – it appears to have started from Realization), here’s my “200 things list” – things that I’ve done have been bolded.

1. Bought everyone in the pub a drink – We did have the benefit that the pub had just opened and there were just the 4 of us in there
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain – I attempted to climb Mt.Snowdon in Wales (didn’t even get a quarter of the way up) and I planned to go up Mt.Fiji in Japan: do they count?
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula.
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris – Around 3 times if I remember correctly
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise – several times, mainly “unplanned though” (i.e. I didn’t plan to stay up all night…)
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars – I used to really enjoy camping out under the stars: but haven’t done it in years!
21. Changed a baby’s diaper – Possible my youngest sister’s when I was around 7 or 8 years old: but I can’t remember for sure
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne – You mean champagne is more then over rated fizzy water?
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight – When I was much younger of course…
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can – I can remember having some sort of screaming competition with my sisters when we were all much younger, I can’t remember why though
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip – Not at midnight..
38. Taken an ice cold bath – Especially when my boiler breaks down *brr*
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster – Ridden quite a few!
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking – Hey – it’s the only way I dance! 🙂
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors – Most of my fathers side of the family actually come from the area we still in in. My mother’s side I won’t stand a chance!
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer. – I’ve got 3 in my main machine (200 Gb total), 4 in my household server (650 Gb total) and 2 in my American based server – but only 1 in my laptop.
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was sh-t faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (money != satisfaction)
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan – yep, got back two weeks ago (seems ages ago already though! I actually had lunch today consisting of noodles and blackbean beef eaten with chopsticks and drinking Japanese green tea whilst watching a Japanese TV program where they were having a Westernised meal with Knife and forks!)
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records – CDs yes.
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke – Attempted to several times
72. Lounged around in bed all day – Yep, as recently as yesterday!
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud – When I was a kid
78. Played in the rain – Ditto
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it.
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better – Linux on my server and seriously considering moving to Linux on the desktop. Also got RISC OS machines as double-backup
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class – Judo when I was much yonger
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie – Closest is being on TV, radio and in the press and just missing out on being “on set” when Shadowlands (a film) was being filmed quite close to me
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn’t have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music –
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read – and understood – your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written your Congress person
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over – Not yet…
134. …more than once? – More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived.
140. Wrote articles for a large publication – Archive Magazine
141. Lost over 100 pounds – £100 cash, yes – 100lbs in weight, nope
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone’s heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Ridden a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Ridden a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours – Quite often!
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi – Up to 3 months ago, I hated fish. Now I wish there was a Sushi restuarant in Leicester – ideally a conveyor belt on. I quite like Sushi and fish in general now!
171. Had your picture in the newspaper
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad
181. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them.
183. …and gotten 86’ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch – Computer programming counts doesn’t it?
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt – My parents for my teenage years
187. Skipped all your school reunions.
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language – Most Japanese people don’t speak English and I don’t speak much Japanese. Pointing at things and displays on calculators work though!
189. Been elected to public office – Does “Village Representitive” count?
190. Written your own computer language – Yep, on the RISC OS platform. Wasn’t that good though and was very slow, but still. IIRC I’ve written a primitive scripting language for a Linux/Windows environment, but very primitive
191. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196. Dyed your hair
197. Been a DJ
198. Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
199. Written your own role playing game
200. Been arrested