What stuff are you GOING to do that most haven't

[rlogan]

The "What stuff you have done" thread was (is) fascinating.

It makes me wonder what sorts of things people have plans for. Not ilde fantasies, but what sorts of unusual things are on your "to do" list?

The Filipina unit has a good concept pointing to either a cabin on a remote part of Kodiak Island, or maybe the Alaska Peninsula, or Prince William Sound. So I guess you'd say "more of the same" except involving the ocean, and more remote.

I have two ideas but marriage precludes both of them. Not that they involve another girl(s), but there just both way too dangerous and irresponsible now.


So what ideas do you have? A three-way with farm animals? Shooting people from a tower? Swimming in a sewage treatment lagoon?

[nygreenguy]

Identifying a new plant species.

[David B]

Help get the sort of secular message board I really feel at home in off the ground:)

David

[sohy]

Work part time until until I'm at least 70, retire to the beach, and join the local UU church. I love liberal religion and I'd make a good UU. Not a very exciting adventure but I want community in my old age, an altruistic one that extends great tolerance, inspires others, provides a supportive environment, and performs works of charity. That's my humble goal, one that few people reach.

I would also love to foster abandoned dogs. Humans can be so cruel. Maybe when I retire at the beach and join the UU church, I'll also foster dogs. :cool:

[Matty]

i am going to dive with both tiger sharks and great whites at some point. its been an ambition of mine to see the top three "man-eaters"(sigh, awful term) since i was a kid and i already did the bull shark.

[Coleslaw]

I'm working on seeing all 50 states and all 7 continents. I have 13 states to go and one more continent (Australia).

[rlogan]

ooo ooo Matty. Yea. Great white.

Got to work that in the agenda. I'd like to catch a whopper.

[Teshi]

Build my own off-the-grid cabin by hand.

That'll have to wait until after grad school.

[LoneWolf]

Move to Libya for a couple years. I'll be heading there around Christmas.

[espritch]

It probably doesn't qualify as all that unusual, but I've thinking a while about building a house. I finally decided it was time to stop thinking and actually do it. I'm closing on a piece of land next week.

Of course that's actually the easy part. Now I have to come up with a design that I like and can afford.

[Coleslaw]

Now I have to come up with a design that I like and can afford.

More along the lines of "like or can afford".

[BWE]

win a templeton prize.

[BWE]

Build my own off-the-grid cabin by hand.

That'll have to wait until after grad school.

did that. :)

[Goldie]

Put all sexists in their place.

[Teshi]

did that. :)

Hm, if we're still operating in the same internet circles a few years from now, I might hit you up for some tips :cool:

[Lugubert]

I'm aiming at learning the ten most spoken languages to an elementary conversation level. I originally went for eighteen out of twenty, but have to accept that learning is slower at 65.

[tjakey]

I hope, within a few years, to retire onto a sailboat and chance the sun and grand babies up and down the East Coast.

[nygreenguy]

Put all sexists in their place.


Good one!

[Free in Freeport]

Going back to college at age 49 to get some skills that are actually marketable, regardless of the economy.

[Master Taran]

Put all sexists in their place.


Good one!I'll help too. :evil:

[Brother Daniel]

I'm aiming at learning the ten most spoken languages to an elementary conversation level. I originally went for eighteen out of twenty, but have to accept that learning is slower at 65.
What are the top ten, by the way?

[Anne]

We're steampunking a school bus into an rv.

[Free in Freeport]

We're steampunking a school bus into an rv.

Way cool!

Picturing it with psychodelic painting and blasting "magic bus"

[Christina]

I lived in a few hippie buses and it was lots of fun. You'll get pulled over all the time if you go for a psychedelic motif, though. Some bored cops in small towns love spending the day taking a bus apart to look for a crumb of pot.

[Anne]

nope, it's more victorian than hippie.

http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo74/buffalo_bus/100_8445.jpg

http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo74/buffalo_bus/100_8443.jpg

[Zygote]

I'm going to go to Burning Man.

My husband's been going for a few years and has wanted me to go. This year the lure of the art won out over the dislike of heat and dust (honestly, I'd rather be cold and wet). It looks like the (barely adult) kids will be going to, so we will have a family vacation together after all. Both kids have already been, so I'll be the newbie.

I realize that this hardly puts me in a small group, since tens of thousands of people have been to Burning Man, but the OP only required "most haven't done."

Anyone else going to be there?

[Anne]

We're planning on taking the bus before the boy turns 12...

[Christina]

It's beautiful, Anne : )

[4321lynx]

I'm going to go to Burning Man.

My husband's been going for a few years and has wanted me to go. This year the lure of the art won out over the dislike of heat and dust (honestly, I'd rather be cold and wet). It looks like the (barely adult) kids will be going to, so we will have a family vacation together after all. Both kids have already been, so I'll be the newbie.

I realize that this hardly puts me in a small group, since tens of thousands of people have been to Burning Man, but the OP only required "most haven't done."

Anyone else going to be there?

Maybe.

What is it? Where is it? :)

[Brianna]

I'm going to go to Burning Man.

My husband's been going for a few years and has wanted me to go. This year the lure of the art won out over the dislike of heat and dust (honestly, I'd rather be cold and wet). It looks like the (barely adult) kids will be going to, so we will have a family vacation together after all. Both kids have already been, so I'll be the newbie.

I realize that this hardly puts me in a small group, since tens of thousands of people have been to Burning Man, but the OP only required "most haven't done."

Anyone else going to be there?

Maybe.

What is it? Where is it? :)

Traditionally in AZ. It is a festival where hippies burn stuff.

[Zygote]

Outside Reno, Nevada, actually, in the desert.

Since I haven't been yet, my understanding of it is based on hearsay. This is an "official" explanation. http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/

It's a gathering of people who tend to think outside the box. It's in a very harsh environment, the challenges of which are an experience in and of themselves.

It's an opportunity to let down one's hair, to participate in a massive group experience, to observe and or create an artistic environment, to see and express sides of humanity that are usually under the veneer of social conventions.

The rules are fairly simple: you can give things away, but nothing can be sold (the exceptions being the sale by the organizers of ice and coffee). Art is encouraged. OSHA (safety and health gov. org) is not - so don't be stupid. Fire art is encouraged, since much activity happens in the cool of the night rather than in the 100+ degree F arid heat of the day. And the whole place gets completely cleaned up afterward - not a trace. Even the gray water from showers must be taken back out with you (we set up an evaporator to reduce volume).

Art takes the form of installations (one year there was an "S" made of 2 semi trucks welded and standing on end); vehicles - standard vehicles must be parked at your camp for the week, artistically designed alternatives cruise around instead creating surreal traffic; and clothing as people dress in everything from body paint alone to full wearable sculpture.

[Ray Moscow]

I'm going to climb a few more mountains, do some more martial arts (maybe test a bit more in some stuff), continue teaching martial arts a bit more, polish up some languages and maybe learn a couple more, and take some more uni courses.

[Notta]

Many people on this forum have done this, but less than 1% of the US population at large have done this. I'm going to start in December, and get my doctorate before I turn 60. Better late than never!

[BWE]

Many people on this forum have done this, but less than 1% of the US population at large have done this. I'm going to start in December, and get my doctorate before I turn 60. Better late than never!

I keep thinking about that but then I get sober. :p

[Notta]

Many people on this forum have done this, but less than 1% of the US population at large have done this. I'm going to start in December, and get my doctorate before I turn 60. Better late than never!

I keep thinking about that but then I get sober. :pI can't bear the idea that my children will out-do me, so I have to get cracking before one of them beats me to it!

[Anne]

you are nuts.

good luck!

[BWE]

Many people on this forum have done this, but less than 1% of the US population at large have done this. I'm going to start in December, and get my doctorate before I turn 60. Better late than never!

I keep thinking about that but then I get sober. :pI can't bear the idea that my children will out-do me, so I have to get cracking before one of them beats me to it!

That's quite a burden. :p

Write a book and get an honorary doctorate.

[Lisa0315]

Achieve personal peace.

[Notta]

I keep thinking about that but then I get sober. :pI can't bear the idea that my children will out-do me, so I have to get cracking before one of them beats me to it!

That's quite a burden. :p

Write a book and get an honorary doctorate.Already wrote a book, and am working on no. 2. Neither one would earn me the honorary doctorate, and to ever get promoted in what I do now I need the higher degree.

[Thalia Thinks]

Great, now y'all got me thinking about what I should do. :)

[Brianna]

Achieve personal peace.

My doctor told me that I could do this thru mediation! :D I kind of agree with him.

[Lugubert]

I'm aiming at learning the ten most spoken languages to an elementary conversation level. I originally went for eighteen out of twenty, but have to accept that learning is slower at 65.
What are the top ten, by the way?
One list of the "ten most spoken" has
Standard Chinese
English
Spanish
Bengali
Hindi
Portuguese
Russian
Japanese
German
Wu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Chinese)

Arabic isn't inluded in that list, because people normally don't have Modern Standard Arabic for a mother tongue but local languages/dialects that won't reach the list.

If you're looking for possible financial benefits of learning languages, there's an interesting list, comparing according to "percentage of world GNP for countries where the language is official". 13 languages reach 1% or more.
English
Japanese
French
German
Russian
Italian
Spanish
"Chinese"
"Arabic"
Portuguese
Dutch
Number 13 is Swedish!

[farhat]

Here are a few things on my list of things to do:

How to bribe an official

How to extricate yourself from a pimp

How to make an impromptu speech

[Monad]

I've just submitted the first draft of my PhD proposal.

It could actually make a big difference to a lot of people too

[Ronin]

I'm going to be tying up loose ends. (http://www.sunherald.com/pageone/story/1255931.html)

[VoxRat]

Many people on this forum have done this, but less than 1% of the US population at large have done this. I'm going to start in December, and get my doctorate before I turn 60. Better late than never!
What subject will you be Doctor of?

Me - I have a pipe-dream of riding a bicycle from coast to coast. Step one was to generate a child to go with me. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to inspire any interest on his part.

[Notta]

Many people on this forum have done this, but less than 1% of the US population at large have done this. I'm going to start in December, and get my doctorate before I turn 60. Better late than never!
What subject will you be Doctor of?
Educational Leadership (as my father would have said, it's not a real doctorate, since it's an Ed.D. but it'll do for what I need).

[4321lynx]

Many people on this forum have done this, but less than 1% of the US population at large have done this. I'm going to start in December, and get my doctorate before I turn 60. Better late than never!
What subject will you be Doctor of?

Me - I have a pipe-dream of riding a bicycle from coast to coast. Step one was to generate a child to go with me. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to inspire any interest on his part.

Well then forget him & go around Europe somewhere. You'll find cyclists appreciated & respected there & there are travel agents here, & I'm sure in the States too, who will fit you into a group that you like.
My son did it & the only trouble he got into was being chased by police & their dogs in the Colisseum in Rome, when he & his pals were having an illegal booze-up there at 3 am one day. Roman persecution of non-believers they called it. Nobody got caught.

[Pope John Pol Pot II]

I think I do stuff every week that most people are never going to do! The most extreme upcoming stuff is a 6 day run over the Rocky Mountains in August (TransRockies Race) and, next year, a 534 kilometer run across the Japan Alps (The TransJapan Alps Race).

Have just completed the Sonoma50 (mile race) and the OkuKuji 50km race...in the past 12 days! I am pretty sore...

[Barbarian]

Gonna solve the 5-dimensional Rubik cube (http://www.gravitation3d.com/magiccube5d/) by building up the entire arrangement method from scratch (standard sequences and all that). Did it already with the 4-dim (http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm), but I long for admission into the 5D Hall of Insanity (http://www.gravitation3d.com/magiccube5d/hallofinsanity.html). Rumor has it that the 6-dimensional version is in the works already...

[rlogan]

I think I do stuff every week that most people are never going to do! The most extreme upcoming stuff is a 6 day run over the Rocky Mountains in August (TransRockies Race) and, next year, a 534 kilometer run across the Japan Alps (The TransJapan Alps Race).

Have just completed the Sonoma50 (mile race) and the OkuKuji 50km race...in the past 12 days! I am pretty sore...

That's just hilarious. 534 km. Never heard of such a thing.

I guess the question is what kind of absurd thing can we dream up that someone will actually enter? It is already beyond belief.

Swimming the english channel... underwater while holding your breath

Bike to jupiter.

The trans-globe inverse trot: In this one we place all the runners on the equator and run contrary to the earth's rotation. The earth slows, stops, and then rotates inversely such that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east for one year.

[Pope John Pol Pot II]

I think I do stuff every week that most people are never going to do! The most extreme upcoming stuff is a 6 day run over the Rocky Mountains in August (TransRockies Race) and, next year, a 534 kilometer run across the Japan Alps (The TransJapan Alps Race).

Have just completed the Sonoma50 (mile race) and the OkuKuji 50km race...in the past 12 days! I am pretty sore...



The trans-globe inverse trot: In this one we place all the runners on the equator and run contrary to the earth's rotation. The earth slows, stops, and then rotates inversely such that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east for one year.

That would be a benefit for the damned "joggers" only. The triathletes and ultra runners would like to see all the joggers line up on the equator and run IN THE DIRECTION of the Earth's rotation, thus increasing the speed of its rotation. Then we hardcore animals could run in the opposite direction, against the world's now quickened rotation, and use the planet as big treadmill.

[Matty]

ooh ooh. i just found on you tube the exact video of Valerie Taylor that was such an inspiration to my shark diving ambitions, when i was a kid.
someone ruined it with shitty enigma overdub but the video is still gold.
ever fancied feeding bullsharks and tigers BY HAND? :eek::cool:

Even the chainmail wetsuit wouldnt help if any of these (admittedly well fed and chilled by the looks of it) bad boys turned ugly.

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that juvenile tiger is a thing of beauty.

[SallyAnne]

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That is freaking cool.:cool: I think that's the best shark video I've ever seen and I liked the enigma dub.:D

[Matty]

Ron and Valerie taylor were the Aussie marine biologist couple who filmed the real shark bits, and were Spielbergs consultants, for JAWS iirc.

This was from one of their old series i believe. Kinda contemporary to Cousteaus InnerSpace series etc.

So, i've done the first few sharks you see (bulls) , comparable size too i guess (although no where near that close) but the Tiger and JAws yet to go, It IS going to happen. The missus isnt too keen on me doing it, but gotta do it.

[Marduk]

I want to move to a tropical rain forest and teach all the wild parrots to talk, that way at night you can hear thousands of birds going “pretty bird, pretty bird, hello, hello, who’s a pretty bird”