Stuff To Do Before I Die

1. Go on a long-distance backpacking trip.


2. Own a cat named Schrodinger and a dog named Pavlov


3. Read the set of Harvard Classics


4. Visit every continent


5. Get a master's degree


6. Become more familiar with the works of Mendelssohn, Bach, Beethoven, Gluck, Fuare, Schonberg, Liszt, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Chopin, Debussy, Moussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Verdi.


7. Be more familiar with various art movements of the later 19th and early 20th centuries.


8. Visit the Louvre, Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (again), The British Museum (again), Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, Hermitage Museum, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and Cloisters (extension of the Met).


9. Get more familiar with XML, XHTML, C++, and PERL.


10. Learn Hebrew, Greek, some Aramaic, Spanish, French.


11. Learn more about Middle Eastern history and Sinology.


12. Knit a sweater