Bill Turner in 2005

2005 was 93% worth living.

In 2005, Bill Turner did 91 things, went 72 places, met 11 people, and consumed 328 products.

Years: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Learn how to use Movable Type — completed about 1 month later
  2. Start using SVN. — completed about 1 month later
  3. start using del.icio.us — completed about 1 month later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see the northern lights — Worth doing!
  2. install a wiki — Worth doing!
  3. Have my own Domain Name — Worth doing!
  4. Have songs that I've listened to logged via Audioscrobbler.com — Worth doing!
  5. visit NYC — Worth doing!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. do my taxes — completed 5 days later
  2. Read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" — completed 2 months later
  3. learn to use XMLHttpRequest — completed 9 months later
  4. start using the library — completed over 2 years later
  5. start drawing again — completed over 3 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Get a gmail account — Worth doing!
  2. buy a home — Worth doing!
  3. Get a digital SLR camera — Worth doing!
  4. Learn how to use Movable Type — Worth doing!
  5. Start using SVN. — Worth doing!
  6. go to Italy — Worth doing!
  7. Get my poetry published — Worth doing!
  8. own my own home — Worth doing!
  9. Visit Rome — Worth doing!
  10. Visit Italy — Worth doing!
  11. Visit Venice — Worth doing!
  12. visit Florence — Worth doing!
  13. learn Quicksilver for OS X — Worth doing!
  14. Support tsunami - earthquake relief — Worth doing!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. re-design my website — completed 2 months later
  2. get a 4.0 GPA this semester — completed about 1 year later
  3. make wine — completed about 1 year later
  4. build something — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn how to drive stick-shift — Worth doing!
  2. Own a Mac — Worth doing!
  3. Be on a panel at SXSW — Worth doing!
  4. Try out 43 Things — Worth doing!
  5. drink more water — Worth doing!
  6. start using del.icio.us — Worth doing!
  7. get a laptop — Worth doing!
  8. Get (or renew) a passport — Worth doing!
  9. get a job — Worth doing!
  10. Fly First Class — Worth doing!
  11. Read more — Worth doing!
  12. print photos in a darkroom — Worth doing!
  13. make my own wine — Worth doing!
  14. become fluent in english — Worth doing!
  15. take a photography class — Worth doing!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Invest
  2. Learn Objective-C
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn to shoot a gun
  2. Read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" — Worth doing!

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May

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. trade mix CDs — Worth doing!
  2. re-design my website — Worth doing!
  3. learn to develop B&W film — Worth doing!
  4. Buy a pro account of Flickr — Worth doing!
  5. Travel to Italy — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) — Worth consuming!
  2. Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists — Worth consuming!
  3. The Baron in the Trees — Worth consuming!
  4. If on a winter's night a traveler — Worth consuming!
  5. Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) — Worth consuming!
  6. Thirteen Stories — Worth consuming!
  7. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition — Worth consuming!
  8. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Worth consuming!
  9. Middlesex: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  10. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — Worth consuming!
  11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  12. The Moviegoer — Worth consuming!
  13. What Should I Do with My Life? : The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question — Not worth consuming
  14. The Hacker and the Ants — Not worth consuming
  15. American Gods — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Shrek 2 (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  2. Vera Drake — Worth consuming!
  3. This Is Spinal Tap (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Springtime In a Small Town — Worth consuming!

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Fall in love — Worth doing!
  2. plant a tree — Worth doing!
  3. get an apple powerbook — Worth doing!
  4. Help test Tootietails: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op — Worth doing!
  5. move my travel "things" to 43places — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Barcelona
  2. Dallas — visited about 1 month later
  3. Venezia — visited about 1 month later
  4. Napa Valley
  5. Japan
  6. France
  7. Montreal
  8. Morocco
  9. Cinque Terre
  10. San Francisco
  11. Praha
  12. Alaska
  13. Seattle
  14. Hawai'i
  15. Paris
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Italy — Worth visiting!
  2. Roma — Worth visiting!
  3. London — Worth visiting!
  4. Firenze — Worth visiting!
  5. New Orleans — Worth visiting!
  6. Shreveport — Worth visiting!
  7. Grand Canyon National Park — Worth visiting!
  8. Chicago — Worth visiting!
  9. New York City — Worth visiting!
  10. Columbus — Worth visiting!
  11. Campo de' Fiori — Worth visiting!
  12. Texas — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Worth consuming!
  3. Sixty Stories — Worth consuming!
  4. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics) — Worth consuming!
  5. A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined as Grotesque Crippling Disease Other Cultural Revelations — Worth consuming!
  6. Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women — Worth consuming!
  7. Cat's Cradle — Worth consuming!
  8. Pattern Recognition — Worth consuming!
  9. The Virgin Suicides — Worth consuming!
  10. The Design of Everyday Things — Worth consuming!
  11. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) — Worth consuming!
  12. Spring Snow — Worth consuming!
  13. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch — Worth consuming!
  14. The Restraint of Beasts — Worth consuming!
  15. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. The Further Adventures of Lord Quas — Worth consuming!
  2. Illinoise — Worth consuming!
  3. Fisherman's Woman — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Napoleon Dynamite — Worth consuming!

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July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get out of Dallas — completed over 2 years later
  2. Learn and practice Tai Chi
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Join flickr — Worth doing!
  2. get used to wearing my contacts — Worth doing!
  3. learn ruby on rails — Worth doing!
  4. Get my photolog online — Worth doing!
  5. Have Kids — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Napoli
  2. Glasgow
  3. The Alamo — visited 2 months later
  4. Pompeii
  5. Edinburgh
  6. Walt Disney World — visited 9 months later
  7. Florida Keys
  8. Sicilia
  9. Pittsburgh — visited 10 months later
  10. Cedar Point — visited 11 months later
  11. Milano
  12. District of Columbia
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Ohio — Worth visiting!
  2. Steubenville — Worth visiting!
  3. Akron — Worth visiting!
  4. Deep Ellum — Not worth visiting
  5. American Airlines Center — Worth visiting!
  6. Book Depository — Worth visiting!
  7. River Walk — Worth visiting!
  8. San Antonio — Worth visiting!
  9. Denton — Worth visiting!
  10. Austin — Worth visiting!
  11. Beerland — Worth visiting!
  12. Whole Foods Market — Worth visiting!
  13. Stubb's Bar-B-Q — Worth visiting!
  14. Aubrey — Worth visiting!
  15. Houston — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Galaxy Quest — Worth consuming!
  2. Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (Unrated Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Hotel Rwanda — Worth consuming!
  4. The Lost Weekend — Worth consuming!
  5. The Kid Stays in the Picture — Worth consuming!

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August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. catalog my photographs
  2. Stop eating at chain resturants
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Nasher Sculpture Center
  2. Stonehenge
  3. Argentina
  4. Cuba
  5. Springfield
  6. Funkytown
  7. Islas Galápagos
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Piazza San Marco — Worth visiting!
  2. Colosseo — Worth visiting!
  3. Vatican City — Worth visiting!
  4. Basilica Di San Pietro — Worth visiting!
  5. Sistine Chapel — Worth visiting!
  6. St. Peter's Square — Worth visiting!
  7. East Lansing — Worth visiting!
  8. Michigan State University — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Daniel Spils — met about 1 year later
  2. libby — met 3 months later
  3. Kathryn Yu — met 7 months later
  4. Alaina Browne — met 7 months later
  5. Miranda Gaw
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Buster McLeod
  2. dealingwith
Read:
  1. The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Superman: Red Son (Elseworlds) — Worth consuming!
  3. Stranger Things Happen: Stories — Worth consuming!

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September

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. get a laptop and wireless network — Worth doing!
  2. toss a coin in the trevi fountain — Worth doing!
  3. Help test 43people.com: the next new thing from The Robot Co-op — Worth doing!
  4. Learn to drive a stick shift — Worth doing!
  5. get my passport — Worth doing!
  6. use quicksilver — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Positano
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. The Alamo — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Andy Baio — met 6 months later
  2. lia bulaong — met about 1 year later
  3. Leonard Lin — met 6 months later
  4. David Heinemeier Hansson
  5. Caterina
  6. David Jacobs — met 6 months later
  7. Stewart Butterfield
  8. Paola
  9. Meg Hourihan
  10. Michael Buffington — met 6 months later
  11. Anil Dash — met 7 months later
  12. Clara Turner — met 3 months later
  13. Merlin Mann
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. bluishorange
  2. finn
  3. David Sedaris
Read:
  1. The Crying of Lot 49 — Worth consuming!
  2. Norwegian Wood — Worth consuming!
  3. Men and Cartoons: Stories — Worth consuming!
  4. Lolita — Worth consuming!
  5. The Great Gatsby — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Quelqu'un M'a Dit — Worth consuming!
  2. Nolita — Worth consuming!
  3. Getz/Gilberto — Worth consuming!
  4. Desormais — Worth consuming!
  5. Not Going Anywhere — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Spirited Away — Worth consuming!
  2. Shaun of the Dead — Worth consuming!
  3. Princess Mononoke — Worth consuming!
  4. The Station Agent — Worth consuming!
  5. Akira (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Howl's Moving Castle — Worth consuming!
  7. Bubba Ho-Tep (Limited Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Me and You and Everyone We Know — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Arrested Development — Worth consuming!
  2. katamari damacy — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Buy original art — completed 4 months later
  2. become more handy — completed 6 months later
  3. learn to ride a motorcycle
  4. learn to sew
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. take vitamins — Worth doing!
  2. witness a birth — Worth doing!
  3. mosh at a concert — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. P.F. Chang's China Bistro - Jollyville Rd — Worth visiting!
  2. Kerbey Lane Cafe — Worth visiting!
  3. The Boiling Pot — Worth visiting!
  4. Trevi Fountain — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Amy
  2. Pete Prodoehl
  3. Chris Griego — met 4 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Mike Watt
Read:
  1. White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction) — Worth consuming!
  2. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth — Worth consuming!
  3. Watchmen — Worth consuming!
  4. Gary Benchley, Rock Star — Worth consuming!
  5. Tricked — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Why Should the Fire Die? — Worth consuming!
  2. Extraordinary Machine — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Serenity — Worth consuming!
  2. The 40 Year Old Virgin — Worth consuming!
  3. A Boy & His Dog — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Get a library card — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see fireflies — Worth doing!
  2. buy a car — Worth doing!
  3. go and see 'death cab for cutie' — Worth doing!
  4. Meet David Sedaris — Worth doing!
  5. finish a crossword puzzle — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Downtown Disney — visited 5 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Manhattan — Worth visiting!
  2. Grand Central Terminal — Worth visiting!
  3. Guggenheim Museum — Worth visiting!
  4. Washington Square Park — Worth visiting!
  5. Museum Of Modern Art — Worth visiting!
  6. Central Park — Worth visiting!
  7. Upper West Side — Worth visiting!
  8. Times Square — Worth visiting!
  9. Celebration — Worth visiting!
  10. Orlando — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. michael turner — met about 1 month later
  2. nobodysperfect
  3. Garrett Dimon
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Eliot Turner
  2. Gina Trapani
Read:
  1. Cryptonomicon — Worth consuming!
  2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Worth consuming!
  3. 1984 (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  4. Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) — Worth consuming!
  5. Ubik — Worth consuming!
  6. A Scanner Darkly — Worth consuming!
  7. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said — Worth consuming!
  8. Magic for Beginners — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. London Calling — Worth consuming!
  2. Love in the Time of Science — Worth consuming!
  3. Birth of the Cool — Worth consuming!
  4. Let It Be... Naked — Worth consuming!
  5. The Lady Sings — Worth consuming!
  6. The Low End Theory — Worth consuming!
  7. Louder Than Love — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Me and You and Everyone We Know — Worth consuming!

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December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. try out "The Artist's Way"
  2. start an open source project
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn to use XMLHttpRequest — Worth doing!
  2. use linux — Worth doing!
  3. learn linux — Worth doing!
  4. install Linux — Worth doing!
  5. Contribute to an open source software project — Worth doing!
  6. speak english fluently — Worth doing!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. libby
  2. michael turner
  3. Clara Turner
Read:
  1. The Giving Tree — Worth consuming!
  2. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master — Worth consuming!
  3. Foucault's Pendulum — Worth consuming!
  4. Dr. Bloodmoney (Vintage) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Fortress of Solitude — Worth consuming!
  6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Not worth consuming
  7. Breakfast of Champions — Worth consuming!
  8. Pattern Recognition — Worth consuming!
  9. Slaughterhouse-Five — Worth consuming!
  10. The Book of Three (Prydain Chronicles) — Worth consuming!
  11. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls — Worth consuming!
  12. Neuromancer — Worth consuming!
  13. The Tommyknockers (Signet) — Not worth consuming
  14. Animal Farm — Worth consuming!
  15. The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Led Zeppelin II — Worth consuming!
  2. The Beatles (The White Album) — Worth consuming!
  3. Abbey Road — Worth consuming!
  4. We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes — Worth consuming!
  5. Arular — Worth consuming!
  6. Guero — Worth consuming!
  7. Dark Side Of The Moon — Worth consuming!
  8. The Wall (Deluxe Packaging Digitally Remastered) — Worth consuming!
  9. Animals — Worth consuming!
  10. Wish You Were Here — Worth consuming!
  11. A Love Supreme — Worth consuming!
  12. There's Nothing Wrong With Love — Worth consuming!
  13. When It Falls — Worth consuming!
  14. Version 2.0 — Worth consuming!
  15. Exit...Stage Left — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Royal Tenenbaums (The Criterion Collection) — Not worth consuming
  3. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Worth consuming!
  5. Annie Hall — Worth consuming!
  6. Raising Arizona — Worth consuming!
  7. Office Space (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Shakespeare in Love — Worth consuming!
  9. Dead Man Walking — Worth consuming!
  10. The Matrix — Worth consuming!
  11. Chinatown — Worth consuming!
  12. The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  13. Magnolia (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  14. Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  15. The Apartment — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich and fries — Worth consuming!
  2. Diet Coke — Not worth consuming
  3. Water — Worth consuming!
  4. Coffee — Worth consuming!
  5. Dr Pepper — Worth consuming!
  6. Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) — Worth consuming!
  7. Edamame — Worth consuming!
  8. Chicken Pad Thai — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. All Consuming — Worth consuming!
  2. 43 Things — Worth consuming!
  3. Firefox — Worth consuming!
  4. 43 Places — Worth consuming!
  5. firefly — Worth consuming!
  6. El Topo — Worth consuming!
  7. del.icio.us — Worth consuming!
  8. Flickr — Worth consuming!
  9. last.fm — Worth consuming!
  10. Red Wine — Worth consuming!

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