Ilya in 2006

2006 was 95% worth living.

In 2005, Ilya did 124 things, went 81 places, met 0 people, and consumed 98 products.

Ilya has written 1 year in review entry…

Years: 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. investigate some of the music played on Worldwide
  2. be subscribed to 43 people — completed 2 months later
  3. get people to listen to Mose Allison
  4. record moviegoing and later rank movies
  5. relieve my tinnitus — completed about 1 year later
  6. better appreciate the people in my life — completed about 1 year later
  7. be happier with my achievements — completed about 1 year later
  8. watch Chimp Week on BBC1 — completed about 1 year later
  9. overcome negative conditioning — completed about 1 year later
  10. learn to play poker
  11. learn Latin
  12. encourage biophilia — completed over 2 years later
  13. learn xml
  14. smile more
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. meditate daily — Worth doing!
  2. watch House MD — Worth doing!
  3. have porridge for breakfast at the cafe in the botanic gardens Brisbane, Australia — Worth doing!
  4. vist museums more regularly — Worth doing!
  5. expand my music collection — Worth doing!
  6. eat healthily — Worth doing!
  7. be awakened by the call of kookaburras — Worth doing!
  8. watch more movies — Not worth doing
  9. live in london — Not worth doing
  10. register some books on BookCrossing.com and release them — Not worth doing
  11. see a kangaroo — Worth doing!
  12. live without a car — Worth doing!
  13. List down my favorite songs of all time — Worth doing!
  14. see "The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe" — Worth doing!
  15. install energy saver lightbulbs — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get to grips with CSS
Added to 43 Places:
  1. São Paulo (state)
  2. Shakespeare & Co Bookshop
  3. Cambridge
  4. Oxford
  5. Newgrange
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Queensland — Worth visiting!
  2. Perth — Worth visiting!
  3. Trinity College — Worth visiting!
  4. Peebles — Worth visiting!
  5. Gateshead — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Dorothy Parker
  2. Joni Mitchell
Read:
  1. White Teeth: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird — Worth consuming!
  3. Godel's Proof — Worth consuming!
  4. Ghost World — Worth consuming!
  5. Moab Is My Washpot — Worth consuming!
  6. The Eagle of the Ninth — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. help 43 Things win the SXSW People's Choice award — completed 16 days later
  2. get 43 cheers on one goal — completed 15 days later
  3. Program more
  4. celebrate pi day 2006 — completed 9 months later
  5. learn something of the dismal science — completed 11 months later
  6. get more RAM
  7. brush up on basic probability theory and elementary statistics
  8. read The Gambler by Dostoevsky
  9. buy into geek pride — completed over 2 years later
  10. listen to more guitar music — completed over 2 years later
  11. eat rice daily — completed over 2 years later
  12. Learn to play backgammon — completed over 2 years later
  13. improve backgammon play — completed over 2 years later
  14. see capote — completed over 2 years later
  15. Have a coffee shop know my "usual" — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. play more backgammon — Worth doing!
  2. study philosophy — Worth doing!
  3. Receive 900 Cheers! — Worth doing!
  4. give 1400 cheers — Worth doing!
  5. learn binary — Worth doing!
  6. install ClamXav on my Mac — Worth doing!
  7. Receive 1000 Cheers — Worth doing!
  8. eat sushi — Worth doing!
  9. live simply — Worth doing!
  10. get to work on time, or early, every day — Worth doing!
  11. Make my bed every day — Worth doing!
  12. bring my lunch to work. — Worth doing!
  13. learn to drive — Worth doing!
  14. encourage other people — Worth doing!
  15. Give 1,700 Cheers — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. investigate some of the music played on Worldwide
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Black Isle — visited about 1 month later
  2. Isle Of Skye — visited 2 months later
  3. Lindisfarne — visited 2 months later
  4. Strand Bookstore
  5. Hermitage Museum
  6. New York City
  7. CERN Laboratory
  8. The Eagle And Child
  9. Isle Of Iona
  10. Eden Project
  11. Callanish
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Lerwick — Worth visiting!
  2. Isle Of Islay — Worth visiting!
  3. The Royal Mile — Worth visiting!
  4. Glasgow — Worth visiting!
  5. The Burrell Collection — Worth visiting!
  6. West Linton — Worth visiting!
  7. Samye Ling Monastery — Worth visiting!
  8. Argyll & Bute — Worth visiting!
  9. Centre For Alternative Technology — Worth visiting!
  10. Kilmartin House Museum Of Ancient Culture — Worth visiting!
  11. Glendalough — Worth visiting!
  12. Findhorn — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Me Talk Pretty One Day — Worth consuming!
  2. The Magus — Worth consuming!
  3. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War — Worth consuming!
  4. A Short History of Nearly Everything — Worth consuming!
  5. A Confederacy of Dunces (Evergreen Book) — Worth consuming!
  6. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind — Worth consuming!
  7. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
  8. The Leopard (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) — Worth consuming!
  9. Tarka the Otter (Puffin Story Books) — Worth consuming!
  10. Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country
  11. Centuries of Meditations — Worth consuming!
  12. Eating Apes (California Studies in Food and Culture) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. It's a Wonderful Life — Worth consuming!
  2. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — Worth consuming!
  3. Daisies of the Galaxy — Worth consuming!
  4. Electro-Shock Blues — Worth consuming!
  5. Souljacker [Bonus Disc] — Worth consuming!
  6. Good Morning Spider — Worth consuming!
  7. Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot — Worth consuming!
  8. Duets — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Rushmore — Worth consuming!
  2. Fanny and Alexander (The Theatrical Version) - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. Capote — Worth consuming!
  4. Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage — Worth consuming!

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. be more independent — completed over 2 years later
  2. go out of town — completed over 2 years later
  3. pay library late fees — completed over 2 years later
  4. watch Alexander Nevsky — completed over 2 years later
  5. Give 2000 cheers — completed over 2 years later
  6. see "Manderlay" — completed over 2 years later
  7. do volunteer work — completed over 2 years later
  8. post randomly — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. help 43 Things win the SXSW People's Choice award — Worth doing!
  2. make 400 entries — Worth doing!
  3. get drunk — Not worth doing
  4. get 43 cheers on one goal — Worth doing!
  5. play scrabble — Worth doing!
  6. be subscribed to 43 people — Not worth doing
  7. have 43 people subscribed to me — Worth doing!
  8. make 430 entries — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. do a bit more in python
Added to 43 Places:
  1. National Library Of Scotland — visited 14 days later
  2. Aberdeen — visited 2 months later
  3. Gosforth — visited 5 months later
  4. Newcastle — visited 9 months later
  5. Belgian Centre Of Comic Strip Art
  6. Hay-on-Wye
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Guinness Brewery — Worth visiting!
  2. V&A South Kensington — Worth visiting!
  3. Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary — Worth visiting!
  4. The Lake District — Worth visiting!
  5. Yell — Worth visiting!
  6. Brighton and Hove — Worth visiting!
  7. Harrogate — Worth visiting!
  8. Glasgow Film Theatre — Worth visiting!
  9. Royal Observatory — Worth visiting!
  10. Bonnyrigg — Not worth visiting
  11. Dalkeith — Not worth visiting
  12. Newtongrange — Not worth visiting
  13. Penicuik — Not worth visiting
  14. Jesmond — Worth visiting!
  15. Eskbank — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. NurseFusion
  2. Anne Lo
  3. JiJiJanet
Read:
  1. Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius — Worth consuming!
  5. Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) — Worth consuming!
  6. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library) — Worth consuming!
  7. Possession: A Romance — Worth consuming!
  8. Lolita — Worth consuming!
  9. Everything Is Illuminated — Worth consuming!
  10. Watership Down (Puffin Books) — Worth consuming!
  11. Narziss and Goldmund — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. The Times They Are A-Changin' — Worth consuming!
  2. Trout Mask Replica — Worth consuming!
  3. John Wesley Harding — Worth consuming!
  4. Highlights from the Julian Bream Edition — Worth consuming!
  5. Dandruff — Worth consuming!
  6. Other Spheres — Worth consuming!
  7. Here and Now — Worth consuming!
  8. Turn Up the Quiet — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Cooler — Worth consuming!
  2. Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Not worth consuming
  3. Alexander Nevsky — Worth consuming!
  4. Crumb — Worth consuming!
  5. Ray (Full Screen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Manderlay — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Kath and Kim — Worth consuming!

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Have a go at rock climbing — completed 6 days later
  2. crack on with my php/mysql project — completed 20 days later
  3. prepare for creative computing class — completed about 1 month later
  4. go on — completed 2 months later
  5. do something creative
  6. talk to you nice — completed about 1 year later
  7. be a mensch
  8. read Beckett
  9. become less materialistic — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. sleep in a tent — Worth doing!
  2. People Watch — Worth doing!
  3. buy moleskine — Worth doing!
  4. live in a city where I can WALK everywhere — Worth doing!
  5. practice silence — Worth doing!
  6. hire a car — Worth doing!
  7. climb Arthur's seat — Worth doing!
  8. be hip — Worth doing!
  9. promulgate Bertrand Russell's liberal decalogue — Worth doing!
  10. abseil — Worth doing!
  11. update my home page — Worth doing!
  12. make a cup of coffee — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get people to listen to Mose Allison
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Cave Of Lascaux
  2. Bibliotheca Alexandrina
  3. The Caves of Altamira
  4. Eilean Bàn
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. National Library Of Scotland — Worth visiting!
  2. Stratford-upon-Avon — Worth visiting!
  3. Isle Of Skye — Worth visiting!
  4. Marbella — Worth visiting!
Marked as failed on 43 Places:
  1. São Paulo (state)
  2. Cave Of Lascaux
Read:
  1. The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship — Worth consuming!
  2. Ring of Bright Water (Penguin Nature Classics Series) — Worth consuming!
  3. Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Kamakiriad — Worth consuming!
  2. Morph the Cat — Worth consuming!

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May

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Take more photos — completed 14 days later
  2. learn scheme
  3. wish John Stuart Mill a happy 200th birthday — completed 10 months later
  4. wish Miles Davis a happy 80th birthday — completed about 1 year later
  5. see the Milky Way — completed over 2 years later
  6. switch to soy milk — completed over 2 years later
  7. try tofu — completed over 2 years later
  8. Eat Haggis — completed over 2 years later
  9. read all the Chronicles of Narnia books — completed over 2 years later
  10. eat potatoes — completed over 2 years later
  11. Write more
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Have a go at rock climbing — Worth doing!
  2. crack on with my php/mysql project — Worth doing!
  3. Go to a jazz festival — Worth doing!
  4. participate in a protest — Worth doing!
  5. Listen to more classical music — Worth doing!
  6. have a lucid dream — Worth doing!
  7. make an origami crane — Worth doing!
  8. learn to use chopsticks — Worth doing!
  9. work in a bookstore — Worth doing!
  10. eat bananas — Worth doing!
  11. go to a ceilidh — Worth doing!
  12. listen to Brazilian music — Worth doing!
  13. find an error in a book by Don Knuth — Worth doing!
  14. learn how to solve peg solitaire puzzles — Worth doing!
  15. learn something new everyday — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Marseille — visited about 1 month later
  2. John Muir Trail
  3. John Muir Way — visited over 2 years later
  4. West Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  5. Bletchley Park
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Lindisfarne — Worth visiting!
  2. Durham — Worth visiting!
  3. Aberdeen — Worth visiting!
  4. Aberdeen University — Worth visiting!
  5. Wild Oats Natural Marketplace — Worth visiting!
  6. Mont Saint Michel — Worth visiting!
  7. Jersey — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. koko
  2. Bertrand Russell
  3. postcard

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. give a nod to some song writers, and their songs — completed 18 days later
  2. walk to work — completed about 1 year later
  3. read "Freakonomics" — completed over 2 years later
  4. read "Blink" — completed over 2 years later
  5. Fall in love — completed over 2 years later
  6. drink wheatgrass — completed over 2 years later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. watch a foreign movie — Worth doing!
  2. Take more photos — Worth doing!
  3. take a break from things 43 — Worth doing!
  4. tell Flowergirl Happy Birthday June 16th :) — Worth doing!
  5. Wish Postcard a Happy Birthday!!!! — Worth doing!
  6. chat to an American — Worth doing!
  7. declare 26/06 - 02/07 Flower Avatar Week — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Northumberland — Worth visiting!
  2. Alnwick — Worth visiting!
  3. Madrid — Worth visiting!
  4. Provence — Worth visiting!
  5. Cassis — Worth visiting!
  6. Marseille — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Emma Goldman
Read:
  1. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Worth consuming!
  2. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Worth consuming!
  3. In Cold Blood (Penguin Modern Classics) — Worth consuming!

→ See more from June

July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Take better photographs
  2. Touch the Life of a Stranger in Need
  3. be kind — completed about 1 year later
  4. Start a Backgammon Club
  5. share news — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. reread Pnin — Worth doing!
  2. go on — Worth doing!
  3. make 600 entries — Worth doing!
  4. give a nod to some song writers, and their songs — Worth doing!
  5. eat at a Hard Rock Cafe — Not worth doing
  6. celebrate Stine1's birthday — Worth doing!
  7. read Flight 714 by Herge — Worth doing!
  8. climb the Scott monument — Worth doing!
  9. find a cow with the world map on it — Worth doing!
  10. see the Audubon exhibition at NLS — Worth doing!
  11. Tag my pics on Flickr — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Program more
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Central Mosque — visited 27 days later
  2. Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum — visited 2 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Writer's Museum — Worth visiting!
  2. The Scott Monument — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Big Deal: One Year as a Professional Poker Player — Worth consuming!
  3. Everyman — Worth consuming!
  4. Tintin Flight 714 — Worth consuming!

→ See more from July

August

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Learn Dvorak — completed 5 months later
  2. keep an eye out for fallacious reasoning
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. wish Agent99 a safe voyage home!!!!
  2. Actually meet face-to-face with someone from 43 Things — Worth doing!
  3. take a photo of something with the number 43 on it — Worth doing!
  4. complete 256 things — Worth doing!
  5. google myself — Worth doing!
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. New Lanark — Worth visiting!
  2. Central Mosque — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. The Crab with the Golden Claws (The Adventures of Tintin) — Worth consuming!
  2. Tintin - Land of Black Gold — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. A Scanner Darkly — Worth consuming!

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September

Added to 43 Things:
  1. wish the most beautiful Scottish, pink, lizard (Calypte) a very happy birthday on 9/17.
  2. see the Ron Mueck exhibition at The Mound — completed about 22 hours later
  3. convince gateshead Libraries to unblock 43... — completed 3 days later
  4. eat at urbanangel — completed 6 days later
  5. say hello to absnam
  6. get a new Mac — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Wish Calypte a Happy Birthday (9/17)
  2. Wish Saulute a very happy birthday on Sept. 25th — Worth doing!
  3. learn scripting — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. wish the most beautiful Scottish, pink, lizard (Calypte) a very happy birthday on 9/17.
  2. learn scheme
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Tchai-Ovna
  2. Blackwell's
  3. Taliesin
  4. Belle & Herbs — visited about 1 year later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Gosforth — Worth visiting!
  2. Jesmond Dene — Worth visiting!
  3. Secret Flickrwall — Worth visiting!
  4. Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum — Worth visiting!
  5. Wittgenstein Plaque — Worth visiting!
  6. Grassroots Cafe — Worth visiting!
  7. Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. A Month in the Country (New York Review Books Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned — Worth consuming!
  3. The Adventures of Tintin: The Seven Crystal Balls — Worth consuming!
  4. The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Gilles Peterson in Brazil — Worth consuming!
  2. Just Another Diamond Day — Worth consuming!
  3. Back in Brazil — Worth consuming!

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October

Added to 43 Things:
  1. read Lorimer's translation of the New Testament into Scots — completed about 1 month later
  2. Receive 3000 cheers — completed 11 months later
  3. Give 4000 cheers — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. see the Ron Mueck exhibition at The Mound — Worth doing!
  2. convince gateshead Libraries to unblock 43... — Worth doing!
  3. eat at urbanangel — Worth doing!
  4. hear the word charver used in conversation — Worth doing!
  5. visit Durham Town Hall — Worth doing!
  6. see a squonk's tears
Added to 43 Places:
  1. 23rd & Stout
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Tyneside Cinema — Not worth visiting
  2. Town Hall — Worth visiting!
  3. Scottish National Portrait Gallery — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8): A Memoir of Love, Exile, and Crosswords — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain — Worth consuming!
  2. 23rd & Stout — Worth consuming!

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November

Added to 43 Things:
  1. read beelzebub
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. celebrate pi day 2006 — Worth doing!
  2. see Borat — Worth doing!
  3. watch University Challenge
  4. change my display name again — Worth doing!
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Take better photographs
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Kielder Skyspace
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Ndebele
Listened to:
  1. Live Performance — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan — Worth consuming!

→ See more from November

December

Added to 43 Things:
  1. buy a book from AbeBooks.com
  2. build a small form factor PC and run Linux.
  3. understand politics
  4. take an interest in politics — completed about 1 year later
  5. promote scientific literacy
  6. freelance at proofreading
  7. have a guinness — completed about 1 year later
  8. play a game of tennis — completed about 1 year later
  9. read the Chronicles of Narnia — completed about 1 year later
  10. Try Wasabi — completed about 1 year later
  11. start an empathy epidemic
  12. develop a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget
  13. Give 5000 cheers — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. read Lorimer's translation of the New Testament into Scots — Worth doing!
  2. Wish Paolo a very Happy Birthday on December 9th! — Worth doing!
  3. Read dianetics — Worth doing!
  4. be part of the brotherhood — Worth doing!
  5. wish Absnasm a happy birthday on December 19th — Worth doing!
  6. Join flickr — Worth doing!
  7. Install Google Earth on Mac OS X — Worth doing!
  8. keep abreast of current affairs
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. read beelzebub
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Arthur's Seat — visited 9 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Laing Art Gallery — Worth visiting!
  2. Pancho Villas — Worth visiting!
  3. The Royal Oak — Worth visiting!
  4. The Botanic Gardens — Worth visiting!
  5. Camera Obscura And World Of Illusions — Worth visiting!
  6. Newcastle — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. flowergirlresumed
Read:
  1. Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Essential Rumi (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious — Worth consuming!
  4. The Leopard (Everyman's Library Classics) — Worth consuming!
  5. A Confederacy of Dunces — Worth consuming!
  6. The Magus — Worth consuming!
  7. Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter — Worth consuming!
  9. The Corrections — Worth consuming!
  10. Waterland — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. At War with the Mystics
  2. I Trawl the Megahertz — Worth consuming!
  3. Magnus Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto; Gran Duo; Chorale — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) — Worth consuming!
  2. Flags of Our Fathers — Worth consuming!

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