Jamis Buck in 2005
2005 was 100% worth living.
In 2005, Jamis Buck
did 11 things,
went 3 places,
met 19 people, and
consumed 0 products.
January
Added to 43 Things:
- Get hired by 37signals — completed about 1 month later
- Learn Ruby — completed about 1 month later
- exercise regularly
- Get a Mac — completed 2 months later
- write in my journal every day
- write a novel and get it published
- find out who my great-great-great grandfather really was
- Practice religious test-first development for a month — completed 8 months later
- Become a better programmer — completed 8 months later
- eat healthier
- Learn Japanese
- prepare my grandfather's personal history
- read Les Miserables in French
- learn blender
- payoff the mortgage
Completed on 43 Things:
- find an inexpensive web host that supports FastCGI — Worth doing!
- donate to the south asian disaster relief fund — Worth doing!
- Start using SVN. — Worth doing!
- Get all 7 seasons of Star Trek: Voyager on DVD — Worth doing!
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February
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- Get hired by 37signals — Worth doing!
- Learn Ruby — Worth doing!
- speak at RubyConf — Worth doing!
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March
Added to 43 Things:
Completed on 43 Things:
- Get a Mac — Worth doing!
- Get a job where I can code in Ruby all day — Worth doing!
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April
Added to 43 Things:
- learn haskell — completed over 2 years later
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September
Added to 43 Things:
- Release Rails v1.0 — completed about 1 year later
Completed on 43 Things:
- Practice religious test-first development for a month — Worth doing!
- Become a better programmer — Worth doing!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- Zen Spider — met 3 months later
- Ryan Singer — met 3 months later
- friedster — met 3 months later
- David Heinemeier Hansson — met 3 months later
- Nathaniel Talbott — met 3 months later
- pate — met 3 months later
- Chad Fowler — met 3 months later
- Jim Weirich — met 3 months later
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October
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
- Eric Hodel — met 2 months later
- Adam Keys — met 2 months later
- Michael Koziarski — met 2 months later
- Marcel Molina Jr. — met 2 months later
- Bil Kleb — met 2 months later
- Austin Ziegler — met 2 months later
- Sam Stephenson — met 2 months later
- Deirdre Saoirse Moen — met 2 months later
- Geoffrey Grosenbach — met 2 months later
- court3nay — met 2 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
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November
Added to 43 Places:
- Chicago — visited 8 months later
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December
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
