#87- Get tazed

Alright, due to popular demand, I'm posting this video. The quality is not too good but I'll replace when I get the better one. Enjoy

One word to describe myself...

Now I know what you're all thinking, how self-centered is this guy that he chooses words to describe himself? You can't do that! And the answer is very. It's my blog, I can be as stuck up and cocky as I want to be. But anyway, that's not what brings me here tonight. The one word I choose when describing myself would be "Resourceful". Yes, resourceful. I recently went night skiing (which I do quite often) and in my ongoing efforts to stick it to the man (the man being corporate America and overpriced hamburgers at ski resorts) I invented a new recipe. And guess how much my three and a half star gourmet cost. Nothing. All I had to do was flirt with the girl at the counter and convince her that I was in need of a cup for water. Water, heh heh, yeah right. Ok here's the recipe as follows:

-Fill up your cup halfway with the free hot water.

-Sneak about 17 ketchup packets from the counter while flirting with the girl at the register.

- Carefully empty the contents of the ketchup packets into hot water and stir until a uniform thickness is reached.

- Add salt and pepper/hot sauce to taste.

optional: if there are free crackers available, add for thickness. I highly recommend this.

Well there ya go. If you are every in the need for a delicious free meal, or your wife kicks you out of the house for a few weeks and you become homeless, feel free to use my recipe.

Editor's note: For all you dieters out there, the calorie content has yet to be established but it can't be more than 58, so you're good to go. Nutritional value undetermined. May cause insomnia, heart failure, and sterility in males.

101 Books

1. Homer- Iliad
2. Homer- Odyssey
3. Dante- Divine Comedy
4. Machiavelli- The Prince
5. Cervantes- Don Quixote
6. Defoe- Robinson Crusoe
7. Benjamin Franklin- Autobiography
8. Milton- Paradise Lost
9. Paine- Common Sense
10. Swift- Gulliver's Travels
11. Austen- Pride and Prejudice
12. Austen- Emma
13. Bronte- Jane Eyre
14. Bronte- Wuthering Heights
15. Lord Byron- Don Juan
16. Carroll- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
17. Carroll- Through the Looking Glass
18. Dickens- Great Expectations
19. Dickens- David Copperfield
20. Dumas- The Count of Monte Cristo
21. Eliot- Middlemarch
22. Dostoyevsky- Crime and Punishment
23. Dostoyevsky- Brothers Karamazov
24. Emerson- Nature
25. Hawthorne- The Scarlet Letter
26. Hugo- Les Miserables
27. Marx- The Communist Manifesto
28. Melville- Moby Dick
29. Shelley- Frankenstein
30. Stoker- Dracula
31. Stowe- Uncle Tom's Cabin
32. Thoreau- Civil Disobedience
33. Tolstoy- War and Peace
34. Tolstoy- Anna Karenina
35. Wells- The Time Machine
36. Wells- The Invisible Man
37. Buck- The Good Earth
38. Conrad- Heart of Darkness
39. Eliot- The Waste Land
40. Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
41. Freud- The Interpretation of Dreams
42. Haley- Roots
43. Keynes- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
44. King- Letter from Birmingham Jail
45. Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird
46. Lewis- The Screwtape Letters
47. Lewis- Mere Christianity
48. Mandela- Long Walk to Freedom
49. Orwell- Animal Farm
50. Steinbeck- The Grapes of Wrath
51. Tolkien- Lord of the Rings
52. Tolkien- The Two Towers
53. Tolkien- The Return of the King
54. Tolkien- The Hobbit
55. Lao Tzu- Tao-te Ching
56. Darwin- The Origin of Species
57. Watson- The Double Helix
58. Mandelbrot- The Fractile Geometry of Nature
59. Monod- The Origins of Molecular Biology
60. Euclid- Elements
61. Hawking- A Brief History of Time
62. Rhodes- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
63. Aesop- Fables
64. Palaniuk- Fight Club
65. Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea
66. Mitchell- Gone With The Wind
67. Miller- Death of a Salesman
68. Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire
69. Williams- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
70. Hackett- Diary of Anne Frank
71. Guare- Six Degrees of Separation
72. Hwng- M. Butterfly
73. Kyosaki- Rich Dad, Poor Dad
74. Shakespeare- Romeo and Juliet
75. Shakespeare- Macbeth
76. Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude
77. Faulkner- As I lay Dying
78. Faulkner- The Sound and the Fury
79. Smith- The Wealth of Nations
80. Golding- Lord of the Flies
81. Lewis- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
82. Orwell- 1984
83. Bradbury- Farenheit 451
84. Nabakov- Lolita
85. Chaucer- Canterbury Tales
86. Salinger- The Catcher in the Rye
87. Heller- Catch 22
88. Milne- Winnie the Pooh
89. Twain- Huckelberry Finn
90. Kipling- The Jungle Book
91. Vonnegut- Slaughterhouse 5
92. White- Charlotte's Web
93. Malcolm X- Autobiography
94. Joyce- Ulysses
95. Adams- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
96. Card- Ender's Game
97. London- The Call of the Wild
98. Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
99. King- It
100. Clancy- The Hunt for Red October
101. The Book of Mormon

#45- Perfect a magic trick

Now before you watch this, you have to understand a very important detail. If you have the urge to write a comment with something to the effect of "Dude, I totally know how you did this" you have to realize that I don't care. Anybody can figure it out if they watch it enough times. These are my goals not yours. With that in mind, enjoy.

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I kicked off the list with an easy one.. Here's my proof.

100 things to put on a resume..

So I've decided that blogs are kind of boring and that I was going to spice mine up a bit. I have come up with a list of 100 different things to do before I die. Which if I keep up some of the things that I do might be in about seven and a half years(approximation). So here's what I have come up with so far. I will also be posting according to the ones that I accomplish. Here they are (in no particular order)...

1. One month without eating out
2. Try veganism for two weeks
3. Be able to play "Claire de Lune" to impress people at parties
4. Stay awake for 50+ hours
5. Hike King's Peak
6. Learn a new language
7. Do an ironman triathlon
8. Get good at golf
9. Ride a motorcycle to Mexico
10. Learn to surf
11. Skydive
12. Ride in a hot air balloon
13. Ride in a helicopter
14. Purchase an original piece of art
15. Beat the original Mario Bros. without warping
16. Make a 1000 dollar bet on a basketball game
17. Buy a custom tailored suit
18. Try an oyster
19. Write and record a song that gets on the radio
20. Marry a pretty girl
21. Ride in a jet
22. Ride in a racecar
23. Climb Mt. Everest
24. See all seven wonders of the world (1/7) Machu Picchu
25. Plant a tree
26. Frolic through a field naked
27. Learn how to cook one dish of fine cuisine
28. Swim in the Great Salt Lake
29. Donate 10,000+ dollars to a charity
30. Visit Asia
31. Visit Europe
32. Sleep on a hammock in the mountains
33. Bike across the golden gate bridge
34. Paint the sunset
35. Watch a foreign film in a theatre
36. Take a star map and see how many constellations I can find
37. Go camping by myself
38. Do a backflip on skis
39. Get on TV
40. Publish a paper
41. Invent something that needs a patent
42. Get into dental school
43. See the northern lights
44. Keep a car for 5+ years
45. Perfect a magic trick
46. See a drive-in movie
47. See a broadway play
48. See an opera or ballet
49. Restore a car
50. Start a dance in a public place
51. Run with the bulls
52. Fly a plane
53. Tell a judge "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth."
54. Get something named after me
55. Go to a Stanley cup game
56. Get in the Guinness Book of world records
57. Deliver a baby
58. Be in a protest
59. Go to space
60. Buy a house
61. Go heli-skiing
62. Hike through the Amazon
63. Climb Denali
64. Photograph an endangered species
65. Be in Times Square for New Year's
66. Pay cash for a new car (preferably in a briefcase)
67. Ski at all the resorts in Utah in one week
68. Bowl over a 250
69. Visit a real blues bar in Chicago
70. Learn to play the drums
71. Build a computer
72. Learn how to fence
73. Survive in the wilderness or on an island for two weeks
74. Go 200+ mph on land
75. Get SCUBA certified and own my own equipment
76. Base jump
77. Play a sport with a professional of that sport
78. Learn how to sail
79. Sell one of my pictures or have it in an art show or gallery
80. Read all of the book on my "101 books to read before I die" list (click here)
81. Invent a new ice cream flavor
82. Spit off of the Empire State building
83. Get invited to the white house
84. Make a viral YouTube video that gets over 100,000 hits
85. Help a complete stranger accomplish one of his goals
86. Drive on the autobahn
87. Get tazed
88. Ski the west face of Timpanogos
89. Go one month without spending more than twenty dollars
90. Plan a cool tourist photo (e.g. roller coaster) and buy it
91. Learn how to play the entire Eruption solo (Van Halen)
92. Research a horse and put money on a race
93. Eat a dozen Krispy Kremes in one sitting
94. Kick a field goal on a collegiate or pro field
95. Visit all of the six flags parks
96. See the Mona Lisa at the Lourve
97. Run a half marathon
98. Learn how to slalom ski
99. Learn how to salsa dance
100. Walk on hot coals

Material World

Material things are not important in this life. The reason I know this is because in the pre-existence, there are almost no buildings or architecture of any kind. There are only some really nice steps and columns. Also, there are people, singing about whether or not they will find each other or live in the same family on earth. But, other than that, nothing.