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diff --git a/docs/random/life_goals.md b/docs/random/life_goals.md index d85c413..712e6bd 100644 --- a/docs/random/life_goals.md +++ b/docs/random/life_goals.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # My Life Goals -Last updated 2022-05-17 +Last updated 2023-11-05 My life sucks. That's why I constantly think about dying. Don't worry, I won't do it *right* now, but it's a prudent act to list out all the @@ -15,45 +15,83 @@ There's some cross-referencing among the items, so I've added labels in __boldface__ and/or dependencies (dep) in parentheses where necessary. ## Art -- Learn bass (__bass__) +- <s>Learn bass</s> (__bass__) (learning it right now) - Get enough vocal training to not sound terrible - Learn basic music theory +- <s>Record a song</s> I covered [Early Sunsets Over + Monroeville](../music/early-sunsets-over-monroeville.md) by My Chemical + Romance and wrote [This Song Will Uncure Your + Depression](../music/uncure-your-depression.md) - Start playing drums again (__drum__) - Join a rock band as bassist (dep: bass) or drummer (dep: drum) -- Go to a twenty øne piløts concert in every album cycle (dep: us-uni) -- Buy Trench (2018) on CD or cassette -- Go to an IDKHOW concert (dep: us-uni) +- Go to a twenty øne piløts concert (dep: umich) +- <s>Buy Trench (2018) on CD or cassette</s> I bought a CD! +- <s>Go to an IDKHOW concert (dep: umich)</s> Checked as of + [2024-04-05](2024-04-05.md) +- Go to a MCR concert (dep: umich) +- Go to a Green Day concert (dep: umich) - Learn to properly rap the entirety of Car Radio +- Learn to play Jesus Of Suburbia on bass +- Learn to play Paranoid Android on bass +- <s>Get more stickers</s> +- Get a few figurines or little artifacts on my desktop +- Get a hammer and a sickle to put on my wall +- Commission an artist +- Have something signed by, or take a photo with an artist I know ## University - Get a bachelor's degree in ECE -- Get a second BS and/or MS at a US university (__us-uni__) +- <s>Get offer from UMich</s> (__umich__) +- Get a bachelor's in CE at UMich +- Get a master's - Publish a paper of some sort somewhere and snail mail my friends signed copies of it -- Become head of tech dep't of student union +- <s>Become head of tech dep't of student union</s> I made it through one + year of tenure +- <s>Become TA of Intro to Comp Engr</s> I got the job and made it through + the semester! ## Engineering -- Get access to a machine shop, learn to use the lathe, milling machine, - and electric drill +- <s>Get access to a machine shop</s> There is one in uni +- <s>Use the lathe</s> +- <s>Use milling machine</s> +- <s>Use electric drill</s> - Learn to make PCBs like a professional (__pro-pcb__, dep: reflow) -- Get an oscilloscope and learn to use it -- Get a reflow oven and learn to use it (__reflow__) +- Get an oscilloscope +- <s>Learn to use an oscilloscope</s> +- <s>Learn reflow soldering (__reflow__)</s> Check out [Reflow + Workshop](../projects/reflow-workshop.md#2023-04-09-sunday) +- <s>Host a reflow soldering workshop (dep: reflow)</s> (It's finally over) - Try more embedded development - Get a PinePhone Pro and hack it -- This is gonna sound like an sponsorship but it's not. Get a Pinecil, - PineTab, PinePower, PineNote and PineBuds +- This is gonna sound like an sponsorship but it's not. Get + a <s>Pinecil</s>, PineTab, PinePower, PineNote and PineBuds - Make a submarine. Around 2 liters in volume, uncrewed (obviously) - Make my kid(s) a custom calculator to avoid those lame Casios, assuming - they'd still use those for math 20 years later (dep: kid, pro-pcb) + they'd still use those for math 20 years later (__calc__, dep: kid, + pro-pcb) - Go to my high school machine shop and help out my engineering teacher and his FRC team -- Host workshops about electronics (dep: pro-pcb) - Learn to make better 3D models - Learn to operate a 3D printer - Design a PCB namecard that is functional in at least one way - Document development of a project in a video - Use the V-USB library somewhere - Make a portable electronic musical instrument +- Make a computer keyboard do something else while looking the same +- Use an e-ink screen in a project, probably the custom calculator +- Make an elliptical reflector dish +- <s>Write some assembly</s> wrote some for EECS 370 +- <s>Try an ARM SBC</s> I just realized I have a Raspberry Pi +- <s>Try writing STM32 C</s> did some of this for EECS 373. The code style + ST uses is __terrible__ (2 spaces, line break before curly brace, + `CamelAndSnake_Case`, uppercase function names) +- Try a RISC-V SBC +- <s>Make a weird-looking USB flash drive</s> I made one out of a covid + rapid test box +- <s>Give someone something handmade as a gift</s> I gave a [blobcat + PCB](../projects/blobcat-pcb.md) to my friend +- Use an Espressif SoC on a PCB ## Computer - DIY a desktop computer, which conceivably will run Arch Linux and KDE @@ -72,14 +110,16 @@ __boldface__ and/or dependencies (dep) in parentheses where necessary. - Attend a convention of any kind - Observe a furry convention (but not participate) - Learn CW (a.k.a. morse code) -- Get a ham radio license and buy a handheld station +- <s>Get a ham radio license and buy a handheld station</s> DE BH4FXW 73 + sent from my UV-5R +- <s>Get an FCC ham radio license as well</s> KE8ZVB - Eliminate as much meat as possible from diet - Declare myself expert in at least one thing - Own a cat (probably two) - Read all books by Karl Marx - Get a semi-professional filming rig with a greenscreen and stuff - Have one or more kids (__kid__) -- Get my own credit card +- <s>Get my own credit card</s> (at least it's got my name on it) - Install solar panels somewhere - Seek revenge on that one roommate whose gaming noise keeps me up at night @@ -90,4 +130,6 @@ __boldface__ and/or dependencies (dep) in parentheses where necessary. - Co-author an IETF RFC - Get a tiny tattoo - Restuff my blåhaj -- Make something totally unrelated look like an electrolytic capacitor +- Make something that is not, but looks like an electrolytic capacitor +- Flip off a conservative +- Do standup comedy at an open mic night |