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31 October 2007
What's the next thing you want to learn?→[More:]In the very short term, I want to learn the "Soulja Boy" dance.
Very short term? "Medium difficulty" on Guitar Hero II.
Slightly longer term? How to get better long-exposure shots with my Holga camera.
I've got several technical things I'm about to have to learn for my job in the next few months that aren't nearly as much fun, and some are sort of annoying.
Welding, Spanish, how to pilot a river boat, rifle marksmanship, engine mechanics, trapping, skinning and curing hides, butchery, European history (late antiquity), Farsi, how to snowboard, hydroponic botany, Latin, Greek, luthiery, breadmaking, field surgery.
I'm working on getting my NYC tour guide's license.
How to shoot a gun. How to speak another language fluently. How to fix my car. That's the real biggy. I would love to be able to at least know that I'm not being scammed when I take my car to the mechanic.
I am taking a class on the intersection between biodiversity, conservation efforts and poverty in the developing world. Very interesting stuff, and I hope to one day take this knowledge and apply it back in Brazil, where all three elements are of the utmost important, and urgently require attention.
1. How to draw better.
2. How to make Turkish pleats
3. How to make decent pie crust.
4. How to paint wooden furniture without it looking like shite.
5. The timing and science of using produce before it goes bad.
Really good cooking.
German (properly, to the point of fluency, and that will require living somewhere where they speak it).
How to fix my house when it breaks.
How to walk again in heels.
How to build a brick oven from scratch to put in my yard so I can bake pizza and bread and veggie stromboli in it.
The art of lure making for surf fishing.
Art history.
For starters: snowboarding, stick shift, guitar, bass, mandolin, small scale lost wax casting, Flash, taekwondo, lace knitting from a chart without forgetting which row I'm on.
How to field-strip and reassemble the US Rifle, Caliber .30, M-1 (a/k/a "the Garand").
(Ready for some unintended irony? I acquired the rifle the same day as the final hearing for my divorce. Had some good chuckles over beers on that one...)
tr33hggr: Pick up Julie Sahni's "Classic Indian Cooking" and "Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking". They're the only two Indian cookbooks you need. Seriously.
The timing and science of using produce before it goes bad
Amen, sistah!
How to cook Indian good (well, and authentic).
I was just discussing this with the mister. My biggest challenge is that I'm just about certain that I currently own none of the spices required to do this correctly.
I want to learn how to sew so I can make the cute, simple clothes that seem to cost a billion dollars.
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