Knocking Two More Off the 101 List
As with everything I do, I appear to be quite motivated by my rapidly approaching deadline for my my 101 things to do in 1001 days list. I apologize in advance that this week might be a little heavy on me blogging about such things. In today’s blog posting, I will talk about knocking *two* things off my list, so you should probably thank me for combining them instead of making them two separate blog postings. You’re welcome.
First up, #14: write something creative (e.g., a story, a script or a poem).
Dr. Dan sent me an email today reminding me that I’d written a dissertation haiku, and thus had already completed item #14. Then I reminded him that, in fact, he had written my dissertation haiku, because I suck at haiku ((Krista Lee also commented in my recent panicked 101 list update that I could write a haiku, but I sort of dismissed the thought given my sucking at writing haikus.)). But *then* I remembered that when Paul interviewed me about the Longest Game for Cystic Fibrosis for his blog, he made me write a haiku to pimp my blog. So it turns out I *have* knocked item #14 off my list! Booyah!
And, just now, I wrote this haiku:
I suck at haiku. Yes, I
really, really do.
I suck at haiku. I do.
So, yeah, I pretty much killed #14.
Second, #27: write a computer program.
When I wrote my panicked 101 list update posting, Demonweed suggested that I could do a simple:
10 PRINT “Hello world.”
20 GOTO 10
which would constitute a simple program in BASIC. I sort of dismissed the idea because when I initially wrote my list, I wanted to actually learn something about computer programming. But again, in an email exchange with Dr. Dan today ((You can see that Dr. Dan and I have very deep and significant discussions over email.)), he pointed out that I didn’t actually specify on the 101 list that it needed to be more than a 2 line program and that’s there’s nothing wrong with baby steps and I could put the writing of a more substantial computer program onto my next 101 list. How could I argue with such sound logic? I couldn’t. And thus I decided to go for it! Of course, upon deciding to go for it, I realized that I had no idea where, exactly, I would type something like the above to make it actually go. Which, of course, required another email to Dr. Dan. And Dr. Dan introduced me to R. So I have now downloaded R and “written” a computer program, which much assistance, that calculates an average and does a few other neat tricks. But I put it into R and it did stuff and I’m checking #27 off my list. W00t!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
Point 2
Traditionally, it’s 5-7-5
Not 7-5-7
So yeah, you really suck at haiku. đŸ™‚
Ha! I really should not try to write haiku very late at night (as I wrote this posting last night and scheduled it to post this morning). Although it is hilarious that I incorrectly wrote a haiku about sucking a haiku.
Or maybe I’ve just created an entirely new form of poetry – the inverted haiku!
You certainly proved with extreme elegance that you suck at haiku.
And apparently invented a new form. That rhymes. Because we all know poetry has to rhyme. đŸ˜€
Poetry that doesn’t rhyme is so pedestrian.
You don’t have a good grasp of poetry but maybe you’d be a good equestrian.
I’d certainly make a better equestrian than I do a Zoroastrian!
And here I thought you were a pastafarian.
Sucky haiku sucks;
Syllable counts were backwards.
You need more practice.
I’m pretty good at palindromes:
Rettebs if lahd no ceseht tub, ey? Yes, but the second half is better.
(I can’t claim credit for that, by the way – I read it somewhere once and it’s just stayed with me!)