My Life Goals
Last updated 2023-01-17
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 things I want to try before I do. And when I've tried them, I cross them out.
These may be unrealistic but I don't give an imaginary shit. I might remove some if I please. I might, at one point, go "screw it" and abandon the list altogether. Future Me is unpredictable.
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)
- Get enough vocal training to not sound terrible
- Learn basic music theory
Record a songI covered Early Sunsets Over Monroeville by My Chemical Romance- 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 cassetteI bought a CD!- Go to an IDKHOW concert (dep: us-uni)
- Go to a MCR concert (dep: us-uni)
- Learn to properly rap the entirety of Car Radio
- Get more stickers
- 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)
- Publish a paper of some sort somewhere and snail mail my friends signed copies of it
Become head of tech dep't of student unionI already am since August!Become TA of Intro to Comp EngrI 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
- 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)
- Try more embedded development
- Get a PinePhone Pro and hack it
- This is gonna sound like an sponsorship but it's not. Get
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Pinecil, 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 (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
- Write some assembly
Try an ARM SBCI just realized I have a Raspberry Pi- Try writing C that runs on an ARM chip
- Try a RISC-V SBC
- Make a weird-looking USB flash drive
- Give someone something handmade as a gift
- Use an Espressif SoC on a PCB
Computer
- DIY a desktop computer, which conceivably will run Arch Linux and KDE
- Get a proper OpenWRT router at home
- Configure neovim "just the way I want" and not change it in one year
- Get a secondhand ThinkPad T420
Travel
- Visit Köln (Cologne)
- Visit the Netherlands
- Visit Shenzhen
- Visit Taipei
- Go to the beach
Miscellaneous
- 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 stationDE BH4FXW 73 sent from my UV-5R- 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
- Install solar panels somewhere
- Seek revenge on that one roommate whose gaming noise keeps me up at night
- Drink tiny amount of vodka
- Participate in a protest, verbal or physical
- Host a technical talk on a conference
- Steer employer (if any) into FOSS'ing a software project
- Co-author an IETF RFC
- Get a tiny tattoo
- Restuff my blåhaj
- Make something totally unrelated look like an electrolytic capacitor
- Flip off a conservative
- Do standup comedy at an open mic night