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Roadblocks: Most books don't exist in ebook form, I don't have an ebook reader, printed books cannot be ripped to disk as easily as CD's and DVD's. I have sentimental attachments to too many items. It seems wasteful to throw away valuable items, but selling them is a hassle.
Roadblocks: Human nature. But grace overcomes that.
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carry my child If they're a woman, they're a lesbian. I'm pretty sure men can't bear children.
As common wisdom goes, children are created through an act by one male and one female human, and subsequently carry about 50% of each partner's core DNA and 100% of the female partner's mitochondrial DNA. As a result, neither egocentrical males nor lesbians can bear children by themselves, even though artificial insemination and foster mothers may make it easy to live in the illusion that it's a possibility. (Or were…
So lesbians can certainly bear children by themselves, but men, the vast majority of which have no wombs, cannot.
Citation: #3 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bear
And while you may consider yourself witty, I feel I must point out that in the context in which I was using it, "to carry" a child refers to the state of being pregnant with it. Citation: #6 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/carry Yet again, something the wombless may have trouble with.
I'm not sure that it's my most interesting, but I want to someday make robotic fireflies. I'm about to leave the East Coast to go to Stanford, and I don't want to live in a firefly-free world. I thought about trying to import them and have them breed, but apparently most species like humidity and standing water, which the Bay Area isn't too long on. I'm also not sure if they could find stuff to eat out West. So robot…
Would you be willing to give up the complexity of the original organism for the function you enjoy? Basically they hover there and emit a soft pulse. To get this functionality we might not need all of the extra crap in firefly anatomy, just a rough approximation.
"All we need" is to create some hovering device (a tiny helicopter) affixed to a tiny LED with an oscillating dimmer. We can make a big one first affixed to a wire and then start miniaturizing it.
If you want to try this out I'm down to help out. I miss fireflies so bad :/ Side note: I know jack shit about robotics but this sounds like a fun way to learn.
I want to toboggan/sled in Antarctica. I don't see it happening any time soon, but I should probably go for it while I'm still young and limber.
$10k/mo passive income
It takes like 5-10M in capital to make 10k/mo "safely" on a long term basis now, which rules out an investment-only strategy for almost everybody.
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At the risk of discouraging you, have a look at the applicant profiles people post up on some of the grad school forum sites. In general, I have to say I have seen very little evidence of longshot admissions. The people who get in to MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley CS (et al) almost invariably have a stellar transcripts & scores, platinum refs, research experience, and very frequently a few papers and an NSF or NDSEG to…
All good advice (up voted), but I really am swinging for the fences here. I don't want a masters or PhD at a lesser school . Doing quite well without one. "I see it all the time that people get hung up on gaining admission to the best schools. Why Stanford? " I am not "hung up" on it in the sense that if I don't get in that is quite all right. I have zero ego attached to any academic credentials. As you rightly point…
Publish a book (like on dead trees). The biggest roadblock for me so far is just having time to execute on it. I have friends who have published books through ORA, so I'm not too concerned about getting proper introductions to people in the tech publishing world; I just don't know if I have the time to sit down and bang out 200 pages of quality material.
Have you read Stephen King's "On Writing"? The first half is a mixed bag, some good and bad. The second half has some excellent, practical advice in it. Highly recommended. > I just don't know if I have the time to sit down and bang out 200 pages of quality material. You can write two pages a day in the morning before work, no problem, very doable. Do that for three months. BAM, book is done. Don't think about the 20…
That said, I certainly get your point. Thanks for the encouragement.