tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51615072024-03-13T13:44:02.760-06:00matt's 101 in 1001so it beginsmatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-17265182111910137782008-12-21T11:23:00.007-07:002008-12-21T12:21:40.085-07:00#14 Watch the Indiana Jones filmsStatus: WatchedMy attention to this list has reached even higher levels of slackness. Though if there was one image I wanted to leave languishing at the top of my blog, it's the Baconator.Either way, it's probably inexcusable that I haven't updated this task, which was completed by the time Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released.Perhaps it's because they were ridiculouslymatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-8429788169864905202008-11-06T22:25:00.006-07:002008-11-08T09:55:00.199-07:00#50 Eat vegetarian for a monthStatus: No-Meat November is underwayIt's on. No meat for 30 days. That's 720 hours. That's 43,200 minutes. No bacon, no chicken, no turkey, no hulking steak, cooked medium-well ... a mouth-watering eight ounce slab of meat that falls off the bone. And, most definitely and most damningly, no Baconator, a burger to which no adjectives do justice. It's Day 6, and I have the shakes. It might be due matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-56318360023554255122008-10-18T17:29:00.006-06:002008-10-18T18:17:12.019-06:00#81 Visit the Edmonton Corn MazeStatus: Maize maze completed (What? Too corny?)If you're thinking I'm padding this list out with cool things I've done that weren't particularly challenging or life-altering experiences, you'd be right. Well done. Want a medal?Last night we headed out to the Edmonton Corn Maze (location: just west of the middle of nowhere) to rummage about in some maize for a couple of hours. As an Australian whomatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-3413832511486254782008-10-18T16:24:00.005-06:002008-10-18T18:19:10.381-06:00#75 Watch Tim Burton's entire filmographyStatus: Ashamed at just how far behind I am in updating this listIt's a bit appalling, actually - I've completed quite a few of the tasks on my list, but simply can't be freaked updating this blog. Fortunately, that hasn't been a task in itself yet, so I'm excused.Anyway, is there a filmmaker more inspired and twisted than Tim Burton? Probably. But I'm a curmudgeonly old filmgoer who's rather matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-58410269296539353952008-09-20T12:26:00.007-06:002008-09-20T12:53:49.337-06:00#39 Read Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found ThereStatus: I'm late, I'm late, for a very important update!How can you not adore a book with passages like this?"I see nobody on the road," said Alice."I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at the distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!"All this was lost on Alice, who was still looking intently along matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-1169214974700866612008-09-20T12:11:00.002-06:002008-09-20T12:21:23.883-06:00#78 Try 10 new beersStatus: Forgetful (but not due to alcohol consumption)Forgot another Vegas beer - and one worth mentioning - in my first update...5. Bud Light LimeOrigin: America.Site of consumption: The Treasure Island pool area.Refreshingly unpretentious description from official website: "Bud Light Lime is a premium light beer that combines the superior drinkability of Bud Light with a splash of 100% natural matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-48298497478675814832008-09-18T20:31:00.003-06:002008-09-18T20:43:22.909-06:00#11 Return to LondonStatus: London-bound!After plenty of faffing about, I finally got around to booking my flights to London, despite some highway robbery (flyway robbery?) on the part of Air Canada's fare system.Nevertheless, it's a mere 10 days until I return to ol' Blighty! (And 11 days before I'm sucking away at a Magners like a baby with its bottle.)matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-18341919348365086642008-09-11T18:31:00.010-06:002008-09-20T12:19:25.901-06:00#78 Try 10 new beersStatus: Not an alcoholic......but at this rate, I will be. I just realised this is the third alcohol-related task on this (still incomplete) list. Moreover, it's a new addition and I'm whizzing through the 10 beers. And I'm not even a big fan of beer! But this list is all about branching out (and procrastinating when there are more important things I should be doing, like booking my flights to matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-378619032228344512008-08-25T21:56:00.010-06:002008-09-11T20:00:15.845-06:00#39 Read Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found ThereStatus: In a child-like state"I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards." — Lewis CarrollI'll say! A perpetually late White Rabbit, a disappearing cat, a lecturing mouse, a race-organising Dodo, a gardening lizard, a gigantic puppy, a caterpillar who takes insult when people point out his size, Fish- and Frog-Footmen, an ugly matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-78628023764056573842008-08-06T18:50:00.004-06:002008-08-06T22:05:40.846-06:00#76 Try haggisStatus: Not disgustedI expected to knock this one on the head when I returned to the UK (#11 for those of you playing along at home), but was offered the opportunity to sample this Scottish cuisine at Fort Edmonton Park's Highland Gathering.If anyone's culturally ignorant, Wikipedia offers the following list of typical ingredients:Sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-84553926402337156852008-08-02T10:29:00.010-06:002008-08-02T17:34:42.772-06:00#28 Buy and read Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly EverythingStatus: LearnedWell, I didn't buy it – it was a birthday present from Jackie – but Bill Bryson's brief yet thorough guide to the universe is an extraordinary read.The subject matter remains suitably intellectual, but Bryson handles it with such deftness and profundity that reading about 13 billion years of history becomes hugely enjoyable – and very funny.Bryson relates countless mind-blowing matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-14612155713776256222008-07-12T20:13:00.011-06:002008-11-17T05:17:31.295-07:00#20 Buy a new pair of shoesStatus: The proud owner of a pair of blue ConsAs evidenced by this photo of me standing 191 metres above ground atop the Calgary Tower last weekend.matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-80570332355846575542008-07-12T19:31:00.005-06:002008-07-12T20:41:23.438-06:00#41 Find Magners Irish Cider outside of the UKStatus: InebriatedNot really, but I do love that word.Anyway, I know I completed this in Australia, but I also managed to find this delicious beverage in Canada!The problem is, I can only find it at a restaurant called India Grill, which has a huge selection of imported beers. It also has a range of food so spicy it's like eating a huge bowl of glowing, red embers and washing it down with a nicematthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-39127318929288613182008-06-25T21:49:00.013-06:002008-11-17T05:17:31.430-07:00#12 Have something publishedStatus: PublishedI originally intended for this to mean an article or some other piece of writing, but I'm pretty chuffed I now get published on a regular basis in the form of advertisements I create for work.I'll be taking a course on Adobe InDesign next month so I can learn the proper way to put these things together. In the meantime, they're designed rather crudely, but the end result matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-69026721726856729722008-06-07T15:01:00.007-06:002008-11-17T05:17:31.633-07:00#68 Buy a laptopStatus: All Macced out"I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui." — Charlie BrookerThe wonderful Charlie Brooker -matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-4302070944780781242008-04-13T14:00:00.009-06:002008-06-07T15:55:06.718-06:00#74 Get a new job... in CanadaStatus: Alive... and employed!Dear readers,I know, I know, it's been eons since my last update. But given Brady seems to have put his career-building PhD over this frivolous web-based to-do list, I think I can get away with a 40-day absence. Especially as this is due, in most part, to the fact I'm no longer dining on the stale breadcrumbs left lying around my kitchen. That's right: I have a matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-25191848932123617422008-03-06T21:37:00.002-07:002008-03-06T21:40:34.995-07:00#58 Build a snowmanStatus: MourningIt is my very sad duty to report the untimely passing of Oscar the Snowman. He was found decapitated early Monday morning.Oscar lived a fulfilling life, which was tragically cut short this week. Well loved among humans and bunnies alike, Oscar braved sub-zero temperatures in the name of his profession: snowman.He is survived by a handful of stones and a carrot.matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-40228517266013002472008-03-01T19:30:00.018-07:002008-11-17T05:17:31.822-07:00#58 Build a snowmanStatus: Snow complete!A Guide to Building a Snowman(Australian Edition)Step 1: Find snow. Contrary to popular (Jackie's) belief, this does exist in Australia. Next, roll the snow into balls too large to lift, push or move anywhere.Step 2: In spite of Step 1, place slightly smaller ball on top of slightly larger ball, ensuring your estimates of "smaller" and "larger" are accurate (as not shown matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-72472395479075635802008-02-27T21:47:00.003-07:002008-02-27T22:17:46.961-07:00#35 Complete 10 random acts of kindnessStatus: Exceedingly helpfulOn my ultimately (partly) disappointing trip to Calgary (I didn't get the job, for those of you left in suspense by my previous post), I did get to take the exceptionally classy Red Arrow bus there and back (all expenses paid).I've been in airplanes that were less comfortable than this bus-cum-limousine; leather seats, free drinks and snacks, wireless Internet (I know Imatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-30548343187043899562008-02-27T21:46:00.000-07:002008-11-17T05:17:32.115-07:00#73 Visit five major Canadian citiesStatus: Four left! Actually, no. I left one. Calgary. Pardon the initial mixed metaphor.Canada is a big country. Like, freaking huge. The walk to my local supermarket, for instance, is seven blocks. Talk about a trek! At least, it seems like it when you're lugging a week's worth of groceries.Still, as exotic as Safeway is (the cereal aisle is a particular highlight - would you believe matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-21943676919179429542008-02-06T15:11:00.000-07:002008-02-07T11:31:20.339-07:00#35 Complete 10 random acts of kindnessStatus: Three down, seven to goPicked up a double whammy yesterday.First, while drinking a delicious Second Cup Butter Pecan Latté (hold the pretension), I noticed a man in a wheelchair dropped what appeared to be some sort of back scratcher. Ever the kindhearted chap, I scooped it up and with a tip of my top hat, returned it to its rightful owner.After leaving there, we headed to Safeway, our matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-69896055051088780192008-01-30T14:34:00.000-07:002008-11-17T05:17:32.361-07:00#27 Buy a new mobile phoneStatus: More frustrated than that time I saw Bodie laugh at the Meet The Spartans trailerNew from Samsung - the sleek, sexy, seriously infuriating M300. For an exorbitant amount, you can snap up this cellular swiz, complete with a host of utterly dissatisfying features:pre-emptive SMS feature that completely freezes your phone, effectively pre-empting you from typing anythingsmooth, stylish fontsmatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-78136900613294909912008-01-30T12:48:00.000-07:002008-11-17T05:17:32.523-07:00#66 See the Northern LightsStatus: NevermindDespite, a possible faint sighting on my final night in Flin Flon, this task remains incomplete.I did, however, recently see The Golden Compass, an adaptation of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. Does that count? No? Wasn't even worth trying, was it?matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-25238715454454471702008-01-14T12:43:00.000-07:002008-11-17T05:17:32.640-07:00#69 Try eggnogStatus: I came, I poured, I got stonkeredWell, not really. But the rum sure does take the edge of what is essentially, er, egg in a glass.Surprisingly delicious. matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161507.post-60190457372303753522008-01-14T12:27:00.000-07:002008-11-17T05:17:32.846-07:00#18 Find accommodation in CanadaStatus: ShelteredHaving confirmed on Christmas day that Bodie and I had a Canadian home (how's that for a present!), we both moved in last week.Just off-campus, the house is walking distance to Jackie's place, the University transit centre and Whyte Avenue. The only downside is it is the most static electricity-charged place on Earth.(For those who to flood me with gifts, my new address is on matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14278937989210865645noreply@blogger.com2