Vehicles

• Own a 10.x-second vehicle (GSX-R600?)
• Do a 5-20 mile commute to work on a bike for several months
• Own a super lightweight open-wheel-ish car (preferably road legal): an Ariel Atom, a Lotus 7 kit car, or possibly a kart
• Own a trials motorcycle (I don't hope to even try 1% of what the pros can do, but even that much would be a blast)

Learning

• programming language paradigms:
  • functional programming (side-effect-free routines ⇒ automatically parallelizable; Lisp macros to implement embedded one-off mini-languages, or even as self-modifying code)
  • declarative programming (learn how make works, and maybe SQL; figure out its relation to solving AI-like constraint problems, ...)
  • ?reactive programming (can this be used to make it easier to generate long-running reports, when a specific part of the report algorithm is changed?)
• specific programming techniques:
  • interactive programming, or, if that's too impractical, absorb as much of extreme programming as I can into my normal development
  • lazy evaluation + memoization (infinite data structures; as a way to explore Internet-based data that's slow to access)
  • test-driven development
• other fields
  (note: most of these are extremely unrealistic goals as initial things to study. This is intentional... working towards the light at the end of the tunnel provides me motivation to learn less clearly important prerequisites that I'd otherwise not be motivated to study)
  • signal processing (unblur, learn how most image and audio filters are implemented, tomography, beamforming, computer vision / image analysis, demodulation in software-defined radio)
  • learn more electrical engineering (SPICE, FPGA, RF, ...)
  • economics (understand Greenspan's philosophies, modern schools, international economics (particularly balance of trade, and how exchange rates work))

Arts

• piano improvisation: be able to do something more than through-composition... be able to incorporate larger song structures
  • be able to play fake book music at least (I bought a decent how-to book... play through all the exercizes there)
• Do piano drills, so that I can easily do normal scales and glissandos. I'm to the point where I can think of improv perhaps on the level of this, but can't physically accomplish it.

Sports

• be able to sustain higher than 15mph average speed for 1+ hour rides
• learn at least a few basic trials moves (trackstands, a decent bunny-hop with normal pedals, ...). Possibly get a more trials-like bike (single speed, maybe fixed gear?, ...)

Physical projects

• build a couple car/motorcycle/bike dash-top boxes... eg. bike computer, TSD odometer, GPS analyzer (eg. how much time is wasted at stop lights, how much time is wasted by other cars going below the speed limit, empirical route optimization, etc)
• build a very simple robot with unique locomotion design that allows it to potentially maneuver many places (even if it requires extensive software control to be able to actually be able to go many places... but not something that's so difficult to solve as bipedalism)