So, 2012 is finally fucking here! Of course I will be ringing in the new year with a few grants to submit, preparing a couple of manuscripts (if the folks in my lab get around to writing them), teaching a large undergraduate course (with the help of my chicken), and overall busy stuff. Nevertheless, I’ve made a list of things I’d like to do in the new year. Of course things like spending quality time with my wonderful family, traveling, not procrastinating, etc. are obvious, so I did not explicitly put them on the list. My list is more of a plan of side projects, and since this is the season for making lists here it is:
1. Carve wooden masks
2. Build a tree-house
3. Smoke a salmon
4. Become proficient at fingerpicking
5. Write, illustrate, print and bind a book
6. Paint something large
7. Build a brick oven
8. Begin printmaking again
9. Build a robot (virtual or otherwise)
10. Make a totem pole
11. Build a sundial
Can I do all these things? Who knows. Some might get done, some might get ignored, some might take more than a year, but at least I’ll try. Also, I figured there hasn’t been any James Brown around here for a while, and he’s got soul, and he’s superbad. So enjoy this clip, complete with some robot dancing, pre-Michael Jackson:
Take it to the Bridge 
Damn — that’s quite a list! Makes me look lazy; well, I also make myself look lazy so it really has nothing to do with your list. Given your obsession with all things robot and your recent chicken gift, I bet you’d like the show Robot Chicken 🙂 Great blog by the way!
I could add that as a goal, revive my chicken using robotic technology – he lives!
wow. that is pretty amazing. If I accomplish even ONE thing of that magnitude I’m going to call 2012 a overwhelming success. Happy New Year!