Bucket list... Is this part weird?

[dank69]

14 years old and already has a bucket list. Hopefully getting laid is number one on your list.

 

[jagec]

FTFY.

Freefall generally only lasts from 30 seconds to a minute. If you can't last any longer than that I feel sorry for your GF.

 

[sourceninja]

I must be pretty content in life. I can't think of anything I legitimately want that I don't have the means to do. I don't count a career growth as a bucket list item.

Yea, I got nothing.

 

[TridenT]

Maybe, but do you *really* want to waste 20 years of your life staring at an uncalibrated monitor? Didn't think so.

Yeah, do ya? I've already spent a lot of mine looking at one. I ain't doin' it anymore!

You know, I kinda missed TridenT threads.

Are you getting (or already) into photography or something? If its something that helps you do something you've wanted to do then I don't think its that weird. Its more about enabling that than it is about what you buy.

I'm pretty into photography and this would be a very valuable tool. I find color accuracy very important. If you've ever tried editing on a shitty display before you realize just how hard it is and how bad the result can turn out when you print it out or look at it on a much better display. I'm frequently looking at my photos on many different devices and I want to be sure that I am setting my photo to look correctly on an accurate display and that the camera profile I set in Lightroom is also accurate for the photo session.

 

[ProchargeMe]

I agree #6 is not that far fetched. Many have done it.

Agreed, my grandfather worked and retired from two jobs and saved every penny until the day he died, just short of $1,000,000. That's pretty fucking good considering he worked during some of the worst economic times of the last century. I can't be a penny pincher though so I'm screwed haha

 

[Puppies04]

Freefall generally only lasts from 30 seconds to a minute. If you can't last any longer than that I feel sorry for your GF.

Nobody said you had to stop when you opened the 'chute.

 

[CountZero]

IMO a bucket list shouldn't have 'stuff' on it per se. That isn't to say that items on your list won't require buying stuff or be stuff centric. I'm sure many gearheads would have things like 'drive a ferrari' or something similar. So if the stuff you want is to improve your photography a bucket list item might be to sell a photo or get it displayed somewhere or win a contest.

Of course it is your bucket list, if owning stuff is one of the things you want to do before you die so be it. You only get the one life and the whole idea of a bucket list is to think of those things you want to do before your life ends and while you still have a chance to do it. If you want to own a box of toothpicks from every state so be it!

 

[Broheim]

All I can say is that this guy probably wasn't married or had any kids!

no he was pretty much a hermit. I'll agree that with kids it's impossible, those little assholes are just a blackhole as far as money goes (and time and energy).

But without kids it's entirely possible, even more so if you have a wife who's just as frugal as you (two people aren't twice as expensive as one). But why horde money just for the sake of hording money and then die?

 

[LikeLinus]

Bucket list in my opinion should include experiences and accomplishments, not things.

E.g., mine includes -

1. Travel to Australia, New Zealand, The Orient (I know that's horribly vague)

2. Go to at least one stanley cup final game

3. Shoot a machinegun

4. Catch and release a bluefin tuna

5. Play golf in Ireland (already shot a hole in one)

6. Become a millionaire by 40

7. Build a brand new house

8. Befriend at least one popular celebrity and then dump them because they are not cool enough.

I've done 4 of those! Lol

 

[TwiceOver]

Hrm...

Is it sad that I don't have a "Bucket List"? I mean, I have goals and aspirations... But not a "I want to go {insert activity/location/etc}" list.

I guess I don't really care about experiences as much as the next person.

 

[Broheim]

I've done 4 of those! Lol

I've only done #3, seems like I have a little catching up to do

 

[TridenT]

Got my monitor this weekend. (Dell U2413)

Sitting it next to the monitor I've been using for 5+ years, which is a TN panel (BenQ G2400WD or something), I'm only noticing the color temperature is different. Outside of that, the colors are not blowing me away. Videos usually look worse on my new U2413 (This is partly due to using different color spaces, at first, and color temperatures). I'll say that the IPS glow is very noticeable on darker scenes in videos or in games with dark areas. It's extremely apparent and annoying. Some of the photos actually look better on my old monitor even when both monitors are in sRGB mode. This is comparing photos straight out of the camera too. I bought an i1display pro to calibrate my displays. So, any discrepancies I am seeing will, hopefully, go away when that arrives. I'm thinking that right now that everything is also just being shown with warmer imaging. It could also be that since I am using warm white fluorescent lights in my room that my old warm G2400WD display is looking better because of ambient lighting as well. It could be that the difference between the Dell's cooler (likely more accurate) color temperature is too much with the current fluorescent lights. Maybe I'll get different bulbs in the room. The screen is also crazy bright in my room above 15 brightness. (It burns out retinas bright!)

 

[KaOTiK]

Monitor calibration tool on a bucket list.

I don't even know how to process that.

 

[T9D]

Well you got everything on your bucket list. The only thing left is to die. I guess I can come over and shoot you in the face now.

 

[sdifox]

I will have a bucket list if it can allow me to live til I complete it.

 

[velillen]

Bucket lists in general are silly. If your life sucks so much that you need to add a list of accomplishments to keep it interesting then something is wrong.

*achievement unlocked: welcome to Australia!

Meh i dont consider it an "achievement" or whatever you want to call it. But rather thins id love to do. Im a Manchester United fan and I wanted to see Sir Alex, Ryan Giggs, and Paul Scholes all play. I was lucky and they actually came to Seattle and i was able to see them all play. Another thing on my "bucket list" is to go to England and see Old Trafford, White Hart Lane, Stamford Bridge, and a couple other stadiums. Same i plan to ski in Chamonix, France someday too.

I dont look and go these are bucket list things but rather just things i want to do.

 

[manlymatt83]

TridenT threads = awesome. I think some people's bucket lists are materialistic and others aren't. It depends on who you are. I read somewhere that when people have travel on their bucket list over items to buy they are happier. Who knows.

 

[TridenT]

TridenT threads = awesome. I think some people's bucket lists are materialistic and others aren't. It depends on who you are. I read somewhere that when people have travel on their bucket list over items to buy they are happier. Who knows.

Maybe those people already have the items that they want to make their everyday life decent? That's what I suspect.

It's kind of like, "Fire engines cause fires because whenever a fire engine is near there's a fire."

 

[Baked]

Shooting a video of reindeer a foot from your car with your favorite person in the whole wide world who isn't your wife sitting next to you while leaving grand canyon national park. Wait, I think that just got weird... Yes, I have videos to prove that.

 

[tcsenter]

A bucket list should have items that 20 years from now you're glad you completed, like sky diving or a threesome, not a calibration tool.

So like experiences rather than acquisitions? How about experience a calibration tool? :sneaky:

 

[WelshBloke]

So like experiences rather than acquisitions? How about experience a calibration tool? :sneaky:

I think it's more that you shouldn't be able to complete your bucket list by sitting in front of the PC and Amazon shopping.

 

[tcsenter]

I think it's more that you shouldn't be able to complete your bucket list by sitting in front of the PC and Amazon shopping.

So no booking trips or travel packages exclusively from the computer?

 

[WelshBloke]

So no booking trips or travel packages exclusively from the computer?

Depends if your bucket list has "book a trip to the pyramids" or "take a trip to the pyramids" on it I suppose.

 

[edro]

I always wanted a V6 car. Now I have one... and it is great.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

#6 and #8 sound wildly optimistic....

Re: #6 - At 36 I am 85% of the way there. Helps when one was a DINK for almost 8 years, works insanely hard at a huge law firm for 5+ years, and spends almost no money. As it stands, I could put nothing else away for retirement and retire comfortably at age 60 assuming modest (7%) returns. FWIW I'm not bragging. I sacrificed a lot to save that much money (been saving 20-30% of my income since age 18), and given the opportunity to do things differently I would not chose the career path that enabled me to save that much in the first place. Life is too short.

As for #8 - I'm only one person removed from an introduction to Christian Slater (has a summer home a few miles away and is a friend of a friend).

Regardless, go find your own bucket (list) to crap on.