100 Things Author dies at 47

[ejp626]

The story is quite sad. Far too many people have been dying too young. http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/08/2...ref=mpstoryview

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But the irony is too much to overlook. He died from a fall at home, having gotten through roughly half the things on his list.

It does make you think. I wouldn't say that I live every day like it is my last, but I do try to live everywhere like a tourist. By this I try to take full advantage of the cultural and artistic events in my city as if I were a tourist or were showing people around. I can't count the number of people who live here who are amazed to find out that X was playing or that there was a cool exhibit on Y at the museum.

Also, and more ambitiously, I have decided to change careers to one that is more meaningful to me, moving from the dreaded "consulting" into academia and becoming a professor. Not an easy transition, but I have kept a foot in both camps for a long time. I should know by the winter or early fall if I succeed.

[Quincy]

Wow, that's right up there with Jim Fixx dying while jogging.

I loathed the imitators, particularly the thrown together crapola of 1000 or 1001 albums to listen to before you die and the like. But that's not his fault.

Nothing wrong with reminding people that there are no guarantees on how long you'll be here, so go out and live life.

Btw, all the best in your career transition ejb. You carry yourself as a prof (I mean this in the best sense), though you need to work on being "absent-minded."

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Wow, that's right up there with Jim Fixx dying while jogging.

or Eule Gibbons.

[Jazzmoose]

Wow, that's right up there with Jim Fixx dying while jogging.

or Eule Gibbons.

Did he die of food poisoning from a tainted pine tree?

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Something like that. I thought it was mis-identified mushrooms.

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[ejp626]

Btw, all the best in your career transition ejb. You carry yourself as a prof (I mean this in the best sense), though you need to work on being "absent-minded."

Hey, thanks. If it goes well, I will definitely let people know. Putting the cart a bit before the horse, a professor and I have been working on a book proposal for an academic press, and there is definitely interest. That would be a pretty major thing to leverage in job interviews (which should happen this winter), that I already have a book contract with X Press.

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100 ways to Derail a Thread on an Internet Discussion Board.

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[ejp626]

Sorry. Let's try again.

1 Thing I Have Already Done Before I Died - Visited Tokyo

1 Thing I Never Expected to Do Before I Died (but Did Anyway) - Visited the Vatican Museum and saw the Sistine Chapel

1 Thing I'd Like to Do but Probably Won't - Go Hang gliding and/or Parasailing

1 Thing to Attempt Before I Die - Write a play and/or novel

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100 ways to Derail a Thread on an Internet Discussion Board.

Just a suggestion for a book proposal!

[ejp626]

100 ways to Derail a Thread on an Internet Discussion Board.

Just a suggestion for a book proposal!

Or 1001 Opening Lines for Trolls

Edited August 26, 2008 by ejp626

[7/4]

But enough about you, let's talk about me!

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