What have you achieved in 2017?

I'm not so happy about this year:

- lost almost 40 pounds of weight 'cuz korea made me fat
- wrote a lengthy paper on south koreas corruption problem
- somehow kept up my relationship even tho I was gone for 8 months
- built up a small online presence
- went to rome and the italian countryside
- had the best time in vietnam
- moved in with my girlfriend
- found a job that's fun
- finished all my exams, will hopefully get my bachelor's degree in february

I could make a list with a million things I didn't do this year :lol: I have high expectations for 2k18, I better not disappoint
 
Very frustrating. 2017 look all to similar to the Great Recession years.
 
I got Civ2 MGE to run on windows 8 x64, and started making Civ 2 units....again.
 
Leifmk said:
Man, if not for modern medicine, so very many of us would be widowers because of various pregnancy-related issues. (And back a few generations ago that's how it used to be.)
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Crazy to think about it. 100 years ago my wife and child would probably both have died, first one was twisted some way and had an emergency c section. Second one was a planned c section.
 
Kyriakos said:
...vasectomy....

Is it so common to have one in the US? I think it is pretty rare overall in the west (and likely a lot rarer in Saudi Arabia :lol: )
Still, horrible and i read it is a brutal experience.
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I had mine at 45. The experience was a bit odd, but simple and painless. Men should get them.
 
Got my best scores in Civ wins at Emperor level as Australia on ludicrous size
Ynamp maps.

Paper titled "Application of potential flow methods to fast displacement ships
at transcritical speeds in shallow water" accepted by the journal "Applied Ocean
Research".

Calculated (exact) lift slope coefficient of circular wings: 1.79002303645...,
which is 3 decimal places better than Lockheed-Martin ever managed.
Finally understood flow at wingtips of circular planform wings, and abandoned
hope of achieving 100 decimal places in calculations by the end of year.
 
New accomplishments in the last 4 weeks:

- I hiked to Everest Basecamp
- I crossed the 5450m Cho La pass on foot, through ice and snow
- First time using crampons (for the above)
- I climbed 3 mountains above 5,000m: Kala Patthar (5643m) , Gokyo Ri (5357m), and Nangkartshang Peak (5100m)
- I probably ate Yak cheese
- I gave up meat and alcohol for 2 weeks
- I learned how to effectively poop while crouching
- I got to know 2 of my friends much better (in a purely platonic dimension)
- I improved my haggling skills
- I learned how to effectively cross a street in busy city with no street lights
 
warpus said:
New accomplishments in the last 4 weeks:

- I hiked to Everest Basecamp
- I crossed the 5450m Cho La pass on foot, through ice and snow
- First time using crampons (for the above)
- I climbed 3 mountains above 5,000m: Kala Patthar (5643m) , Gokyo Ri (5357m), and Nangkartshang Peak (5100m)
- I probably ate Yak cheese
- I gave up meat and alcohol for 2 weeks
- I learned how to effectively poop while crouching
- I got to know 2 of my friends much better (in a purely platonic dimension)
- I improved my haggling skills
- I learned how to effectively cross a street in busy city with no street lights
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Awesome stuff Warpus. Everest Base Camp!!! How many miles did you walk to get there? Pooping while crouching is always a useful skill.
 
Hmm, seems I pulled myself out of a depressive phase (which might be just a new cycle), reconnected with some old friends, changed my diet and lost weight/gained some muscle, got a new job (although I'll ditch it as soon as something better is on the horizon), finished a few chapters the SF novel I've been "writing" for years, made some progress at learning to program (not as much as I'd like to, still stuck at Java and the very basics of C++), had a lot more sexual intercourse than in past years, and I think I stopped smoking (how long do you have to not smoke until you can say you quit?).

The last one doesn't really count since I also started smoking in 2017.
 
Not that much, as usual. Twist my arm for a summary I'd say..

-minor educational advancements, as in a couple of math exams
-got a few gigs as a horseback trek tourist guide, hopefully more to come next summer
-obtained access to some geese and duck hunting areas. So I tried that for the first time, more to come next season
-health wise this year was a step up from last year, which is something I guess
-got some various new gear I really like (x-country and AT ski-boots, carbon ski poles, jacket, two backpacks and a new rifle)
-saved a little money but I'll do better next year
 
Birdjaguar said:
Awesome stuff Warpus. Everest Base Camp!!! How many miles did you walk to get there? Pooping while crouching is always a useful skill.
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The whole trail we hiked is supposed to be 160km, but I don't think that includes 2 accclimatization days (on which we climb mountains and then descend, to trigger our body to produce more red blood cells, among other things. It gets you ready for the next couple days of hiking)

We hiked the classic EBT to get to basecamp, which is probably around 60-80km in each direction. I will do a complete analysis of the route once I have some free time. It takes 8 days, since you can't just keep going at your own pace, and have to get your body used to the high altitudes along the way. Every day of hiking feels like a challenge even though the distance does not seem to be that crazy. Most of the time you're just thinking about the next step and that's it, you get in a groove, and even if you don't feel like you have any energy left, you just put up your left foot, then right, and after many hours of this you're at your next milestone.

Usually people descend back the same way they came, but we thought that'd be boring, so we returned via a slightly different way. So after 2 intense days of hiking (basecamp day, kala patthar day (you climb it for amazing views of Everest) we opted to cross the fabled Cho La pass. Which was also quite an intense day of hiking. The next day we hiked overtop a glacier (the largest in Nepal and possibly the largest in the Himalayas) and climbed Gokyo Ri, the last intense day of the whole hike. All that just to see the beautiful lakes of Gokyo and to hike back a different way than we came, adding 2 days to the journey.

By day 14 we were back in Lukla, where the hike started, and on day 15 we flew back to Kathmandu. I would estimate we covered about 170km total, but this number could be closer to 160km.. or possibly higher as well. It's hard to say, I'm still pretty jetlagged (just flew back saturday morning). I'm still basically running in Nepal time and still not quite used to modern Canadian society what with all the toilet paper and car lanes that people stick to

My thoughts are still a bit jumbled, but hopefully that answers your question
 
-Got a job and a paid internship (but wound up only working my job 5-10 hours/week over the summer)
-Spent a night in Chicago by myself
-Become less socially awkward
-Learned some Matlab, Latex, and Python, but nothing too advanced
-Learned to swing dance
Also I sort of have my own car when I'm back in North Carolina now, which is nice.
I still don't have a girlfriend, but I'm only 19, and there's always next year.
 
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