October 2011
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Day 291: Attend a legal debate
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe the debate, which was part of an event to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Temple American Inn of Court, lasted 3 hours and 08 seconds. During the event, a British legal team battled their American counterpart in Philadelphia while debating the legality of the Declaration of Independence.
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Day 290: Have dinner with an Egyptian...
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe my dinner with Ahmed Maher, co-founder of the April 6th Youth Movement during the Egyptian revolution, lasted 55 minutes and 06 seconds. Ahmed and I were speaking about the relationship between the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street for this BBC story.
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Day 289: Speak a foreign language for an entire...
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I spoke Spanish for 23 hours and 19 minutes, which marks the time between the first word I spoke in Spanish until the last.
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Day 288: Visit West Virginia's Shenandoah Valley
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I believe I was in West Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley for 5 hours and 55 minutes.
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Day 287: Make a newspaper boat
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe it took 08 minutes and 11 seconds to make a newspaper boat. Unfortunately, the image of my newspaper boat was accidentally deleted from my phone. It certainly did not look as good as the one above.
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Day 286: Attend a worldwide protest
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I spent 2 hours and 31 minutes at the Occupy Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park in New York City.
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Day 285: Teach a dog a second language
My parents, who live in Pennsylvania in the house where I grew up, have been furiously learning Spanish from a local university.
Arriving in my hometown, partly delirious from a week spent reporting on the road, my mother pulled me aside and said: “Watch this.” She called the dog, a curiously disobedient beast named Oliver Roberto Twist, to her side and said, “Mucho gusto,...
Day 284: Hike the Appalachian trail
REMEMBERED TIME
I estimate that I hiked the Appalachian Trail for 2 hours and 19 minutes.
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Day 283: Interview an idol
At the impressionable age of 18, I first watched the 2001 Frontline television documentary The Merchants of Cool, an hour-long piece that peeled back the walls on the ways marketers were targeting teenagers during that time.
The doc, which attempted to explain the ways “the machine” was hooking teenagers on such heart-palpatating stars as Limp Bizkit and Britney Spears, features...
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Day 282: Ride a motor-powered skateboard
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I rode the electric-powered skateboard up and down a street in Washington DC for 1 minute and 58 seconds.
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Day 281: Be given a tour of Ikea by a Swede
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe we toured Idea for 2 hours and 33 minutes. (Swede pictured above.)
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Day 280: Call a prostitute
The oddest part about this task is that I called while en route to meet my girlfriend. “Dream”, whose number I pulled from a flyer, put me on hold for several minutes before telling me that if I wasn’t serious about the call, I shouldn’t be bothering her.
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe the entire call lasted 4 minutes and 39 seconds.
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Day 279: Host a work party
I held a party at Sign of the Whale in Washington, DC, where about 20 of my journalist co-workers showed up. The party was interrupted about 20 minutes after everyone arrived with the news of Steve Jobs’ death. I stayed, while everyone else left.
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I stayed at the party for 1 hour and 54 minutes.
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Day 278: Receive a palm reading from a 'psychic'
If it worked for Britain’s Defense Ministry…
A report declassified in late February 2007 under the UK’s Freedom of Information Act revealed that Britain’s Ministry of Defence had been testing psychics. Continue reading…
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe it took 13 minutes and 11 seconds to have my palm read.
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Day 277: Operate a 3-D printer
For more information on 3-D printers, check a recent BBC report I did on the changing face of invention.
REMEMBERED TIME
I estimate that it took 1 hour and 22 minutes to start up a 3-D printer and print out a pair of pliers at MakerBot headquarters in Brooklyn.
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Day 276: Show a foreigner around town
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I showed a Swede around New York City for 23 hours and 08 minutes.
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Day 275: Pose as a paparazzi
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I snapped photos of strangers for 1 hour and 09 minutes.
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Day 274: Welcome international arrivals
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I believe I welcomed international arrivals at the Dulles International Airport for 1 hour and 33 minutes.
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Day 273: Prompt and host an impromptu rap battle
REMEMBERED TIME
I prompted and hosted an impromptu rap battle between small-time DC rapper Disposable Love and patrons of the Velvet Lounge in Washington DC for roughly 2 hours and 09 minutes (off and on).
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Day 272: Toiletpaper a bar
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe a friend and I toiletpapered the DC9 bar (pictured above un-toiletpapered) in Washington DC for 2 minutes and 54 seconds.
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