Monthly Archives: December 2006

We’ve adjusted the 43 Things homepage to show goals tagged “2007 resolution” with the hopes that people will start thinking about their 2007 New Year’s resolutions. Some (like dwlt) have successfully argued that New Year’s resolutions don’t mean much if you’re already engaged in the 43 Things mindset. But I think there’s plenty of interesting reasons to set 2007 as the year you get certain goals done! I’m personally going to try and record an album in my basement in 2007. If I fail, I’ll have this post and my goal to taunt me—but that’s a great pressure to have in my opinion.

In addition to 2007 resolutions on the homepage, we’ve created a dedicated 2007 resolution homepage and some helpful pages that show you how to add a goal to your list (you’ve probably figured that out by now) and how to tag a goal. In addition, we’ve created a page with a few 43T techniques for keeping your resolutions in 2007.

With that let’s ride out these final 19 days of 2006 together by knocking a goal or two off our lists and tagging our future “2007 resolution”. Sound like a plan?

There comes a time in a person’s life when walking 10 blocks seems a bit much and taking 10 steps feels like the right amount of steps to arrive at work. And so today marks the last day that Eric Hodel (aka drbrain) will be making his daily 10 block trek to the Co-op and will instead roll out of bed and over to his new 15” MacBook Pro to begin work on an exciting project for Limewire with the ever lovin’ zenspider.

But most life changes are really just subtle shifts and Eric remains a big part of our Robot family. He lives a few blocks away near one of our not-so-favorite lunch spots and he’ll be over in my garage soon helping me attempt to fix up the old soda machine for McLeod. We miss him already, but then again we’ll see him soon and often enough.

I recall driving to Eric’s house in my brother’s ‘84 Chevy truck to deliver an offer letter and a handshake. He was excited to be getting paid to write in Ruby, walk instead of commute by bus and not wear a tie to work everyday. We were all excited to have Seattle’s premier Ruby guru hanging out with us. Today I’d like to present Eric (along with Bob) my newly invented Lifetime Robot Achievement Award for helping us get to year two and “make it up and make it happen”. We wouldn’t be where we’re at now without you. Thank you Eagle Scout!