Teitur in 2008

2008, so far, is 96% worth living.

In 2005, Teitur did 14 things, went 126 places, met 7 people, and consumed 280 products.

Years: 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Get a black belt in Karaoke
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. buy an original piece of art — Worth doing!
  2. build a fort in my living room — Worth doing!
  3. Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn around
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. listen to metal daily as preparation for Finland =)
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. La Sagrada Família — Worth visiting!
  2. La Rambla — Worth visiting!
  3. The Cathedral's Cloister — Worth visiting!
  4. Ciutat Vella — Worth visiting!
  5. Monument A Colom — Worth visiting!
  6. Plaça Reial — Worth visiting!
  7. Port Vell — Worth visiting!
  8. Sants — Worth visiting!
  9. Sants-Montjuïc — Worth visiting!
  10. Naryan-Mar — Worth visiting!
  11. The Cathedral's Roof — Worth visiting!
  12. Napoleon's tomb — Worth visiting!
  13. Musée De L'Armée — Worth visiting!
  14. Kaffibrennslan — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. The Last Samurai (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  2. Evil Dead (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Daddy Daycare
  4. The Simpsons Movie (Widescreen)
  5. The Simpsons Movie (Full Screen Edition)
Consumed:
  1. Durian — Not worth consuming
  2. cucumber — Worth consuming!
  3. flax seeds
  4. nutritional yeast
  5. fennel
  6. Carambola
  7. Kumquat
  8. Lavender — Worth consuming!
  9. mint sauce
  10. gingerbread cookies — Worth consuming!
  11. Gambrinus (Czech Rep) — Worth consuming!
  12. Krusovice Imperial — Worth consuming!
  13. Bitburger Pils
  14. Guinness Original (Ireland)
  15. Guinness Extra Foreign Stout (Ireland)

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. draw more
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. organize my Europe trip
  2. experiment with charcoal. — Worth doing!
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Egilshöll — visited about 1 month later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Grafarvogur — Worth visiting!
  2. Smáralind Mall — Worth visiting!
  3. Sirkus — Worth visiting!
  4. Nesstofusafn — Worth visiting!
  5. Scandinavia — Worth visiting!
  6. Grafarvogskirkja — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. A World History of Architecture — Worth consuming!
  2. Kometen kommer — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Slanted & Enchanted — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Midnight Cowboy — Worth consuming!
  2. The Apartment — Worth consuming!
  3. Some Like It Hot (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Philadelphia Story — Worth consuming!
  5. Blade - Trinity (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  6. Spawn - The Director's Cut (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  7. Constantine (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Man on Fire — Worth consuming!
  9. Batman Forever — Worth consuming!
  10. Batman & Robin — Worth consuming!
  11. The Great Escape — Worth consuming!
  12. Network — Worth consuming!
  13. Patton — Worth consuming!
  14. Blade II (New Line Platinum Series) — Worth consuming!
  15. Road to Perdition (Widescreen Edition)
Consumed:
  1. Rice (arroz blanco) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl

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March

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Župné Námestie — Worth visiting!
  2. Staré Mesto — Worth visiting!
  3. Natural History Museum Of Kópavogur — Worth visiting!
  4. Kópavogur Public Library — Worth visiting!
  5. Ásinn — Worth visiting!
  6. Árbær — Worth visiting!
  7. Ísafjörður — Worth visiting!
  8. Elliðaárdalur — Worth visiting!
  9. Breiðholtslaug — Worth visiting!
  10. Breiðholt — Worth visiting!
  11. Sundlaug Kópavogs — Worth visiting!
  12. Vesturbæjarlaug Swimming Pool — Worth visiting!
  13. Lágafellslaug — Worth visiting!
  14. Varmárlaug
  15. Mosfellsbær
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Barack Obama
  2. Boris Vasilievich Spassky — met about 1 month later
  3. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir — met 2 months later
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Björk Guðmundsdóttir
  2. William Lombardy
  3. Vlastimil Hort
Read:
  1. Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles) — Worth consuming!
  2. Blood and Gold — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  2. The Remains of the Day (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. High Society — Not worth consuming
  4. The Name of the Rose
  5. The Blue Angel — Worth consuming!
  6. sex, lies, and videotape — Worth consuming!
  7. Irma La Douce
  8. Girl With a Pearl Earring — Worth consuming!
  9. F for Fake - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  10. Shall We Dance? (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  11. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town — Worth consuming!
  12. Queen of the Damned (Widescreen Edition)
  13. Vampire Hunter D — Worth consuming!
  14. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widesceen) — Not worth consuming
  15. Nightmare Alley

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April

Added to 43 Things:
  1. Explain to people that we have nothing to do in space until we've been to the oceans
  2. Sketch more
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. drink less coffee — Worth doing!
  2. Eat less meat
  3. Be aware of yourself speaking — Worth doing!
  4. jump in puddles — Worth doing!
  5. Believe in the existence of a smell — Worth doing!
  6. wish everyone happy holidays — Worth doing!
  7. have a normal sleeping schedule — Worth doing!
  8. excavate an archeological site — Worth doing!
  9. do more art
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Porvoo — Worth visiting!
  2. Barents Sea — Worth visiting!
  3. Clouds — Worth visiting!
  4. Studio Umbra — Worth visiting!
  5. Grafarvogslaug — Worth visiting!
  6. Egilshöll — Worth visiting!
  7. The Culture House — Worth visiting!
Added to "wants to meet" list on 43 People:
  1. Norman Foster
  2. Richard Dawkins
  3. Amory Lovins
  4. Dean Kamen
  5. Ray Kurzweil
  6. David Attenborough
  7. James Howard Kunstler
  8. Howard Rheingold
  9. Paolo Soleri
  10. Edward O Wilson
  11. Aubrey De Grey
  12. Jaime Lerner
  13. Eric Drexler
  14. Richard Register
  15. Steven Holl
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Sigur Rós
  2. Boris Vasilievich Spassky
Read:
  1. Laxdaela Saga (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Saga of Grettir the Strong (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. Laxdaela Saga — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  2. 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  3. The Bicycle Thief — Worth consuming!
  4. Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red) — Worth consuming!
  5. A Streetcar Named Desire (Original Director's Version)
  6. The Graduate (Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Breathless — Worth consuming!
  8. Persona — Worth consuming!
  9. Red (Three Colors Trilogy) — Worth consuming!
  10. White (Three Colors Trilogy) — Worth consuming!
  11. La Dolce Vita (Deluxe Collector's Edition)
  12. Blue (Three Colors Trilogy) — Worth consuming!
  13. The Day the Earth Stood Still — Worth consuming!
  14. Hercules (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
  15. Once Upon a Time in the West — Worth consuming!

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May

Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Explain to people that we have nothing to do in space until we've been to the oceans
Added to 43 Places:
  1. Bremen — visited 2 months later
  2. Lübeck — visited 2 months later
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. 101 Gallery — Worth visiting!
  2. Reykjavik Energy Building — Worth visiting!
  3. The World's First Hydrogen Fuel Station — Worth visiting!
  4. Bad Taste — Worth visiting!
  5. Kirsuberjatréð — Worth visiting!
  6. The Dwarf Gallery — Worth visiting!
  7. Mokka — Worth visiting!
  8. NASA — Worth visiting!
  9. Súfistinn
  10. Garðatorg
  11. Jómfrúin — Worth visiting!
  12. 107 — Worth visiting!
  13. Kaffitár Café - Þjóðminjasafn — Worth visiting!
  14. The National Photography Museum Of Iceland — Worth visiting!
  15. The Making Of A Nation — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Player's Handbook: Core Rulebook I (Dungeons & Dragons, Edition 3.5) — Worth consuming!
  2. Dungeon Master's Guide: Core Rulebook II (Dungeon & Dragons, Edition 3.5) — Worth consuming!
  3. Monster Manual: Core Rulebook III (Dungeons & Dragons, Edition 3.5) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Before Sunset — Worth consuming!
  2. Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection
  3. Fanny and Alexander (The Theatrical Version) - Criterion Collection
  4. Metropolis — Worth consuming!
  5. Airplane! — Not worth consuming
  6. Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection — Worth consuming!
  7. The African Queen
  8. Faust — Worth consuming!
  9. Airplane! (Special Collector's Edition) — Not worth consuming
  10. The 39 Steps — Worth consuming!
  11. Harvey — Worth consuming!
  12. Gigi — Worth consuming!
  13. Un Chien Andalou — Worth consuming!
  14. Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or — Worth consuming!
  15. Out of Sight (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Amelie

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June

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Kringlan Shopping Mall — Not worth visiting
  2. Reykjavik Botanical Gardens — Not worth visiting
  3. Hallgrímskirkja — Worth visiting!
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Read:
  1. Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Copper Beeches — Not worth consuming
  2. The Carpet People — Worth consuming!
  3. The Red-Headed League (Creative Short Stories)
  4. The Adventure of the Dancing Men
  5. Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism — Worth consuming!
  6. The Devil's Novice: The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael (Cadfael Chronicles) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Virgin in the Ice (Cadfael Chronicles: 6) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Odin's Raven Magic — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Barry Lyndon — Worth consuming!
  2. Carrie (Special Edition)
  3. Carrie
  4. Before the Fall
  5. Shooter (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. Grindhouse Presents Death Proof
  7. Barry Lyndon (Rmst Amar)
  8. The Bourne Ultimatum
  9. Prisoner of Shark Island (The Ford at Fox Collection)
Consumed:
  1. Quinoa — Worth consuming!
  2. Amaranth — Worth consuming!
  3. Fireside Chai — Worth consuming!
  4. Grand Green — Worth consuming!
  5. honey lemon gingsen green tea — Worth consuming!
  6. espresso — Worth consuming!
  7. Raspberry Earl Grey — Worth consuming!
  8. Café Mocha — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Carrie

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July

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Heimaey — Worth visiting!
  2. Darmstadt
  3. Iceland — Worth visiting!
  4. Naantali
  5. Varsinais-Suomi
Marked as "met" on 43 People:
  1. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Read:
  1. The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1) — Worth consuming!
  2. Interview With the Vampire — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Band of Brothers — Worth consuming!
  2. Battlestar Galactica (2003 Miniseries) — Worth consuming!
  3. Jeeves & Wooster: Complete Series (8pc) — Worth consuming!
  4. Farscape - The Complete First Season — Not worth consuming
  5. Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete First Season — Worth consuming!
  6. Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Second Season — Worth consuming!
  7. Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Third Season — Worth consuming!
  8. Werner - Beinhart! — Worth consuming!
  9. Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set — Worth consuming!
  10. Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Fourth Season — Worth consuming!
  11. Wanted — Not worth consuming
  12. Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem (Unrated Edition) — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Mythbusters — Worth consuming!

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August

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Deutsches Architekturmuseum — Worth visiting!
  2. Euro Statue
  3. The Saga Museum
  4. Dresden — Worth visiting!
  5. The Zwinger — Worth visiting!
  6. Frauenkirche — Worth visiting!
  7. Neustadt — Worth visiting!
  8. Thüringen
  9. Sachsen — Worth visiting!
  10. Bremen — Worth visiting!
  11. Town Hall & Roland of Bremen — Worth visiting!
  12. Hamburg — Worth visiting!
  13. Main Railway Station
  14. Speicherstadt — Worth visiting!
  15. Altstadt — Worth visiting!
Watched:
  1. Underworld (Unrated Extended Cut) — Worth consuming!
  2. Cabaret — Worth consuming!
  3. Down Periscope — Worth consuming!
  4. Marathon Man — Worth consuming!
  5. The Wild One
  6. Underworld - Evolution (Widescreen Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Ultraviolet (Unrated, Extended Cut) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Queen — Worth consuming!
  9. Darjeeling Limited, The (dir. Wes Anderson) — Worth consuming!
  10. Ratatouille — Worth consuming!
  11. Stardust (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. The Sarah Connor Chronicles — Worth consuming!
  13. Gabriel — Worth consuming!
  14. Postal — Worth consuming!

→ See more from August


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