Some things are a little wild, some things are a little tame, some are a little on the bizarre (and possibly out-of-character) side.  Some things will take a lot of work and a little luck, others will be easy to cross off.

Regardless, these are my 100 things.  What are yours?

100 things to do before I die (in no particular order) :

1.  Visit Belgium.

2.  Backpack across Europe.

3.  Get in a hockey fight.

4.  Go to a European soccer match, and sit with the rowdies.

5.  Be an extra in a movie.

6.  Work for CNN.

7.  Write a screenplay.

8.  Be free.  (Debt free, responsibility free — just free.)

9.  Spend New Years in Times Square.

10.  Be the centre of attention on a red carpet.

11.  Become “internet-famous” (even if for only 15 minutes.)

12.  Learn to skateboard.

13.  Be quoted in Time Magazine.  (Bonus points if my picture is in it!)

14.  Take the red eye from LA to New York.

15.  Launch an internet start-up

16.  Spend a month on sabbatical from the internet.

17.  Get lean.

18.  Grow a mustache (only to shave it off and never let it grow back again.)

19.  Meet Oprah.

20.  Study a non-Christian religion.

21.  Try being a vegetarian for a month.

22.  Write a song.

23.  Ski a double black diamond run at Whistler-Blackcomb.

24.  Go on a completely unplanned road trip.

25.  Be a barista at Starbucks.

26.  Visit Vietnam and Thailand.

27.  Have a long distance (500+ km) relationship.

28.  Learn to tango.

29.  Be fit enough to do the parallel bar dip.

30.  Live in Vancouver.

31.  Stay at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.

32.  Shoot, write, edit, produce a documentary.

33.  Be on a reality TV show.

34.  Treat my parents to an international vacation.

35.  Hang out backstage one-on-one with a rock hero.  (I have a few to choose from.)

36.  Unwittingly be “the other man.”

37.  Learn Japanese.

38.  Close down a small town bar.

39.  Go on stage and bomb horribly during an open mic night at a comedy club.

40.  Master snowboarding.

41.  Be stranded somewhere on Christmas.

42.  Crash a wedding.

43.  Invent something.

44.  Be caught up in a protest. (Not necessarily participating…)

45.  Go on a humanitarian mission.

46.  Grow, maintain, and harvest a garden.

47.  Be arm-candy at a black-tie event.

48.  Own at least 1 share in each of of AAPL, GOOG, and MSFT.

49.  Ghostwrite a book.

50.  Go on a LONG hike in the mountains.

51.  Serve Thanksgiving dinner at a soup kitchen.

52.  Fall asleep at my desk.

53.  Throw a huge house party.

54.  Get a tattoo.

55.  Spend a winter working at a mountain resort.

56.  Learn to surf.

57.  Storm out on a date.

58.  Learn to play the piano.

59.  Have a blog posting dugg to the front page on Digg

60.  Fast.

61.  Run a marathon (or a half marathon).

62.  Join an improv group.

63.  Tour a chocolate factory.

64.  Volunteer for a major event.

65.  Be in a boxing match… and win.

66.  Camp out at a major music festival (Bonnaroo, ACL, etc.).

67.  Go watch Saturday Night Live in person.

68.  Write a script for a TV pilot.

69.  Be storm-stayed at a truck stop overnight.

70.  Create an application for the iPhone.

71.  Have a holiday not unlike that portrayed in “Sideways”. (Minus the whole nefarious affair, and forgetting one’s pants at a woman’s house…)

72.  Solve a mystery Scooby-Doo style.

73.  Act in a Shakespearean play.

74.  See Ben Folds live in concert.

75.  Be *that* reporter during a hurricane (you know… standing outside, holding on to a garbage can, and hoping not to fly away.)

76.  Help build a Habitat for Humanity home.

77.  Be a bartender (like for real – not just at a social gathering.)

78.  Work retail one year during Christmas shopping season. (As a part-time gig… to see how people get treated.)

79.  Have dinner with the Prime Minister.

80.  Go to a geeky convention (ComicCon, CES, MacWorld).

81.  Attend a hockey game at Madison Square Garden.

82.  Learn a martial art of some sort.

83.  Write something for Wired Magazine.

84.  Be part of a broadcasting team covering a major emergency (24+ hours of continuous coverage.)

85.  Build something out of wood.

86.  Simply *attend* (not plan, organize, cover or otherwise be part of the staging of) a Hollywood VIP party.

87.  Meet Sidney Crosby. (Fitting…)

88.  Get a piercing.

89.  Go skating on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa / at Rockefeller Center in NYC.

90.  Make a scene.  In public.  Loudly.

91.  Learn yoga.

92.  Go to an old fashioned, deep south, Texas-style barbeque.

93.  Make an impromptu trip to see something I’m passionate about (a show, a band, something.)

94.  Go to a major movie festival.

95.  Acquire a taste for sushi.

96.  Try wakeboarding.

97.  Spend a day eating fast food in Los Angeles with Zsa Zsa Gabor while cruising around in a convertible. Barring that, spend a day cruising around Los Angeles in a convertible.

98.  Learn rock climbing.

99.  Own a motorcycle.  (Sorry, Mom.)

100.  Knit something (toque, scarf, or sweater.)