2) Add some “drama” (contest for money, competition as best of their diva-like profession, alcohol, house being foreclosed)

3) Profit??

As I’ve chronicled here before, I watch The West Wing reruns from my couch while working and because I’m usually just half listening while looking down at the laptop, I don’t fast forward through the commercials. While doing this I’m subjected to all the BravoTV commercials.

Now I miss Billy Mays yelling at me – because other than weird NuvaRing ads – the rest are messed up reality TV shows that I would never watch in a million years.

Here are some of the reality TV shows on Bravo whose ads I’ve suffered through lately:

The idea for this post came about when I was setting up this blog.  For once, I had the time and the need to build a WordPress site (we’ll be migrating our Spoken Whirred blog to WordPress and I needed a site to test with).

 Cross one of the ole geek checklist.

1. Setup a wordpress site

What’s left on my geek checklist? Let’s see (off the top of my head):

2. Build a web site / application in Ruby on Rails
3. Build a facebook application
4. Use Objective C or Cocoa (for a Mac app or iPhone) – (This one is totally unrealistic, because I’ll never have this much time)
5. Use more jQuery / AJAX
6. Help bring about the destruction of IE6.

Another wish list I have applies to more creative tasks:

1. Take a photography class
2. Learn how to use Illustrator better
3. Actually use tags on my stock photo library so I can easily refer to them.
4. Learn another movie making software (besides iMovie)
5. Actually have the time to make some movies of Gabe.

What’s on your wish list?  Would any of these apply?  Should I store this list on 37things so I can keep track of these?