Wanna Feel Like a Loser?

[Garr]

http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/

This was mine for the age of 30.

At age 30:

Mark Twain published his first short story, "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog."

Danish novelist Hans Christian Andersen published his book of fairy tales.

Nat Turner led a slave rebellion.

U.S. mariner Moses Rogers made the first ocean steamboat voyage.

Donald Trump persuaded bankers to lend him $80 million so he could buy the Commodore Hotel.

Samuel Morse's assistant, Alfred Lewis Vail, devised Morse code.

Physicist Armand H. L. Fizeau measured the speed of light.

Dr. Narinder Kapany invented fiber optics and designed a glass gastroscope which can be snaked down the throat for a detailed view of the stomach.

Hank Williams overdosed on drugs and alcohol.

Bill Gates was the first person ever to become a billionaire by age 30.

Earl Vickers started the Dollar Project, in which dollar bills were rubber-stamped as being lost, with a reward offered for their safe return.

[sevesd93]

At age 23:

John Singleton directed his first film, "Boyz 'N the Hood."

T. S. Eliot wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

John Keats wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn," which ends with the lines, "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. "

English poet Jane Taylor wrote "Twinkle, twinkle, little star."

Margaret Mead traveled to the South Seas as part of a "giant rescue operation" to study primative cultures before they perished.

Russian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz made a spectacular concert debut when, impatient with the conductor's slow pace, he ran away from the conductor's tempo and finished Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 several bars ahead of time.

Novelist, playwright, and short-story writer Carson McCullers wrote her acclaimed first book, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Truman Capote published his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Orson Welles produced and performed his "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, terrifying millions of people. He also got his face on the cover of Time Magazine.

Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Masters.

Francois-Louis Cailler manufactured the world's first eating chocolate to be commercially produced.

By age 23 Marieanne McKeown survived cancer, raised £5,000 for Sri Lankan orphans and spent five weeks taking care of them in Sri Lanka.

[iadwts4l]

23 is the most depressing one.

[Sankofa]

Samuel Morse's assistant, Alfred Lewis Vail, devised Morse code.

Things like this make me want to have an assistant.

"You do the work, I'll get the credit. Now go get my Asakusa's takeout."

[beck]

I might just volunteer my services for that one Steven.

[Garr]

Yeah, that's American pride. Taking someone else's hard work and claiming it as your own! Capitalism Wow!

[Sankofa]

I might just volunteer my services for that one Steven.

Get over that cold, get back from MN with 2 shirts and then we can hit Asakusa.

[Garr]

speaking of shirts. . .

i will send the pmt for mine soon.

[iadwts4l]

Samuel Morse's assistant, Alfred Lewis Vail, devised Morse code.

Same with Pavlov and classical conditioning.

[Garr]

Now you have me intrigued. Please provide some references. My brief (and by brief, I mean VERY brief) search yielded no results regarding any contest of Pavlov's work.

I'd love to read more about this claim.

[flapjacks]

at age 15, I invented a new way of eating a Reese's peanut butter cup.

[sevesd93]

at age 15, I invented a new way of eating a Reese's peanut butter cup.