These are all the skills I want to learn and practice over the next year. Please comment in new ones to add and I’ll learn them and post the resources for you to learn them too. All ideas welcome.
How to tie knots (DS)
How to test your soil (FL)
How to make a stove out of a coke can (JG)
How to set a bone (JG)
How to tie and throw a lasso (JG)
How to stitch up an open wound (JZ, thanks for the creepy one, brother)
How to distill spirits (whiskey, gin, pernod) (NC)
How to play petanc (NC)
How to make (blood) sausage (NC)
How to speak French (KM)
How to Bake the dank bread (KM)
How to build a greenhouse (LQ)
How to walk on a high-wire (KM, thanks, this one is going to scare the crap out of me)
How to cure meat
How to make a shelter in the snow
How to make wine
How to hunt deer
How to write HTML
How to trap
How to tan hides
How to sew tanned hides
How to build a bar on my back patio using the leftover wood from my broken IKEA bed
Also, how to build a greenhouse!
how to make dank bread
how to speak french
how to walk on a high wire
this guy is up your alley :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit
careful when you cure the meat, thats the reason why the boy from into the wild died, didnt cure his meat the right way and it rotted…..
I’m back in SF in less than 2 weeks. I’ll show you how to bake the dankest armenian bread the easy way. While it’s baking, we can admire my homemade leather board bag.
how to make blood sausage
how to play petanc
how to make whiskey/gin/vodka/pernod
how to stitch up an open wound
1. how to make a stove out of a coke can (i can show you the way)
2. how to roll a joint
3. how to set a bone
4. how to hypnotize someone
5. how to hotwire a car
6. how to tie and throw a lasso
7. how to invent your own energy recovery ventilator…..wait…. check
[...] of my mad skills I”m going after is how to bake the dank bread. By this I mean anything that I would like to [...]
how to test your soil (without the Cornell Ag School)
how to set up a crop rotation system and/or how to companion plant (or what exactly is permaculture in practice?)
a. How to hypnotize a Chicken
b. How to speak Russian
c. How to Sleepwalk
d. How to be friend with a Nerd
e. How to track an Aardvark
f. How to build a Shotsky
g. How to Chuck Norris
so a page search revealed that you all are missing one of the most vital links. Knot tying. link. get it? I should make that hypertext to wikipedia.
so rope knots and fishing knots.
“He who masters the knot masters the world” – SaveDungarian
Avoid stitching open wounds by using butterflies whenever possible.
all about teas. what can be easily grown, how to turn leaves into tea leaves, what teas benefit what and specific to you, what teas would be most beneficial?