In a shameless attempt to pass this off as a real blog post so I can get more time to write, and also an illustration of how information does not necessarily lead to people trying things in real life, I present this list of things that I’ve read about in books without ever actually doing them in real life.

• Cleaning Up an Oil Spill
• Salvaging a Shipwreck
• Underwater Archaeology
• Raising Children
• Building a Chicken Coop
• Building a Little Free Library
• Building an Atomic Bomb
• Shipping Container Farming
• Bull Fighting
• Bar Fighting
• Dog Fights (Airplanes, not dogs. Except Snoopy, who really knows his way around a Sopwith Camel.)
• Arc Line Navigation (Although technically, I may have been peer pressured into going along for the ride, when everybody else on the airplane did.)
• Land Speed Trials at Bonneville
• Discovering Penicillin
• Being a Rodeo Clown
• Being President of the United States
• Being a Soviet Cosmonaut
• Being a Spy (Nationality non-committal)
• Being an Assassin
• Being a Mafia Hitman
• Being a Radio Operator
  • In respectable service to humanity
  • Bored and next to the McDonalds Drive-Thru window
• Being a mortician.
• Being a midwife