Second:

1. I have always wished that I had picked an instrument that I could have continued to play, peacefully and enjoyably, rather than the trumpet which no one really wants to hear being played drunkenly, late at night ;)

2. I have written in PHP and am proficient enough to not break everything when I code in it but I can’t say I’m a master. If I have to make changes to already written code I can do it fairly well. Thankfully Wordpress has enough plugins that I don’t have to bother like I did with Drupal.

3. Image editing: I suck at this. I’m glad Flickr has Picnik and that gets me where I need to go (simple cropping and color adjustments)

4. I gave up on vi and then Emacs years ago. I stick w/nano/pico because I’m a shameful geek.

5. Photography: I’m only good at taking pictures of food. Other than that, it’s hit or miss.

6. Cooking: I’m a fairly decent cook and while I’m nothing even 1* rated, I can cook well enough to make the wife happy. If it were up to her we’d be eating frozen pizza, hot dogs, and Mac and Cheese every night.

7. Linux. I’ve been running it for 15 years and can get around most issues. Some, like the recent webserver performance issues I’ve been experiencing, still get away from me.

8. Writing: I are the suck0rz.

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I’d really love to master baking. While I can cook, I can’t bake mostly because I hate following recipes. I have made bread but aside from that I leave it to my wife to spend the time with all the crap necessary for baked treats.

SAS. I work with SAS all day long at work and while I can utilize a lot it has to offer, there is still a ton to learn. One of my coworkers is a SAS god (I call him the SAS Ninja) and can really do some cool shit. Some day I want to grow up to be like him.

regular expressions. While I use them frequently and have written entire screen scraping utilities which used them extensively, I am no master. I frequently have to consult manuals and such to get simple shit to work. I’d really like to understand them and use them to their fullest extent.

Home/car repair. My father was incredible with this sort of stuff. A very technical individual with a lot of broad experience (range from programming to building a deck or installing a new bathroom). I have absolutely no ability in any of this and end up paying dearly for it.