Things that make me happy
Everyone out to make a list like this. The more things that you can add, the happier you'll be. In fact, I recommend that you look on the bright side of everything. I guess I just an eternal Optimist. Actually, I'm at times optimistic to the point of recklessness. For example, I might wander outside in a T-shirt on the off-chance that it will be warm. I figure then I can enjoy the heat, and besides, I like T-shirts and shorts better anyway. I also figure that if I'm cold, I'll learn the valuable lesson to check the weather before going outside, and I'll become a better person by learning to endure hardship. I bet 98% of the world's problems are things that can be psychologically solved in this fashion. Notice that this is a superficial list--I'm not including the most important things in life, such as other people or religion.

If you've been here before, the newest stuff is at the bottom. If you've already read the last few, I haven't updated it.

Sporks
Food
Sleep
Peppermint Patties
Computers
Cool Shadows
Chex Mix
Mathematical proofs
Origami
Polyhedron
Joking that benign things are evil
Bad jokes
Snyder of Hannover's Buttermilk pieces
Penguins that are so fat they are Pubbly
Saying things like "Pants Schmants"
Trance and Ambient music
Really soft pillows
Cooking--on occasion
Cleaning--on occasion
Funny movies
Deep dish pizza
Doodling
Sculpture
Laughing for any reason
Laughing for no good reason
Hiking
Randomness
Mountains
Monty Python (especially the Holy Grail)
Morbid humor
Austin Powers
Hard-boiled eggs
The legend of Zelda games
The Lord of the Rings movie
Harry Potter-the books
Castle Legos
Fantasy novels
Sleeping in
Trying to juggle five balls
Card tricks
Star Wars, especially Episode II
Devil sticks
Holding doors open for people that are perfectly capable of opening them alone
Introducing my self like so: "There are some who call me.... Tim?"
Saying "Like so"
Using Legos to make working machines (Like for my lego robotics class)
The works of M. C. Escher
Playing chess and moving forward a whole lot of pawns for no apparent reason
Evil laughs
Sneaking up behind people
Computer mouses--especially optical mouses
Archetectural design
Black, especially as a background for websites and posters.
White Castle "hamburgers"
Warcraft III
Blue
Random knowledge
Programing graphing calculators
Amethyst
Dungeons and Dragons
Morrowind
Wheel of Time books
Silver--the color
Altoids, especially cinnamon
Extremely blue cloudless skies
Jumping in piles of leaves
Those root beer barrel candies
Sunsets
T-shirts and shorts
Tunneling in snowdrifts
The aurora borealis
Cross-country skiing
Downhill skiing
Starry skies
Fall foliage
Performing hockey stops to spray snow on people when skiing
Using Legos to make hidden rooms
Trance music
Search engines
Rhyming dictionaries
Anagram servers
Thesauruses
Ambient music
This website
This list
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
James K. Polk
Bad imitations of French laughter
White rice
Snow forts
Funny away messages
Sandals
Woodrow Wilson
Noodles
Backpacking
Beaches
Lying down in big feilds of grass
After the rest of my art class says things like "That part seems disconected from the rest of the piece by that solid line," saying things like "It looks like that shoe is about to ambush the other."
Snowball fights
Teddy Roosevelt
Chinese food
Climbing walls
Swimming
British words like "Lift" and "Loo"
Swords
Mexican food
Ice water
Battle scenes in books
Dave Barry, especially his book "Big Trouble"
Speaking spanish in an outrageous accent
Ethiopian food
Clouds with recognizable shapes
Spelling things the British way: "armour"
Lemonade
Flowers from out west
Sand between my toes
Fencing
Saying "Bebbe" and "Mebbe" instead of "baby" and "maybe"
Making fun of people that aren't fat but still complain about their weight
Classical music
Lord of the Flies
Soccer
Abbreviating "Have a nice day" as HAND
Cattails
Frisbees
Geysers and mudpots
Drawing connections between unrelated things
Mocking Pride and Predjudice
Microphones, for speaking and recording
Whistling
Stupid human tricks
Bicycling
Walking fast
Working outside
Plants growing in the cracks of rocks and side walks
Composing bad poetry off the top of my head.
Floppy disks
Writing things as their mirror image
To intentionally split infinitives
Political humour
The word "spoodle" (Two meanings--spoon/ladle or cocker spaniel/poodle)
Australian accents
To type"hehehehehehehehehehehehehe"
The postal service
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Smooth and steep ski slopes
Smileys--especially :-D and ;-)
Backwards smileys (-: C-: (-8
"The invisible book of invisibility" from Harry Potter
The letters "T," "A," "N" and "P"
Hand written letters (Not thank you notes)--on occasion
The number 37 (also 13, 7 and 17)
Math contests
Trick questions
Dried blowfish
"All your base are belong to us" and "What you say!"
Head phones
Adding "..........of EVIL!" to stuff
Snoozing
Logic Puzzles
Root beer
Thick blankets
Paradoxes
Thomas Edison
Word squares
The Nutcracker Suite--especially Russian Dance and Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy
Working in bed
Mirrors arranged so that you see tons of reflections
Sacajewea golden dollars
Impossible objects
Juggling soccer balls (i.e. how many times can you hit it up before it hits the ground)
Lewis Carroll
Buddy icons
Sprite
Flipping coins
Reflecting light with a mirror
Camping
Paper airplanes
Problem solving
Topology
Euchre
Making bets that have the odds against me--that way I can impress people if I win. Example--pick any card--I bet it's the jack of clubs.
Dice
Whitewater rafting
Hanging things from the ceiling
Contour maps
The card games spit and speed
Being easily amused
Brainstorming
Orienteering
Trying to think at four in the morning
Card houses
Probability
Items that refer to themselves (such as number 199)
Realizing that I'm 40% of the way to 500 things
Freshly-baked chocolate-chip cookies
The Back to the Future series
Being able to tell people that I have no idea what certain bands and actors are. I really don't follow that.
Opening both doors when I come to double doors--especially when they open outward
Arm chairs (They make me feel powerful)
Drumming my fingers
Ketchup
Making guesses about what will happen at the end of movies and being right so that I can 1) accuse the movie of being predictable or 2) impress people
Reading the ingredients on various foods
Chairs that lean back
Tabasco sauce
Picking things up with my feet
Soy sauce
Chairs that roll
Trying to convince people to make important decisions by flipping a coin. Then, if they feel uncomfortable with the result, point out that they must've really wanted the other thing in the first place
Chairs that spin
Pointing out typos in ads and mailings
Catching things in my mouth
Chairs that go up and down
Dry erase markers
Camp fires
Eggs
Carry things for people that could just as easily carry it themselves
Dragons
Drawing two-point perspectives on a computer
Wood-burning stoves
Looking at language that created programs and trying to figure out what it means
Curling a paperback book (such as a workbook) that is of no further use and writing on the part you open (opposite the spine), then curling it the other way and writing something else. That way only one thing shows at a time.
Making up games as I go along
The game "mafia"
Hypnotism shows
Looking at cliffs
Watching fires die down
Warm fuzzy blankets
Folding candy wrappers
Figuring out how to stop computers from being annoying (such as getting rid of the rounded corners on Windows XP)
Duct tape
Watching people do crazy mad juggling tricks
Creating role playing games
Throwing smoothie ingredients in a blender and seeing if it comes out alright
Candlelight dinners. It sets a mood for the meal, but it really is a pretty simple concept. It doubles a meals fanciness.
Scrambling up big boulders and non-treacherous cliffs
Splatter painting
Strobe lights
Writing in code and seeing if people understand
Scaring people at Halloween
Bobbing for apples
The "It's not rocket-science" approach to cooking--making stuff up, random substitutions, and trying recipes before being surre that I have all the ingredients
Black lights
Carving ridiculous pumpkins
Loud music late at night or early in the morning if I can get away with it
Assualting people with socks (especially
Free Clip Art websites
Having thumbs
Soda dispensing machines
Reading outside
Relish
Exclamations marks by themselves
Looking stuff up on the internet using Google
Pretzels
High quality ice cream
Animals
Bouncy balls
Packets of hot sauce
Painting (on occasion)
Moldable erasers
Linking paperclips
Shade
Clay
Pacman
Maps in fantasy novels
Dropping things down stairwells
Chains of rubberbands
Sticky tabs
Bending paperclips out of shape
Folding geometric oragami designs
Othello-the game
Mongolian Grill restaurants where you pick the ingredients and they cook them for you
Doing front handsprings, especially in the snow
Comics--especially Zits and Dilbert
Salior's handcuffs-the knot
Jumping on beds
Sheet bend--the knot
Figuring out just how they fold the napkins in restaurants
Vault-type dismounts off parallel bars and doing stuff like that over other things
Counting in binary using up and down and each finger as a digit--seeing how long it takes to get to 1111111111 (or 1023 in decimal notaton)
Cathedral--the game
Puzzles about rearranging matchsticks
Being buried in the sand and trying to get out and doing the same to others
Rolling hula hoops
Ice water
Jumping low fences
Inventing knots and braids
Pillow fights
Big trampolines--especially
Tying people up and seeing if they can get out and getting tied up myself (Not that way you sick people. I like knots)
Knots that disappear when you pull on the ends
Skip-Bo--the card game
Alpine butterfly--the knot
Microwaves
Adding "age" to words, such as "sleepage" and "funnage" ("age" like "baggage," not like "Stone Age")
Looking in a certain direction just to see if others will look there too.
Doing cartwheels
Non-mechanical pencils
M. C. Escher
Saying that "food" and "good" should rhyme
Guy Fawkes Day
Chains of rubber bands
Origami chickens
Typographacal Number Theory and Propositional Calculus (sick, isn't it?)
Drowning my salads in dressing
Adding "ish" to words, such as "five minuteish" and "goodish"
Orgami lilies
Chains of paperclips
Lincoln logs
Composing good poetry (on occasion)
Snow angels
Origami insects
Eating with my fingers
Modular origami
Tinker toys
Walking fast
Balance beams
Sewing (on occasion)
Finding an untouched feild of snow, admiring it, then putting designs in the middle of it
Pull-up bars
Slouching in chairs
Chair lifts
Talking in random accents
Blow pops--those suckers with gum in the middle
Saying things twice or more (such as saying "hello hello hello!" when there are three people)
The alt-tab feature
Harmless practical jokes
Trying to think of ways to answer questions like "Does this outfit make make me look fat?" without lying or getting into trouble. (This is not an invitation to ask me those questions)
Visualizations of songs on windows media player
Clever anagrams, such as "dirty room" and "dormitory" or maybe "desperation" and "a rope ends it"
Gemstones, especially amythest
Clever rhyme schemes
Making cute little animals out of Fimo clay
Mario Smash Brothers--especially Link
Bismuth, the mineral (I think that's what it's called)
Proofs using language and math (like "A crust of bread is better than nothing, and nothing is better than true love. Therefore, by the transitive property, a crust of bread is better than true love.")
Questions with no answer at first glance ("Have you stopped beating your wife?" or "Will your next word be 'no'")
Making fun of Shakespeare, such as pointing out the number of people that die in King Lear (Reagan, Goneril, Cornelia, Lear, Cornwall, Gloucester, Edmund, that messenger, possibly the fool, Kent I think plans to kill himself, and maybe a jailor, not to mention at least one gaurd. Edgar, Paris and Albany live. I think that's it)
Complaining that my life doesn't have enough to complain about
Rhymes that work really well, like "statistician" and "superstition"
Jigsaw puzzles (especially those with about 500 pieces and an easy picture to work with.
Dressing up (Unless I have to do it more than once a year ;-) )
Using allusions to Monty Python and having people catch them
Using magnets for "anti gravity"
Drumming my fingers
Pull-ups
Climbing on playground equipment, especially in unorthodox ways
Making it look like people said something they didn't in AIM
Words like "Tiz-night" and "Sniz-nack"
Hamsters in hamster balls
The Spanish word "Llamamos" (pronounced "Ya MOM ose,")
Coins spinning down those funnels in the science museums
Photomosaic pictures
Inside jokes that I'm in on
Making unorthodoxically carved pumpkins, then calling then "concept pumpkins"
Pushing magnets around with similar poles
Refrigerators
Getting people to say "How'd you do that?" after I correctly predict that the coin will land on heads. I garuntee you all that this is not an uncommon occurance.
Big pendulums
The Spanish word "Trabajaba" (pronounced "trah bah hah bah")
Those heat sensitive tiles that are black when cold, red, then green and finally blue when hot. They look cool.
Making fun of the kind of art that gets names like "white triangle."
Freezing random things
Picking up paperclips with magnets
Playing with matches (in safe confines, such as the middle of a driveway or in a fire pit)
Timing things with a stop watch
The Japaenese "luck coin" in my wallet. It's called a Goen. I tell people "Let's flip a Goin" and pull it out, claiming the sides are "wheat" and "feet."
Playing with shaker cups
watching marbles roll over things like bowls
Playing with melted wax while a candle is still burning. I can break pieces off and balance them above the flame. It's like a sculpture that melts as it's made.
Spinning around wieghts on strings, especially things like buckets of water
Spray paint
Testing my reaction time by pressing start and stop quickly on a stopwatch.
Juggling odd things
Tearing apart plastic and paper disposable cups into aesthetically pleasing designs
running up the wall (literally) and seeing how high I can go
Finding words that contain other words (Optimism contains Tim)
Blowing out candles
Air hockey
Weird, green tinted skies
Combination locks
Good climbing trees
Pin-art--those metal things that you put your hand on and the pins shape around it
Gödel Escher Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter
Words such as "Lead," "Read," "Wind," and "Polish," that can be prounced in more than one way.
Pointing out when people use to many exclaimation points in their writing.
Foosball (or however it's spelled)
The word "typo"

Learning things like 12345679*3=37373737 and 3*37373737=111111111 and 3*111111111=333333333 and 333333333*3=999999999
Whirlpools as stuff goes down a drain
Cool looking tables on websites (like this one)
Cool fonts
Driving down roads and hiking down paths just to see where they lead.
Seeing how long I can keep an idiot grin on my face.
Pitching kids in swimming pools
Twiddling my thumbs
Jets and bubbles in hot tubs
The word "Twiddle"
Lying on the bottom of pools
Mouse wheels
Doing handstands under water
Attempting hand stands out of water.
Making block mazes for animals to run through
Seeing how far I can swim under water with one breath (actually, I'm pretty good at this)
Watching praying mantises
Crashing through waves
Drawing mazes
Body surfing
Scorpions (from a distance)
Dunking people, if I know they won't mind terribly
Corn and hedge mazes
Diving to catch things in pools even when it is unnecesary
Jaguars
Snorkeling
Fake leopard-skin blankets
Princess Bride
Juggling the "Box" pattern
The way the wind blows freshly fallen snow across the ground
Making a lot of blank cells on this table and challenging myself to fill them all.
walking around bare foot
Playing Gladiator, the juggling game
weaving my hands and fingers into odd shapes
Making fun of chickflicks
Finding numbers that spell something when they are typed into calculator and turned over, such as 0.7734, 35007, and 53045.618
Disco balls
Rack and pinion gears
The way that ice encases tree branches
Jell-o
Listening to trance music as I make this website on headphones
Always choosing my white socks and ignoring my black ones as much as possible
Clever rhymes, like "spaghetti" and "machete"
"Shower," the juggling pattern
Dwarf hamsters
Making up games and applying game theory to them
Smiling and seeing other people smile.
Big plates of nachos
That joke with the punchline "Nacho cheese" (Not your cheese)
Pranks that aren't harmful but are still large scale
Swinging on stair's handrails to avoid touching any stairs
Dancing--on occasion
Putting one foot on either wall and chasing people.
Mixing odd food combinations and trying them out
i.e. and etc.
Learning about the side of the issue I don't normally learn about.
Vaulting over bannisters
Walking around things hanging from the ceiling while keeping my eyes on them.
Late nights for little reason
Goldeneye, the N64 game, especcially the RCP 90
Realizing that if I seperate two things on this list by several lines that people may not realize that I typed them one right after the other.
Recreational debating
Overly large ice cream sundaes
Coining slang words and attempting to get people to say them
Old skool NES games
The queuing function on realtime strategy
Meat-lovers pizza
Digital cameras
Printing random things off
The N64. It seems that there really is little point in terms of game quality for having a more powerful system. Once you have 3D capability, any game worth doing is likely possible on the N64, just with worse graphics. Graphics aren't really essential. (although a link to the net might be nice)
Compiementing people. This is great fun because I generally bust out laughing. I'm an honest guy, so I clearly the compliments are genuine, but the funny part is that they end to have no idea because I'm laughing. That is, I laugh because I laugh, but they think I laugh because I lie.
Super Mario Smash Brothers, especially Link and his downthrust
Trying to see who knows more jokes--me or someone else. I pick up valuable tidbits like "Looks like we're in for a bad spell of wether".
Plastic hamster balls with hamsters in them
The phrase "old skool"
The smilies :-D and ;-)
Eloquent entries to the happy list
Wearing devil horns (I lost mine)
Mario Kart 64
Smilie dictionaries which are ridiculously overlarge
The phrase "bust out laughing"
LAN games
Using my stopwatch to time things
Multi-course meals, self enforced
Trebuchets from Age of Empires II
Attempting to create new smilies, like >}:-{)> even though someone else probably made it first.
Exercise wheels
Shadow puppets
Skeaking in front of people that think I'm behind them or vice versa
Seige tanks from Starcraft and Starcraft in general
Straw hats
Flattening boxes, scanning them, printing them in black and white, then reassembling them
Spelling "old school as old skool"
Reversing the direction my head points in bed everyonce in a while
The find command
Words with four vowels in a row, like "aqueous," "queue", and "Hawaiian"
Sunlight
Longbowman from Age of Empires II
Complaining when corporations spell their names wrong
Realtime strategy
Pointing out impossibilities and improbabilities in movies
"Tennis" the juggling pattern
Knowing keyboard shortcuts for computer commands, like knowing that control + F3 bring up the properties window in Dreamweaver.
Spelling "Late night" as "late nite"
Hawaiian shirts
Lying on my back and looking at the sky or the stars
Leaving random notes on whiteboards
Geo-mags, or whatever those things are called
Scissors that cut really well
Logical everyday problems--like how to attach two things strongly together with the resources in my dorm.
Experimenting with multiple ways to do something, even if the odds are good that the first way was best anyway
Making Swedish hearts (Those woven heart-basket things you see around Valentine's Day)
Brightly colored bowling balls
conspiring and sneaking around, especially to do something beneficial to others
Staples that have left the stapler but aren't bent out of shape and that aren't supposed to be stuck in some paper
Trying to see how high of a level I can beat at Tetris
Aggressive expansionism in realtime strategy
Folding paper at random, and seeing if it turns into anything (I usually try for animals but give up and make flowers instead)
The control+c and control+v shortcut, as well as the copy and paste function
Using chalkboard erasers to make patterns on a chalkboard--such as bricks
Toothpick and marshmellow constructions
Random people I don't know that IM me to tal (These people are really odd).
Bowling (even though I'm no good)
Trying to make my HTML site look like my Dreamweaver site
Eating a healthy breakfast, if I can get up to do it
Canadian money, if it has a beaver on it (beavers are hilarious on coins)
Trying to photograph myself by holding a camera at arms length
Counterstrike, if I get a chance to play
Obnoxious blinking text for no particular reason
Trying to get tetrises only in Tetris
Bowling shoes--enjoyably ugly
Fortune cookies with nonsensical fortunes
Making fun of faulty advertising
Those Ziggy "Giving blood makes you feel good all over" stickers
Trying to get fortunes out of fortune cookies without breaking them
Throwing small bits of food into the air and trying to catch it in my mouth
Walking in a building covered with snow and brushing it all off
Attempting to move things with nothing but the power of my mind (no luck)
Playing with salt and pepper that has been spilled on the table
Attempting to communicate telepathically (no luck)
Factoring numbers that consist entirely of nines, i.e. 999999=3*3*3*7*11*13*37
The Mission Impossible theme song (my favorite song)
Giving people (perhaps sickeningly) optimistic advice
The Muppets, especially the song "Mahna Mahna"
My last name
Bad on-the-spot puns on one topic over and over and over and over again
Trying to make crossword puzzles
Hanging humorous signs anonymously for people to find
Being tall
Big numbers that factor into primes that are 13 and below
Offering to do things for people, and leaving to do them before they can say "You don't have to do that."
Teaching people to juggle
The James Bond theme song
Abusing my height by trying to physically intimidate people that know me well enough to know that I wouldn't actually hurt them. This works well with about two other tall people, standing really close to them and snapping in unison.
Factoring polynomials
Skipping for the joy of it
Hand whistling
Snapping
Skipping with one foot and running with the other (Nobody I know can beat me in this sort of race)
The Phantom of the Opera main theme
Miniature staplers
Playing "keep up the baloon"
Tearing the little feed strips of that old dot matrix printer paper
Those post-it notes that come in spirals
The Klutz book Kid's Shenanigans
Cadbury creme eggs
Giving things up for Lent
Trying to make "weightlessness" by adding small loads to helium balloons.
Setting up curious challenges for myself and attmpting to complete them.
The game "King of the Mountain"
Spontaneously complimenting people
Typing commands in Konsole commands (and feeling knowlegeable)
Occasional cynicism, (such as the Demotivational series)
Wearing dark clothes and hiding in shadows at night to see if people notice
Discovering that someone has pulled off a prank that I would've done had I thought of it first
Xiao Xiao and other insanely cool stick fights (especially number three and number seven). The choreography is amazing (though also senselessly violent).
The Matrix
Thinking up something hilarious and laughing at it even when I'm walking somewhere alone
Drawing fractals by hand
Sausage, especially in patties
The interrobang (mostly because it's so random and less because it's actually cool)
Exploring unfamiliar buildings
Typing humorous comments to people reading over my shoulder
Colored lights
Top-down programming
The chain rule from calculus
Doodling stars with non-standard numbers of points (Seven, eight and ten are my favorite).
Well done explosions in movies. I know they don't add to the plot, but some of them are quite cool.
Corn and rice Chex
Drawing fractals by computer
Light sabers
Perfect numbers (All of the factors less than that number add to the number itself--1+2+3=6 or 1+2+4+7+14=28)
Spiral staircases
Hearing or using the following quote "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
Charcoal (for art)
Defining procedures in pretty much any programming language. It really is a very clever concept.
Factorials (N factorial is written N! and means all the numbers up to N multiplied together. 5!=1*2*3*4*5=120)
Words meaning Satan or demon (because the all seem to sound cool)
Lucky Charms, both because they taste good and because the marshmellows are so easy to make fun of.
Modular math
Those really scientific looking DNA models
Attempting to draw curved, three dimensional surfaces on paper.
Adding explanitory notes to some items on this list (I hope I've no insulted your intelligence) but leaving others unexplained intentionally.
Not pausing at what seems the end of a sentence and not reversing the meaning....................unless I feel like it!
The phrases "neato burrito" and "neato mosquito"
Grabbing breakfast in the fifteen minutes between classes
Trying to stop a stopwatch at exactly one second
Sausage patties
Knocking over weeds on a fourwheeler
The phase "cool beans"
Challanging myself to pointless activities
The notion of scalar fields and vector fields
Ukrainian egg dyeing
Indiglo
Garlic Bread
Shag carpet (because it's hilarious)
Yawning
Semi-serious conpiracy theories
Spare pockets on cargo pants (good for juggling balls)
My keychain
Andes mints
Peeps in the microwave
Using wire for crafts and repair
khaki pants
Sunglasses (mostly when I wear them)
Having and expressing opinions
Wearing all black
Sweat shirts (when it's cold)
Jelly beans (especially Jelly Bellies--not because of flavor, but because of the creativity that went into their marketing.
Ball pits
The shapes gemstones are cut into
Juggling hacky sacks
The phrase "Def'nit'ly a fan"
Scotch tape (not as cool as duct tape, but very useful still)`
Having well over six hundred items up here

After making this list, I found that the above things would make me even happier, just because I've specifically listed them. I suggest you make a list as well. Really. What's odd is that even if I only found one new thing I liked per day (a large underestimation, I bet), I still don't have 10% of what I should here. I will admit that it is getting harder to think of things, but I'm managing.

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