heh, 72 hours... try three and a half months and then living in squats, running a squat in downtown centre for three and a half years, occupying squat as i did Pope squat with OCAP, marching in protest against homelessness to Queens park only to be beaten by police batons, media admin at Occupy Toronto, going to Washington DC, Windsor, Ottawa protesting IMF World Bank policies, organizing Food Not Bombs, Uprising Books Without Borders, Bike Pirates, Reclaim The Streets, Media Collective, setting up and running Independent Media Centres during protests in Toronto and Ottawa, founding of Idiosyntactix Strategic Arts and Sciences Alliance to address Independent and Experimental arts and Open Source, Public Domain, and Intellectual Property Freedom, doing hundreds of events, art, and activist community actions, doing pirate radio broadcasts and being shut down by the Industry Canada, doing one of the first Internet broadcasts in the city, first VOIP, first websites, first ISPs, first networks, building from ground up first Canadian commercial online broadcaster and taking it to TSX, discovering thought to be impossible new pentagon tessellation, getting on the cover of MAPS.org calendar commemorating 100th birthday of Dr. Albert Hofmann, participating in dozen years of performances and live shows with Governor General Award recipient Istvan Kantor Monty Cantsin Amen, designing Dee Dee Ramone album, Garth Hudson's exclaim ads and other old school celebrity rockers, helping to create and articulate new philosophy of Venture Communism, Incidentalist Manifestos, Peer Production License, writing my One page Bible metaphysics and painting my The Big Picture painting, creating and publishing hundreds of artworks, doing exhibits, travelling the world, living in a shack in the woods on the Manitoulin island surviving of berries and catching fish for three months, seven months in Montreal with seven shows exhibiting painting done while there, participating at almost every major festival, organizing three-days Plunderpalooza festival in 97 attended by David Bowie and Much Music, doing lots of spiritual work, healing, learning, teaching, preaching, political participation, told Dave Meslin about the condorcet method ranking ballot which resulted in creation of the RaBIT, helping my mom and family, helping friends with severe addictions/issues, building my own global community network and syndicated news wire for alternative news, debunking numerous conspiracies including in science, specially in health related and astrophysics, judging and commenting on the state of the world at large resulting in publishing numerous zines and writing hundreds of articles covering wide range of topics. meanwhile doing it all on either nothing, barter, donations, creative living with only $6,000 (for years) to $8,000 (last two years) income, cooking home and even being able to host an occasional and popular Russian pierogi parties... also filming and promoting many independent acts and artists... etc etc etc. i actually have accomplished so much that it would be a rather thick book just listing it all. i leave that for historians to figure out. now, that's the Olympic performance! toodles. :) "I had a dream last night that I was an Olympic competitor in Sochi. The event was new: Homelessness 72 hour marathon whereby one had to survive in Russia for 72 hours on the streets without the help of social services. One of the strangest nightmares I've had and one of the few I've survived." (via Trey Winney)