xah lee: be jobless for six years live in mountain view in decent apartments spend at least several hours a day reading wikipedia and having fun in SL have fun with lisp rest of the time
me: working my ass out for the last five years live in a shitty flat in a shithole of a shitty city have one backpack worth of possessions have a couple kilobucks of saving have two hours of (unproductive) spare time on weekdays have fun with haskell (for the last year)