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Geek Culture / What are your hobbies... besides programming?

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Dextro
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 03:38
One of my hobbies is microscopy.
Got several jars in my bedroom full of colonies of different protozoa and fungi, and of course lots of bottles with dyes.
Whats your hobby?
Megaton Cat
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 03:47
I roll twenties in my spare time.

Steam Assassin
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 03:52
I enjoy big game hunting. Not really. I really enjoy um...well...uh...food?

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Kaurotu
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 04:07
World of Warcraft, Dungeons and Dragons(can't beat classic), and a little 3D here and there.

Xander
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 04:46 Edited at: 27th Nov 2006 05:24
Disc golf (frisbee golf)
Ultimate frisbee (kind of like soccer and american football mixed and played with a frisbee)
Bboying (breakdancing...)
Pool (billiards, whatever)
Playing Need for Speed
Playing RTS games (C&C, LOTR, Star Wars EAW)

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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 04:53
My latest new hobby is CNC building. I just finished my first router table, and even routed a few signs/designs with it. Unfortunately, I zapped out the Z-Axis controllor on its driver board, so I'm waiting for it to get repaired so I can have it back in use again. It's great fun (except when you ruin something).

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Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 05:30
Texas Hold'em Poker. I just won $200 on Saturday in a poker tournament.


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 06:23
Video gaming, Ebay, and bowling mainly. A bit of computer repair on the side.

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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 06:38
Picking up after the daily disaster area my kids create. Have gotten really good at supergluing things back together, and as a referee Mills Lane has nothing on me.

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Kevin Picone
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indi
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 07:47
illustration
photography
weight training
finding uses for old computers, working on a home automation system.

Saikoro
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 07:53
Music composing, weight training, video gaming, and dungeons and dragon..ing


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Robin
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 08:43
Poker
Music

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Siolis
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 09:56
Weight Training
Being depressing
Writing
Building a website called ADL (see sig)
Playing games occationally
Uni

Drew Cameron
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 10:22
Film making, skating, Girl(s), music, driving (not a hobby but you know what I mean) sports & exercise

Tinkergirl
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 10:34
All things Steampunk (it takes quite a while a day to keep Brass Goggles up to date!)
Cooking
Reading

And I would roleplay (D&D etc) if I had a group

Fallout
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 11:14
Music production,
mountain biking,
footy (soccer),
RC cars & planes, (YouTube Vid)
Socialising (aka alcohol abuse in the company of friends).


Steve J
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 12:29
hiking, biking, jogging, weight lifting, music, girlfriend, Building stuff, sketching, painting, piano, drinking with friends, futbol americano, spanish, german (learning next year), and snowboarding. Arggh, active me!

http://phoenixophelia.com

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 12:35
Guitar. As for sport, don't do much, but when I do, it's mountain biking (like once a year in this crappy weather)

Hawkeye
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 13:51
Music production, piano, voice, chorus, shameless flirting, fencing (like swords and jack sparrow), ballet, theatrical dance, a bit of bboying.


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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 14:00
-3D modelling/Animating -Cinema 4D/Hexagon and soon LightWave
-Playing Games - FPS, RPG, Racing, Strategy, adventure
-Writng stories, poetry, reviews (I'm sure Cian will tell you I haven't written reviews for a while , I will no worries)
-Watching TV - Spongebob, Simpsons, Ray Mears, Educational TV, Nevermind the buzzcocks, Have I got News For You.
-Traditional Shotokan Karate - 1st Kyu, one of my sensei's (Also a Shihan) could be next in line for the highest position when Kanazawa dies, as it has gone Funakoshi (creator of Shotokan), Nakayama, Kanazawa and Van Weenan could be next (As the highest student of Kanazawa) if they don't mind taking English people.
-Playing the Guitar
-Reading fiction, philosophy and politics (although what Blairs says could be classed as fiction )
-Listening to music
-Writing Music
-Practising with martial arts weapons, Bo, Bokken, Nunchaku and my new toy, the Sai.

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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 14:31
Listening to music
Watching TV (I especially like Scrubs, sarcasm levels high)
I like sports, like swimming and football, but really not been doing that enough recently.
Reading books, fantasy novels, and spy/thrillers aswell, then again I like Dick Francis books aswell, so I'll pretty much read anything

@Seppukiu: the way it's going now it's going to be Kanezawa's son who succeeds him, isnt he the only person other than Kanazawa who can grade black belts, even though he's only 6th or 7th dan?

Zotoaster
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 14:45
Quote: "Ray Mears"
That makes two of us.

Quote: "Traditional Shotokan Karate - 1st Kyu"

I started at 8th, uit at 7th

Van B
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 17:18
LOST, American Chopper, Prison Break...

Well until I get my knee fixed so I can get on my bike again :/.

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El Goorf
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 17:47
I enjoy mountain biking and power kiting by way of sports. -video of friends powerkiting-

by way of pc games, i currently play bf2142 and guild wars, and mapplestory from time to time.

by way of TV, mythbusters is about the only thing I watch on it, unless theres a good film on (as long as its on the BBC so i dont have to put up with adverts) or a one off documentary. I also watch lost, but i download the episodes rather than wait for british tv to catch up.

when i have a spare moment, i like to read international news, for example I have DPRK, lebanese star, CNN and reuters in my favourites, in order to get the "other side's" point of view about global issues, and also to find things out that our media doesn't tell us.

I also have an interest in ancient->dark age history (which admittedly started from playing age of empires), which is a shame, since schools only teach from the 1500's onwards, the precise moment in time that history turned boring, hence I cant express my interest in it.

i dont have a favourite book, i have some issue, (some teachers at school reckon it's dyslexia, the nurse says it isnt) that means that I have to concentrate so hard when i'm reading, i simply dont enjoy it, and I often find that after reading a few pages, I feel exhausted and want to go to sleep.

favourite subject in school is economics, i play guitar, have played piano, violin and saxophone, want to get a set of bagpipes, really enjoy music, any kind as long as its not slow/depressing/boy-bandish, or "shoutty shoutty about satan until my lungs bleed" crap.

that all said, i actually spend most of my time dreaming about touring the world, seeing it with my own eyes, not a tv camera's.
Xander
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 18:03 Edited at: 27th Nov 2006 18:04
I completely forgot about AV equipment. Probably because I'm too broke, or rather in debt, to even think about buying anything. But I enjoy setting up surround sound and my dad and I have built a few subwoofers. Fun stuff. Two words: bass shakers

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 18:24
Quote: "@Seppukiu: the way it's going now it's going to be Kanezawa's son who succeeds him, isnt he the only person other than Kanazawa who can grade black belts, even though he's only 6th or 7th dan?"


Well I don't know how the black belt gradings work in terms of who, but I don't see Kanazawa coming to England every April for our black belt gradings and then other places that do Shotokan as well, I'm thining its the Shihan of each association that grade black belts (I'll be able to clarify that in April if I got for my 1st Dan), they probably will appoint his son, but I don't know, I think they try to keep everything Japanese, but the successor for a certain Ninja group was English, but logically I would think Van Weenan would get it, I mean he's an 8th Dan and one hell of a teacher.

Quote: "That makes two of us."

Yup, its him who made me want to check out the Bushman tribe for a gap year, but I'm at the point where I'm think yes or no to a gap year, it has its good points and its bad points, but I'd better not take too long to decide, I do need to send my application form. Also, one of his visits to an island off the coast of Australia was useful to help me argue to points, one from Marx, the other from Durkheim and Kant in my philosophy essay, go Mr Mears.

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 18:36
Not every one here programs.

I play games and wath TV. Iam actually really boring

Kentaree
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 18:49
Kanazawa comes down here every year I think I havent been training for a number of years due to college, injury, and laziness, but as far as I know he's still down every year.

Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 20:27
Quote: "One of my hobbies is microscopy.
Got several jars in my bedroom full of colonies of different protozoa and fungi, and of course lots of bottles with dyes.
Whats your hobby?"


I've got that too... but it's not because it's a hobby. My wife tends to not take dishes back into the kitchen.

If I'm not programming I'm playing games (right now I'm playing Freelancer online) or watching TV (mostly sci-fi). Every Friday I make my own pizza (I just started making my own about a month ago)... so I guess cooking is a new hobby. Before making my own pizza I could boil water REAL good.
Cian Rice
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 21:22
Damn right Seppuku! But don't worry I will be emailing you all shortly about major changes.

For me it's:

Music
Hanging Out (movies, etc.)
Gaming
Track
Reffing
Paintball + Airsoft
Entertaining the Mass Public with my Sheer Awesomeness

And my favorite:

Putting victims through deadly tests that will test their will to live, I believe a total of 4 people have survived so far, and now one is my apprentice. <_<

Ri karou
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 22:30
Playing Halo 2 and, uh .......does NOT doing homework count as a hobby?

WTF....what was that for???
El Goorf
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 22:31 Edited at: 27th Nov 2006 22:54
ri, i wish it did... then i could put it on my cv

edit: finally found the photo i took of my friends powerkiting

best caption so far: "im gonna get this guys pants down even if it kills me"

i dont appear in the photos as much since im the one with the camera, and yes i probably am the wussiest...
Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 22:37
Quote: "Kanazawa comes down here every year I think"


Oh right, fair enough, I know he's been down doing his courses a few times (perhaps he does that once a year too ), I've been meaning to go to one of those.

Quote: "I havent been training for a number of years due to college, injury, and laziness, but as far as I know he's still down every year."


Ah I see, I've been missing a lot of lessons because of my A-Levels, but I'm still going for my Black belt, I mean if Shihan Van Weenan asks me about attempting it in a positive light, then that must mean I should go, considering in the next school year I'll be going to uni, which won't work out.

Quote: "Damn right Seppuku! But don't worry I will be emailing you all shortly about major changes."


Cool, sorry about not doing much, 3 coursework and an exam resit in January and other studies. As final deadlines are nearing, I should be able to get some stuff over Christmas, one coursework has passed 2/3 draft deadlines, another is 2/4 and the other has its first in 3 weeks

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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 23:17
FPS's
Baseball
Lifting
Guitar
Drumming
Eating
Listening to music
Myspace
AIM
Trying to scream (but failing)
Tallun
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Posted: 27th Nov 2006 23:46
- jamming on my guitar
- jamming on my keyboard
- learning new musical scales
- synthesizing music on the computer
- soccer
- playing Neverwinter Nights
- writing Interactive Fiction
- writing stories
- updating my profiles on random friends sites
- reading and posting to forums
- being insane
- doing insane things with my friends
- partying
- speaking Latin
- translating Latin
- writing songs
- writing songs in Latin
- layering recordings of my voice for a five-part accapella song
- " in Latin
- being a wannabe drummer
- drinking Mountain Dew
- practicing all of my hobbies simultaneously
Kaurotu
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Posted: 28th Nov 2006 00:06
@Xander
Quote: "Disc golf (frisbee golf)"


Wow! I'm surprised you have even heard of that. Not many people have. It is growing rapidly though. We have 10 acres of land so my dad build a disc golf course that is hard as hell because of all the trees.(He's made pros get pissed.) I've met the female World Champion twice and the male World Champion once. Lol, there was actually a time where like 8 disc golfers stayed at my house for about 4 days because they were here for a big tournament. It's a fun sport.

Keep it up!

Tallun
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Posted: 28th Nov 2006 00:11
Quote: "Wow! I'm surprised you have even heard of that. Not many people have."

I used to go frisbee golfing years ago. I was never any good at either the frisbee or the gold aspect of it, but it was cool.
Xander
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Posted: 28th Nov 2006 00:44
Quote: "Wow! I'm surprised you have even heard of that"


Heck yeah! I picked it up my freshman year of college when my best friend introduced me to it. So I've been playing as much as possible for the last 2 years. I have introduced my friends to it and I usually got a few times a week, when the weather permits. It's pretty much my life outside of class, until winter sets in.

I always wanted to build my own course. We have 2 places in my town and a few more withing half an hour of driving.

I've actually gotten quite good, I can drive over 300 feet and am usually under par. But I don't even count any more, we just play for fun.

Have you ever tried night discing? It's usually illegal because we're not allowed in the parks after dark, but that makes it more fun, haha. We duct tape glow sticks to our discs and play in the dark.

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- Drinking coffee
- Reading about North Korea
- Planning my trip to North Korea for next year
- Playing Wii/360
- Listening & trying to write music
- Ab-roller
- Walking with my wife around looking at houses

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playing guitar or piano
skating
running

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Skateboarding
Soccer (sports in general mostly)
Reading
Video games

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Posted: 28th Nov 2006 14:02
Most of the time nowadays Im working but in the moments im not...

Photography
Illustration
Walking
Reading
Electronics

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Photography
Target Shooting
Writing
Dreaming about being a billionaire

It would appear I've been bitten by the coding bug yet again...
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Photography
Website design and operation
Playing with the cat
Writing
Reading
Audio books
Forum Posting
Inventing soup receipes
Model Making
Old Science fiction B Movies "It came from outer space!", "The Blob" etc.
Chatting on IM
Inventing excuses as to why I failed to do the washing up.

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poker
pool
drinking
coding
smoking (not tobbacoo)
being immature
ruling over my world of flying devil sheep
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Drawing
Reading
Writing
Designing Multiverses
Cartooning
Legos (yes, legos)
Daydreaming about Multiverses
This forum
Computer Games
Handheld Games
V for Vendetta
YouTube
Exercising
Friends... random stuff
...And much, much more!!!

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Posted: 29th Nov 2006 23:53
I really, realllly dont understand threads like this.

Once theres more than 3 posts, everyone skips over everyone else's posts and just posts their own, hobbies in this case. Even if people did read all of the posts, it boggles me how people care what other people's hobbies are on a forum where chances are they'll never meet or talk more in-depthly in their entire lives.



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Freshwater Aquariums, and shooting the occassional tourist.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2006 00:22 Edited at: 1st Dec 2006 03:12
Quote: "Even if people did read all of the posts, it boggles me how people care what other people's hobbies are on a forum where chances are they'll never meet or talk more in-depthly in their entire lives."


I read quite a few of them. It'd be cool to know if anyone were interested in the same hobbies as me. No need to get negative. (I was also looking to see if anyone happened to quote Mark from the Milk Paton Show )

Anyway, my hobbies other than animation are:
After Effects
Cross Country
Frisbee
Beating everyone at every sport in p.e. (I'm back in public school now and everyone sucks )
Woodburning
Mock Trial Club
and building lightsaber movie props for my movies.
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