Link
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johnrobholmes said:
Yes! I'm not the only guy who knows how to do this!
what are your other hobbies
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Yes! I'm not the only guy who knows how to do this!
vanilla ice
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One of my bud's down here sews so well he can make dresses. In fact I think he made his wife's wedding dress, and makes clothes for his daughter. And he's a big 250 pound dude that does construction.. 
My other hobbies mostly involve I.C.E. toys, both two and four wheeled. But lately I've been focusing on the little two legged guys. ICEy guys have been neglected. Have some neglected fish tanks too..
My other hobbies mostly involve I.C.E. toys, both two and four wheeled. But lately I've been focusing on the little two legged guys. ICEy guys have been neglected. Have some neglected fish tanks too..
recumpence
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Anything mechanically challenging.
Hmm, let's see, I am 37 years old and can still ride a wheelie on my mountain bike around the block. I can rock walk (80s freestyle), and do many other freestyle tricks, though, admittedly, I look both ways before doing anything on my bike. I have to admit, I feel wierd doing it. :wink:
Hmm, I have a small machinshop. I can make almost anything. I make RC cars and helis from scratch. I have one RC car that is good for 120mph. I used to be into SPL competition (had one car featured in a mag).
WAAAAAAYYYYY too many hobbies if you ask my wife!
Oh, I absolutely LOVE grocery shopping with my wife. Isn't that sick?
Lastly, I do some (non-professional) marriage counselling. It is amazing how many relationships suffer from relatively minor issues that just take some time with a third party who cares to resolve.
Matt
Hmm, let's see, I am 37 years old and can still ride a wheelie on my mountain bike around the block. I can rock walk (80s freestyle), and do many other freestyle tricks, though, admittedly, I look both ways before doing anything on my bike. I have to admit, I feel wierd doing it. :wink:
Hmm, I have a small machinshop. I can make almost anything. I make RC cars and helis from scratch. I have one RC car that is good for 120mph. I used to be into SPL competition (had one car featured in a mag).
WAAAAAAYYYYY too many hobbies if you ask my wife!
Oh, I absolutely LOVE grocery shopping with my wife. Isn't that sick?
Lastly, I do some (non-professional) marriage counselling. It is amazing how many relationships suffer from relatively minor issues that just take some time with a third party who cares to resolve.
Matt
Is a hobby what I do "often enough", recently, or something that I like to engage in?
If the former, I adore studying(currently electronics, digital, analog and computational including a dash of radio theory but I seem satisfied enough just getting the "big picture" so to say. I seem to care less about getting down to the nuts and bolts, just knowing that I have an understanding that'd enable me to do so if I so chose.), making programs, mathematically analyzing things of interest and trying to help out others by helping myself. :lol:
If the latter, man, way too many things. I've been known to collect coins, precious metals, treasure-hunting with metal detectors, build, fly and categorize hobby rockets, play DDR and stepmania(I totally modded my soft-pad using panel-wood and some durable plastic matting), tinker on my erector set, fly multiple designs of paper airplanes, create calculator, console and computer games(including 3d), create "useful" programs in general, trade on ebay(selling and buying, the former in larger quantities than the latter), prance around multiple sites on the 'net(this seems to be my current "homebase"; It's rather interesting I've stayed in one place for more than 3 months.), studying abnormal psychology, physics, history(with a penchant for the ancient. I so totally want a greco-roman ground-level-being-the-highest-level villa with terra-cotta roofing.), jamming on the piano(especially classic - Chopin is a doll. And some of Beethoven's is ethereally blissful.), watch post-apocalyptic movies and anime, read a few awesome fictional stories and many different factual and speculative(like artificial intelligence) novels, create devices that allows me to annoy the girls in the corner, being pretentious, winning academic competitions, learn introductory phrases of various languages, having periods of exploring niche genres from different mediums, and making up for the deficiency of control in my life by exercising it over powerless mammals(I'm really half-joking on the last one. But, no, I one of those sick sadistic fellows that likes scaring furry animals and observing how they act in precarious situations. It's harmless, so rest assured!). Ok, so I indulged and entered a few that I've done since I was 12.
If the former, I adore studying(currently electronics, digital, analog and computational including a dash of radio theory but I seem satisfied enough just getting the "big picture" so to say. I seem to care less about getting down to the nuts and bolts, just knowing that I have an understanding that'd enable me to do so if I so chose.), making programs, mathematically analyzing things of interest and trying to help out others by helping myself. :lol:
If the latter, man, way too many things. I've been known to collect coins, precious metals, treasure-hunting with metal detectors, build, fly and categorize hobby rockets, play DDR and stepmania(I totally modded my soft-pad using panel-wood and some durable plastic matting), tinker on my erector set, fly multiple designs of paper airplanes, create calculator, console and computer games(including 3d), create "useful" programs in general, trade on ebay(selling and buying, the former in larger quantities than the latter), prance around multiple sites on the 'net(this seems to be my current "homebase"; It's rather interesting I've stayed in one place for more than 3 months.), studying abnormal psychology, physics, history(with a penchant for the ancient. I so totally want a greco-roman ground-level-being-the-highest-level villa with terra-cotta roofing.), jamming on the piano(especially classic - Chopin is a doll. And some of Beethoven's is ethereally blissful.), watch post-apocalyptic movies and anime, read a few awesome fictional stories and many different factual and speculative(like artificial intelligence) novels, create devices that allows me to annoy the girls in the corner, being pretentious, winning academic competitions, learn introductory phrases of various languages, having periods of exploring niche genres from different mediums, and making up for the deficiency of control in my life by exercising it over powerless mammals(I'm really half-joking on the last one. But, no, I one of those sick sadistic fellows that likes scaring furry animals and observing how they act in precarious situations. It's harmless, so rest assured!). Ok, so I indulged and entered a few that I've done since I was 12.
Link
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swbluto said:
But can you do MAXX300 on expert?
Or have they come out with something more recent than Supernova? I don't keep up with DDR. DDR is too easy. In the Groove FTW!Oh, yeah, I was gonna make a machine-quality dance pad, but then I got all caught up with the ebike thing. Perhaps after I get the PackCycle rolling...
Also, do you by any chance have a Wii, Brawl, and WiFi?
swbluto said:recumpence said:
If by grocery shopping you mean choosing the foods you get to eat, I'm sick too.
I love it when nobody's home and I go to the store and buy like $30 of junk food...
johnrobholmes
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Hey Matt, can you rock walk in both directions? I need to brush up on my wheelies, I can't ride them seated more than 20 feet anymore. Standing I still have the balance. Can't manual anymore either. Weak!
Lenk42602
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[/quote]
I realize things practically don't rust in much of the US seeing how there's ancient 20 year old cars that still run, but that thing looks wrong to me without extensive rust everywhere, especially heater channels all opened up along the bottom of the doors.[/quote]
Mathurin,
Order to disorder. The natural progress of things. Pittsburgh turns into a nasty slushy salty margarita as soon as the first snow hits. My '58 goes into the garage as soon as the first salt trucks hit the roads and doesn't come out until after all the road salt is washed away.
That car has been massaged by many before me....... Here's another....
Peace,
Len
I realize things practically don't rust in much of the US seeing how there's ancient 20 year old cars that still run, but that thing looks wrong to me without extensive rust everywhere, especially heater channels all opened up along the bottom of the doors.[/quote]
Mathurin,
Order to disorder. The natural progress of things. Pittsburgh turns into a nasty slushy salty margarita as soon as the first snow hits. My '58 goes into the garage as soon as the first salt trucks hit the roads and doesn't come out until after all the road salt is washed away.
That car has been massaged by many before me....... Here's another....
Peace,
Len
recumpence
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John,
I never could manual very well. Yes, I can rock walk all the way around. Heck, I can over-rotate. I can also rock front wheel to rear wheel in small (roughly 30 degree) increments in fast succession making tight circles.
I can also endo and kick the front tire backward for rearward movement. I bet I could do about 20 feet that way on my mountain bike. I can go pretty much indefinately on a BMX bike.
Let's see, Oh, kick turns, 360 tail whips, axle peg manuals (tight circles and straight), I can bunny-hop about 2 feet high on a BMX bike. Hmm, what else, Oh, I can coast backward as well, not sitting backward on the bike, actually going backward. I think I could still do a 360 bunny-hop if I worked hard at it. :wink:
Matt
I never could manual very well. Yes, I can rock walk all the way around. Heck, I can over-rotate. I can also rock front wheel to rear wheel in small (roughly 30 degree) increments in fast succession making tight circles.
I can also endo and kick the front tire backward for rearward movement. I bet I could do about 20 feet that way on my mountain bike. I can go pretty much indefinately on a BMX bike.
Let's see, Oh, kick turns, 360 tail whips, axle peg manuals (tight circles and straight), I can bunny-hop about 2 feet high on a BMX bike. Hmm, what else, Oh, I can coast backward as well, not sitting backward on the bike, actually going backward. I think I could still do a 360 bunny-hop if I worked hard at it. :wink:
Matt
nitecheck
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johnrobholmes said:
True -but I really only get to cook 3 meals a week. It's become a bit of a family ritual - we decide what to cook - inspect the larder - off to the shops for anything not on hand (on weekends when the weather is good we take the bikes)- with the girls in tow - "hunt" down some ingredients - then back to home to whip up storm. Catching up with kids & what's been going on in their "busy lives" while we cook. The kids are positively drooling by the time dinner is served & are all talked out (no mean feat with young girls). Afterwards there are lots of "wow dad that was great" & when it's time to clear the table - the youngest - my "little miss" is seen reguarly licking the plate clean (I keep telling her that this habit is really not on - but she simply looks over the plate with big blue eyes, nods in agreement .. then continues to lick the plate all the way to the sink...
)Possibly this is not a real "hobby" but the whole process is just so enjoyable....best of all... wifie "who has been resting her feet" throughout the "ritual" has the task of washing up afterward :lol:
Link
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Cooking's cool. I make bomb-ass cookies. :wink: And I've almost perfected my shrimp recipe.
recumpence
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Link said:
I don't think you're that short.
Actually, I think it's refered to as "Vertically challenged".
Matt
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recumpence said:Link said:
I don't think you're that short.
Actually, I think it's refered to as "Vertically challenged".
Matt
That's what you get for baking pie crusts with shortening instead of lard.
Ypedal
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I make my own Beef Jerky..wine.. Moon Shine.. 
Rassy
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One picture is worth a 1,000 words. Took 3 fishing buddies on my boat yesterday to the Rogue River Bay at Gold Beach, about 30 miles south of my home. You can see the old guy (me) with two fish can barley hold them off the ground. They weighed between 20 and 27 pounds.
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I like flying ultralight airplanes and building crazy 3 wheeled things
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John in CR
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Of my other hobbies, sex is definitely my favorite.
John
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1) Yard sailing is cool, great way to meet people and find cool things.
2) Mopeds, at eleven right now, ten run.
3) Gardening, nearly done building a all glass green house.
4) Improving my house.
5) Dual turbo intercooled 231 V6 in a 73 Vega.
6) 231 V6 in a 70 VW Bus.
7) Manx style street legal buggy, 1835 in that.
8) RV.
9) Desert trips, 85 Honda 250R and buggy towed behind my RV.
10) Home Theater, dedicated black velvet covered basement room, 9" CRT video projector, 160" electric 2.8 gain screen, 3,000 watts of 5.1 sound in acoustically treated room, dual 18" folded horn subs.
11) Three E-bikes, two street and one full suspension one I built for the trails.
12) Surfing, golfing, hiking, skiing, cooking, building things, fixing things, computer, internet...
Maybe I should list the things I do not get into. Have not bothered to switch my TV's over to digital, that saves a whole hell of a lot of time for all the other things.
Of course this is just a short list of things I'm into right now, I used to do a million other things I lost interest in.
Deron.
2) Mopeds, at eleven right now, ten run.
3) Gardening, nearly done building a all glass green house.
4) Improving my house.
5) Dual turbo intercooled 231 V6 in a 73 Vega.
6) 231 V6 in a 70 VW Bus.
7) Manx style street legal buggy, 1835 in that.
8) RV.
9) Desert trips, 85 Honda 250R and buggy towed behind my RV.
10) Home Theater, dedicated black velvet covered basement room, 9" CRT video projector, 160" electric 2.8 gain screen, 3,000 watts of 5.1 sound in acoustically treated room, dual 18" folded horn subs.
11) Three E-bikes, two street and one full suspension one I built for the trails.
12) Surfing, golfing, hiking, skiing, cooking, building things, fixing things, computer, internet...
Maybe I should list the things I do not get into. Have not bothered to switch my TV's over to digital, that saves a whole hell of a lot of time for all the other things.
Of course this is just a short list of things I'm into right now, I used to do a million other things I lost interest in.
Deron.
Hobbies...wow. I have too many I want to do, but right now the only one I am pursuing is the development of the "ultimate personal transportation" in the form of (for now) CrazyBike2.
http://electricle.blogspot.com
Some of my other hobbies have included:
Composing "music":
http://soundclick.com/amberwolf
http://members.cox.net/opporknockitytunes
Building models of various things, from kits, from scratch, or from junk, or in 3D in the computer. Mostly scifi stuff like the Star Trek Transporter console, for big stuff, or spaceship models out of random parts like tank turrets, or giant gun props out of crutches and stuff.
http://members.cox.net/amberwolf
Drawing things, on paper or in the computer. Same site as above.
Watching and discussing anime (which is like a form of science fiction to me, in that the culture in Japan is so different from my own that I learn things about humanity and my own culture just as I do from good sci-fi).
http://www.themanime.org/phpbb/
Meeting with people to discuss sci-fi and other things.
http://u-f-p.org
Used to read lots of sci-fi, science literature, articles, etc, but just don't have the time to do it much now (used to spend 3 or 4 days mostly awake with 10-minute naps a few hours apart, then crash for a few hours when I couldn't keep awake, but can't do that nowadays and it severely limits my time!).
Then there's my dogs, which aren't a hobby so much as a full-time job
http://kyuuut.blogspot.com
Right now it's Bonnie the Border Collie, (Wini)Fred the ?, Loki the ?, and Nana the St. Bernard. Until 2003 it was Lady the Wolf/Pyrenees (best dog EVER, more like a daughter or something), and various others before that. All rescues, or unwanteds; dogs nobody else would take (although I don't understand why, since they're all great dogs, just sometimes a bit of trouble, especially Fred).
I used to fix computers all the time, and build them, and stuff, but it became tiresome because of all the end-users that refused to ever learn anything, instead depending entirely on me to even tell them how to press F1 for help. Plus people that wouldn't pay me after agreeing to, etc.
Same thing with fixing other electronics, mechanical stuff, etc. Not worth the effort of trying nowadays.
Used to love hand carving wood into whatever shapes came to mind, but my hands hurt too much for that nowadays--I couldn't do it for long enough at a time to finish one thing (to the level of detail I would want) in a year now.
Talking to people. Strange to call a hobby, perhaps, but I like to find people to discuss ideas with, whatever is floating in my brain soup at the time. Sometimes on forums, sometimes email. Never was good at physical letters, though. Occasionally in person, but hard to keep anyone's attention long enough to actually do that in person, realtime.
Collecting stuff for my various hobbies is probably a hobby unto itself. If someone I know has something that breaks, if they don't want it, they often contact me to ask if I want it before they toss it. Usually I'll take it, even if all I save is the screws holding it together.
http://electricle.blogspot.com
Some of my other hobbies have included:
Composing "music":
http://soundclick.com/amberwolf
http://members.cox.net/opporknockitytunes
Building models of various things, from kits, from scratch, or from junk, or in 3D in the computer. Mostly scifi stuff like the Star Trek Transporter console, for big stuff, or spaceship models out of random parts like tank turrets, or giant gun props out of crutches and stuff.
http://members.cox.net/amberwolf
Drawing things, on paper or in the computer. Same site as above.
Watching and discussing anime (which is like a form of science fiction to me, in that the culture in Japan is so different from my own that I learn things about humanity and my own culture just as I do from good sci-fi).
http://www.themanime.org/phpbb/
Meeting with people to discuss sci-fi and other things.
http://u-f-p.org
Used to read lots of sci-fi, science literature, articles, etc, but just don't have the time to do it much now (used to spend 3 or 4 days mostly awake with 10-minute naps a few hours apart, then crash for a few hours when I couldn't keep awake, but can't do that nowadays and it severely limits my time!).
Then there's my dogs, which aren't a hobby so much as a full-time job
http://kyuuut.blogspot.com
Right now it's Bonnie the Border Collie, (Wini)Fred the ?, Loki the ?, and Nana the St. Bernard. Until 2003 it was Lady the Wolf/Pyrenees (best dog EVER, more like a daughter or something), and various others before that. All rescues, or unwanteds; dogs nobody else would take (although I don't understand why, since they're all great dogs, just sometimes a bit of trouble, especially Fred).
I used to fix computers all the time, and build them, and stuff, but it became tiresome because of all the end-users that refused to ever learn anything, instead depending entirely on me to even tell them how to press F1 for help.
Plus people that wouldn't pay me after agreeing to, etc. Same thing with fixing other electronics, mechanical stuff, etc. Not worth the effort of trying nowadays.
Used to love hand carving wood into whatever shapes came to mind, but my hands hurt too much for that nowadays--I couldn't do it for long enough at a time to finish one thing (to the level of detail I would want) in a year now.
Talking to people. Strange to call a hobby, perhaps, but I like to find people to discuss ideas with, whatever is floating in my brain soup at the time. Sometimes on forums, sometimes email. Never was good at physical letters, though. Occasionally in person, but hard to keep anyone's attention long enough to actually do that in person, realtime.
Collecting stuff for my various hobbies is probably a hobby unto itself. If someone I know has something that breaks, if they don't want it, they often contact me to ask if I want it before they toss it. Usually I'll take it, even if all I save is the screws holding it together.
dogman dan
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Right on with the dog hobby. It can be a full time job. Two bloodhounds and a st bernard right now. Max the st bernard is allways the perfect gentleman. He's such a contrast to the bred for lion and bear hunting bloodhounds. I had to get out of rescuing and adopting out agressive dogs, but for awhile I was doing well with dogs with bite histories that wouldn't have lasted 24 hrs at the pound. Then the neigbor kid got bit, real bad, and I had to stop taking in biters for sure. At one point though, I'd go out walking with 6 bloodhounds on leashes. People would slow down and stare in amazement.
will_newton
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it's nice to see so many multi hobbied folks. I think my hobby is collecting hobbies. My wife says I have "hobby of the week syndrome".
John in CR
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Who has hobbies they'd like to turn into a business with the dream of it making some real money? That's where I'm at with this whole EV thing...just trying to find that niche in what I see coming.
John
John
I've tried to do that with music, artwork, computers, props, models, well, practically everything except the dogs. I don't know enough about bikes yet to do it--when I can build my own from scratch and have it look like a store-bought bike, and perform as well or better, I'll be ready to do stuff for other people. Right now I wouldn't sell a thing I make, bike-wise; it's just not sale-quality. But so far all are failures. I don't make much of a marketer or manager, I just do stuff that people sometimes like.John in CR said:
Nana is adorable, and has adopted me even more thoroughly than most dogs I've had. But she is still learning manners, and is an excitable puppy at only a year old. She wants to defend me and my yard against everything, and is taking quite a lot of training to stop her from barking at even birds and whatnot. She knows she is not supposed to, because every time she starts barking she will stop, look around, and then come running for the back door because I always make any of them come in and "sit in the corner" for a time-out if they start barking, even if they just went out. Works better than most of the other things I've tried over the years.dogman said:
The dog I *expected* to be the most trouble, Lady, was not, ever. She ended up with that name because that's how she acted--very prim and proper and if you didn't already know wolf behaviors, you probably wouldn't notice the difference.
Most of the others have just been dogs, your average mutt, but some have been special, like Lady and Bonnie, and most likely Nana (I've only had her a month and a half, if that, so it's a little early to tell). Loki could be, but he is so reserved and quiet it is hard to get him to interact much. Can't blame him, though.
WOODCRAFT... have built everything from a tooney bank to a rolltop desk[jatoba carcas... birdseye maple panels and curly maple desk top] two others out of cherry wood... i have customer who makes exotic flooring[$40 to $100.00 a sq.ft... plus installation] i have made many items for him using woods such as bubinga, rosewood,lacewood,zebrawood and many more. i love the smell of fresh cut wood... at 83 its a hobbie that keeps me very active all winter long...am considering making a wood trike this winter ...if i have tame.. use to have a26ft chris craft and did a lot of downrigging.... fishing too poor now to bother
AussieJester
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E-Bikes is pretty much it for me at this time, i hope to get back into RC Helis again in the not to distant future.
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