OT: Share your hobbies beyond being an audiophile

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photography, home repair (which could become woodworking if I ever get caught up...), old sports car driving & rebuilding/repair, suing the govt. (End. species), drinking, hiking, dawg wraslin'...

 

bicycling & climbing is out due to a hit & run

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4 hours ago, wgscott said:

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I look at cycling more as an activity than a hobby, but if it counts, I do a fair amount of riding both on and off-road.

 

We have two golden retrievers.  I kind of hesitate to call that a hobby, but it does consume a fair amount of time and money, so in that sense probably it qualifies.

 

As a scientist, I'm kind of in a fortunate position in the sense that I get paid to pursue that as a hobby.

 

 

 

 

I left off 2 of those 3 as I also don't consider them hobbies; same with some other things

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby

 

I am not sure where to put the 'gentlemen scientists' of the Victorian era, or related groups in France, Italy and no doubt ancient China...

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you and Andres Serrano both...

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On 1/19/2018 at 4:48 PM, AudioDoctor said:

Track days, Flying, and Sailing.  Also, I try to think up ways to make more money to pay for all these. things.  Does drinking Coffee count?

 

Edit:  I forgot to add yelling at the TV during political talk shows on Sunday Mornings.

 

making hot dish??

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My current Golden got a terrible bacterial infection a year ago.  Apparently, the moron who gave him a dog bath/trim was rough with the clippers, cutting him and when went he went thru a shallow mud puddle on a hike, his foot picked up the bacteria.

Nothing in the GI tract, only in blood samples.

 

The expense was the least of my worries.

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ice fishing?

 

eating hot dish?

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fish fry ?

watch that lye!

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you guys have been on a coffee jag for nearly an entire page now, but no one has mentioned civet "cats" ???

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I use millennials.  They get the job done.

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if you were an old-timey chief of surgery you could empty your pipe out in their hand 

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On 2/23/2019 at 12:23 AM, biosailor said:

In the light of a recently retired, I propose another hobby: TIME!

 

After having retired from a most demanding job in science full of a crammed agenda, meetings, project discussions, and lecturing, I am delighted to start a day without a fixed agenda, enjoying a good cup of coffee and reading the papers from A to Z. What a luxury of being able to drift into a day and ask myself what Iam going to do to make it a good day. I am fully enjoying this initial part of my retirement.

 

I am fully aware that such a delightful state doesn‘t last for ever. I used to be a fanatic skier, but being away from skiing for more than 20 years, I dislike the ever growing industry around skiing: artificial snow, leveling out ski tracks, ever more ski lifts. And seeing the damage this development does to the fragile balance in the mountains, I totally refuse to go skiing again. Instead, I took up snow shoe hiking. What a delight to climb a mountain slowly and quietly and fully being immersed in the landscape! See the attached picture of my last tour in the central parts of Switzerland. I so much enjoyed my new activity, that I‘ll take up ski touring as my next endeavour.

 

I keep thinking about filling my free time with more and more hobbies, so keep up the good suggestions in this thread!

 

 

Free Your Heels; Free your Mind

 

 

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coffee, like air, is not a hobby

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On 2/28/2019 at 8:17 PM, AudioDoctor said:

 

That's a Beaut!

 

Thanks!  It is a 3.2L that has been hot-rodded in various ways.  The car now has about 2x the power as when original.  Soe have gone for more power but as a man of moderation an old car with 9:1 hp:wt seems adequate.

 

Here is a newer pic - the red was too garish and I discovered the rain hats were heavy so I replaced the thick steel with CF.  Then I discovered the CF could distort allowing dirt into the motor so I added some thin hexcell under them.

 

 

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just wait for the crash in prices to buy one...