Hobbies

[really]

Do any of you have passions?
(outside of Civ, family, work etc)

I would like to hear about peoples pass times.

I am thinking of taking up a hobby - I feel I waste too much time on my computer / in front of the TV. If I were living at home in the country I would be gardening.

I'm half heartedly learning Italian.

 

[RedRalph]

Reading
blog
guitar
drawing
etc

 

[Truronian]

Diabolo

Spoiler :

Badminton
Cycling
Rock Scrambling

Other things I need to get back into.

 

[Synobun]

Reading and making fun of people on Chatroulette.

edit: obligatory "your mom" comment here.

 

[Joecoolyo]

-Gaming
-CFCOT

 

[Ajidica]

>Wargaming miniatures (and painting them)
>watching/reading sci-fi.
>modding

 

[downtown]

-Drums/live musical performance
-writing
-basketball
-running. I think I'm going to join a Track Club and start running races on a more regular basis. I did a few in New Orleans and had a blast!

 

[Aquila SPQR]

Astronomy, ancient history, reading.

 

[ColdClimate]

Playing the banjo...
Composing...
homebrewing...

 

[Glassfan]

I read a lot of science and history and give lectures in the shower.
I play with my dog, target shoot and sample local pizza recipes.
I play Civ IV.

 

[Abaddon]

Chasing girls...

 

[Leifmk]

Besides the obvious (given that I am posting here), the only thing I have time for anymore is exercising, which is also a necessity in order to keep my body working as I grow older (I do not intend to end up in the kind of shape my father is when I am his age). In order to make it more interesting I've turned it into a bit of a hobby and now intend to get really damned strong, maybe I'll compete at a few powerlifting meets in a while.

 

[Bugfatty300]

I shoot stuff.

 

[Steph]

The obvious
- Modding CivIII
- Trying to program my own game
- Playing computer games
- Reading

Not so obvious:
- Playing wargames, mostly Cry havoc series and ASL
- Role playing game : I wrote my own system (in French).
- Painting figurines

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I play the guitar but haven't done so for ages.

I taught myself Z80 programming and am writing a Manic Miner remake with a spectrum emulator (not much progression recently since I got a graphics card and can play CivIV again). It's miles faster than Matthew Smith's original, and takes up less memory too so I can probably cram in 40-50 levels instead of 20. EDIT: He was 16 when he wrote Manic Miner and I have 15 years game programming experience, however Plus developing on a PC with modern tools makes things a lot easier.

Scrabble.

Backgammon.

Trolling Liverpool supporters.

Maths.

 

[Harvin87]

Reading, writing, drinking, chess.

 

[homeyg]

smoking
chess
risk
guitar
amazon mechanical turk
trolling
stickam shuffle
pondering
writing manifestos
taking pictures
keeping records
watching good movies
enlightening other people

 

[Lillefix]

Reading and making fun of Dan Brown.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Drinking

And hugz

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Using nuclear weapons and other WMD's in video games. And using cheats in video games.

Astronomy.

Chatting on IRC.

CFC.

NationStates.

Staring at women's boobs. (Oops. )