What hobbies do you have?

[Samez]

If I had some more time for a new hobby i would choose between the following:
- local politics (social)
- rowing (sports)
- mechanized gardening (tech)
As explanation of the last one: I would like to create a Indoor planter with automated water and light control and no I wouldn't grow hemp. I saw
a documentation about gardening experiments at the Neumeyer Station in Antarctica and thought this should be quite easy in our area.

 

[Kyriakos]

@Kyriakos Why do you want a hobby?

To fill time?
To learn something new?
To find like-minded other people?
To use your hands?
To be outside more?
How many hours a week would you like to spend on your new hobby?
How much money can you afford to spend monthly on it?

Most of the above, but primarily to have yet another cover for the criminal act I am planning.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Most of the above, but primarily to have yet another cover for the criminal act I am planning.

I recommend you follow @Samez suggestion of politics. That seems to be where most of the criminals are going nowadays.

 

[thetrooper]

What hobbies do you have?

Mountain biking

And...

Spoiler :

I gather belly button lint. Every 4-6 months I get enough to make a nice figurine. I keep them on a shelf in our living room.

 

[Kyriakos]

I once considered doll creation, but I doubt it would work.

Getting a 3d-printer is more realistic, and then I could just print various medieval cathedral models I have already created.

For example:

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I once considered doll creation, but I doubt it would work.

My grandmother made dolls. Her apple-head dolls actually freaked out a couple of my typing clients one night. They happened to look into the kitchen where a bunch of little brownish-tinted shrunken heads were hanging on strings (in various stages of preparation before being attached to the bodies). She'd carved the heads from apples we'd brought home from the grocery store.

I just told them calmly, "Oh, I guess I forgot to mention that my grandmother is a headhunter," and kept on reading their rough drafts they'd brought.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I enjoy cooking and am pretty good at it, but I have a hard time seeing it as a hobby for myself. I mean clearly it's a legit hobby, but for me personally I don't consider it to be my hobby. I don't know if it's because I worked in the food industry for a long time and absolutely hated or what.

I don't really have any hobbies and I have never really been that into them. I play a lot of video games but I don't see that as a hobby either I guess because I don't do anything structured beyond the games themselves. I mean once I did this whole space race thing in KSP against @warpus which I did see as a hobby-type of activity because I was creating structure that transcended the game itself. But the vast majority of the time I'm playing games, I just play them kind of 'at face value' if that makes any sense and so I don't see that as a hobby.

I briefly ran a blog where I wrote about space topics, and would like to do so again but I don't have the time right now. I have an autistic-adjacent focus on space stuff and just love talking/writing about it and so that could easily be a hobby for me if I had time. I have a hard time half-assing things and I like to make infographics and such to accompany my blog posts and that all takes time which I don't have at the moment. I would not be happy just writing a few random paragraphs now and again; I'd want to do long-form stories instead.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Most of the above, but primarily to have yet another cover for the criminal act I am planning.

Flip answers to serious questions about a topic you started indicate you are not serious and just looking to push your pc. Not surprising really.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

I once considered doll creation, but I doubt it would work.

I think that's cool as hell. I'd be your first customer honestly.

I enjoy cooking and am pretty good at it, but I have a hard time seeing it as a hobby for myself. I mean clearly it's a legit hobby, but for me personally I don't consider it to be my hobby. I don't know if it's because I worked in the food industry for a long time and absolutely hated or what.

I feel you on this one. I still cook fancy dinners and stuff as a hobby, but still everyday eating/cooking and hobby cooking are kind of seperate for me. with everyday cooking it's all about being fast and making something that fits my mood, usually something familiar, something with soul, and primarily something that's tasty. with hobby cooking it's the opposite, I specifically try to experiment/make something completely new/cook something challenging - it's essentialy a creative effort. getting to eat it afterwards is cool, but it's not the objective. interestingly enough for me this split also occured after I worked in restaurants.

 

[warpus]

I don't really have any hobbies and I have never really been that into them. I play a lot of video games but I don't see that as a hobby either I guess because I don't do anything structured beyond the games themselves. I mean once I did this whole space race thing in KSP against @warpus which I did see as a hobby-type of activity because I was creating structure that transcended the game itself.

That was pretty fun, even if I can't remember many details. It involved something about rescuing somebody on Laythe.

It would be fun if KSP could be easily multiplayerable. I know there's mods, and I guess that's the answer right there, but who has time for such things these days

 

[Josu]

Hiking, love it, but you need to live in propper environment

 

[Truthy]

Watching cargo ships is one of my main hobbies. I have a good view of my city's harbor from my office and I spend a considerable amount of time observing what types of ships and cargo come and go. Similarly, I keep an eye on the harbor's dredging activities and what the city does with dredged material (they transport it to other parts of the harbor and build stuff with it). All in all, I've discovered that harbors are surprisingly fascinating hives of activity, even full-fledged eco-systems that need complex forms of maintenance.

However, my main hobby is learning French. I spend an hour or so on that most days. Other hobbies include contributing to a few open-source projects and I'm the primary maintainer of one of them. Lifting and cooking sort of count.

 

[Sofista]

Eating and sleeping.

That's what basic human beings (a.k.a. babies) do.

 

[Kyriakos]

I think that's cool as hell. I'd be your first customer honestly.

Those dolls in the pic are (obviously) not mine. They are by some russian dollmaker

I really doubt I would be a good dollmaker.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Those dolls in the pic are (obviously) not mine. They are by some russian dollmaker

I really doubt I would be a good dollmaker.

You think my first 3-D needlepoint stuff was saleable? It took a couple of years of practice.

You won't know unless you try.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Hiking, love it, but you need to live in propper environment

Ah ok I would consider this my hobby too! These days I mostly walk around the block rather than head out to the forests and bluffs, but I do what I can. I also bicycle 3-5 times a week too. I don't know why I didn't think of these before, I am really into biking and hiking/walking, to the point where my bike has a ton of widgets and I'm constantly thinking of more that I 'need' like a rear view mirror or pannier bags.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I mod Civ4 and I've been dabbling in little electronic development boards that you can write code for. For those in the know, I'm talking about Arduinos and other such boards. They are really fun and you can learn a lot of interesting things. I bought a little robot kit and I programmed it to follow me around the house. I've had to rebuild it a couple of times since it has fallen down the basement stairs, but I think I might have a fix for that now.

Stretching one's brain is good. Beats the hell out of gardening.

 

[The_J]

You'd recommend that kit?

 

[trader/warrior]

Got into making ecospheres in the last year. Just put a bit of mud and water from a lively looking freshwater pond or stream in a glass jar and observe the stuff forming an airtight sealed ecosystem with the algae and plants creating oxygen and nutrients for the tiny animals, and the animals creating co2 and nutrients for the plants to create a stable circle of life. Only external source of energy required is the sun. And even my super cheap phone could get some surprisingly nice footage super zoomed in to see it up close.

Not quite sure if these links will work:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/RZeF2ZvxdNjUhiRo7
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BrYdx2AxDGTTh3iy6
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Hp2hX6Aop8yiAnNU9

My current ones don't seem to have survived the Norwegian dark winter though, some can apparently last years.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

You'd recommend that kit?

I would.

This is it.

I added a few sensors and some other stuff to make it roam around the house on its own. Following me and the cat when it detects motion. It's really a lot of fun.