What else floats your boat? (Page 2)

I guess I should include photography too, since that's my major!!

but I'm also really interested in urban legends and ghost stories.

and what's really weird is that I will look up serial killers if I'm really bored on Court TV stuff. I also have a habit of checking all the public records of people I know/who are in charge (being a journalism major makes you REALLY nosey).

Oh man...So much to do, so little time.

Used to golf a lot...Wanted to be a pro.
Used to write a lot, now it's my job and I write so much I'm sick of it.
Used to love photographing sports. Was a free lancer for a while, got run over by a running back on National TV.
Cartoons! I mean the strips and editorial stuff. Mike Luckovich is amazing!
Cats and dogs...
Motorcycles. Don't ride 'em anymore, but I sure like looking.
Movies
Reading

Next time I go on a date I'll have you look up the public record of the guy- lol! 

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learning new tech - i'm a super nerd. i want to know how it works, its capabilities and what application for it has not been thought up yet. i'll write my own code and drivers for it to make it do what i want.

circumventing security measures - dont gimme wrong, i'm no vandal or thief. its just in the blood. i have to gain access to networks, break neighbors wireless passwords, reboot the vending machine, pick the locks, gain access to the buildings roof (and of course speed rope down!). i do no harm in any of this (not even free cokes), but i just always want to beat the system. i know its juvenile and i have no silly hacker ideals or propaganda to spew, we just do what we do. as an aside i do not even d/l movies/music illegally. stealing is stealing. picking your lock, bypassing the top levels on the elevator and leaping from a 30 story building however, is all fun and games.

shoot bow - hey, how else am i gonna get an ascent line on top of that crane?

FUNK - i am an amalgamism of funk, groove and swankiness. i will drop its like its hot and then some. unfortunately late night dancing + drinking is bad for the training so i've cut back considerably.

I have four boys, so family things take up alot of my time. With boys, I still help with the Cub Scout pack, I am a Boy Scout leader so I get lots of camping, hiking, and other outdoor stuff. A 2 week backpacking trip was the impetus for my new lifestyle.

I like all forms of water sports but am "resource constrained" (another one of those corporate buzzwords meaning I have no boat).

I tinker with car repairs and home improvement projects (designed and built my garage).

Mike

I assume we're leaving out work-related stuff, about which I am pretty passionate. other than that:

yoga;
reading;
knitting and all fiber arts;
ASL (Autumn, I think we've talked about this before. I used to interpret, too -and my kids both know ...well.... pidgin.);
endurance biking and swimming (not fast -just long, slow distances);
music (am pretty much glued to my little iPod)
blogging -which is just another word for pontificating on subjects I'm passionate about

That's enough for now, although I suppose I've left something out.

Andrea

Edited by Andrea 2005-09-27 9:30 PM

Zines. I *love* Zines. I write my own. It's an interesting experience to offer up your journal to a photocopier and sell it to strangers.

Reading...I'll read anything and everything. Right now I'm reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

Painting. I'm an art major, and I love my painting classes the most.

Film.

Travelling. I spent three weeks bumming around Scotland this summer. In addition I was in Connecticut for a week, Oregon for a week, and New Jersey for a week. Oh yeah. I get around.

My friends and our dollar beer bowling nights!

Coffee. Lots of it. Black. Dark. Oh baby.

Listening to music and going to shows is also pretty big on my list.

I've seen your logs, so I can vouch for that. Get in the pool, woman!

better yet, I can teach you how to do it. How much they donated to what candidate, sex offender violations, parking tickets, married/divorced, property taxes and what their home looks like inside and out (Really creepy).

My interests outside of tris. Hmmmm

1. Besides my training, I am very passionate about art. Visual art, literature, film, theater. Before I ended up in a career in science I was a dancer, and loved to write and draw. Now my focus is photography. I love people, and taking pictures of them. My biggest inspiration these days is my kids. If I could ever get out from behind the camera I just might have my own avatar.

2. I run a game club for children with Asperger's Syndrome and High Functioning Autism like my son. It's a place for kids with AS to come once per month and play video games, board games, trade poke mon cards...whatever they want. The parents get to enjoy a stress free social event, network with other parents, and not have to worry about someone thinking their kid is weird. This is a labor of love.

3. Enjoying a good glass of Pinot Noir every now and then.

Words, love, self-reflection, and music, in that order, I think.

Words: reading and writing are my biggest (and scariest) passions. It is the way I try to understand people and myself, to unravel the mysteries of human interaction. When my lover and I have problems, we write letters to each other to work it out. I love stories of growth and change, of fighting down personal demons in a very human and individual way.

Love: anyone who's read my love-a-holic thread certainly knows this . My emotions have an enormously long half-life that gets me in trouble, but I KNOW one of the ways I can become a better person is to continue to learn how to love.

Self-Reflection: I am obsessed with improving myself, turning myself into an emotional person, a moral person, someone who reaches her potential. It is mostly due to this that the people at the coffee shop down the road ask, "Pot of Darjeeling?" whenever I come in because I'm there so much (and am such a creature of habit). I over-analyze everything, which isn't necessarily good, and try to wring understanding out of the heart's mysteries (see above).

Music: I played French horn pretty seriously for a dozen years and then switched to singing. This season I'm singing Hadyn's Creation in Boston's Symphony Hall and Vaughn Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem at Carnegie Hall with my chorus. I've also sung in small a cappella groups and loudly in my car. The physical release and rush from singing trumps anything triathlon can dish out, IMHO.

I LOVE metaphysics! I'm such a geeek like that! Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, Carl Sagan, Heidegger...all in my home library!

Looking to my left, I see: Sagan, Greene, Hawking, Feynman, Janna Levin (How the Universe got its Spots--excellent read), and Weinberg. I USED to know all the math involved at the higher levels of physics, but I'm terrifically out of practice since I stopped using it regularly a decade ago. My absolute favorite class in college was Quantum (I was a physics major). Something about existence as a morass of intricate probability resonated with me.

In no particular order:

Reading (mysteries/true crime mostly)
Music (listening, guitar, keyboards, arranging, writing, recording)
Chess
Bridge
Tennis
Martial Arts
Astronomy
Homebrewing
Cooking
Foreign Languages
Movies (anything with a good tight plot)

Because of time restraints - job, wife, kids, etc., I tend to cycle in and out of interests.

• My family - wife and four boys

• Theology - currently reading C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity

• My work as an artist

In no particular order:

1. Hiking / backpacking / snowshoeing, especially in the NH White Mts. There are 48 peaks above 4,000 feet. I've climbed them all a minimum of 5 times each. Some of them I've climbed lots more, like 30-40 times. Can you say "obsessive?"

2. Motorcycle touring with my wife. We've taken several long-ish trips. A 9,000 mile, 4-week journey around the country, through 26 states. A 10 day trip down the Blue Ridge parkway and across every tiny curvy road we could find in the Smokies.

3. Playing acoustic guitar. Poorly. But still fun. Inspired by Martin Simpson, Leo Kottke, several others. #1 axe always tuned up in DADGAD.

Reading: Lately I am into light stuff. I just read the last Carl Hiaasen. Not great literature, but I love his sarcasm and black humour.

Food: I love cooking. Actually, I like the whole process of cooking for friends. Starts by finding the right recipe, going to the farmers market to get the right ingredients and talk with all the people over there. Then there's the actual cooking. I usually cook much better with a glass of Chardonnay by my side! Then spending the evening talking with long time friends that we just don't see often enough because of everybody's schedule. The down part after all this, is the cleaning up!

Theater: My wife and I go and see plays on a regular basis. It can be anything from Shakespeare to experimental theater. The theater scene is great in Montreal

Family: I am very close with my family and inlaws. They are the people that will always be around!

FINALLY: Spending time playing and goofing around with my 3yr old daughter. Boy they change so fast!

Coaching swimming
Tattoos
Philadelphia
Beer (although this hasn't been as much of a part of my life as when i was in school)

Flyfishing-Trout, Salmon, Bonefish, Tarpon, Bass, if it swims
Hunting, Birds and Deer
Golf
Anything I can do with my daughters!

Good Luck,
Jay

Wahoo?

WAHOO??

I find it very interesting that so many people on this site list reading as another hobby. What does this say about us?

Edited by TriComet 2005-09-28 10:05 AM

I think wahoo is the new burrito...

I have 3 passions that I seem to have been born with -- words, sounds, and investigating how things work. Otherwise, I seem to burn thru blazing passions and drop them...guess I'm a serial obsessor. Thankfully my girlfriend is too.

Reading material depends on the mood...I get a handful of magazines and usually have 2 or 3 books going at any one time, from hard science to light fluff.

I'm a huge fan of music of all varieties. Sadly, I seem to lack any type of musical ability, and may be tone deaf, although I could always hear if a tape or record was playing back at a fractionally different speed (thank god for digital media), and I could tell if a tape was dragging slightly, and other odd things about sound patterns. It's a useless talent.

As far as poking into how things work, I've done everything there is to do in the IT field except management and it's because, whenever there's something new, strange or fiddly to be done, I'm the one who raises her hand and volunteers to go into the unknown. I just refuse to believe that there's anything designed or produced by humans that I can't understand and replicate, or at least jury rig if I apply myself. So maybe my fourth lifelong hobby is hubris.