Hobbies Outside of Music???

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 3:10 pm

I was just curious what everyone was into when your not writing and performing...

My biggest hobby is COMPUTERS. In fact, it's almost taken over my musical hobby! I haven't written in TOO long!!!! I love building custom pc's for friends/family and of course CODING in html and php!

So what's your thing????

Ron

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 3:27 pm

nice, i used to play football (soccer, ya americans!), swim, read books n stuff, watch tv, play guitar, go outside, blah blah... things of past..

i still try to play role-playing games with friends every once in a while and i think that's all the hobby left to me. i am totally a computer n web addict! it's not the best thing happened to me lol, i mean i remember those days when i was having more fun, dunno.. Neutral

peace.

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:45 pm

I guess my hobby is.....wait for it....MUSIC. When I ain't writing, I'm listening. Guess I', an addict.

Other than that it's reading classic novels....

War and Peace
Tale Of Two Cities
Uncle Tom's Cabin...etc.

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:20 pm

I'm one of these people that'll get heavy into one thing - and then burn out and move onto something else. Even Music goes that way for me.

In the past I've been heavily into investing and fundamental stock analysis/valuation models. I'm an analyst by nature, and given the amount of data available on stocks it's a natural avenue for me.

I don't know if you call it a hobby, but I enjoy non-fiction books alot too. Science based stuff often, but also just interesting things I see on C-Span - I have C-Span Book TV on alot on the weekends - watching a discussion of supreme court case on medicinal marijuana right now...

smili.

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:05 pm

Oh......i use to swim a lot ( dunno how iot's called in english, swimming underwater with bottles on the back), snowboard as much as I can, reading a lot, and all kind of surf ( snowbaord yes but, kyte surf, snow kyte, skurf......)

alek Cool

but my fav hobby still be my daughter..... Laughing

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:10 pm

it's actually called madness budd

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:11 pm

so madness is my fav hobbies, and madness everywhere...... Laughing

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:55 pm

oh yeah... I used to play basketball alot - but that's before I got fat!!!

smili

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:42 am

I love novels. I go thru non-fiction phases for a year, then fiction. Am into Wilbur Smith novels and now need to do an African safari. Barefoot. In a UBW t-shirt and loin banana.

Spending time with my 3 kiddies takes # 1 spot though as they are growing up way too fast.

Have been oil painting since 15 and get totally lost with a brush in one hand and a smoke in the other, but haven't touched a brush for a while but will get back into it one day.

Would love to try swimming with bottles on my back, but the waters over here are a bit chilly for scuba-diving. Australia's Great Barrier Reef must be magical under water.

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:24 am

Why don't you just BE the basketball? Lol....I used to run 3 miles a day...that's until we moved 18 yards from the pub...now I walk Shocked

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:28 am

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:50 am

I think "Scuba" or "scuba diving" is what you're looking for. Very Happy

Would like to do some of that before I die.

smili

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:54 am

Ron, builiding custom computers for family/frineds - a little dangerous - no? I guessing you've become tech support too? Very Happy

On custom PCs, what mobos, video cards, hard drives, etc do you prefer when you're building? do you start with bare bones system, or do you start with a bare case?

smili

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:09 pm

Smili...

I usually start with bare case..

And as far as the tech support. They're going to call me whether they buy some piece of crap for $400 from the store or let me build them one Laughing

. At least with my machines I know what's in them and I can use name brand components. LOL

I use different components depending upon which is fastest and $$ good value at that time. I'm building one for a friend this christmas and I'll be using something like the following...

AMD 3000

1GB Mushkin DDR 3200

Shuttle SFF Case/Mobo Combo (I know I just said I didn't use these, but it's what he wants Laughing

)

Western Digital 200 GB

Plextor 52X Plexwriter Premium (Best CD burner money can buy, couldn't talk him into the DVD burner)

This machine has integrated video and my bud doesn't play games, so it will be fine for him. If he did play games, I would go with a Radeon card (as much as he could afford)
If I was buying a seperate mobo I would buy: Asus, Abit, or Iwill... I've built machines with all of these and had good results..

Ron

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:14 pm

when im not making music i find it very relaxing stalking people

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