Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Aside from fixed gear.. SS.. and bikes

What other hobbies do people here have? Just curious to see if there's any similarity...

1) writing
2) reading
3) photography
4) playing the guitar a bit, although not nearly as much as I used to.

photography, travel, revolutionary politics [anarcho communism, feminism, anti-capitalism], progressive house and breakbeats at clubs. all sorts of pretty music at home.

i used to sew my own jeans and clothing and stuff, but since i got to uni, i haven't been able to afford the raw materials. or any new clothes at all. meanwhile: politicised stencil grafitti. and i just started making my own silk screens. i rock.

fsnl
sparky
eo: bedrock - emerald [grayarea speakeasy remix]

reading
sewing
smashing the state
playing cello

Bashing corporate imperialism in the groin.

bicycles consume most of my time.
in my spare time i:
i listen to .midi files of metallica (http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/7874/ftb.mid).
don't look for work.
play guitar.
snuggle my kittywugglekins.
i used to have a lot more hobbies, but then i moved and now i have no friends to do stuff with and i'm bitter about it, so i like to inflict my misery on others.

oh yeah, i read and write some too.
mostly though, i think.

now i have no friends to do stuff with and i'm bitter about it, so i like to inflict my misery on others.

What a nice hobby!

seems to be working okay for me so far...


....god, i'm so lonely. :(

snuggle my kittywugglekins.
this sucks ass. What the hell happened to you OTS?
But, if it was "punching my kittywugglekins" I would still be scared, but for other reasons.

My Hobbies:
talking
and, um...****
I only like bikes!
And I read too. Is that a hobby? Or "becoming inebriated"...is that a good hobby?
Being angry that all the bands I used to listen to are pretyy much gone. So I listen to them on various media.
Uh...pretending I am somebody. Is that good?
And...soup. I like various soups, canned and powdered.
Ah, and looking at stuff. Can't get enough of that.

photography
classical guitar
pantyhose
conservative talk radio listening

Romance
aggressive in-line skating
jet skiing
swimming
running
automobile racing(electric vehicle)
Downhill skiing
welding and fabrication

1) Playing/Writing/Recording my own music. Nobody likes me anymore so I have to be my own band.
2) Reading and writing.
3) Scaring myself.
4) I used to like drinking a lot and being social but I'm lucky if I can stomach beer one night a week. As far as being social...well, nobody likes me anymore.
5) I've started trying to make some art but it's not up to my standards. I think my technical, science based education may have killed the artist I used to be.

photography
classical guitar
pantyhose
conservative talk radio listening
and it's #3 by a nose!

Man, I'm a redneck compared to you all:

1) spending time with my lady
2)bikes
3)running
4)messing around with old cars and motocycles
(I've got a couple)
5)working on the house
6)car and motorcycle competition
7)going shooting with my dad

1) Jameson
2) PBR
2) Making web pages
3) Stargate
4) Hating GW
5) Smoking Crack

Stargate mondays f'n ROCK!

Welding
running (just finished a half marathon in under 2 hours, I'm so proud of myself)
autocross
Finishing hanging drywall in my house should be at the top of my hobbies list right now but it isn't, much to the dismay of my lovely wife.

I just got scared. Doesn't any one have the problems someone like me has: a job, two kids (one in college), and not enough time for anything! including enough biking. I have a road bike, a mountain bike and now a SS. All (almost) I want to do (and have time for is to bike. Maybe run if it's raining and windy. And read. Yeah, that's it. All I have time for is biking, and running, and reading, and working. And reading these forums.

Funny aside: I sit down to read these forums tonight and I open a bottle of red to go with the dinner and it is the same $2 buck chuck Charles Shaw Merlot that WK was drinking just yesterday! How does that happen? Oh yeah, add drinking cheap, but good red wine to that list up there. And pass the aspirin.

it is the same $2 buck chuck Charles Shaw Merlot that WK was drinking just yesterday! How does that happen?

capitalism, exploitation, gluttony and debauchery, decadence and eventually the death of a culture



Oh yeah, add drinking cheap, but good red wine to that list up there. And pass the aspirin.

I'll join you and yes, I will pass the aspirin.

In order of time taker upperness.

Kid and other family activities
Cycling
Yoga 2 times a week (yeah I know, but you should see the .... :) )
Studying about computers and related technology (it's work but I enjoy my work)
Digital Photography
Computer Games (only when there's a really interesting game out)
Home improvement (built a 240 sq ft deck pretty much myself)
Used to play paintball but it got expensive, pretty much gave it up when I quit up smoking. (Still have the gear though.)

Running (though not so much these days)
swimming
surfing
hunting

newest hobby - chasing my 12-month old around the house for 12 straight hours.

-cooking
-eating
-image manipulation
-porn

What other hobbies do people here have? Just curious to see if there's any similarity...

reading: lots and lots of books in the house (over 4000 at last count...my wife's a librarian, so we keep track of such things).
cinema AND film (sorta like country AND western, you might say). also, movies. combined, about a half-dozen per week.
photography: mostly nature, landscapes, and macro. being doing a lot of macro-landscapes. still shoot mostly slide film, but i've recently flirted with the dark side by purchasing a digital p/s.
landscaping: my wife takes care of the plants (except the house plants, those are mine) while i contour the land and scatter it with rocks and stones.
not driving.
paddling. mostly canoes, mostly flatwater and downriver to class III. this is the first year in the last 15 that i'm not going to the BWCAW.
drinking beer and eating (preferably at the same time, but the former if not the latter)
drinking coffee

Kayaking (sea & river)
Wood & metal working (furniture building)
Music
Writing
Semi-professional distance snot rocket competitor

damn, I thought this was going to be a good political thread. I was getting excited to see three refrences to anti-capitalism in the first four posts, even one about feminism. But then it quickly degenerated into the standard thread about cheep beer with the occational derogatory comment about womyn.

oh, add drinking cider to my list.
(cider is NOT cheep beer...just making that clear)
Tim

I was getting excited to see three refrences to anti-capitalism in the first four posts
Well, I don't know about others in here, but I used money I earned to BUY my bike. From a STORE that SELLS things to CONSUMERS. Let me know where the fixed/track bikes trees grow so I can go pick a frame next time I need one.

Well, I don't know about others in here, but I used money I earned to BUY my bike. From a STORE that SELLS things to CONSUMERS. Let me know where the fixed/track bikes trees grow so I can go pick a frame next time I need one.

deebo might know something about anticapitalistic lifestyle :rolleyes:

capitalism, exploitation, gluttony and debauchery, decadence and eventually the death of a culture

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uh-oh. A 200 year old culture, so rife with the evils of capitalism, one that's taking over the entire world, is going to die. Sounds very chicken little to me. America may not have the best culture, and i don't always agree with pushing it on the rest of the world, but we're a young country, still adolescent and wet behind the ears. Give us time, we'll get better, or we'll get taken over by the nebulons, and nobody likes their style. Just ask the cheat.



oh, add drinking cider to my list.
(cider is NOT cheep beer...just making that clear)


You're right, cider isn't cheap beer. It just sucks. (if you mean hard cider. Regular cider is as delicious as apple butter) Have a nice hornsby's nancy. Don't for get to swing by the pro shop and pick up your skirt.(/mandatory derogatory comment about "womyn")

Embrace objectivism (/mandatory pro-capitalist flame)

i like to color, and sometimes im allowed to leave the house, sometimes.

1. guitar playin'
2. cookin'
3. datin' women
4. computer\internet (if #3 doesn't work out) :o

1. Fixin'
2. Whitewater kayakin'
3. Coffee
4. My bunny
5. internet surfin'
6. Occasional dark beer
7. Virtuafighter -- tryin' to cut down

A fairly lackluster list, I admit, but I'm hoping to add "Stickin' it to the man" and "Defending the oppressed" this year as part of my New Year's resolution...

Cam

indymedia.org
smashing capitalist running dogs
cracking on sexist losers
hating the bush dynasty and every other good 'ole boy network
stalking suvs
taking care of my doggy and my friends
painting large canvases

thats better.

I think its funny that simply the mention of alternative sociological views (i.e. feminism) causes some people to become so insulted that they feel that it is mandatory that they further entrench themselves blindly into their current ideology (i.e. patriarchy)

And I did purchase my bike (it was a personal transaction which did not bring corporations or stores into the matter), but I make my own cider.

tim

In no particular order

hiking/camping/backpacking
cars
reading
music
socializing
avoiding a computer away from work

stalking suvs

Are you the one who leaves love notes on my Jeep for me?
'Cause it is getting a little 'bit funky now.

What do I like:

Being a dad. My kid, she rocks. Building her a mixtie road bike right now.
Being a husband. My wife, pretty tolerant, loving..
Travel (the journey, not the destination) in many forms.
Philosophy (only to understand perception, not to discover my self or that)
Music (still love techno, but I hate Oakenfield)
Wine (but I don't spend over 10 dollars a bottle)
Confrontation (you got an issue with that?)

Learning to balance the inconsistencies in my life
hate porn, but like to look at beautiful women;
hate the car culture, dig my jeep with big tires, lockers, etc; hate racism, but find my self labeling very often;
hate big cooperation's, but love how companies find a way to get stuff done cheaply and efficiently;
don't like people, but love interacting with them and learning about their lives;
enjoy being in the Navy, don't care for the image people have of military personnel;
believe in free speech, some people should shut the **** up;

you get the picture.

aww, WK, that was beautiful!

(I edited your cooperation/corporation on the quote below. -- And I do tend to leave jeeps alone, unless they are super mega huge and in my artsy fartsy side of town. :))




Are you the one who leaves love notes on my Jeep for me?
'Cause it is getting a little 'bit funky now.


Learning to balance the inconsistencies in my life
hate porn, but like to look at beautiful women;
hate the car culture, dig my jeep with big tires, lockers, etc; hate racism, but find my self labeling very often;
hate big corporations, but love how companies find a way to get stuff done cheaply and efficiently;
don't like people, but love interacting with them and learning about their lives;
enjoy being in the Navy, don't care for the image people have of military personnel;
believe in free speech, some people should shut the **** up;

you get the picture.

What do I like:
Wine (but I don't spend over 10 dollars a bottle)


Any recommendations for a good merlot or cabernet?

And I did purchase my bike (it was a personal transaction which did not bring corporations or stores into the matter), but I make my own cider.

tim

in order to further entrench myself... You can make your own cider (and i'll redact the cider comments from above) but you can't make your own bike. Sure you bought it through a personal transaction, but did that person make it? Did they hand-craft the parts? Where did they get the steel (al, carbon, ti, etc.) for the frame? And so on and so forth.

I like the ability to go down the street to the LBS, and exchange earned money (or in my case, borrowed) for readily available goods and services. But go on wit yo bad self, raging against "the man." I can't help it i was born white middle class, the root of all the worlds evil.

I can't help it i was born white middle class, the root of all the worlds evil.

I'm glad you can acknowledge your privilege. :)

randomly:

music
women
computers of the macintosh persuasion
the japanese language and culture (& anime)
women
cheap alcohol
literature
movies
women
action painting
street art
progressive/radical politics
did i mention women? can't forget them (no matter how hard i try).

j-

uh-oh. A 200 year old culture, so rife with the evils of capitalism, one that's taking over the entire world, is going to die. Sounds very chicken little to me. America may not have the best culture, and i don't always agree with pushing it on the rest of the world, but we're a young country, still adolescent and wet behind the ears. Give us time, we'll get better, or we'll get taken over by the nebulons, and nobody likes their style. Just ask the cheat.

The cheat? Are we talking Strongbad/Homestar runner?

How do you know if the nebulons won't be our friends and be nice and learn to share our candy like good socialists?





You're right, cider isn't cheap beer. It just sucks. (if you mean hard cider. Regular cider is as delicious as apple butter) Have a nice hornsby's nancy. Don't for get to swing by the pro shop and pick up your skirt.(/mandatory derogatory comment about "womyn")

Don't hold back, please. We like honest, heartfelt, straightforward answers.





Embrace objectivism (/mandatory pro-capitalist flame)

What the hell is...?

Any recommendations for a good merlot or cabernet?

The australians seem to be making some good stuff lately. Blass..

BV makes some really good cabernet, just make sure it's coastal, and not central valley.

I've found some Raven's wood on sale at Trader Joe's that wasn't bad.

Most anything from 97-99 was pretty good. The 2000's and up I've had I don't care for.

If you can find it, 1998/1999 Amarone is really good. Open in and let it sit for a month.

On the subject of mellowish reds:

Because of poor US relations with the French, Borduex (sp) prices have dipped, so I've been getting a lot of that lately.

Also been digging Pinot Noirs from Alexander Valley area.

Well, I don't know about others in here, but I used money I earned to BUY my bike. From a STORE that SELLS things to CONSUMERS. Let me know where the fixed/track bikes trees grow so I can go pick a frame next time I need one.


Me, I want a tree fixed gear! I want one, I want one, I want one. But oh crap... then we'll be killing more trees! :eek:

The australians seem to be making some good stuff lately. Blass..

BV makes some really good cabernet, just make sure it's coastal, and not central valley.

I've found some Raven's wood on sale at Trader Joe's that wasn't bad.

Most anything from 97-99 was pretty good. The 2000's and up I've had I don't care for.

If you can find it, 1998/1999 Amarone is really good. Open in and let it sit for a month.

On the subject of mellowish reds:

Because of poor US relations with the French, Borduex (sp) prices have dipped, so I've been getting a lot of that lately.

Also been digging Pinot Noirs from Alexander Valley area.


I have been digging most red wines from Chile. Good stuff, nice flavor without getting too sweet.

I'm glad you can acknowledge your privilege. :)

I don't consider it a privilege to be born middle white class. In fact, I consider it something I have to constantly shed to make sure I stay in touch with the reality of the world around me. And I consider it a curse because people automatically judge me. The rich consider me trash, the poor consider me rich. Both consider me someone who doesn't belong there.. and well, as for the other middle class.. I don't like people really anyway. :D

I have been digging most red wines from Chile. Good stuff, nice flavor without getting too sweet.

I'm going there in a few months. Valparizo or something.

But the last time I hade Chilean wine, it was, well, pretty bad. And this comes from a guy who drank night train and thunderbird once or twice. I'll have to try it again.

I don't mind a sweet red. In fact, I love Port wines, but... you gotta watch them, they sneak up on you.

I don't consider it a privilege to be born middle white class. In fact, I consider it something I have to constantly shed to make sure I stay in touch with the reality of the world around me. And I consider it a curse because people automatically judge me. The rich consider me trash, the poor consider me rich. Both consider me someone who doesn't belong there.. and well, as for the other middle class.. I don't like people really anyway. :D


my sentiments exactly.

writting 10 page commentaries on 5 verses from the book of Philippians
listening to metal

I edited your cooperation/corporation on the quote below.

A bit presumptuous on your part, don't you think? Maybe WK really doesn't like companies that are overly cooperative. A little cooperation...maybe that is alright. But No Big Cooperation! :)