Do you guys have hobbies?

[Torn Mind]

Matthew McConaughey's hobby is driving a Lincoln, or so he claims.

 

[Kaido]

Matthew McConaughey's hobby is driving a Lincoln, or so he claims.

 

[IBMJunkman]

I collect IBM punch cards.
www.IBMJunkman.com

 

[BudAshes]

Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass. Luckily I have plenty of bubblegum.

 

[snoopy7548]

Eh... my hobbies vary. I'll usually focus on one thing for a while but almost burn myself out and get bored with it, then come back to it later. I think I need more focus. Here are a few things:

Woodworking (stopped for the winter)
Snowboarding
Gaming (just getting back into this and hope to stick with it)
Various home projects/general house stuff

At the end of the day, though, I feel like most of the things I do is just to pass the time.

 

[Kaido]

I collect IBM punch cards.
www.IBMJunkman.com

I'll never forget this story. My first semester of college, I had a really awesome intro to programming class with a professor who was part of the original team that brought CAD to desktops in the 70's & 80's, SUPER cool lady. She told us about one of their final programming exams on punch cards...her classmate was watching to class with hundreds of them in a stack, tripped, fell, dropped ALL of them, and just collapsed in a heap crying. There weren't any home printers back then, so they weren't labeled with a numerical order sequence. Ever since then, I adopted two habits:

1. I mastered the quick-save shortcut (ex. ALT + F + S in Word) & anytime I'm done with a chunk of work, I do my little keyboard-shortcut jig to force a save (this includes video games, haha!)

2. I save a duplicate copy at the end of day (if you don't have 2 copies, you don't have backup! RAID doesn't count!!). I saw too many people have their floppies die (back in the day), their USB stick not work, their laptop boot drive die, etc. I had a friend lose his PhD thesis that he had worked on for YEARS because his laptop's drive died beyond repair. These days, I'll often just drag a backup into an archive folder on my Google Drive or just email myself a copy.

Those two behaviors have saved me many, many times when things go haywire! Also, cool website!!

 

[Kaido]

so does a hobby have to be creating something?

A hobby is defined "an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure." So something as simple as surfing ATOT is a hobby!

Start with a blue-sky dream: if you had unlimited resources (money, time, teachers, energy, etc.) what would be your DREAM hobbies?

 

[Mayne]

A hobby is defined "an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure." So something as simple as surfing ATOT is a hobby!

Start with a blue-sky dream: if you had unlimited resources (money, time, teachers, energy, etc.) what would be your DREAM hobbies?

I dont know man, i think a lot about my sister

 

[Captante]

I dont know man, i think a lot about my sister

Not to imply memories of your sister are a bad thing BUT "hobbies" are supposed to keep you occupied so you DON'T dwell on sad stuff that you can't change.

Would your beloved sis (RIP) want you to be miserable over her? I doubt it.


Maybe this will brighten your mood! (White Widow autoflower end week 8 ~ harvest-time is fast approaching!)

 

[snoopy7548]

A hobby is defined "an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure." So something as simple as surfing ATOT is a hobby!

Start with a blue-sky dream: if you had unlimited resources (money, time, teachers, energy, etc.) what would be your DREAM hobbies?

Two chicks at the same time?

 

[Scarpozzi]

Hobbies for me have varied over the years, but I haven't had time to get back into many.

I like aviation/flying planes, boating, snowboarding, gardening/yardwork, traveling, canning vegetables, woodworking and building things. I like to bake, brew beer, smoke bbq, and have kept a few hives of honeybees a few seasons, but they died off. I haven't brewed beer or done bbq for a long while, but want to get back into it.

I also need to kick myself into gear and get active again....I consider working out a hobby because goals surrounding it can vary a lot.

Naturally, technology is a hobby for me too, but I have a tech job so I try to limit my home exposure to "work" stuff. I think I like flying the most.

 

[Muse]

I don't think i've ever had a hobby

People with certain kinds of lifestyles have hobbies. I don't consider myself one of them. I have passions, interests, things I do, things I'm committed to, all kinds of stuff, but have never had a "hobby."

 

[Muse]

I collect IBM punch cards.
www.IBMJunkman.com

I still have a box I made out of them and some clear tape. I won't tell you what I keep inside it, though.

 

[brianmanahan]

Matthew McConaughey's hobby is driving a Lincoln, or so he claims.

my hobby is driving a honda

i drove mine line 300 miles this past weekend just to have something to do

but i think i would enjoy driving a lincoln more

 

[brianmanahan]

I still have a box I made out of them and some clear tape. I won't tell you what I keep inside it, though.

 

[Torn Mind]

my hobby is driving a honda

i drove mine line 300 miles this past weekend just to have something to do

but i think i would enjoy driving a lincoln more

For the first 100k. Then you will get the "FORD" experience thereafter. Shit breaks in the most inopportune places, and for seemingly the most basic of things, and DIY? Perish the thought.

 

[Red Squirrel]

my hobby is driving a honda

i drove mine line 300 miles this past weekend just to have something to do

but i think i would enjoy driving a lincoln more

You're still at an advantage once the vtec kicks in yo!

 

[Torn Mind]

You're still at an advantage once the vtec kicks in yo!

He might even meet Eric the Car Guy.

(Both in Ohio, they probably different parts)

 

[sdifox]

I still have a box I made out of them and some clear tape. I won't tell you what I keep inside it, though.

Nudie GIF encoded in Punch Cards

 

[Muse]

I'll never forget this story. My first semester of college, I had a really awesome intro to programming class with a professor who was part of the original team that brought CAD to desktops in the 70's & 80's, SUPER cool lady. She told us about one of their final programming exams on punch cards...her classmate was watching to class with hundreds of them in a stack, tripped, fell, dropped ALL of them, and just collapsed in a heap crying. There weren't any home printers back then, so they weren't labeled with a numerical order sequence. Ever since then, I adopted two habits:

1. I mastered the quick-save shortcut (ex. ALT + F + S in Word) & anytime I'm done with a chunk of work, I do my little keyboard-shortcut jig to force a save (this includes video games, haha!)

2. I save a duplicate copy at the end of day (if you don't have 2 copies, you don't have backup! RAID doesn't count!!). I saw too many people have their floppies die (back in the day), their USB stick not work, their laptop boot drive die, etc. I had a friend lose his PhD thesis that he had worked on for YEARS because his laptop's drive died beyond repair. These days, I'll often just drag a backup into an archive folder on my Google Drive or just email myself a copy.

Those two behaviors have saved me many, many times when things go haywire! Also, cool website!!

I've lost precious little data and I'm really really big on data. If I lost all my data, my life would take a new trajectory. I have backups away from my house, in two locations, actually 3 if I include the HD I keep in my car, but I don't swap that one out as often.

I was doing some work the other day and some of my code borked and I had to restore files that weren't screwed up. It was a simple matter. Why things got screwed up I'm not sure, but I have some good ideas of how to fix it. Backups are really a big deal. Besides storage dying, there are innumerable events that can screw things up... fire, earthquake, power surge or outage, theft, mental errors. My NAS has two mirrored HDs, but that is not backup, it's just insurance that if one of the 2 HDs fails, the data lives on the NAS for the time being.

 

[Muse]

my hobby is driving a honda

i drove mine line 300 miles this past weekend just to have something to do

but i think i would enjoy driving a lincoln more

I worked temps for ~10 years. One of the more memorable assignments was moving rental cars from one locale to another. Used to take rides in Lincoln Town Cars with a bunch of bloods, listening to soul music on the radio. That was smooth!

 

[nakedfrog]

my hobby is driving a honda

i drove mine line 300 miles this past weekend just to have something to do

but i think i would enjoy driving a lincoln more

Brian, man (ahan), there's gotta be a better way to fill your time.

 

[sdifox]

I worked temps for ~10 years. One of the more memorable assignments was moving rental cars from one locale to another. Used to take rides in Lincoln Town Cars with a bunch of bloods, listening to soul music on the radio. That was smooth!

And it's on Youtube!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've always been decent about backups, but my backups also could be better. I've only been in a few situations where I had to resort to backups, and it was always a mini panic attack realizing that if they don't work I have no other recourse. Thankfully they've always worked.

When I lost my cat and was going through all the pictures of her and all my pictures in general I realized that I really should have more copies of static data such as pictures so I made more copies. Things like that don't change once they're created, and need to be kept basically forever. It made me start to look at LTO tapes. I have not actually made any purchase yet but I do want to eventually do it. Does require a bit of a different approach though as it's harder to update data. I would probably reserve them for long term archival and once they're full I just store them indefinitely.

I also want to revamp my HDD backup solution so it's a little more automated. I want to be able to essentially have a bunch of odd sized HDDs and the backup software handles everything, such as spanning folders across multiple drives, keeping multiple copies on separate drives etc. It would just tell me what drive to insert and run a nightly backup then tell me to insert the next drive and so on. Every night I would just insert a different drive and let it do it's thing. Same for restores, it would track where all the files are and just tell me what drive to insert. I guess basically like Backupexec.

Right now my backup solution basically consists of backup jobs that I assign to a drive, and I need to make sure that drive is big enough for that particular job. A job is simply a list of folders. The issue with this solution is over time the drives do fill up as the folders gain more data so I need to restructure the job and manually delete data.

 

[brianmanahan]

He might even meet Eric the Car Guy.

(Both in Ohio, they probably different parts)

it's been a decade since i made it all the way down to kentuckcincinnati

maybe i'll drive there this weekend!