Bicycle riding: Road, MTB and BMX
Powerlifting
Trail running
Brazilian Jiu-jitsu / submission wrestling
Tinkering with old cars.
Hobby electronics / hanging out at the hackerspace messing with random projects. I started an effort to build a Z80 based 8-bit "retrocomputer" a while back.
Lately I've been picking at learning to play keyboard / piano.
I've also been dabbling in trying to learn to draw.
I also like to read a lot, both fiction and non-fiction.
And last but not least, going to heavy-metal concerts.
Not really. Mostly I just have too many interests and not enough time to pursue them all. And I try not to over-think this stuff, but I did make kind of a pointed effort to take up some more artistic / creative things with the interests in drawing and playing keyboard. For most of my life I had no hobbies that really had that artistic aspect to them, so that was something of a conscious decision. That said, I love music and learning to play an instrument was always one of those "I'll get around to it one day" things, and I just finally bit the bullet.
Personally I'm into older japanese makes, currently playing with circuit racing in an early model mx5 (miata).. But also a big fan of Australian and American muscle.
I find it really good having a physical/mechanical hobby outside of the on-screen work I do during the day. It's like sorbet for your brain.
American muscle-cars from the 60's / 70's mainly. I own a 1968 Camaro that was my first car (a gift from my dad) but it's been parked for a while with a blown engine. Lately I've been thinking a lot about trying to find a cheap 1970's era pickup, maybe a Chevy C-10 or something, to play with. I get tired of newer cars and how complicated it is to work on them. Take my RX-8 for example: you have to jack the car up and crawl underneath just to change spark-plugs. Uuugh. OTOH, take something like a 1975 C-10 and you can almost get inside the engine compartment and stand on the ground with the engine in place. You also don't need a lot of special tools, secret manufacturer codes, etc. to work on something like that.
Honestly, I spend enough time during my day job doing "computer stuff". I'd rather have a car to mess with that's old enough to be pre ECM era. No fuel-injection, just a plain old Holley 650 or something. :-)
I wish we got some of the cool 70's American products down here in Australia, though we get some equally neat imports to make up for it I suppose. But it's certainly a good hobby to have outside of work I reckon.
And haha, yeah the rx-8 probably isn't the best example of a newer car in terms of maintenance or reliability :) But I do love rotors!
Reading (mostly SF)
I've been teaching myself reverse-engineering of DOS games, and I've had one project in particular going on for a couple years, with numerous branchings, experiments, side-investigations, etc.
Learning languages, on and off. German, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic, in rough order of how much time/work I've put into each.
Collecting (computer and video) games. I only play a couple hours a week these days, but I can still rarely resist if something interesting-looking comes up for a nice price on GoG, or somewhere. Or a sudden yen for a childhood console game.
I suppose I've made a hobby or a game of coming up with novel ways of making my son laugh, and to (mildly) embarrass his mother.
I spend ludicrous amounts of time reading wikipedia (technology, psychology, philosophy, science, design).
I wish there were more single player video games that I found interesting. The only stuff I can enjoy are competitive multiplayer games. Antichamber and Soma are the only two single player games that come to mind that were incredibly good experiences.
I think and read about software/computers about 12 hours a day too if that counts.
Do you use any tools to streamline reading Wikipedia or are you just using the site and following interesting links?
Thanks!
I always have a tab-backlog of wikipedia and HN articles.
But if hobbies includes academic interests, then computer science, mathematics, (programming is a given in this community I suppose), rationality and many other fields of science. Also, competitive programming is something i do occasionally, the short feedback cycle gives makes it quite addictive.
* Cycling
* Brewing
The combination of parenthood and my current job seems to have cut into hobby programming a lot, but haven't given up completely.
-Coming up with small talk on dating apps
-Going on first dates
-Wishing there was an app for arranged marriage...
I thought there was something beautiful about how two people, who barely know each other, but have been selected by their parents and match maker both agree to make the best of it together. They explained that of course they have differences, but by both putting in effort have made a happy relationship. They seemed very sweet together and had a nice positive energy.
* Taking pictures.
* Spending time learning about hardware, via ESP8266 chips.
* Auditing software for security problems.
* Reading. Constantly.
* Indoor rock-climbing & general gym-going.
- Coding electronic music / sound design
- Songwriting
- Singing
- Pen-and-paper RPGs (mainly D&D, as a player & DM)
- Cooking, baking in particular
- Reading, mainly weird fiction & philosophy
- Rambling (hiking to Americans, but generally involves more pubs)
- Real ale / craft beer
- Trying to read the entire internet
Something I just realised: I am an utterly stereotypical, central-casting nerd :/
- Rockclimbing = purposeful exercise with some problem solving for my busy mind
- Movies
- Lot of science/space documentaries and talks on YT
Looking at starting a company motorcycle related...hope it doesn't kill my hobbies :-/
Historical fencing (inc. teaching, wrote a book as well), target shooting, living history.
These require some reading of sources, language study, and so on.
Hiphop/R&B music
Baseball/Basketball statistics
Beer
Reading about Philosophy and Religion
Weightlifting
The advice I got was to get Watchmaking by George Daniels and read that to get a strong overview.
It's unfortunately currently sitting on my bookshelf, I am forcing myself to complete the GMAT before I dive into it.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14610110
[1] http://watchesbysjx.com/2017/05/portrait-masahiro-kikuno-jap...
This is the kit I saw btw (not sure about this particular seller): https://www.happypuzzle.co.uk/products/the-amazing-clock-kit...
I will pick one up for my kid when she grows up :)
More recently: 3D printing, and I'm just starting my first robotics project.
- Programming Hackathons / Conferences
- Music (Alternative / Indie)
- TV Shows and Anime (I waste too much time on them)
- Yoga
- Cooking
- Learning other languages
- Non-Fiction Books
Maintaining my aging (13 y/o) German car
Watching basketball / F1
Weightlifting
Reading psychology books
Trying to get into guitar
>trying to get into the guitar
just curious, have you been able to play your first song? How long have you been at it?
and gardening
Rock Climbing
Radio