Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by mcantor » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 5:46 PM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #8

Beer, shooting pool, foreign languages, extensive traveling (~30 countries) and just having a good time. Hate to exaggerate this, but I prefer having fun to everything else in life. Anyone else a creature of comfort? At some point I would like to own a blues bar and design my own award winning steaks and burgers (someone, please, clone Madam's Organ.) Things I hate . Video games, television, nightclubs with loud "div…

Upvoted for beer & foreign languages, but at the risk of starting One Of Those Debates; why the video game hate?

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by yan » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 5:46 PM UTC

JshWright wrote: post #16

I volunteer with my local fire dept. Also, I keep fish (both fresh and salt), and practice Tae Kwon Do.

Wow, cool. What sorts of work do you do as a volunteer? How much time do you usually dedicate?

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by Rickasaurus » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 5:47 PM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #8

Beer, shooting pool, foreign languages, extensive traveling (~30 countries) and just having a good time. Hate to exaggerate this, but I prefer having fun to everything else in life. Anyone else a creature of comfort? At some point I would like to own a blues bar and design my own award winning steaks and burgers (someone, please, clone Madam's Organ.) Things I hate . Video games, television, nightclubs with loud "div…

I like most of those things too: beer, shooting pool and traveling adventures.

I also hate most of the same things: television, loud nightclubs, rude people.

I still like video games too though. They can be like a quick adventure in the middle of my stressed out every day life.

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by mattmichielsen » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 5:49 PM UTC

Brewing beer and working on sub-$1000 BMWs and Porsches.

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by aw3c2 » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 5:51 PM UTC

Geocaching & OpenStreetMap are two of my favourite hobbies I recommend to anyone here.

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by jedediah » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 5:52 PM UTC

Photography and boardgames.

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by yan » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 5:54 PM UTC

mcantor wrote: post #21

mahmud wrote: post #8

Beer, shooting pool, foreign languages, extensive traveling (~30 countries) and just having a good time. Hate to exaggerate this, but I prefer having fun to everything else in life. Anyone else a creature of comfort? At some point I would like to own a blues bar and design my own award winning steaks and burgers (someone, please, clone Madam's Organ.) Things I hate . Video games, television, nightclubs with loud "div…

Upvoted for beer & foreign languages, but at the risk of starting One Of Those Debates; why the video game hate?

At the risk of not conveying mahmud's true reasons, I'd like to chime in since I share all of his hates. If I had to pick a reason to hate video games, I'd say because they are mental sugar. They are a huge time sink and when you are playing video games you are not partaking in other things that I (and maybe the OP) attribute more value to, like socializing, exercising, or a number of other activities.

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by oldgregg » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 5:55 PM UTC

Snowboarding, hiking, cycling, basement dance parties, photography, making random videos, this american life on NPR, watching geeked out documentaries like helvetica, and getting up on my wife... not necessarily in that order. Oh, and eating, I love eating.

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by davidw » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 5:59 PM UTC

kevinherron wrote: post #12

Mountain biking :) Trying to train 3-4 times per week (after work) for races coming up in the spring. Getting hard without daylight on my side. Gonna have to buy a light soon. Or adjust my work hours.

Night riding can be a lot of fun. It's best on a nice single track on a summer's night, when it's just cooling off some, but can be fun in winter too if you're dressed right.

Re: Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?

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Post by davidw » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 6:00 PM UTC

Cycling is all I have time for, outside of programming (which is also a hobby) and family life. I used to like to go salsa dancing with my wife, but the baby is a bit of a hindrance to going out:-/ I also love to go out for drinks (spritz!) in the piazzas here - I would miss that a great deal if I ever went back to the US.