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Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020
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#52Flying planes, well .. I hope I'll find some good written tutorials on HN
Fly twice a week, if you can't afford that, fly once a week, if you can't afford that save money until you can. Right rudder, right rudder.
If the goal is getting a license I usually recommend 3 times a week.
But there is something to be said about folks that go up just once a month with their instructor and enjoy the lessons. As long as the monthly experience is the goal and not a license anytime soon.
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#53Visit tiny museums. I stumbled across this hobby a few years ago. Whenever I'm in some place new, I run a search on google maps for "museums" and try to find the smallest, most niche topic possible. It's a pretty small time commitment - a small museum can often be explored in 30-60 minutes - and it's incredibly rewarding. The smaller the museum is, the more likely you'll meet the person who set it up. And that's guar…
Here's two more for you
1. The American Sign Museum - https://www.americansignmuseum.org/ - Cincinnati, OH. Dedicated to preserving neon signs from across America 2. The International Museum of Surgical Science - https://imss.org/ - Chicago, IL.
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#54My hobby is playing Minecraft and the first suggestion was Minecraft. Well played!
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#55I love running, drawing, and photography!
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#56Guns and shooting, a right not exercised is a right lost.
Ham radio, use your spectrum before the FCC auctions it off.
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#57Related: 50 Things to Experience Before You Die https://youtu.be/O42LGKRtd0M
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#58Visit tiny museums. I stumbled across this hobby a few years ago. Whenever I'm in some place new, I run a search on google maps for "museums" and try to find the smallest, most niche topic possible. It's a pretty small time commitment - a small museum can often be explored in 30-60 minutes - and it's incredibly rewarding. The smaller the museum is, the more likely you'll meet the person who set it up. And that's guar…
If you find yourself in Bellingham, WA, Sparks Museum of Electrical Invention is a fun little museum to spend a few hours wandering.
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#59Football.... that’s so vague!
Play professional football in the NFL!!
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#60I'm rather fond of the many DIY engineering hobbies that some people focus extremely deeply on. Air cannons were a big interest of mine back in 2009 or so: https://www.spudfiles.com/
Someone put a (rather primitive) air cannon simulator I wrote on GitHub: https://github.com/cli-mongrel/bags
And before then I was in to homemade water guns, e.g.: http://www.sscentral.org/homemade/supercannon2.html
I built that when I was a teenager as I recall.
Another example that I never participated in: http://www.pulse-jets.com/phpbb3/index.php
I'd love to get better at machining so I could make some small jet engines like those folks.
I'm similarly impressed by people who modify cars, build wind turbines, etc., etc.
If there are any particular hobbies along these lines that you find interesting, I'd love to hear about them!