Argentine Tango! I used to need 3 or 4 drinks to get near a dance floor. Never mind the gut wrenching fear of asking a woman to dance. Now I teach tango. Nothing like midlife to shake things up.
Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020
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#62Visit 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.
If you are in Las Vegas, there is a neon sign museum that is fantastic.
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#63Guns and shooting, a right not exercised is a right lost. Ham radio, use your spectrum before the FCC auctions it off.
About 5 years ago I tried to talk my kids into ham radio. We were all going to get licenses and buy radios but I couldn't sell it.
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#64Grow weed. You can stop smoking it but you will never stop growing it.
How do you go about starting growing though? I feel like I could be interested but it seems like something that's hard to start without the know-how.
There's a nice reddit community[1] dedicated to small-scale indoor growing. The sidebar has a lot of info to get you started and it's relatively inexpensive. Just be sure to check your local laws regarding cannabis cultivation and educate yourself on any potential risks.
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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.
If you are in Las Vegas, there is a neon sign museum that is fantastic.
Also the pinball hall! So cheap, and functional.
Re: Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020
#66Visit 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…
Have you considered adding a map of all the museums to your site? I don't want to share my location and I don't necessarily want to look for museums in my present location, but I would love to see what is cataloged and look for museums near future travel destinations.
A map is on the todo list: https://github.com/simonw/museums/issues/13
For the moment there's an undocumented map you can view here (using my datasette-cluster-map plugin) https://www.niche-museums.com/browse/museums
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#67I'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 w…
Heh, haven't seen SF mentioned in quite a while, definitely recognize your username from there though.
You should still try a pulse jet project if you have the space for it! The last time I built one it only required an angle grinder and small mig welder(+a spot welder improvised from a broken microwave, purely optional though).
Or... I do remember a neat how-to from Colin furze(youtube) for making a turbojet using only a hand drill and grinder. It wasn't exactly pretty but it definitely ran.
Re: Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020
#68Visit 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.
I love Neon stuff! I've got one Neon thing on there at the moment, definitely keen on visiting more. https://www.niche-museums.com/browse/search?q=neon
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#69Do video games count as a hobby? I just realized that nothing else really holds my interest and I'm now very worried.
Re: Find Yourself a Hobby for 2020
#70Visit 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. https://www.sparkmuseum.org/
It definitely is. They have a theramin, and give demos using a Faraday cage and Tesla coil