Hobbies

[Devanshu]

Mine are sports, hanging out with friends, listening to music, girls, girls, girls, and movies(of course).

[tgpo]

Watching Movies, Listening to Music, Playing the Bass Guitar, Making my own movies

[Devanshu]

Playing the Bass Guitar

I tried to learn but sucked really really bad.

[i_am_dave]

Making home video's, of course.
Only one X-rated video so far.
I am really into wine makeing at the moment. Just finished and bottles a good batch of Strawberry, about 12 bottles.
In the works are:
3 Gallons of Sangria
5 Gallons of Peach
5 Gallons of Pear
5 Gallons of Golden Muscat

[Solarjetman]

My all time favorite hobby is flying and aviation. I've had my pilot's license for about a year and a half now and have loved every minute of it.

Here is a picture from the plane as I am on the downwind leg of my approach to my destination airport. This was taken on my first solo cross-country flight (anything over 50 nautical miles). This particular trip was something in the range of 70 nautical miles one way (about 80 statute miles).

[SLICK RICK]

Solarjetman,

Must be really fun.

Did you ever feel like while you were flying?

SLICK RICK

[Solarjetman]

Did you ever feel like while you were flying?

Well, I have never felt physically ill (although another one of my instructor's students barfed on him once ), but on my first flight, I was a little disoriented. Its a very un-natural experience for a human trying to gage their postition in 3-D instead of 2-D like on the ground, but it passes on the second or third flight.

[tgpo]

I've never been in a plane before.

[Devanshu]

Solarjetman, thats an awesome hobby. I think I'll learn how to fly eventually(right after I get over my fear of heights).

[shoozleboy]

That's cool, Solar....

I picked up some info from a local airport that gives lessons.... my only hold up is the time... If I go to learn, I want to be able to concentrate on just that.... not be distracted with everything else. I'm the type that needs to be able to absorb the info without interuption.

I've been wanting to do the ground school for years now, but life has been going so fast.... school, marriage, house, child, job, and now another child on the way.....

.... maybe next year I can do the ground school. I have a friend of mine that I met at work years ago, he's now retired. Anyway, he was an airport Dispatcher in the Marines and in the civilian life for almost 35 years. He can tell some stories about what goes on in the background of some of these airports... some of them would make you wonder how we get planes off the ground....

oh well... someday....

BTW: Hobbies = home improvement, computers, Porsche, and a good book every now and then.

[Solarjetman]

Thanks Devanshu and shoozleboy. I am not sure if you were being sarcastic or not Devanshu, but if you or anyone else is interested in getting into aviation (or just want to put your toes in to see if you like it), almost all flight schools have an introduction lesson that tends to be cheaper than normal lessons if you want to see if its "right for you".

some of them would make you wonder how we get planes off the ground....

I don't doubt it, my flight club had an Air Traffic Controller speak once and I have some stories from the pilot's seat as well. I once had to chase a coyote around the airport in my plane to clear the runway so a jet could take off. True story! The control tower actually asked me to do that! :P

Some things just don't make any sense if you take them individually, but as a whole, it seems to work

[Devanshu]

I wasnt being sarcastic...I really think it would be a cool skill to have. For starters, I'm not too comfortable with heights. The most I can handle is bungee jumping. I enjoy flying, as long as I dont look down.

[housepig]

Making home video's, of course.
Only one X-rated video so far.

"...now if only there's someone else in it with me next time..."

[Devanshu]

[mysticgohan17]

eh, jerkin it. porn..uhh.... :P

[Craig Tucker]

Video, obviously. Football (thats proper football ), Snooker, Pool, Golf, Tennis and Squash I all play pretty regularly. I also frequent the gym several times a week, but I don't really enjoy that

[racer-x]

I dragraced motorcycles for 10 years (very successfuly) before raising a family effectively put an end to it. I'm planning on getting back into it when I retire. I might even try flying, I always wanted to do it but didn't have the time.

Now I'm into Video and sports (mostly my son's). I still have 2 really fast bikes in my garage that I take out now and then. I like to wind the piss out of them, it gets the adreniline flowing.

Hey i_am_dave, send me some of that wine.

[Will Hay]

Video (obviously), soccer, playing with my websites although most of my time is taken up with my son and my 1971 MG B Roadster, in that order.
And, thanks to Gees I'm about to spend £100 on a radio controlled car which, if you ask my wife, is for my son
Will

[Gees]

Hey, Hay! I did warn you!!! :cD I said, "don't go there. You WILL want things."

:cD

That's a very nice pressie you got for your son. ;c)

PS - like the new quote :c)

[i_am_dave]

"...now if only there's someone else in it with me next time..."

Sorry, didn't film it. I did what so many in the industry do, a cut and paste job using existing material.

I've also got a collection of Most Extreme Elimination challenge, episodes 1-12

Hey i_am_dave, send me some of that wine.

What's the ZIP-code for the 3rd rock from the Sun?

[racer-x]

Hey i_am_dave, check your messages.

When I was growing up, my family made our own wine. I remember squashing the grapes with my feet when I was little. We would make barrels of it and always drank it at the dinner table. We also made our own sosauge.

[i_am_dave]

You should really get back into it. I just started this year. My wife bought me a starter kit for Christmas.
I can make drinkable stuff for about $1 a bottle using concentrates.
The Pear I have going cost me $4 (That's about $0.16 per bottle). That was the cost of the sugar, chemicals and yeast. A friend had a tree with really good fruit and I told him that if he would supply the fruit, I would split the yields with him.
Besides being cheap, it is just a lot of fun to mess with!

[Devanshu]

Video, obviously. Football (thats proper football ), Snooker, Pool, Golf, Tennis and Squash I all play pretty regularly. I also frequent the gym several times a week, but I don't really enjoy that

For starters, NFL rules all. Also, whats snooker?

[Solarjetman]

Also, whats snooker?

I thought it was Pool or Billards for us Americans, but craig also mentioned pool

[Devanshu]

Thats what I thought at first too. But then I realized he wrote pool. British lingo I guess.

[Craig Tucker]

Snooker is not pool, I play Snooker, 8 ball english pool and have also been known to play 9 ball American pool.

With snooker you have a 12' x 6' table, 15 reds in a triangle, a black ball just behind the reds at the bottom of the table and a pink ball at the top point of the triangle. A blue ball in the centre of the table, and a yellow green and brown ball on the baulk line at each end and the centre of the D. You obviously also have a cue ball.

Reds are worth 1 point, yellow 2, green 3, brown 4, blue 5, pink 6 and black 7. You score points by first potting a red, you must then nominate a colour. You do this alternately red, colour, red colour until you miss then that is the end of the break. Reds once potted stay in the pockets, colours are returned to their spots. Once all the reds are potted the colours are potted sequentially in order of value i.e. yellow to black.

I knew snooker was not popular in the states but I thought you would have at least heard of it.

Here is a diagram of a Snooker Table and how the balls are set up.



If you want to know more Look Here

It is a very good game, and is much more challenging than pool.

[Devanshu]

Sounds like a fun game. I always thought snooker and pool were the same thing. I'll definitely try it with my buddies sometime. Thanks

[Solarjetman]

Well, you learn something everyday!

I am HORRIBLE at anything to do with billards though.

[Devanshu]

Well, you learn something everyday!

I am HORRIBLE at anything to do with billards though.

I used to be bad until one of my friends really got me into it. Now I play pretty often. I guess practice makes perfect. Actually, scratch that. No matter how hard I try to play guitar, I end up sucking...so solarjetman, I know where you're coming from.

[tgpo]

I tried to play the guitar for a few months, but I just couldn't do it. So I gave it up and a few months later took up the bass guitar.