Your hobbies

With a name like Bellringer.........campanology!

My forum profile pretty much sums it all up

Evans wrote: BaldFriede wrote: Reading books, playing bridge. Jean and I are an excellent pair, though we currently don't have that much time for practicing. About 3 years ago we were really top and would have feared no-one in the world, and I mean it. We need to practice more. Bridge, by the way, is NOT a pastime for old ladies, mas it is usually depicted in movies. On the contrary, it is more like chess. In bridge tournaments the element of card luck is totally eliminated; it all relies on skills. Bridge is, as far as I know, the only card game for which this is true. Not to forget playing music, of course. Very true. I had a teacher in high school who was totally obsessed with the game, and once he heard he was, we asked him to show us. We ended up having almost no real classes for the rest of the year, he was always up for a game of bridge, and that second term was one with a lot of freedom to do "whatever we wanted, as long as it was done by dead line". Unfourtunately, you need to be four people (or three, but that's not real bridge) at all times you want to play, so it was hard to keep up, and it is very complicated to learn, so when interest dwindled (also due to the fact that we didn't always have recess at the same time) i lost what little knowledge i had of the game. And he also told us about that tournament thing, as i understood it, every team (pair...) plays the same hand and the one who handles it the best wins the round, so to speak. Yep. It's a pretty cool game.

Exactly. And in team tournaments, where 2 teams (A and B) made of two pairs each play against each other, it is done like this: Pair 1 of team plays against pair 2 of team B in one room, and the other 2 pairs in the other room, and the cards are simply swapped between the teams. So that pair 1 of team A will hold exactly the same cards as pair 1 of team B and pair 2 of team A will hold the cards of pair 2 of team B. This kind of comparison is even easier than the comparison in pair tournaments.

YesFan72 wrote: I crochet.

Ah yes - Asimov's less successful sequel to I Robot

There are hobbies besides music!?!

Geck0 wrote: cuncuna wrote: Geck0 wrote: Playing harmonica That hobby can get you killed. Collect toys and currently designing my own wood toys in order to concrete a very old project. If not now... How? Unless you mean swallowing it, but that won't happen.

People like me could throw you by a window or in front of a car. It can also happen to those who plays the recorder.

Improv comedy
Musical theater
Mock trial
...does PA count?

I crochet.

Yep, I am supposed to have an assignment done for Friday and I must try and do it tomorrow... but I keep getting distracted by everything, however mundane it is.

I used to make plastic aircraft kits too, but they've all been boxed away for the moment.  I plan to finish at least one of them though, because I was detailing it all with accessories for potential future display.

Also add to the list R/C Model Aircraft as well, although I've not flown one for ages.


Edited by Geck0 - January 08 2008 at 20:51

Playing harmonica, reading, writing poetry (when I'm in the correct mindset) & prose, family history/genealogy, researching, history (not really a hobby as such... but it all links in) and I'm about to  (most likely tomorrow) attempt a simple crosstitch pattern to please my partner, who seems to think I won't be able to do it... ouch!

Oh and I sometimes play AD&D 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms too.


Edited by Geck0 - January 08 2008 at 20:33