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micky 
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Posted: January 12 2008 at 08:34 |
 nightlamp wrote:
I play a fair amount of music (drums, synths, ukulele, etc.), usually either psych/space rock jamming with a couple loose groups or performing children's music with a singer-storyteller friend. I also like reading, loafing around with my wife, hiking, board games, croquet, and occasionally kicking the old footbag around. I used to enjoy building analog synth modules (from kits), but it got to be a bit too expensive for my taste...
Geck0 wrote:
Oh and I sometimes play AD&D 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms too.
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Cool! I run a semi-regular D&D campaign, a mix of B/X + 1st ed Advanced + Castles & Crusades; nice to see there's at least one other "analog gamer" here at PA. Prog Rock and fantasy role-playing games, always a winning combination!
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count me in... at least in spirit... I used to play them back in the good old days.. and still collect the various books and modules. Would play if I knew someone my age that still played hahahha.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 18:26 |
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Well my mate who DM's is an oldschool 2e player from the '80s and never upgraded to 3 or 3.5e, so I play good ol' 2e occasionally (in Forgotten Realms though, 'cause it's easier and I happen to like the setting and the lore) when time permits for both of us. I had completely destroyed many areas of Faerun last time I played (I'm only level 4!)... don't ask!
Very enjoyable though and the game is still going, it's just we're both busy at the moment to continue on with it.
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nightlamp
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 16:27 |
I play a fair amount of music (drums, synths, ukulele, etc.), usually either psych/space rock jamming with a couple loose groups or performing children's music with a singer-storyteller friend. I also like reading, loafing around with my wife, hiking, board games, croquet, and occasionally kicking the old footbag around. I used to enjoy building analog synth modules (from kits), but it got to be a bit too expensive for my taste...
Geck0 wrote:
Oh and I sometimes play AD&D 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms too.
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Cool! I run a semi-regular D&D campaign, a mix of B/X + 1st ed Advanced + Castles & Crusades; nice to see there's at least one other "analog gamer" here at PA. Prog Rock and fantasy role-playing games, always a winning combination!
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 11:01 |
darqdean wrote:
I don't think there is a hobby I haven't tried at sometime or other, but I'm sort of between hobbies at the moment. I am an obsesive who tends to get over-involved with things, which ends up taking all the fun out of it and spoiling the enjoyment... I haven't tried hydroculture yet, but I don't have a basement so the glow of the grow-lights in my shed may attract the wrong kind of attention from Mr Plod.
I bought a plastic model aircraft kit of the SR-71 Blackbird sometime back with the idea of re-constructing Roger Dean's cover for Budgie's Squawk album, but that remains unfinished.
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I beat you to it when I was a kid. Sort of. There weren`t even any kits available for the Blackbird because of the aircraft`s classified nature at the time ( some data even remains classified to this day ! ) so I used a Lockheed F-104 Starfighhter kit instead ! I have a couple of great books by a retired Blackbird driver, Lt Col Rich Graham, The SR-71 Revealed and SR-71 Stories Tales & Legends which pretty much tells one everything that they`re going to let you know about this unusual aircraft. Don`t know if they`re still in print. Saw the Blackbird once at an airshow in the 80s but it didn`t land since it requires special ground support. As far as I know it was retired by the Clinton administration in `97 but NASA might fly be flying theirs occasionally for experimental purposes. Even by today`s standards it`s still the most advanced, fastest and highest flying aircraft ever designed.
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Jared
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 08:54 |
Evans wrote:
I guess no one's into Rock Climbing, then..
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no, I'm more into Rock listening.... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Evans
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:54 |
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I guess no one's into Rock Climbing, then..
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'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..'
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:46 |
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2013? I cannot wait that long!
I bet Jim will still be wearing that rather bright shirt though!
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Jared
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:42 |
Geck0 wrote:
Speaking of which, Jim, when do you want me to pop round? We'll have to arrange something. |
James, I believe he might have a window of opportunity on 23rd November, 2013, providing he isn't counting his jars of rusty screws... 
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:28 |
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Speaking of which, Jim, when do you want me to pop round? We'll have to arrange something.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:27 |
I think you could be right, Fanny 
Heavyfreight wrote:
I run a preserved railway as a hobby; although it is more like a full time job now! |
In a couple of weeks, you can restart your old hobby of thrashing me at scrabble & swearing at me over the backgammon board. 
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:26 |
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I am, I must have missed that joke though!
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Jared
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:23 |
Geck0 wrote:
Please guys, keep it clean (or it'll stick to your underwear...). |
^^ I'm guessing you aren't a Monty Python fan, James...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 07:05 |
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Please guys, keep it clean (or it'll stick to your underwear...).
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Jared
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 06:41 |
The Doctor wrote:
Does internet porn count as a hobby? 
What about power drinking? |
well, mine are Summarising Proust, Golf, Strangling Small Mammals and Masturbating....
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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asimplemistake
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Posted: January 11 2008 at 00:28 |
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.
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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.
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my current math teacher loves the game. He went to Reno over the winter break just to play it. He spent a good amount of time explaining the game and all, we wasted (actually used) a full hour for just the game. cool stuff.
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cuncuna
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Posted: January 10 2008 at 23:26 |
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I make clay animated reproductions of Max Ernst having breakfast in different islands.
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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Chris H
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 23:10 |
I race cars, work on cars and am always around cars. Other than that, I seem to always be biking places nowadays. Costume parties are cool too, I go to a ton of those 
Edited by Zappa88 - January 09 2008 at 23:11
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Beauty will save the world.
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progaeopteryx
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 23:06 |
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I fart a lot and eat shoelaces. I sometimes sniff walls.
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Dean
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 18:50 |
Bellringer wrote:
With a name like Bellringer.........campanology!
I also write fantasy short stories and collect children's books.
Contact me if any of this appeals to you. |
I was a campanologist for about a year when I was a teenager (tower bells, not handbells.) 
here:
There is a peal of six bells, rung every Sunday:
the Treble made by Joseph Eayre of St Neots 1756;
the Second made by Taylors of Loughborough 1898:
the Third and Fourth made by Hugh Watts 1603;
the Fifth made by John Hodson 1653;
and the Tenor made by Chandler 1652 (recast by Taylors of Loughborough in 1898).
...I became involved because my dad use to make and replace the Ash stays.
Edited by darqdean - January 09 2008 at 18:53
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Neil
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Posted: January 09 2008 at 18:46 |
Jim Garten wrote:
YesFan72 wrote:
I crochet. |
Ah yes - Asimov's less successful sequel to I Robot |
Or his seventies revisit: I Karate.
By the way, I thought that I Robot was Alan Parsons 
Edited by Heavyfreight - January 09 2008 at 18:46
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