Our hobbies

The beauty of HALO 3, or any other game that can be played multiplayer is playing against humans. The one game I play Tribes, takes years for it to evolve to a point where it becomes boring. Just when you think you have a method for owning the rest of the world, someone comes along and counters it. Computers are easy to beat.

I once put a quarter in a defender game, and scored 1,500,000 and it took 1 hour and 45 minutes. My fingers had blisters.

I recycle my own aluminium (from beer cans) and copper with a homemade furnace and charcoal/coal. I want to try copper smelting next... more

I have a feeling that was not the ONLY time you put a quarter into the game... Arcades today give somewhat of a sad impression... I don't think there's any new stuff coming out (or they are simply too expensive for most?) so you always see the same old boxes...

You then cash the aluminum in?
Does that make environmental sense? Doesn't the smelting plants have better emissions than your stove? Just asking

Hehe, no, we make things of dubious value/use from our freshly cast stock aluminium. I'm sure it doesn't make enviromental sense either way as our furnace is spectacularly inefficient. Still, it's just a hobby, and fun.

My job is doctoring exhibits at museums so the theory of evolution can stay afloat. The usual stuff: putting feathers on coelurosaurs, removing all the stegosaurs carved into the walls of our temples, extracting the human remains from between the toes of the T. rex skeleton, things like that. It's a cool job. The only part I hate is burying all those seashells inside mountaintops. That's a lot of shoveling to do at great heights.After work I relax by going over to the local university's philosophy department and telling PhD candidates they're a lot of disingenuous dummies with no intellectual rigor. When they ask me to make a coherent case for my point of view, I just put my hands over my ears and shout 'sophistry!' Confounded by this irrefutable argument, all the professors quit their jobs on the spot and all the grad students change their majors to economics.After that I go home and brew myself a pot of oolong.____________Edited by Archer Opterix, : ongoing quest for literary perfection.

My brother and I were into entomology when we were boys. For several summers we kept Mantids in the house. Sure kept the flies down.

That's cool, what kind of things? Pictures?

That's pretty cool. For my own part I've recently become interested in philosophy, and I like to eat a big meal then sit down in a nice, quiet spot these days (one with lots of paper) and strain against one or another philosophical problem until, at last, the solution issues forth.Most recently, after consuming a great deal of roughage, I produced an excellent argument in the field of epistemology that was heavy with meaning yet so wide of implication that it took the better part of an hour and left me quite bow-legged.Sadly, before I could commit this great work of philosophy to posterity, my wife began to complain about the smell and I was forced to flush the toilet.

This is supposed to be a nice, happy thread about our hobbies.Take it outside.

Pardon the mischief, Ms nator. This is a great idea for a thread. I'm enjoying all the stories and photos.I enjoy mountain hiking. I like kayaks and canoes, too.