/hob/ - Hobbies

>>50515
Kinda, I volunteer as a trapper for the Department of Conservation and I always keep an eye out for birds while I'm in the bush. I see a lot of native Wood Pigeons and Tui mainly. I'm hoping one day they'll let me go up into the ranges and see the Kiwis, I've seen many dead ones because I help out with hunting dog aversion training but somehow I don't think a headless half frozen bird has the same effect as a living, breathing symbol of my nation.

>>52693
you can always use your ideas to program a simple graphics computer game. Yeah people will try to game it, but usually people who get really in to it will come up with conventions that would limit those power abuses and allow for much balanced game player. You can use probability theory to balance game play, but in the end you can't figure out how really balanced a game is till you played it a bunch of times.

>>42050
If people would offer there bodies to cannibals why not find people to offer their bodies for science? I'm sure you would get better results from someone willing to get these things done to them. It definitely would be hard to find someone willing to give a baby for that. It would definitely be really cool though.

Does anyone collects and trades unofficial concert recordings? (I mean "bootlegs" but they are not actually, ROIO - recording of independent origin are their actual name) Unofficial I mean it was recorded by audience member, taped from tv, radio, webcast.
I mostly have nu metal stuff that I traded, downloaded them.
I don't post list, etc since I don't want to dox myself.

im thinking of getting into autographs

>>53047
Any ones in particular?
What kind are you thinking of collecting? Sports heroes, celebrities, artist, authors, something else?

Bugs and spiders utterly fascinate me. I go outside looking for them, sometimes let them crawl on my arms, and photograph them. This is the first bug of the year: the painted woodlouse.

I saw a big red centipede earlier, but I couldn't take a picture because there were normies around and I was afraid of judgment.

I'm making music. I don't know anything about musical theory, song structure and related stuff, but I guess it is enough to produce something between harsh noise, experimental, field recordings and noisegrind, for which I use some distortion pedals, a cheap keyboard and a very old e-guitar.

I would say right now that it feels very satisfying for myself, when I created a new release.

>>53109
I wanna dance to it

>>55166
Musicwiz here. Made this track today. Good luck with dancing to it.

https://vocaroo.com/1mGlX1WT6x9w

>>53109
>>55170
Low skill low effort intentionally unpleasant irritating non-music is satisfactory to you?

Recently I had some money to spend, so I bought a beginner/small telescope to "stargaze" with. It's quite interesting to do, albeit I could see someone bore of it.

So far, I managed to see some of our planets and some sparkling stars with it. I also used it to to check out the nearby mountains and the city. It's quite a sight to see with one's own eyes (albeit very small) planets like Jupiter or Saturn. There's just something that I like about being outside alone in relative dark, and getting this hobby proved to also give that tendency a kind of boost.

I put gyroscopes in things

Horseback riding is fun, but owning and taking care of a horse is a lot of work. I don't have the means or motivation to own any myself, but I occasionally ride my relatives' horses.
>>42011
In my experience, horses can act very much like dogs.

I don't know if there's enough interest to make a thread, but I'm really into coffee. I have a FreshRoast SR700 and roast my own beans. Recently, I bought 5 lbs from a few different origins and I'm currently going through the Burundi (country in Africa) bag with a custom roast profile that I spent about a week tweaking. The one downside of the result is that it seems to be too light for my old Vario grinder to get down to espresso fineness. I don't really mind because I really enjoy the V60 cup it makes, though.

i ve reliazed i dont find graphic design, programing, writing or any other hooby appealing they just seem pointless but when i find something that is not right in the world i need to express my feelings… maybe because i was a spoiled child that would take every unfairness in life to his mama

I ride horses. It's fun, the horses are nice and I get out in nature a lot.

Glass Armonica

>>58347
He looks like a warhorse or destrier with that livery. The landscape is very idyllic too.

Wish I could live in a place like that.

>>58536
Now it's just to protect from bugs
This pic is from when I hit a bug sitting on a horse

>>58652
jesus what kind of bugs can cause that at horse riding speed impacts

>>58654
Wait is that his blood? I thought he just smashed a really big mosquito full of horse blood.

>>58655
Yeah it was sitting on the horse and I killed it.
It looked a bit similar to a fly but many times bigger and with stripes.

>>58667
Horsefly?

>>58668
Yeah maybe

Started growing flowers to press. There is certain flowers that you can mix in drinks to help with flues' and other stuff so for myself that is something i am indulging in

>>46748
I would really like to get into listening to the radio, but I lack any sort of equipment to do so. I messed around with radiogarden for a bit but it's really just not the same. Really, I'd like a nice analog tuner but they are fairly expensive, I'm not sure what would be a good re-entry apart from just buying a small portable radio from the thrift store, which just may end up in disappointment.

Does stationary deserve it's own thread? Lately I have decided I would like to go broke buying many different pens and inks after just starting out with a few. I bought a couple of Pilot Kakuno's in F and EF, which are certainly a better experience than the Pilot precise pens that I have been using for years. After, I ended up buying a converter and decided that experience is quite a bit more engaging than just replacing cartridges. Along with that order I did purchase an EF Kaweco Sport in iridescent pearl with a gold clip. Certainly a stellar looking pen, but the body material did leave a little to be desired. Regardless, it's very comfortable and smooth, save for the round grip rather than the triangular style that I prefer, but I'm still very pleased with it. After writing with a Kakuno for a little bit, I may have come to find the scratchyness of the EF tip quite endearing, it's sort of like a positive feedback mechanism.
I'm considering buying a Twsbi ECO-T with an EF nib now, but the jade color seems to not be available anymore, sadly. That particular color is available with the cylindrical grip, but I'm not sure if I want to get it. The mint blue is still available with a triangular grip, while the color is still nice, it doesn't really have the same appeal as the jade. Certainly it seems a little silly disregarding something as simple as a pen just for its aesthetic properties, but if I am buying a premium product, then I would like it to be appealing in all aspects.
Of course there would be more to stationary than just pens and writing utensils, but that is just what is on my mind at this very moment.

I smoke Cigars.
Is that even a hobby? I just consoom. Hardly a hobby but maybe worth a post in this thread I guess.
I started to smoke when I was 19. My father was a travelling company man (ala Jack from Fightclub) and I curiously asked for few cigars. It was just a curiosity I never smoked cigarettes before nor I tried any other drugs but somehow cigars stick with me. I smoked maybe 5-10 of them every year. There were years where I smoked 50 and years when I smoked none. I also started to read few books, tasted a variety of different brands and so forth. I think after 14 years I can say I developed a taste.
I absolutely detest the people who smoke cigars however. This goes beyond regular self hating or hating normies. The magazines about cigars have this retarded boomer alpha male thingie, similar to boomers riding Harley Davidson thinking they are hot shit. I never understood this association of masculinity with cigars, it is just another way of smoking tobacco. Nevermind the irony of putting a round phallic thing in your mouth is somehow "masculine".
I don't smoke pipes but they are far more chill and far less self conscious about this. You don't see a book about tobacco pipes citing Persian poetry for no reason.

>>41994
never trust a horse
they will always take you for a ride

I'm getting into electronics now. It's sad that I'm such a brainlet and have problems grasping electrodynamics.
I bought some tools like a soldering iron, a screwdriver set etc.
Today I tried fixing a old keyboard, but It didn't work. Hope being able to fix my own stuff soon.
I'm actually doing it so I can be qualified to be a mere computer technician in a few years. Wanna be able to troubleshoot pcs and maybe get the CompTIA A+ certification.

>>42050
How is your experiments going, wiz? It has been over 4 years since this post.

>>52693
you can get in sudoku games with custom rules.

>>63627
don't get cheap solder. Get 60/40 alloy, not 10/90. Get some flux too to prevent oxidation during solder. Only resort to high heat when necessary. I lot of shit will make you think you need high heat when it is just better solder and flux that you need, or your soldering iron is shit now from oxidation..

>>63627
Don't forget a fume extractor or at least a fan to blow away the smoke. I did some soldering once and my head hurt and I could smell the smoke on me for days. Also obviously wash hands after soldering since the solder contains lead.

>>63627
one time i was trying to upgrade my niece's pc for her, being a good wizuncle

but i scraped off a fucking tiny component lol with the screwdriver accidentally

i managed to solder it back on but wow for an unemployed wiz that was fucking risky im done messing with other people's shit if i cant afford to replace it if i break it

>>66689
>but wow for an unemployed wiz that was fucking risky im done messing with other people's shit if i cant afford to replace it if i break it
too late, now you are the computer guy who fix everything… FOR FREE!

I like finding small, obscure forums and sites like it. Here's a cool one I came across recently: https://forum.marianabay.com

I edit Wikipedia articles.

>>66773
I'm too dumb for subtle vandalism.

>>66774
Then you must routinely contribute a little to a ruse of your own over time. A little yang in your yin.

>>52693
This hobby sounds pretty cool. The fact you're able to get people to test and break your game at all is also pretty cool. Glad you've been able to somewhat move on to a more rewarding hobby, though.

>>41994
I like to journal. But not writing a new page each day. Instead writing down patters in how I relate to people, what went wrong, and so on. Someone it hasn't seemed to help me with social skills but I do feel more self aware

>>41994
I'm not really intrested in history, but I like looking through all sorts of old documents. Looking into the past and trying to feel like a person of those days. It also makes me feel like I'm in another reality where I can start my life in a completely different way. It's just interesting to observe for yourself how certain things functioned before the century in which you live.

I want to start buying "Temu trash" ironically\for fun, and as a sort of "mystery box"\expendable toy machine, not knowing exactly what I'll get.
for example those PSP, PS1, PS2 consoles..I know I won't get one for real, but a fake one. However…which type of fake? what games will it bring, will it bring cool glitches\recolors or some sort of random cursed, unreleased mod?
temu trash seems a nice IRL rabbit hole to descend unto

>>69508
make temu unboxing reaction videos lol

>How about horseback riding?
I suck at that. Can't maintain my ass steady and get sore, therefore I hate horseback riding.

>>55364
Now this is a hobby.

I am going to become a WizTuber (a YouTuber but a wizard) and make YouTube content as a hobby. I don't want to specify what kind of content I'm going to make but I am autistically skilled in something and I hope I can get some nice comments and people being nice to me and enjoying what I have to share.

>>69645
do you have comments?

I've been trying to go through the standard model to understand as much of the basics of it as I could, and I thought an interesting exercise would be to "count" all the particles in a cubic meter of air. Like my goal would be to say that this block of air has:
- _ many up quarks
- _ down quarks
- _ electrons
- _ photons
- _ gluons
etc..
But I guess this question isn't well posed, and it's not just because of wave-particle duality nonsense, but because of the virtual particles stuff? Which is a shame, because I was just thinking in particular about the mass of the nucleus of a nitrogen atom. If you add up the mass of the constituent neutrons and protons, it's more than the mass of the actual nucleus, and it has to do with it being bound up in the nucleus' binding energy.
E.g., the mass of 7 neutrons + 7 protons (the 7 electrons are pretty negligible) is ~2.34445E-23g, but the mass of a nitrogen atom is 2.3259E-23g. The -0.01855E-23g is nuclear binding energy, which is mainly residual strong force, right? And I know that that is mediated by neutral pions, which have a mass of 2.40618E-25g. So, I want to conclude that nucleus sometimes has a visible neutral pion, but the neutral pion doesn't have a negative mass, so it's not like that makes sense. But more because the neutral pion is a virtual particle, so it doesn't actually 'appear' anyways, right?

>>69654
I left them as 'virtual' and are not considering them. I still have to doublecheck this work, but the following numbers are based on:
- Atomic composition
- Solar radiation
- Thermal radiation
- Cosmic radiation
- Background radiation (mainly Radon decay from the Earth)

up1.11E+27#/m^3
down1.11E+27#/m^3
e-3.68E+26#/m^3
y2.13E+14#/m^3
v3.34E+02#/m^3
e+5.34E-08#/m^3
µ5.56E-06#/m^3