NOM

My hobbies, well...

-playing Candy Crush (a serious timewaster)
-playing piano (classical, jazz, rock)
-linguistics (especially morphology and historical linguistics)
-astronomy, cosmology, particle physics
-watching documentaries on YouTube
-dogs! definitely basset hounds right now
-Japan
-flower gardening, landscaping
-vegetable gardening
-Tolkien (like, seriously, even the obscure stuff)
-learning about science (microbiology, evolutionary biology, chemistry, geology, genetics)
-eating tacos and pizza
-Ancient Egyptian history, culture, language
-Dungeons and Dragons, painting fantasy miniatures
-hiking

As you can tell from my hobbies, I no longer believe anything in the Book of Genesis was literal in any remotely possible way. Which also kills the Pearl of Great Price and everything up to the Books of Kings.

Edited to Add: How could I forget about Star Trek!

nibbler wrote:

cwald wrote:Horror movies.

Recommendations?

I think I mentioned this elsewhere, but I can't remember....the Kettering Incident is on Amazon and is a creepy, thriller series for sure.

Jinx wrote:

Fifi de la Vergne wrote:Reading, especially historical fiction, really gritty, character-driven mysteries, some fantasy, and history -- especially 20th century and American Civil War, or British if it's about the Tudors or the Plantaganets

Yes! I also like to read historical non-fiction, good biography, anything that can transport me to another place and time. And I'm a huge classics fan, Jane Austen, Dickens, the Brontes, Thomas Hardy. No one ever wants to read the books that I recommend. .

I bet I would like them! . . . it sounds like our tastes are somewhat similar. On a side note, are you on Goodreads or LibraryThing? I love them for bookish conversation and recommendations.

Fifi de la Vergne wrote:On a side note, are you on Goodreads or LibraryThing? I love them for bookish conversation and recommendations.

I was on Goodreads for a while, challenged by a friend to read 50 books in a year (made it!) but I don't really have the time to keep up with it anymore.

Nerd alert:

My interests are:

- Studying music (specifically the pipe organ)
- Comics, Manga, and Anime
- PC gaming
- Reading biographies and history (love early Christian history)
- Computer programming (I've been making an evolution simulator for years now)
- Archery
- Astronomy

document wrote:Nerd alert:
- Computer programming (I've been making an evolution simulator for years now)

My son would worship you.

I fly airplanes for fun.

I fly and build airplanes for fun!!

in addition to:
Traveling,
Hiking, Camping
Geocaching
Amateur radio, electronics
Gardening
Cooking
Cycling

(no wonder I never have any freetime!!)

Im currently working on one of these....

Mine include:

Exploring the obscure areas of the state of Utah, especially the west desert.
Skiing
Hiking
Backpacking
Firearms, including ameteur gunsmithing and building my own, competition, and helping to operate a local range.
Reloading and ammunition ballistics.
Technology, particularly home networking and IP camera surveillance systems.

- reading, mostly classics though I am currently reading some Douglas Adams
- millinery
- sewing historic and movie reproduction clothing
- viola
- hiking
- theatre
- film

I wanted to bump this thread.

Get some of our new NOMies to tell us about their hobbies.

I’m learning how to fly fish, bought a motorcycle, and have been spending time doing home improvement.

Graduate from grad school next week, so hopefully the amount of time I have available for hobbies will increase substantially.

LSOF wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 20, 2016 6:58 pm

Computer programming.

What do you write in? I've moved to mostly Python, just recently learning web design using the Django framework. Super fun stuff. Something has clicked with CSS recently. JavaScripts...not so much.

Just got back into Muay Thai
Weight Lifting
Philosophy is something of a hobby but I do try to apply it to my life
I used to write code and should get back into it
Warhammer 40K

* I have a hobby farm where I grow grass for cows to eat.
* I love working outdoors while listening to non-fiction books and podcasts
* I play celtic and bluegrass fiddle.
* I enjoy strategy board games and I have a lot of them.
* Then hiking, movies, family, etc. like most of the rest of y'all.

Wow amazing how interesting to find this thread. Full of really interesting stuff, I love to see what people like to do that's not NOMming, its encouraging.

- Maker space: 3D printing, embedded projects on Arduino and RasPi, welding etc.
- Software Development: I do this professionally and can't seem to get enough. Current drug of choice is Kotlin
- Roller Hockey, I play with my kids and on an indoor court whenever I can get the chance
- Martial arts
- House projects, specifically electrical and tile work
- Family Time!
- Linux
- Minecraft
- Para-cord braiding
- fixing up old cars
- Movies

GoodBoy wrote: ↑

Mon May 14, 2018 6:08 pm

* I enjoy strategy board games and I have a lot of them.

What is your definition of strategy board games? There are so many types. I play hex and counter conflict simulations (wargames).

Lately I have been playing a lot of the new Battletech computer game.

Slavereeno, thanks! I really feel like a loser now!

Ham Radio
Horse Riding (English style, I want to start jumping this year)
Reading
Star Trek
Sci-fi movies
Home remodeling (slow project to finish the basement)
Traveling the East Coast
Chasing Toddlers and small kids.
Experimental cooking (food and coffee mostly, but I am just starting to get into mixed drinks)

Sleeping (&%^#*ing 2nd shift.)

Evil_Bert wrote: ↑

Mon May 14, 2018 9:09 pm

GoodBoy wrote: ↑

Mon May 14, 2018 6:08 pm

* I enjoy strategy board games and I have a lot of them.

What is your definition of strategy board games? There are so many types. I play hex and counter conflict simulations (wargames).

Lately I have been playing a lot of the new Battletech computer game.

Games like Agricola, Pandemic, Scythe, Power Grid, Terraforming Mars, etc. I haven't actually tried wargames. I should give it a try.