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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on February 07, 2005, 02:54:48 PM
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OK, besides fellacio, what do you guys do in your spare time? I\'ve been working on a new desk lately. I\'ve finished everything but the legs. Going to go by the steel place tomorrow hopefully and see what they have. I want to get 2-3 inch pipe for the legs. Unless I find something better.
I\'ll just be happy to get my garage back.
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can certainly appreciate anothers woodwork
i make clocks
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Do you 2 live together?
Those pics look like they were taken in the same room.
2 guys, alone, in their garage, playing with their wood......
No further comment needed.
Only joking, I have absolutely no skill in woodworking whatsoever, though it\'s something I\'ve often wanted to try out.
Both the desk and the clock look well made, I only wish I could do it.
If I ever tried to make something like that, one way or another, I\'d end up burning my house down, even though there might be not flammables involved at all.
Hell, I can even burn water.
;)
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I\'ve spent less than 30 bucks so far. The desk top is made out of Mahogany and the side rails are oak. The oak I got from old pallets. I just planed them down and bammo, nice oak trim pieces for free.
Nice looking clock. Is that something you do often or is this the first clock? I\'ve got quite a few things around the house that either I made or my dad made. My dad has an amazing workshop with all the right tools. I made this piece at home, but I could have done it in half the time if I did it over there.
I\'ll take a pic later when it\'s in place. THe funky looking piece is for the keyboard. That\'s the shape of the keyboard so I figured I\'d mimick it.
Man, looking at that pic, my garage is a disaster. oye.
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Video games are still my thing. If I had shoes on, maybe I\'d go out and take a pic of the NES I installed in my car.
My other thing is writing.
So I write about video games.
Again, I\'d show a photo but now I\'m just too lazy to fiddle with the camera, heh.
mm, you have a nice clock.
-Dan
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I guess bodybuilding is my hobby....damn I suck
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Working on my Nova resto project.
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Originally posted by Eiksirf
Video games are still my thing. If I had shoes on, maybe I\'d go out and take a pic of the NES I installed in my car.
-Dan
you wouldn\'t have to worry about it skipping.
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Originally posted by unknown
Working on my Nova resto project.
Pics?
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i\'ve probably made over 30 clocks for family and friends since i got into woodworking in high school years ago.
just something i work on when i\'m bored.
made a few grandfather clocks also, but the movements and weights run close to 1300$ for each one.
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here is the clock that my dad and I made.
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Sports mainly.
I play on my college\'s ultimate frisbee team, and I\'m a sports writer for our paper.
As far as making things, I\'m more of an electronics guy.
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i spend my days figuring out various ways of making fun of luke and drinking scotch
scotchy scotch scotch down in my belly
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Originally posted by videoholic
OK, besides fellacio, what do you guys do in your spare time? I\'ve been working on a new desk lately. I\'ve finished everything but the legs. Going to go by the steel place tomorrow hopefully and see what they have. I want to get 2-3 inch pipe for the legs. Unless I find something better.
I\'ll just be happy to get my garage back.
That looks as if it\'s going to be a sweet looking desk.
I collect Batman figures and stuff like that. I\'m also a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes and I\'m working on a short animation for my Computer Science class which features them both!
I hope I don\'t get sued.
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my only hobby is playing bass in my band. Or guitar whenever im alone. Were starting to get stuff rolling and have 4 songs together, 2 more in the making. Not sure if well spruce those 6 songs and make a demo or wait till we have a full set of songs.
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I really enjoy drawing, if I had a scanner i\'d post some sketches.
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F@#ken my gf, games then martial arts.
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good audio
I like the woodwork guys but I hope you planted a tree or 3 after each project :chainsaw:
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I like to write.
Here are a few unfinished examples of my work:
http://www.fictionpress.com/~ryanmusher
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Originally posted by Weltall
I like to write.
Here are a few unfinished examples of my work:
http://www.fictionpress.com/~ryanmusher
just read night terrors..yo, i\'am highly impressed with your work bro...are you going to finish it?...i got to chapter 4 and was like wtf?...heh i loved how you described that nighmarish world with the red sky and tall bldgs...i actually imagined that place in my mind as i was reading it..stellar stuff! i also like that twisted individual that came walkin toward Ben in his nighmare...reminds me of some ol jacob\'s ladder type s**t...and lastly the mirror scene i actually laughed reading that part in how he was laughing with his reflection until it started mocking him eerily (spel)...i can actually see his laughter turn into fear as that event blossomed...i\'m a horror buff and as you can see i was very impressed with your work...finish that story bro...hell if you make it into a novel i\'d buy it...yea it\'s that good!
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Originally posted by theomen
I guess bodybuilding is my hobby....damn I suck
Mine too, only I f^cked up my knee [and my shoulder] and have to have surgery [only the knee part]...so I have to hold off on bodybuilding for a while. The doc said I can\'t do sh^t for months. What a b^tch. :crying:
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Originally posted by clips
just read night terrors..yo, i\'am highly impressed with your work bro...are you going to finish it?...i got to chapter 4 and was like wtf?...heh i loved how you described that nighmarish world with the red sky and tall bldgs...i actually imagined that place in my mind as i was reading it..stellar stuff! i also like that twisted individual that came walkin toward Ben in his nighmare...reminds me of some ol jacob\'s ladder type s**t...and lastly the mirror scene i actually laughed reading that part in how he was laughing with his reflection until it started mocking him eerily (spel)...i can actually see his laughter turn into fear as that event blossomed...i\'m a horror buff and as you can see i was very impressed with your work...finish that story bro...hell if you make it into a novel i\'d buy it...yea it\'s that good!
Haha, thanks :D
I actually didn\'t think much of this one until I started getting positive feedback on it. That dream sequence is one I actually had, and it\'s what inspired this (I pictured the city, and it looked to be in the style of old detective comics... if you look at the Tracer Bullet skits Bill Watterson did for Calvin and Hobbes, you\'re seeing basically what I see).
I do have a definite idea where this story is going, and what the dreams mean... I would like more time to be able to write though. Nice to know I have another fan however :)
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Originally posted by Eiksirf
If I had shoes on, maybe I\'d go out and take a pic of the NES I installed in my car.
Welcome to last century! :p
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Originally posted by Weltall
Haha, thanks :D
I actually didn\'t think much of this one until I started getting positive feedback on it. That dream sequence is one I actually had, and it\'s what inspired this (I pictured the city, and it looked to be in the style of old detective comics... if you look at the Tracer Bullet skits Bill Watterson did for Calvin and Hobbes, you\'re seeing basically what I see).
I do have a definite idea where this story is going, and what the dreams mean... I would like more time to be able to write though. Nice to know I have another fan however :)
You are officially the coolest member in this boards. Anybody that uses Watterson\'s works as means for inspiration deserves all admiration and glamour as a writer! I love those Tracer Bullet skits. They were sensational, my favorite was when Tracer used his intuitive skills to solve a math problem. Greatness.
On the other hand, your politics blow! ;)
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My hobbies include masturbation and photography. And since I\'m cameraless at the moment, most of my time is spent spanking the monkey...
I\'m eyeing Canon\'s 20D though. But the thing\'s pretty expensive. :(
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Originally posted by Samwise
My hobbies include masturbation and photography. And since I\'m cameraless at the moment, most of my time is spent spanking the monkey...
I\'m eyeing Canon\'s 20D though. But the thing\'s pretty expensive. :(
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Sweet. I\'m in a photography class and I\'m enjoying it very much. I\'m having much trouble adjusting the stupid aperture and crap according to the light outside.
Any hints?
How about shutter speed, how should that be adjusted?
I\'m doing black and white photography by the way.
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Originally posted by Samwise
My hobbies include masturbation and photography. And since I\'m cameraless at the moment, most of my time is spent spanking the monkey...
I\'m eyeing Canon\'s 20D though. But the thing\'s pretty expensive. :(
Just save your money and buy the digital rebel. You can get it with lens now for about 700 bucks and it does plenty.
Originally posted by SirMystiq
Sweet. I\'m in a photography class and I\'m enjoying it very much. I\'m having much trouble adjusting the stupid aperture and crap according to the light outside.
Any hints?
How about shutter speed, how should that be adjusted?
I\'m doing black and white photography by the way.
Aperature and it\'s relationship to shutter speed is what gives you depth of field. You can have an aperature match up well with a shutter speed and then as you open up the aperature you drop your shutter speed accordingly. THis will begin to blur the background more and more.
Also the more lens you use the more depth of field you get.
Whenever I shoot interviews when I could I would always get 10-20 feet away from the subject. I\'d then light it dimly so I could open the iris all the way, then bammo, blurry as hell background even only a few feet behind the subject.
If you want everything crystal clear however, shut the iris and go for a long exposure.
That\'s also how you get the star pattern on lights. Night scenes I lock it down and go for a 30 second exposure. You get nice long flares on the lights.
Also, a good tip for when you are doing low light still stuff, use either a remote trigger, or use the timer. No matter how still you think you were when you clicked it, you\'ll see it. The timer is great and it\'s free. No touchy the camera.
Not sure your question on shutter speeds.
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I dont know what happened to my hobbies. They just went on hiatus for a long time.
I used to draw, play sports (basketball and soccer), Videogames (more than i do now), make music etc. etc.
Now the only things i guess are watching anime, playing Initial D (arcade), and Drifting (powersliding) in my car in lots with my friends. Other than that i cant think of too many.
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- Fooling around with yo-yo\'s, nunchuks, sticks, anything I can spin around endangering my own health.
- Playing videogames and videogame music on piano (needs to work on own music for a change). I\'m hell bent on learning to play all of the Final Fantasy Piano Collections...
- Playing videogames and piano with my girlfriend and just playing with my girlfriend. She plays the flute, so we make a nice couple, eh? It\'s a dream of ours to someday master playing some argentinian tangos (especially Piazzolla\'s) together. I\'m also working on writing some arrangements for video game music for piano & flute, which, if it works out, would be really nice.
- Aikido, + some other misc. martial arts depending on what I feel like doing.
- Parkour (outside during summers, inside castle walls during winter)
- Reading different kinds of english dictionaries, working on my vocabulary, writing stupid stuff. (I\'m an english major at the university so...)
- Playing with myself.
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damn, i forget one of my biggest hobbies.
s@#ting mm.
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or collecting wood chips to perhaps go back to school
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welcome to last year mm. :rolleyes:
I find it amusing that u say that. If only the other 20 million aussies read that reply too. We\'d all have a "laughing at mm" day. I kinda get the feeling thats the norm in your everyday life anyway. We could even make it a public holiday.
no points for u.
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well technically in order to be a holliday it has to be a special day, and since everyone already laughs at mm it would be a little usless to have a day devoted to it. ;)
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I guess, everyday is a "special" day for mm.
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Originally posted by videoholic
Just save your money and buy the digital rebel. You can get it with lens now for about 700 bucks and it does plenty.
Yeah, I was thinking about that as well. But I\'d want the black version. But today I checked prices for 10D (mostly for fun) and to my surprise it costs exactly the same as a black Digital Rebel. Only drawback is that it doesn\'t come with a lens, but I figured I could buy a 2nd hand lens to start out with.
Any thoughts? I like how the 10D is easier to customize and has more features than the DRebel (without firmware hack at least). Also, it\'s a metal body, not plastic. Argh... what to do, what to do. :)
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To further expand... I\'d really like the option to use the EF-S lenses as well, but only DRebel and 20D supports those. :(
My wallet says 300D, my brain says 10D and my heart says 20D. :D
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Wow....
I think the 300D is the cheapest, the 10D and 20D is out of the question for sure....
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Only thing I don\'t like about my camera is no thumb wheel. It has little buttons instead. WIth the firm ware hack you have virtually the same camera.
The case feel isn\'t as nice as the more expensive model, but I\'d personally rather take the extra few hundred and put it into a longer lens.
To me it was plenty of camera at 750 bucks to justify not spending over a grand for the more professional model.
One major difference and don\'t know if it effects you is the 10D has better burst rates for taking multiple shots quickly. I think it does 8. Not sure about that. I also think the time between the shots is quicker. Mine only takes 4 or 5 and there is about 3/4 of a second between shots. No biggie, just not sure if you were into that.
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I play basketball for my dorm. I don\'t have any specific or interesting hobbies. I like to get drunk too and makeout w/ fatties.
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I enjoy reading
I also enjoy drawing, and oil painting,which i am thinking of doing again. I also collect diecast cars and i am a major movie buff. Seems since the stroke, i spend most of my time reading, surfing ther web, or watching movies.
For a few years i collected comic books but got a little expensive, i have no idea what i have in boxs ! I like the table that is some good looking wood, i like all the knots, the same goes for the clock, i like it. I would love to get into woodworking , however being parilyzed on one side may make it difficult.
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ANother view.
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Take 1. Moved the desk in tonight. Got lots of clean up work around it, but I at least got the old piece of crap out.
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So funny. THe pictures uploaded in reverse order even though I posted the one that says "another one" a minute or so later. This site blows when it comes to attachments.
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pretty sexay desk
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well I built myself a new desk upstairs in my office. 6 feet wide, 4 feet deep. The trim is 10 layers of thin oak and mahogany.
behind the wall I have a ventilation system for my speakers and the computer. I have 4" pipes going from each speaker and computer into a box with 3 12v fans in it. The fans have temp sensors so they run at 5v at one temp and 12v at a higher temp. Draws the heat right out of the room.
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That is awesome!
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I bet you can have some cracking wanks with that setup. am I right in guessing the toilet roll holder is just out of view?
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I bet you can have some cracking wanks with that setup. am I right in guessing the toilet roll holder is just out of view?
:laughing: plenty of space without wankers cramp setting in
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Bathroom is about 20 feet away.
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:applause: Very nice set up man
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Bathroom is about 20 feet away.
anything more than an arms reach away is too far when you\'re rubbing one out.
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fugg I would love to have a workstation setup like that. My little Ikea desk can barely hold a stack of papers. Nice work sir.
Latest hobbies for me:
- Learning guitar (just got a free Fender from craigslist woo!)
- Biking around town & getting back into shape
- Nice watches, that are cheap :)
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Currently, Guitar when i can be bothered.
Gaming, Walking 4k\'s every night atm
Hangin out with mates.
Getting over Lisa, which is fucken hard!! (i\'ll bitch all i want dammit!!!)
Soon to be, Martial Arts (when my brothers leg heals)
Gym and Swimming.
Then when i\'m all buff and sexy. I wanna get a tattoo. :D
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Coins collection mainly, I just got 4 from the Roman Empire (2nd to 4th centuries) ;)
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I started playing the harmonica. Blues is what I\'m playing mostly. A few old western tunes as well. :)
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For me its guitar when I get the chance, photography which I\'m trying to turn into a profession and spanking the monkey to hot asian lesbian porn ;) Otherwise I\'m working and chilling with friends and this new girl I\'m seeing.
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For a proper ergonomic setup, your monitors should be positioned so your eye level is about 1" below the top edge of the screen.
I just learned this today!
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cool. Then I am good.
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It doesn\'t look that way to me.
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From 3 time zones away you can tell that my monitors are a certain height? You probably call balls and strikes at a baseball game from deep right.
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Your neck, not mine. Best of luck to ya.
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Nice spot for the bass ale sign.
now throw out the blue moon sign, that crap is for girls.
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Love the moon.. It\'s the vagina side of me.
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Wheat beers give me the shits, more than regular beer.
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Wheat beers give me the shits, more than regular beer.
The worst beer shits I ever had was this one time my friend bought this 12 dollar 30 pack. It was something Creme Ale. It was worse than my Natty and Keystone light while eating taco bell shits.
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Genesee cream ale. or Genny Screamers as it\'s known. very good for headaches and shits.
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Genesee cream ale. or Genny Screamers as it\'s known. very good for headaches and shits.
I think it was Genesee Cream Ale. There was nothing creamy about it except my shits the next morning.