Wednesday 8th June (08/06/2005)

[irwcustom]

Home made curry - Chicken tikka massala for me ..left overs really no rice though.

Simple - just list your other hobbies and persuits.

Windsurfing
Cycling
foreign travel
Gardening
Fishing
Cooking
vintage amps
Camping
Walking
Tennis
A little golf

[jas]

I thought you enjoyed playing guitar, Darren. Shows one shouldn't make assumptions.

It is only 8:15 AM here. I will be back with my lunch report. You have not escaped the Wrath of John yet.

-John

[irwcustom]

I'll look forward to it John - enjoy your breaky. Other than guitar playing or what we may know people to do around a guitar forum was the intention, but I did slip in vintage amps - servicing, repairs and restoration come to think of it. Not long till dinner:)

[johnreardon]

Beef sandwich, topped with a dash of black pepper and a bottle of lucozade.

Hobbies

Spacewalking
Round the World yachting






Seriously

Playing with my grandchildren
PLAYING, not admiring, Guitars, I suppose
Music
Running, when I get time to do it.
Genealogy, when I get time to do it
Hill Walking
Avoiding the garden
Avoiding golf
Avoiding green bowls
Trying to stay alive


Not a lot really

[Aldwyn]

Spigetti-Os with Franks.

Other then playing guitar and blowing time on BaM and LPF? huh...

Hand percussion
Priesting (though more of a job then a hobby!)
Hiking
Bass fishing
Snorkling/Diving (though dont get a chance to do it much 'round here!)

Peace,
Aldwyn

[Peter]

It's still morning. I'll do breakfast:
Whole milk yogurt with granola on it (and some honey)
Orange juice (Tropicana - "Grovestand")
Coffee - Peet's Major Dickason's blend

Other hobbies and pursuits:
Singing (classical and rock)
Guitar playing and spending, obviously
Creating/performing avant-garde music
Camping in the High Sierra
Snorkeling
Food - eating, cooking
Wine and other good things described in percentages
Real Estate investing (That's a "pursuit", not a hobby)
Having a 2 1/2 year old daughter (that's a full-time pursuit, plus hobby, plus...)

[Zaphod]

Leftover pasta with meat sauce for lunch.

Other hobbies:
-- Motorcycling (commute, weekend asphalt burning, track days)
-- Water sports - skiing, jetskiing, pulling the kids around in tubes, just getting wet in general
-- Remodeling the old house we bought
-- Exercising - running, weight training
-- Singing and playing guitar (used to do it professionally, now I just hack and enjoy)
-- Reading
-- Relaxing in the hammock with a cold beer in hand

[kev]

Leftover marinated and grilled chicken breast (teriyaki & ginger) / broccoli / mac'n'cheese / fully leaded Coke

Other hobbies other than music? What are those again? :o :)


kev

[kingsleyd]

One of my absolute favorites: fried clams and fresh lemonade from Bob's Clam Hut in Kittery, ME. Despite a recent episode of red tide, the clams were great. Happy happy joy joy.

OK, the List:
playing guitar & music in general
sailing
skiing (downhill)
food, wine, beer, and coffee; cooking (and eating!) in general
golf
tennis
reading in the general area of philosophy & religion
travel

[TRandy16]

The rest of my wife's unreal tuna salad...Sea Salt Lay's chips...Yoplait Banana Cream Pie fat-free yogurt

My hobby? I like old radios...any kind...but especially old KLH Model 21 and Model 8 radios.

I also collect radio jingles...see if you can find your childhood radio station here:

www.pams.com (http://www.pams.com)

This place is extremely famous in the radio industtry...they did most of the station jingles for the 60's and 70's....listen to the samples and you'll recognize some for sure.

[DanHund]

Leftover spaghetti and a biscuit.



I can't say that have anything other than guitar that I do often enough to call a hobby. Most all leisure time is spent with the wife and three kids. We like to go to the walking trails at different parks in the area. Gretchen's uncle has a place at a nearby lake, where we can go swimming and boating.

I used to golf 2-3 times a week. But that has dwindled over the past several years to the point where I only play once or twice a year.

[Elgreco]

Quiznos Classic Italian sub.

Ice Skating, Hockey style not figure.

Mountain Biking

Boating / crabbing

Video gaming

Photography

Political activism

[Jo]

Left over pizza (Pizza Hut pineapple and mushroom) and an ice cold diet coke.

I've got lots of hobbies I just don't have the time to do them all, and haven't done some in a couple of years.

But besides the guitar, there's
kite buggying,
photography, (b&w darkroom setup)
sailing
fishing,
snorkelling
fresh water tropical planted aquariums
magic (card and close up)

[jas]

I had a pulled-pork BBQ sandwich - excellent with a generous splash of Tabasco sauce - and these good fries at a restaurant with a friend.

My "hobbies":

Music
Baseball
Backgammon
Reading - any novels but in non-fiction, mostly modern European history.
BaMming
Exploring cities
Writing software
Playing computer games
Conjuring
Biking
Hitting on Jo
Harassing Dans

-John

[Jo]

I LOVE BACKGAMMON!!!

We'll have to play one day Jas. I play a very daring, but fun game.

[redmax61]

I had a pulled-pork BBQ sandwich - excellent with a generous splash of Tabasco sauce - and these good fries at a restaurant with a friend.

My "hobbies":

Music
Baseball
Backgammon
Reading - any novels but in non-fiction, mostly modern European history.
BaMming
Exploring cities
Writing software
Playing computer games
Conjuring
Biking
Hitting on Jo
Harassing Dans

-John
You forgot Thread Derailing, Jas.

[DanHund]

I LOVE BACKGAMMON!!!

We'll have to play one day Jas. I play a very daring, but fun game.
Are there any online games? I'm fairly new to Backgammon, but I'd enjoy playing against someone other than my computer.

[jas]

You forgot Thread Derailing, Jas.
I thought that's what "BaMming" was. It isn't?

Jo, sorry, but your ass is grass against me at BG. And I didn't know you were into magic (see my "conjuring" entry)! You and I were made for each other except that I'm so much taller and can whip so much better.

-John

[Axemeister]

I am having cottage cheese, fruit and healthy stuff at my desk..

Hobbies:

Music and Guitar---goes without saying around here
Tennis---back into it heavily this year
Golf---hacker, but great way to spend time with my son and friends
Wine---drink too much of it!
Photography---have an old darkroom, but mostly digital these days
Computers and Technology---always tinkering, or surfing the web
Travel and Culinary exploration.........ahhh

[kingsleyd]

Backgammon? Cool! Jas & Jo, when I reschedule my visit I'm in for that too.

[kingsleyd]

And, for jas & me (and anyone else so inclined) a ballgame @ Camden Yards.

[bryanrheem]

i finally stumbled on this thread :o

lunch was left over thai food.

other hobbies:
working on cars (from basic maintenance to installing aftermarket parts)
soccer & volleyball
watching movies
learning new instruments (currently trying to figure out my wife's flute)

[Garrett]

Went to Wendy's today for a cheeseburger and a baked potato. Water to drink, as always.

Mine are:

Downloading live concert performances
Wrenching on my Trans Am (though nearly all fun money goes to guitars:o)
Working out/being active (when I have time)
Scuba diving (trying to get that one going-see previous two parenthetical statements;))
Watching movies with my wife
Oooh and home improvement. Still relatively new at the homeowner game, so I'm always looking forward to the next little thing to do to the house

[DanHund]

What, nobody wants to play Backgammon with me? :(

I really did wash my hands. Honest! :)

[irwcustom]

Of those mentioned and some I forgot: I keep Koi carp, Love snorkelling but don't dive anymore or daren't due to the bad ears I get from it, soccer / football watch and play a bit, I dabble with other instruments and love to record them, have done dark room colour and b+w prints in a home darkroom, have watched a ballgame and liked it a lot, but don't understand it too well -apparently, I was told on very good authority that the stadium is callled Oriole park at Camden Yards - I thought it was Camden yds myself. I used to play darts for 5 teams a week when I was 15 - then I gave it up:confused: not too bad at pool and snooker. Home improvements.

[jas]

Backgammon? Cool! Jas & Jo, when I reschedule my visit I'm in for that too.
No way, Kingsley - you're some sort of math geek, aren't you? If you can divide by 36 I want nothing to do with you.

Dan H: quick, what percentage is 7/36? Don't know? Ok, we'll play!

Darren: the official name is Oriole Park at Camden Yards but no American has time to say all that - we're too busy making money - so we say "Camden Yards". Some of the less polite among us call it "Crammed-in Yards" and some of us absurdists call it "Cramden Yards" after Ralph Cramden.

-John

[Jo]

What, nobody wants to play Backgammon with me? :(

I really did wash my hands. Honest! :)
I'd love to play with you Dan. Does Yahoo or MSN have any games where you can actually meet up with others rather than just some random player.

Another game I love is Hearts, but I'm terrible at it. I'll kick all of y'all butts at backgammon tho'. :dude:

[Big Mike]

Turkey sammich and veggies and yogurt today. Had about 20 seconds to wolf it down, as our warehouse guy's mum passed, and we recieved a freight today. Out of the office and into the warehouse for me.

Hobbies:

Target Shooting
Zippo Lighter Collecting
Watching/following NFL and Nascar
I also collect those 1/24th scale die cast nascar models.
Of course movies and music.

[kingsleyd]

No way, Kingsley - you're some sort of math geek, aren't you? If you can divide by 36 I want nothing to do with you. Some sort of math geek I may be, but I used to play every afternoon with my neighbor sophomore year in college. I lost EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN GAME we played all year. Seriously.

Of course I was a philosophy & religion major then. And there were illicit substances involved.

But the fact of the matter is: I'm much better at hearts than I am at backgammon.

[Donk70]

Tuna salad, carrot sticks, and Gatorade

Playing guitar
Reading
Sleeping
Playing Fantasy Football and Fantasy Baseball
Watching football and baseball




I just realized how pathetic my life is :p

[jas]

Some sort of math geek I may be, but I used to play every afternoon with my neighbor sophomore year in college. I lost EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN GAME we played all year. Seriously.

Of course I was a philosophy & religion major then. And there were illicit substances involved.

But the fact of the matter is: I'm much better at hearts than I am at backgammon.
I was a philosophy major too.

There were illicit substances around in my formative years of backgammon too (as well as in my formative years of philosophy - Nietsche made no sense without them; Kierkegard made no sense no how).

The one thing I would never do is talk up my (enormous!) ability in hearts because then my opponents would be on guard for a moon-shooting. Better to let them think you don't know what you're doing, I say.

Kingsley, the mathematician in you should be fascinated by the act of losing every game in something that's alleged to be about 40% luck. That's so far outside an expected outcome that I'd say maybe you were moving your pieces the wrong direction or playing with only one die. :D

-John

[Zilmo]

The one thing I would never do is talk up my (enormous!) ability in hearts because then my opponents would be on guard for a moon-shooting. Better to let them think you don't know what you're doing, I say.
Dear God. What??

[Aldwyn]

Dear God. What??
i.e. Don't play cards with Jas!


Peace,
Aldwyn

[jas]

Dear God. What?? Hey, if you don't understand complex hearts strategy, that's not my problem is it?

"Shoot the Moon" = collecting all 13 hearts plus "the b*tch" (Queen of Spades) gives you -26 points (or +26 for each of your opponents). Trouble is, you can't alert anyone that you're attempting to shoot the moon until it's too late for them to stop you. Insodoing, you rack up many points (bad) and if you fail to collect, say, 1 heart, you end up with a devastatingly bad hand.

So, if your opponents think you may have a brain, they will be on the lookout for a shoot-the-moon attempt and stick you with a disasterous hand.

The first time I saw Jo take a heart intentionally or play a high spade, I'd be on to her and she'd end up with a +25 on her scorecard. Let that be a warning, Jo.

With me now, Zed?

-John

[Zilmo]

Hey, if you don't understand complex hearts strategy, that's not my problem is it?

"Shoot the Moon" = collecting all 13 hearts plus "the b*tch" (Queen of Spades) gives you -26 points (or +26 for each of your opponents). Trouble is, you can't alert anyone that you're attempting to shoot the moon until it's too late for them to stop you. Insodoing, you rack up many points (bad) and if you fail to collect, say, 1 heart, you end up with a devastatingly bad hand.

So, if your opponents think you may have a brain, they will be on the lookout for a shoot-the-moon attempt and stick you with a disasterous hand.

The first time I saw Jo take a heart intentionally or play a high spade, I'd be on to her and she'd end up with a +25 on her scorecard. Let that be a warning, Jo.

With me now, Zed?

-John
I glazed over after "Hey".

[nasum]

skipped lunch unfortunately

hockey
rpg video games
motorcycles
mountain bikes
eBay garage sailing
drinking copious amounts of liquor (hence the borderline nonesense I post after 8pm)
art galleries/museums (the amazon strives to be a curator one day, we go to everyone we can get to)
playing with my dog
pinball
cribbage

[BoyMambo]

Lunch:
Vegimite Roll
Mango Smoothie
Nenish Tart

Hobbies:
Cycling
Walking
Reading
Simple Electronics
Guitar
My Kids

[johnreardon]

No way, Kingsley - you're some sort of math geek, aren't you? If you can divide by 36 I want nothing to do with you.

Dan H: quick, what percentage is 7/36? Don't know? Ok, we'll play!

Darren: the official name is Oriole Park at Camden Yards but no American has time to say all that - we're too busy making money - so we say "Camden Yards". Some of the less polite among us call it "Crammed-in Yards" and some of us absurdists call it "Cramden Yards" after Ralph Cramden.

-John
I called it Rounders park, when I visited it.:)

[jas]

I glazed over after "Hey".
Or, as my brother-in-law says, "you lost me at 'hello'".

-John

[DanHund]

I'd love to play with you Dan. Does Yahoo or MSN have any games where you can actually meet up with others rather than just some random player.

Another game I love is Hearts, but I'm terrible at it. I'll kick all of y'all butts at backgammon tho'. :dude:
Checked out both sites today. Looks like you can pick who you play against on either. Although I never got MSN's applet to run for me, one of the options was to invite someone from your MSN Buddy List. On Yahoo, one person starts a game, and the other person then joins it. I didn't see an option to do a private or invitaion only type game. So, it seems that you are a bit at the mercy of hoping that someone else doesn't nab the game your buddy just started.

[darial]

Too late to talk about lunch, but I...

play guitar
shoot & hunt
backpack & fish
mountain climb
play a variety of games at a pretty high level - spades, hearts, poker (comunity card, draw, and stud mostly), cribbage, and I'm learning chess and bridge
program financial software and trade a variety of equities, debt, and derivitives
cook

[darial]

Checked out both sites today. Looks like you can pick who you play against on either. Although I never got MSN's applet to run for me, one of the options was to invite someone from your MSN Buddy List. On Yahoo, one person starts a game, and the other person then joins it. I didn't see an option to do a private or invitaion only type game. So, it seems that you are a bit at the mercy of hoping that someone else doesn't nab the game your buddy just started.
Yahoo allows private tables, or at least they do for chess. I would assume backgammon is the same.

[DanHund]

Yahoo allows private tables, or at least they do for chess. I would assume backgammon is the same.
Thanks. I'll have to look a little closer. Is it an obvious thing to do? Or, is that option buried?


Maybe they assume backgammon players don't have friends, therefore have no need for a private table? :p

[jas]

Why don't we just play against each other?

I'll start.

I rolled a 3-1. I made my 5 point.

Your turn...

-John

[DanHund]

Why don't we just play against each other?

I'll start.

I rolled a 3-1. I made my 5 point.

Your turn...

-John
I rolled a double 6. I'm going directly to jail and will not pass Go, or collect my $200.



I also saw where to make a table private in Yahoo. You have to create the table first. Silly me.

[irwcustom]

I rolled a double 6. I'm going directly to jail and will not pass Go, or collect my $200 Is it $200 for passing go these days ? - we have always paid £200 so at about 1.75 to the GBP, it seems like it's yet another thing we get ripped on.:(

[jas]

Is it $200 for passing go these days ? - we have always paid £200 so at about 1.75 to the GBP, it seems like it's yet another thing we get ripped on.:( I had an argument with a Londoner friend a few years ago. He insisted that Monopoly was created in England and based on London street names and based on pounds.

Of course he was flat wrong and, as always, I was right - the original game was based in Atlantic City, NJ.

-John