What is your hobby? Help me.. I am bored out of my mind.

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#1 Post by **daeojkim** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:49 pm

I have 3 day weekend and I am bored. So I thought what would be a good hobby to start to pass time.

So besides browsing thinkpad.com forum what do you do for fun / hobby?

I snowboard, mountain bike... but I think I would like to do something will stimulate my brain. Brain teasers, mathematic problems, or some sort...

#2 Post by **AlphaKilo470** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:58 pm

I paintball and play airsoft. I also repair just about anything I can find that's broken, I work alot with computers, electronics and mechanical stuff. I also have a website (that's overdue for a new column, the URL is http://www.freewebs.com/alpages , liberals beware) that I put my conservative writings on, I also take part as the president of the robotics club at my school. I also, as you can tell, browse this website alot, asking for help when I need it and helping others when I can.

#3 Post by **thePCxp** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:20 am

My hobbies are, computers, studying about meteorology and oceanography, sports, video games, write songs. I also like asembling things(I am really good at that), and I also like planning for my future(I am also a future-looking person) like (and here are some of my main plans), graduate from high school(I am a freshman right now, and I am only 14), go and graduate from college, move to Raleigh, North Carolina and work for IBM(or Lenovo).

whizkid · #4 Post by **whizkid** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:35 am

If you have time to kill (because you like it better dead), there's always computer gaming. My wife and I have spent too many hours on a new simple game that will run on your slowest machine. It's a logic-based game, based on a puzzle from Einstein. He estimated anyone with an IQ over 98 should be able to solve it.

Anyway, here it is:
http://www.babichev.info/en/projects/einstein/

JHEM · #5 Post by **JHEM** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:54 am

whizkid wrote:He estimated anyone with an IQ over 98 should be able to solve it.

Actually Chris, what he said was "that only those with an intelligence quotient of 98 percentile and higher should be able to solve it", which is not the same as an IQ of 98 or higher but represents an IQ (Wechsler) of ~130 or higher!

Regards,

James (99.9944812644%/Wechsler - 99.9855483883%/Stanford-Binet)

Blake · #6 Post by **Blake** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:56 am

get envolved with other forums. they seem to kill the most time when im really bored

whizkid · #7 Post by **whizkid** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:30 pm

JHEM wrote:Actually Chris, what he said was "that only those with an intelligence quotient of 98 percentile and higher should be able to solve it", which is not the same as an IQ of 98 or higher but represents an IQ (Wechsler) of ~130 or higher!

Indeed those are very different numbers. I'm not going to go look up the quote, but if he said what you said he said :D then I think he was way off. Anyone who has played Clue http://www.hasbro.com/clue/ (Cluedo in Europe) or Sleuth http://www.face2facegames.com/index.cfm ... roductID=7 has done basically the same thing.

In Clue, you have weapons, rooms and objects. In Sleuth, you have quantity, color, and gem type. In this Einstein game, you have arabic numerals, letters, roman numerals, pips, shapes and operators to increase the complexity, but it's the same thing, really. So either all my friends and family are well above average, or Einstein's estimate was way off.

#8 Post by **daeojkim** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:46 pm

whizkid wrote:If you have time to kill (because you like it better dead), there's always computer gaming. My wife and I have spent too many hours on a new simple game that will run on your slowest machine. It's a logic-based game, based on a puzzle from Einstein. He estimated anyone with an IQ over 98 should be able to solve it.

Anyway, here it is:
http://www.babichev.info/en/projects/einstein/

Great!!. This looks like a fun game. I thought I had IQ greater than 130 so if I do solve these puzzles that would confirm somewhat... LOL

AtmosMan · #9 Post by **AtmosMan** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:56 pm

Well, I am a Meteorology Major at SUNY Albany, but for my hobby I am a musician. I play French Horn, Trumpet and Piano. I also compose orchestral music. I am very busy, and usually never bored.

mattfromomaha · #10 Post by **mattfromomaha** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:33 am

I fly airplanes, snow and water ski, go boating, drive an ATV through the forest by our house.... anything that brings me outdoors.

jjackson02 · #11 Post by **jjackson02** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:45 pm

that is a neat game

#12 Post by **daeojkim** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:56 pm

mattfromomaha wrote:I fly airplanes, snow and water ski, go boating, drive an ATV through the forest by our house.... anything that brings me outdoors.

Wow quite an outdoor guy. ATV sounds like fun as well as snowmobile. *sigh* We didn't get much snow in East coast so far and I have not gone snowboarding yet. Hopefully before the end of January we will get a blizzard. I hpoing for at least a foot of snow... Gotta love snow...

epbrown · #13 Post by **epbrown** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:08 am

Though I'd say reading is my biggest relaxing activity, I'm also a marathon runner, artist, and I'm into cars (currently 3 Porsches - 911, 944, and 928). With old cars there's always something to do, even after you've got them running well - like drive them! I drive mine regularly (the 944 is the winter beater), and take them to local tracks when I can.

Emanuel

#14 Post by **daeojkim** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:54 am

epbrown wrote:Though I'd say reading is my biggest relaxing activity, I'm also a marathon runner, artist, and I'm into cars (currently 3 Porsches - 911, 944, and 928). With old cars there's always something to do, even after you've got them running well - like drive them! I drive mine regularly (the 944 is the winter beater), and take them to local tracks when I can.

Emanuel

Haha you own all 3 of my dream cars... I envy you!!!

g8ina · #15 Post by **g8ina** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:51 am

I've been into loads of stuff in my 49 years, but the only "hobbies" which have survived till now are :

Reading : Good scifi/fantasy, Asimov, Clarke, J Follett, Pratchett, McCaffery, Jean Auel etc. Anyone who is "readable".

Music : I play and teach Bodhran (Irish drum), have a recording studio (now built around my T22) and have produced 12 commercially available CDs to date, used to build synthesisers in the early 70s. Have been know to write folk style songs (UK folk, not USA, big difference !) and perform for money in the past

Film : I own over 400 DVDs, mostly war, scifi, comedy, opera, Chinese stuff. I used to work in a cinema when I was a kid, so I tend to look at films slightly differently to others....

Astronomy : now, due to FMS disability, only with my trusty 15x70 binoculars with a parallelogram mount. Building a camera tracker for my Nikn D70, should be done by this weekend. Member (& moderator) of UK Astro Imaging Forum and founder of our SETI Team.

Computers : building & repairing for friends, esp fellow musicians. T22 convert

History : Industrial Revolution effectively started here in Ironbridge where I live in the late 17th C. I used to be a volunteer at the local museum, a working Victorian village. I'm very interested in that period.

That's about it. I'm also a Radio Ham, hence the G8INA part of my ID.

#16 Post by **daeojkim** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:59 am

g8ina,

Very interesting and versatile hobbies. From science, history, technology, and cultural experiences. Amazing. It's good to be part of people who are living their lives to the fullest.

I am 29, have lived in many countries, from Asia to South America to US now.

I hope to have lived to the fullest with wonderful memories and experiences when I hit 50. Well I better get busy ..

BILLCROCKER · #17 Post by **BILLCROCKER** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:23 am

I've been into nature photography since 8th grade. Maybe I should phase out ThinkPads a little - pro level Nikon's come out every 10 years...a new ThinkPad "P" comes out every six months!

lfeagan · #18 Post by **lfeagan** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:00 am

My personal suggestion for an intellectual activity to get involved in is to learn Scheme. Scheme is a Lisp dialect, and is pretty much an implementation of Lambda calculus. (Too bad this forum doesn't do LaTeX, oh well). Anyways, it is taught as the introductory programming course at MIT, and the book you need to learn it, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is all online.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Then all you need is to get a Scheme interperter, my suggestion for getting up and running easily is to use Dr Scheme.

http://www.drscheme.org/

When it asks about what language to use, choose "PLT Pretty Big". It will make your life a lot easier. The "teaching" languages are intentionally gimped so that you can implement stuff on your own. That isn't what you are doing, so ignore them. They are annoying to use.

Scheme is a very powerful language and is really quite enjoyable to program in. As a note, many AI programs are written in Scheme. It is a mathematically complete language and once you get into it the flexibility it has is quite amazing. It really makes you realize how broken imperative languages are and you really learn to appreciate functional languages. I admit though, even though I love Scheme, I am a die hard C++ fan, largely due to being into graphics and numerical algorithms.

If you have questions, feel free to ask. I always like programming in Scheme as a diversion from the rigors of other programming languages.

Lance

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