What Are Some Practical Indoor Hobbies to Keep You Busy?

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The discussion revolves around finding an engaging indoor hobby that is both useful and entertaining, with an emphasis on projects that can be completed over time and within a reasonable budget. Suggestions include woodworking, such as carving wooden bowls, quilting, and creating Christmas ornaments. Other ideas include paper modeling, fiction writing, and building mechanical or electronic devices. Some participants mention hobbies like puppetry, making musical instruments, and even programming. The conversation also touches on the potential for selling handmade items online as a way to fund the hobby. There are humorous and off-topic exchanges, but the core focus remains on exploring creative and practical hobbies that can be pursued at home.
  • #51
BEAM robotics is electronic and mechanical (Biology Electronics Aesthetics Mechanics), as well as cheap and fun...
 
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  • #52
turbo-1 said:
If Evo bites people, will they become hopelessly accident-prone? I see a pretty good Zombie theme there.


I was going to call my movie (The silence of the rams).
 
  • #53
wolram said:
I was going to call my movie (The silence of the rams).
Entrails in or entrails out?
 
  • #54
Woolie... Turbo... will you guys please stop? I'm herniating here!

Hey, wait a sec... I've already had both hernias repaired...

Anyhow, whatever the hell you're smoking is causing distress in my groinal region, so quit already!
 
  • #55
Danger said:
Woolie... Turbo... will you guys please stop? I'm herniating here!

Hey, wait a sec... I've already had both hernias repaired...

Anyhow, whatever the hell you're smoking is causing distress in my groinal region, so quit already!

I think they've been dipping into the reef tank!
 
  • #56
So I guess the question is: are they hyperventelated on pure oxygen, or are they delusional due to hypoxia? :confused:
 
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  • #57
lisab, if you can follow us, you're in the flow... what's in your wallet?
 
  • #58
wolram said:
I can fix most things, i have this vague idea for new type of musical instrument, i am not really interested in selling stuff thanks for the idea though.
I think the first thing i have to do is build a high quality tone generator, would 0 to 15,000Hz
cover most notes?

maybe you can incorporate some of Moonbear's old electrodes into it---AND make your movie at the same time using it to control the zombies --oooh, I mean Evo and MB
 
  • #59
lisab said:
I think they've been dipping into the reef tank!

More like the reefer tank. :rolleyes: :smile:
 
  • #60
rewebster said:
maybe you can incorporate some of Moonbear's old electrodes into it

Just in case this suggestion involves the 'electro-ejaculator', I'm going home now...
 
  • #61
Danger said:
Just in case this suggestion involves the 'electro-ejaculator', I'm going home now...
Was that featured in a Woody Allen movie?
 
  • #62
Danger said:
Just in case this suggestion involves the 'electro-ejaculator', I'm going home now...

did she ask for it back?
 
  • #63
No, that was the 'Orgasmatron'. Jees, I'd expect an old perv like you to have a better knowledge of space porn. :rolleyes:
 
  • #64
rewebster said:
did she ask for it back?

She did, in fact, recruit the sheriffs of several jurisdictions to aid in it's recovery. They were of no help. An on-call emergency proctologist, on the other hand, proved to be my Waterloo. :redface:
 
  • #65
Danger said:
Stop sleeping with porcupines and get yourself a human female. :rolleyes:

hard thing to give up after porcupines
 
  • #66
rewebster said:
hard thing to give up after porcupines

Well, I'd never turn back, but Woolie is a bit of a wimp in these matters.
 
  • #67
wolram said:
I was going to call my movie (The silence of the rams).
:smile: Love it!

And yes, my victims *do* become accident prone. :smile:
 
  • #68
Danger said:
Just in case this suggestion involves the 'electro-ejaculator', I'm going home now...
I remember that. :biggrin: Wasn't there also "Rhino love"?

<sniff> Those were the days. You, Doc Toxin, Artman, Moonbear. Those are classics. It was all Doc Toxin's fault, he led us down that path. I never knew what a merkin was. :-p
 
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  • #69
I'll (maybe) answer that after I get home.
 
  • #70
I saw this post the other day and was going to offer to send Wooly the stamps I have been collecting for the last 40 years and recommend that he try auto-philatio; the collecting of stamps by ones self. But I was like, oh my god, that is so base...

But after reading the last few posts...

Wooly? Can you organize my stamps for me if I send them all to you? There are only about 10,000 or so.

Thanks,

Om
 
  • #71
got any black jacks?

(I didn't ask about the 24 inverted)
 
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  • #72
OmCheeto said:
recommend that he try auto-philatio

Unfortunately, his lips aren't long enough, and your spelling sucks...
 
  • #73
Evo said:
I remember that. :biggrin: Wasn't there also "Rhino love"?

<sniff> Those were the days. You, Doc Toxin, Artman, Moonbear. Those are classics. It was all Doc Toxin's fault, he led us down that path. I never knew what a merkin was. :-p


Two Merkins escaped from London zoo last year, there are thousands of them running wild now, when they attack they attach them selfs to any exposed flesh, removing them is said to be very painful.
 
  • #74
Danger said:
Unfortunately, his lips aren't long enough, and your spelling sucks...
:-p

Whoa, do NOT google that other word.
 
  • #75
I knew I should not have kept that thought in my head...

Bad Om! Bad. Bad!
 
  • #76
lol @ this thread
 
  • #77
BryanP said:
lol @ this thread


All ways the same, if it is not Danger cocking my threads up, it is MoonB fannying around with them.
 
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  • #78
Poor, poor Wolly{no, I'm not laughing}, all he wanted was a hobby. And to his humble request he gets...{ok, I'm laughing my a$$ off} a auto porcupine electro-ejaculator.

Wolly have you looked at this site befor?
http://www.rocketstore.co.uk/
 
  • #79
wolram said:
All ways the same, if it is not Danger cocking my threads up, it is MoonB fanying around with them.

would have never known

moonbear is such a 'gentle' sounding username!
 
  • #80
Yes, she is a Moonbear is sheeps clothing.
 
  • #81
hypatia said:
Poor, poor Wolly{no, I'm not laughing}, all he wanted was a hobby. And to his humble request he gets...{ok, I'm laughing my a$$ off} a auto porcupine electro-ejaculator.

Wolly have you looked at this site befor?
http://www.rocketstore.co.uk/


Now look here Hypatio.
 
  • #82
hypatia said:
Yes, she is a Moonbear is sheeps clothing.
Definitely the leader of the pack, or would that be flock?
 
  • #83
BryanP said:
would have never known

moonbear is such a 'gentle' sounding username!


MoonB is very gentle, it is her instruments that hurt.
 
  • #84
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BryanP said:
moonbear is such a 'gentle' sounding username!

Just ignore the 'moon' part of it for a dose of reality. :biggrin:
 
  • #85
Danger said:
:biggrin:

Just ignore the 'moon' part of it for a dose of reality. :biggrin:

Yep, I can look all cute and cuddly, but still have a full set of claws and fangs. :biggrin:
 
  • #86
Just the way I like my women...
 
  • #87
Wow, this deteriorated...a LOT...
 
  • #88
binzing said:
Wow, this deteriorated...a LOT...

You were expecting otherwise? :rolleyes:
 
  • #89
Sure...hobbies and stuff...not bestiality and sex toys...
 
  • #90
binzing said:
Wow, this deteriorated...a LOT...

It's just a hobby of ours to see how far we can derail threads in GD. :biggrin:
 
  • #91
Moonbear said:
It's just a hobby of ours to see how far we can derail threads in GD. :biggrin:
So, Moonie, what bike should I buy when I sell my H-D Softail?:rolleyes:
 
  • #92
Moonbear said:
It's just a hobby of ours to see how far we can derail threads in GD. :biggrin:

Derailed, derailed, you have riped up the tracks and nuked the train.

However, i have started the research into my new hobby, all i need now is some one with a phd in electronics and a master carpenter.
 
  • #93
wolram said:
Derailed, derailed, you have riped up the tracks and nuked the train.

However, i have started the research into my new hobby, all i need now is some one with a phd in electronics and a master carpenter.

Add some copper and brass and you can join the newest hobby rage: steampunk


http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/multimedia/2007/06/gallery_steampunk
steampunk envisions a future that has collapsed onto a re-imagined Victorian past. Steam and clockworks replace silicon logic, brass and copper stand in for titanium and plastic, and airships replace spaceships.

Unlike other speculative-fiction genres, steampunk enthusiasts are not simply content to read its fiction, or passively consume its media. Today's steampunks don't want to just watch the movie, they want to build it, play in it, live it.

http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/06/gallery_steampunk/steampunkPC.jpg

The Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard​
 
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  • #94
OmCheeto said:
Add some copper and brass and you can join the newest hobby rage: steampunk




http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/06/gallery_steampunk/steampunkPC.jpg

The Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard​

That looks very nice!

Probably expensive!
 
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  • #95
JasonRox said:
That looks very nice!

Probably expensive!

I think the biggest expense would be time.
Most of this is done by people at home on their own equipment.

Much of the copper and brass comes out of a rattle can. :cry:
 
  • #96
binzing said:
Sure...hobbies and stuff...not bestiality and sex toys...

Those are my hobbies. What are you into... model aeroplanes?
 
  • #97
wolram said:
However, i have started the research into my new hobby, all i need now is some one with a phd in electronics and a master carpenter.

I see I got here too late, was going to suggest a solar water heater.
 
  • #98
Build yourself a nice perpetual motion machine! That should keep your hobby horse busy for a few year,,er decades...
 

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