What hobbies and interests do you have outside academia?

[ProfuselyQuarky]

I may not be in Zoob's league when it comes to talent, but I like to write poetry. Here is one of my favorites.

Sheeple

Mindless masses grazing
On the spoon fed pablum of media whores
Regurgitated garbage greedily gulped down by the
Plain vanilla sheeple whose fleece is ignorance
You can hear the sheeple bleating
I have nothing to hide the law I abide
Constant refrain droned and intoned until
The foggy veil of myopia envelops their fragile existence
Jack booted wolves mill among the flock unnoticed
Hungrily eying the unconcerned and the unaware
Herding the multitudes into the land of liberties lost
Like lambs to the slaughter, pass the mint jelly

That's a lovely poem! I'm not much into poetry because I find the symbolism too complicated and, sometimes, irritating, but yours was very entertaining to read.

 

[James Holland]

I may not be in Zoob's league when it comes to talent, but I like to write poetry. Here is one of my favorites.

Sheeple

Mindless masses grazing
On the spoon fed pablum of media whores
Regurgitated garbage greedily gulped down by the
Plain vanilla sheeple whose fleece is ignorance
You can hear the sheeple bleating
I have nothing to hide the law I abide
Constant refrain droned and intoned until
The foggy veil of myopia envelops their fragile existence
Jack booted wolves mill among the flock unnoticed
Hungrily eying the unconcerned and the unaware
Herding the multitudes into the land of liberties lost
Like lambs to the slaughter, pass the mint jelly

that is great.
personally i like Dulche et decorem est by Wilfred Ownen and Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

[James Holland]

i tried writing them but I am a special child

 

[Kevin McHugh]

That's a lovely poem! I'm not much into poetry because I find the symbolism too complicated and, sometimes, irritating, but yours was very entertaining to read.

that is great.
personally i like Dulche et decorem est by Wilfred Ownen and Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thank you both for the kind words.

 

[jtbell]

My site gets 15,000 unique visitors per month.

My "tramspotting" site gets about 1,300 per month. Probably says something about the relative popularity of the two hobbies. I've sometimes said, "You know how most people think train buffs are a bit weird? Well, most train buffs probably think people like me are a bit weird."

 

[Sophia]

I may not be in Zoob's league when it comes to talent, but I like to write poetry. Here is one of my favorites.

Sheeple

Mindless masses grazing
On the spoon fed pablum of media whores
Regurgitated garbage greedily gulped down by the
Plain vanilla sheeple whose fleece is ignorance
You can hear the sheeple bleating
I have nothing to hide the law I abide
Constant refrain droned and intoned until
The foggy veil of myopia envelops their fragile existence
Jack booted wolves mill among the flock unnoticed
Hungrily eying the unconcerned and the unaware
Herding the multitudes into the land of liberties lost
Like lambs to the slaughter, pass the mint jelly

I'd have to Google several words to understand fully, but it sounds interesting as a whole. You've got talent for modern art.

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

My "tramspotting" site gets about 1,300 per month. Probably says something about the relative popularity of the two hobbies. I've sometimes said, "You know how most people think train buffs are a bit weird? Well, most train buffs probably think people like me are a bit weird."

Your site's cool . . . so you're also into stamp collecting?

 

[jtbell]

so you're also into stamp collecting?

I belong to both APS's: American Physical Society and American Philatelic Society. So if you know Ernest Rutherford's famous quote about physics and stamp collecting, that means I ought to know everything.

I haven't worked on my stamp collection for a while, though. For the last few years, when I go to stamp shows, I've been mainly looking at the exhibits and concentrating on the postcard dealers. After I retire, maybe I'll have some time to go through my collection and update my want lists.

 

[James Holland]

My "tramspotting" site gets about 1,300 per month. Probably says something about the relative popularity of the two hobbies. I've sometimes said, "You know how most people think train buffs are a bit weird? Well, most train buffs probably think people like me are a bit weird."

I love trains and do not think you are weird
i am firstly far far to weird to judge and also just being uncommon dose not mean its bad i have never met anyone who i know to like trams doesn't mean their aren't many out there.

 

[James Holland]

anyone like studio Ghibli films?
i think their great.

 

[meBigGuy]

anyone like studio Ghibli films?
i think their great.

Especially Spirited Away, but I like all the Miyazaki films.

My Hobby (so I can play while others sleep):

 

[ProfuselyQuarky]

My Hobby (so I can play while others sleep)

That's so kind of you, meBigGuy

 

[Hoophy]

My hobbies include playing tuba, collecting/pinning insects, growing bonsai trees, and collecting fossils. If it counts as a hobby I also like to play a lot of Kerbal Space Program.

 

[collinsmark]

[added] I just found out about "drainspotting". Is anyone here into it?

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35696967

A few decades ago I used to wear a T-shirt stamped from a template made from a New Orleans water meter cover.

 

[Hornbein]

I may not be in Zoob's league when it comes to talent, but I like to write poetry. Here is one of my favorites.

Sheeple

Mindless masses grazing
On the spoon fed pablum of media whores
Regurgitated garbage greedily gulped down by the
Plain vanilla sheeple whose fleece is ignorance
You can hear the sheeple bleating
I have nothing to hide the law I abide
Constant refrain droned and intoned until
The foggy veil of myopia envelops their fragile existence
Jack booted wolves mill among the flock unnoticed
Hungrily eying the unconcerned and the unaware
Herding the multitudes into the land of liberties lost
Like lambs to the slaughter, pass the mint jelly

Your style is like mine. Here's one I wrote yesterday. http://patrickpowers.deviantart.com/

The Tunisian Tuna Tsunami

A Toonerville Trolley of refugee escapees
African bees clambering ducklike entering foreign government homeland insider junctures
Klammering lividly downhill at risky bottom speed
An avalanche of hooked meat

Flopping on the party line of future endeavors
Futilely flailing for filched documents
Striving to become EU tax cattle
Pursuing this relative euphoria

A caroming clattering klezmer improv of bribes and brides
Accompanied by friends and relations
An anti-abduction from an addled seralgio
Ignited by the cold of the sea

Men tightroped into tornado turnaround implosion
Failures and capsized abattoirs of fishy backwash
Bitwise wisdom tracked by
Dominant satellite networks

Approaching protected borders
Poached upon by yeggs
Pockmarked panels holding out sea walls
Sometimes
Sometimes not

Political dynamite
A kieselgur diatomatious absorbed TNT for the stuck up
The rear of the body politic
Full of earth

 

[alan2]

Ballroom dancing gets you laid.

 

[Pepper Mint]

Me too, I like backpacking and climbing.

 

[physics user1]

Watching films, sitcoms, cartoons, listening to music, playing video games, mostly shooters, surfing the Internet, staying on social networks, this kind of things

 

[mheslep]

Competitive rowing. For some reason, never heard from another PF'er who does same.

 

[Janus]

Nobody else likes to draw

I used to draw more. Here's one from a while back that isn't too bad.

 

[ISamson]

Electronics, judo, reading.

 

[Janus]

Electronics, judo, reading.

I used to do some electronics as a hobby, but that was back in the day when you still could pop over to the local Radio Shack to pick up components, and hobbyist magazines like Radio-Electronics(ended in 2003) and Popular Electronics(ended in 1985) were still in print( I actually got a circuit printed in the reader submission section of the second of these mags). I still do quite a bit of reading.

 

[Comeback City]

Recently I've been listening to a lot of music... also love to play almost any sport, especially basketball and soccer.

 

[dlgoff]

@davenn

Any idea what this may be?

Front:

Back:

 

[Bystander]

Front: leaf/fern print/fossil. Back: sandstone concretion.