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Re: Hobbies....
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Sat, 20 Jan 2001 06:06:47 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Matt Brooks writes:
> After reading the NetSlaves article in general, I got to thinking about
> hobbies. It's always interesting to look at a group of people I
> associate with, over some common cause, and find out what ELSE they do.
> So, I pose a question:
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> What are some of your hobbies? Outside of Lego?
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> I for one have about a quarter million hobbies I've pursued over the
> years. The ones I primarily am involved in now include:
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> 1) Dancing ballet. I've danced ballet for five going on six years now.
> I've performed most of the male (and a few female) roles in 6 different
> Nutcrackers; court jester in Cinderella; Curella DeVille in
> Dalmations-Fantasy in Black in White, Lindoro in The Magic Flute (my
> first lead role), and also danced to "Vivaldi's Spring", "Strangers" in
> the Night as part of a tribute to Sinatra, a song from "Porgy & Bess,"
> and various other pas de duexes (dances of two) or partner dances in
> ballet.
>
> 2) Collectin Magic Cards. Ever hear of Magic the Gathering? By Wizards
> of the Coast? While I was in my somewhat dim ages, I found this
> collectible card game, and managed to amass close to 60,000 cards in the
> last 7 years. They are currently amassed undermy bed, as well as in a
> binder system which is ALMOST as complicated as the bin and tub system I
> use for my Lego.
>
> 3) My one other great weakness is computer games. I have more than 250
> different computer games, ranging from early 80's (King's Quest I
> anyone) all the way up to today (American McGee's Alice is a HOOT!!). My
> favorite company is Sierra On-Line, now just called Sierra, and I have
> nearly every game made by them. My computer is up to date with every
> gadget and gizmo I would need to play these games. Unfortunately, some
> of my favorite, older games, run WAY to fast even on the slowest speed
> setting of the game, because of the speed of the PIII chip. And, without
> a real MS-DOS environment, lots of my stuff won't work without major
> tweaking, for which I have very little time right now.
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> My other hobbies have included collecting everything from Garbage Pail
> Kids (Still have all THOSE under my bed also), to posters, key chains,
> buttons, stickers, books (Stephen King and an ENTIRE Piers Anthony
> collection sit on my shelves), Disney movies, CD's, cooking utensils,
> decorated tins, and Teddy Bears (my biggest collection when I was a
> kid!).
>
> Recently I've been looking at Transformers(again) on the net. And I
> DON'T mean these new Transformers all made out of plastic and carrying
> names like Beast Wars or whatever. I mean the REAL Transformers of the
> 80's. The ones they made out of metal, and plastic, and had engaging
> storylines with. But, I won't delve into those for a while yet. There's
> still more ABS out there with my name on it!
>
> So, let's hear it! What are your hobbies??
>
> Matt
When my LEGO Train and Town MOC's don't have me in stitches, I like to
listen to 70's and 80's hard rock and heavy metal. Reading books, magazines
(I'm a big railroad history buff, the correct term is 'ferroequinologist'.
Walking, bicycling, and working all rank in there too. I won't even count
computers and the net, how could I make my voice heard without it anyway? We
are all a varied group, I'm sure of that. But at least we all connect on the
'ABS' plain of existence. Interesting, huh?
-Harvey
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