Do we share any other passions apart from our comps?

Me... I am a massive movie geek, will give anything a watch as long as its not gore. Some of my favourites include Stranger Than Fiction, Rocky, 12 Angry Men, Predator, Amelie, Curly Sue, Anything Else, Good Morning Vietnam, Get Carter, Lock Stock, Murder in the First... to name but a few! :D

I'm also an avid tattoo fan and am slowly buidling up a collection of art work... one of my new years resolutions is to get to the London Tattoo convention...

Apart from that I love taking photos, although I am not necessarily any good at it! Keeps me happy though. Oh and I do enjoy the occasional crafty bits and pieces (stitching + scrapbooking)

Lorna :)

Hmmm, I love computers :haha: ! I spend most of my day on the computer, and I like photography as well. I am part of a studio that mods Counter Strike: Source and Half Life 2, so I do that in my spare time as well. I am your basic computer addict. Oh, and CSS is one of my favorite games as well.

Hmmm, I love computers :haha: ! I spend most of my day on the computer

Yeah me too... sit at it all day in college, come home and suddenly find lots of things I need to do urgently online :lol:

Well I am 36, my first passion is guitar. Been playing since I was 16. I like to draw and sketch, computers, music (listening to Clapton's Chronicles right now) and also playing paintball.

EDIT: Oh yeah....would like to get a tat by Cat Vondee of one of my drawings! ;)

I've never paintballed before, what is it like?

Have you ever been deer hunting? Its kinda like that, only the deer shoot back at you! And they leave welps as well!!! lol..... Its a .68 caliber ball traveling at up to 300 feet per second. It is soooo much fun! You should try it out. Can get pretty expensive though. I have 4 guns myself. Just one of them I have around $1400 US in.

Yeah, paintballing can be quite a rush! Especially when you can mow down people while on the run or lie in wait and let someone get right up on you before you give them a single tap to the face.

Things I do away from computers: Play with my 2 kids, almost any outdoor sport/activity, lift weights and play CS (1.6). I'm slowly getting better at CS and have a great group of folks that I play with.

EDIT: Oh yeah....would like to get a tat by Cat Vondee of one of my drawings! ;)

Cat is awesome... gutted I couldn't get down to London last year to see her in action. If I win the lottery I am off to LA to let Chris Garver loose on me :D

Cat is awesome... gutted I couldn't get down to London last year to see her in action. If I win the lottery I am off to LA to let Chris Garver loose on me :D


Aren't they in South Florida?!? And please translate "gutted".....same as
p!ssed off??



Things I do away from computers: Play with my 2 kids, almost any outdoor sport/activity, lift weights and play CS (1.6). I'm slowly getting better at CS and have a great group of folks that I play with.
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Don't forget changing them diapers on that new baby!! :)

My other hobby is being a "shadetree mechanic." On most non-winter weekends I can be found in the driveway maintaining and repairing cars and trucks for family and friends. There are 16-18 vehicles I regularly work on besides my own. I'm practically an authority on mechanics tools; I own enough of them. :) Three times a year I attend NASCAR stock car races, one in Indianapolis, Indiana and two in Fontana, California.

Although I've cut back in recent years, in the winter I've spent a lot of time skiing. I like to explore new ski areas, large and small. I've been fortunate enough to have skied most of the ski areas in the Western U.S., from Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and all states west of them. I've also skied some in Alberta and B.C., Canada.

Yup, gutted = pissed off/devastated!

Garvers own studio True Tattoo is in La...


Although I've cut back in recent years, in the winter I've spent a lot of time skiing.

I am having my very first try at snowboarding next Friday :D can't wait... although I am already envisioning the bruises!

Don't forget changing them diapers on that new baby!! :)

How could I have forgotten that?!?! Must be from lack of sleep or something, uh, I forget.

I am having my very first try at snowboarding next Friday can't wait... although I am already envisioning the bruises!Once you get the hang of it, it's loads of fun! I've always skied but have never snowboarded.

Lol, it must be tough now that you're getting about 1/2 as much sleep :D ...

Geocaching (www.geocaching.com), hiking, and the amature outdoors photography that you can do at the same time. I also like to play sports but now that I'm out of college and don't know too many people my age around here I don't get to do that real often (indoor soccer and racquetball especially).

SNGX, what kind of camera do you use for your photography? Manual...Automatic...Film...Digital(Arggg)?

i am also a tattoo collector, i have 14 of em, 1 of them is a full arm piece, i build motorcycles in my spare time, currently building a 67 triumph chopper, and modding my Motorola cell phone!

Classical music (violinist for 12 years).

Shortwave radio when in school

Radio controlled airplanes (scale versions)

Aircraft history

Camping-Hiking-Fly fishing

Me... I am a massive movie geek, will give anything a watch as long as its not gore. )

round up the usual suspects

here's look'n at you kid

us Texicans like a little vinigar in our greens

blimey; they're all crazy 'cept you and me! sometimes I wonder about you.
we have a massive video collection! While in San Jose for 20 yrs, we took the
kids to the movies every Friday night; two full length features, cartoon and
news real, free cookies for kids and coffee for us -- ALL FOR $3 each!

us Texicans like a little vinigar in our greens

blimey



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cfitzarl - Digital. Canon S3IS, can't justify the equipment expenses involved in SLR (film) or DSLR.

I acually had 2 SLR's (Film, digital SLR's are priced crazily), and they weren't that expensive...a Pentax K1000 and a Konica FS-1...although my Pentax has seen better days, the frame is very bent and the camera can no longer be used. Canon's are very nice camera's if I say so myself. I still like film, and digital can't really surpass the quality of film (low speed films anyway like iso 25).

Once you get the hang of it, it's loads of fun! I've always skied but have never snowboarded.

I definitely think snowboarding will be easier than skiing... you don't have to worry about your legs going in different directions, LOL... but then I am basing this purely on the fact that I used to sledge standing up when I was younger!

i am also a tattoo collector, i have 14 of em, 1 of them is a full arm piece,

I'm about to start on a leg piece! A kind of montage of my favourite movies :D



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here's look'n at you kid

us Texicans like a little vinigar in our greens


The Usual Suspects is an amazing film, one I can just watch again and again and again!

Insect/wildlife photography, astronomy, and walking my rather large dog (http://www.techspot.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/1407/size/big/cat/500/ppuser/14683) are what does it for me lol.

Regards Howard :)

Insect/wildlife photography, astronomy, and walking my rather large dog (http://www.techspot.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/1407/size/big/cat/500/ppuser/14683) are what does it for me lol.

Regards Howard :)


Don't forget TechSpot!!! ;)

Ah yes, but the thread title does say "Apart from computers" :p

Regards Howard :)

Jogging, although it's bit difficult now with temperatures below -20F.

Ju-jutsu, hokutoryu style to be more precise. I started it last October, might get orange belt by the end of this year.

Insect/wildlife photography, astronomy, and walking my rather large dog (http://www.techspot.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/1407/size/big/cat/500/ppuser/14683) are what does it for me lol.

Regards Howard :)

That is a rather large dog! :eek: I've got an old labrador, but she doesn't feel like walking very far these days!

Jogging, although it's bit difficult now with temperatures below -20F.

Ju-jutsu, hokutoryu style to be more precise. I started it last October, might get orange belt by the end of this year.

All of a sudden I am feeling very unfit!

Movies, programming, teaching, news.

Anyone remember "The Hunt for Red October".

Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, Steve Martin, Robert Deniro.. are some of my favorites.

Anyone remenber "The Hunt for Red October".

Of course....the first Jack Ryan movie.

Of course!! Great movie....

The transfer to DVD was terrible, wonder if they have re-released it remastered and with any extras. I bought it and it looks terrible, it looks like someone drug their VHS copy out of the closet, ran it through a dirty VCR and used that to create the DVD.

I seen it when it was first released if I remember correctly. But I know what you mean with the quality. I just bought a Megadeth box DVD set. And the sound quality is as if they used a micro cassette recorder or something. I started to take it back to the store!

I recently bought The Cranberries - Live (1994) (http://www.amazon.com/Cranberries-Live/dp/B0007CILYS/sr=8-1/qid=1171049736/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-8998238-7415205?ie=UTF8&s=dvd) and it had been previously released on VHS I believe. The DVD looks worse than what I'd expect from VHS :( But the audio is good, and Delores is still hot despite the bad quality.

Only poor quality DVD's I think I own are the Only Fools and Horses ones...

This thread has drifted :p

I used to be into boxing, mu thai boxing and golf, really wanna start again soon. Went to Redang Island in the motherland for a while and scuba dived everyday I was there, If you ever get the chance, don't turn it down!! A really awesome experience - Plan on doing it again now that I have a license. And ofcourse, computers, mainly gaming / study of computers.

This thread has drifted :p
Doesn't matter too much in this forum.

Doesn't matter too much in this forum.

I was just joking :dead:

i have a movie half sleeve im getting done, themed on A Clockwork Orange

i have a movie half sleeve im getting done, themed on A Clockwork Orange

Cool! Do you have any pics yet?

Cool! Do you have any pics yet?
i only have the start which is the word DROOG going vertical on my upper right arm, but on either side of the arm i have 2 different screenshots that are gonna be incorperated, i do have a partial pic of my full sleeve though
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/kupik/GetAttachment.jpghttp://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/kupik/04-09-06_1855.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/kupik/Picture53.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/kupik/Picture52.jpg
i know the pics are low quality, i have a disk somewhere with better pics but i dont know where it is at the moment

Well being a college student I have alot of school work I have to do, and being in West Virginia I enjoy alot of hiking and outdoorsy type things. I love movies and gaming as well.

Oh yea the occasional party as well :D

Great tats, I love Japanese art :) Just a case of having enough money to do everything I want!


Oh yea the occasional party as well :D

When you are a student this goes without saying ...:haha:

Raising, spending time with, and showing my rabbits is my only true hobby. Only been at it a lil over a year, but I love every minute of it..AND it gets me out of the house...I've met some truly wonderful people in my newer hobby!

I do alot of reading in regards to their care to better help the vet with things/understand what they tell me! ;)...as there isn't alot of rabbit vet knowledge out there!

I'm starting to get back into Audio/Video (home entertainment) but there is only so much of this you can do with children ;) I assume playing video games falls into the computers department even if it's a console.

Um...Visual Basic .NET (a little); malware removal; web design...oh wait, you said apart from computers...I'd have to think awhile.

Me?..... Well I go 2 a boarding school in England, private, but it is co-ed. Don't flame me or being posh or rich or anything lol. I think I am the only 1 of my type on TS.

I LOVE rugby, I play for England academy (U16's).
I am into my school work (a bit).

Thats about me.....

Well aparts from PCs I love Basketball.

To bad the season is over. But hello summer leagues woo-hoo!

At the moment I'm running track, and have a meet tomorrow. (I hate track though).

The only sport I plan to do next year is basketball. Football can suck it next year. Three concecutive years of playing and I haven't been passed to in a game? Three offensive plays the entire season! Average of five downs a game? **** Football and the coaches for that matter. I can almost dunk and I plan to. Yeah are team is 1/9! (We lost 9).

So go basketball.

I've never paintballed before, what is it like?

Yeah it's always fun, for some reason every time I shoot you hear the guy from quake say "HEADSHOT!!" :D

Well I like to make 3d models and take pictures of stuff when im bored, also make Machinama ( dont know if it's spelt right ) it's when you get FRAPs or something and record games and make them into movies or something ;)