OTHER HOBBIES OF MEMBERS ??

[ROCKET]

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[rickhunter]

Trekkie Fan, photography, Aquariums, Animated Cel Art, Disney figurines, US Coin collecting,  US Stamp collecting and a partridge in a pear tree.

And like other guys cool video and audio gear and related gadgetry.

[Frank A]

On the coin operated amusements side, besides IGT + machines, I enjoy working on and collecting Pinball, Pachislo, Pachinko ( electronic and vintage ), Seeburg Juke Boxes, Arcade Games and any old and interesting coin operated stuff. I try and collect some of the games that I played when growing up at the Jersey Shore in the early 50's.  I enjoy sailing, cooking, working on the house and I really enjoy my job. I am the Facilities Director at a high end private Golf & Country Club. Great boss and very nice club members and our management teams all work well together. I am remarried and the second time is definitely better. I am DOJ registered and will occasionally sell machines to legal states.

Frank A

[Foster]

My other hobbies Amateur Radio, Computers, Motorcycling -- Goldwing

Eventually want to own a couple of pinball machines, and simulator type arcade games

[Flexpipe]

I am also into Pinballs, Computers, WDCC Classics, Latest and Greatest Audio/Video equipment, Classic TV- Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Addams Family, Munsters,  and the films of Laurel and Hardy.

[Thor777]

   I have been involved in communications monitoring most of my adult life and currently hold a Advanced Class Radio License along with a Associates degree in electronics..  I am also very interested in amateur astronomy, lasers, HAM Radio, electronics design along with some programming. Other interests I sometimes manage to find time for are target shooting,  camping / hiking,  woodworking and just about anything to do with graphical design on computers, digital photography and the like...  I have always been and am still interested in High Powered Model Rocketry 

  My latest fascination is with full working Vegas slot machines !!! ... My new goal in life is to learn everthing there is to know about them...I currently own 2 and am working on acquiring another !!! 

[stayouttadabunker]

Well,
From my avatar...golf! 
I love bombing a ball 337 yards or placing beautiful iron shots into the green.
I raced Lasers for about 10 years, before that J-35's. A J-35 is about half the size of an America's Cup yacht.
Computers, dog training, puttering in the garage with a welder and various sprockets...making a go-kart! 

[Joeylc]

OMG I NEED TO GET A LIFE OR A NEW  HOBBIE/JOB  

30 Signs That Technology Has Taken Over Your Life


1. Your stationery is more cluttered than Warren Beatty's address book. The letterhead lists a fax number, e-mail addresses for two on-line services, and your Internet address, which spreads across the breadth of the letterhead and continues to the back. In essence, you have conceded that the first page of any letter you write is letterhead.

2. You have never sat through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz.

3. You need to fill out a form that must be typewritten, but you can't because there isn't one typewriter in your house -- only computers with laser printers.

4. You think of the gadgets in your office as "friends," but you forget to send your father a birthday card.

5. You disdain people who use low baud rates.

6. When you go into a computer store, you eavesdrop on a salesperson talking with customers -- and you butt in to correct him and spend the next twenty minutes answering the customers' questions, while the salesperson stands by silently, nodding his head.

7. You use the phrase "digital compression" in a conversation without thinking how strange your mouth feels when you say it.

8. You constantly find yourself in groups of people to whom you say the phrase "digital compression." Everyone understands what you mean, and you are not surprised or disappointed that you don't have to explain it.

9. You know Bill Gates' e-mail address, but you have to look up your own social security number.

10. You stop saying "phone number" and replace it with "voice number," since we all know the majority of phone lines in any house are plugged into contraptions that talk to other contraptions.

11. You sign Christmas cards by putting :-) next to your signature.

12. Off the top of your head, you can think of nineteen keystroke symbols that are far more clever than :-).

13. You back up your data every day.

14. Your wife asks you to pick up some minipads for her at the store and you return with a rest for your mouse.

15. You think jokes about being unable to program a VCR are stupid.

16. On vacation, you are reading a computer manual and turning the pages faster than everyone else who is reading John Grisham novels.

17. The thought that a CD could refer to finance or music rarely enters your mind.

18. You are able to argue persuasively the Ross Perot's phrase "electronic town hall" makes more sense than the term "information superhighway," but you don't because, after all, the man still uses hand-drawn pie charts.

19. You go to computer trade shows and map out your path of the exhibit hall in advance. But you cannot give someone directions to your house without looking up the street names.

20. You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon.

21. You become upset when a person calls you on the phone to sell you something, but you think it's okay for a computer to call and demand that you start pushing buttons on your telephone to receive more information about the product it is selling.

22. You know without a doubt that disks come in five-and-a- quarter-and three-and-a-half-inch sizes.

23. Al Gore strikes you as an "intriguing" fellow.

24. You own a set of itty-bitty screw-drivers and you actually know where they are.

25. While contemporaries swap stories about their recent hernia surgeries, you compare mouseinduced index-finger strain with a nine-year-old.

26. You are so knowledgeable about technology that you feel secure enough to say "I don't know" when someone asks you a technology question instead of feeling compelled to make something up.

27. You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.

28. You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal.

29. You have ended friendships because of irreconcilably different opinions about which is better -- the track ball or the trackpad.

30. You understand all the jokes in this message. If so, my friend, technology has taken over your life.
We suggest, for your own good, that you go lie under a tree and write a haiku. And don't use a laptop.

[Thor777]

OMG I NEED TO GET A LIFE OR A NEW  HOBBIE/JOB  

30 Signs That Technology Has Taken Over Your Life

   Yes...My life changed forever when I purchased my first CoCO computer from Radio Shack in 1979? 

THEN while I was working for N.Y.Telephone I joined the ranks of the first geeks by test driving a 25 lb brick of a unit called a cell phone...

[tacman]

Well, starting tomorrow I will be outside of Louisville, KY. for the fall Knob Creek machinegun shoot and show. Held every year 2nd weekend in Apr and Oct. The Apr.2008 show was cancelled due to flooding from the heavy rains. Weather says sunny in the mid 80's Woo-Hoo!!!!!! Will take my laptop along and check the site from time to time though.

 Dan (tacman)

[Thor777]

Well, starting tomorrow I will be outside of Louisville, KY. for the fall Knob Creek machinegun shoot and show. Held every year 2nd weekend in Apr and Oct. The Apr.2008 show was cancelled due to flooding from the heavy rains. Weather says sunny in the mid 80's Woo-Hoo!!!!!! Will take my laptop along and check the site from time to time though.

 Dan (tacman)

soooooo..jealous     Happy shooting...

[StatFreak]

I share many interests in common with others here.

I hold an extra class amateur radio license, have an avid interest in photography, and am an amateur astronomer. I am a lifelong musician (piano) and have a home MIDI studio. I love watching movies of any age and I have an extensive collection. I'm a big Trekkie/er and collect both fan-made and original props. I also collect old U.S. paper money, Warner Brothers animation cell art, and space paintings.

I like numbers and statistics, particularly as they apply to gambling and blackjack theory. I got into fractal geometry and chaos theory a while back and spent some time creating fractal artwork on computers. I have an interest in lasers, but never did anything with them (I always wanted to setup a holography table but never followed through with it). I've been using computers since 1980 and even earlier, so I guess that's technically a hobby too.

I like fast cars in general and have fallen in love with the Corvette. There's the obligatory male video/audio/technology attraction of course.

And then there's slots, pinball machines, pachislo, and pachinko. I guess they could have gone without saying.

[tjkeller]

Hobby??...I think I had one of those once. Used some salve and it cleared right up!





If I actually had the time, I'd like to do some fishing, camping, hunting.
If I had the $$$ I'd REALLY like to get back behind a yoke. Way too damned expensive to fly for fun anymore.

[Brianzz]

I don't really have time for hobbies too much, I work 2 jobs 5 days a week 16 hours a day, friends this is what greed does to you, and my 2 off days are generally reserved for a mild comatose state. Luckily 1 of my jobs allows plenty of down time to cruise the internet and over see the day to day operations of my website.

Stat while I was reading your post I had a weird flashback to Dr. Evil talking about his past during group therapy.. for some reason

[StatFreak]

I don't really have time for hobbies too much, I work 2 jobs 5 days a week 16 hours a day, friends this is what greed does to you, and my 2 off days are generally reserved for a mild comatose state. Luckily 1 of my jobs allows plenty of down time to cruise the internet and over see the day to day operations of my website.

Stat while I was reading your post I had a weird flashback to Dr. Evil talking about his past during group therapy.. for some reason

I knew I shouldn't have plagiarized Austin Powers!    "Silly-me" made me do it.

[Frank A]

My favorite car that I bought new off the showroom floor was a 1966 Corvette convertible in Mossport green, black interior and black top. I wish I could afford it now.

[tacman]

Well, weather is beautiful. I spent most of the day scrounging for and buying needed items. Here's a few pics of the range line. Before a black powder naval gun is fired and after! Koff-Koff

 Dan (tacman)

[Thor777]

I hold an extra class amateur radio license, have an avid interest in photography, and am an amateur astronomer.

   Hummm...Presently have a Meade LX50 EMC 10" Schmidt-Cassegraine and a Smaller Meade Autostar Telescope along with a pair of Bushnell 16x50 Binoacs mounted on a tripod for stability...

Some of which i actually use to look at the sky with...

[StatFreak]

I hold an extra class amateur radio license, have an avid interest in photography, and am an amateur astronomer.

   Hummm...Presently have a Meade LX50 EMC 10" Schmidt-Cassegraine and a Smaller Meade Autostar Telescope along with a pair of Bushnell 16x50 Binoacs mounted on a tripod for stability...

Some of which i actually use to look at the sky with...

That's a nice scope. It's great to be in the SW United States, isn't it?   We definitely have some of the best viewing.     I'm with you on the tripod for the binoculars. I don't do well without one unless I use image stabilizing models. One of our astronomy club members has a pantograph device. What's really nice about those is that once you are pointed at something you can let others bring the binocs to their eye level without losing the object.

I have a Meade LX200 8" SC with a set of four Naglers. They cost almost as much as the scope, but they make a world of difference. I have a Meade DSI imager pro but I've found the software difficult to work with. I also have a Coronado PST H-Alfa with a double stack.

I take the Coronado to our club's public daytime events. I used to drag my Meade to those events with a Thousand Oaks type II filter but the stuff was so heavy to lug around just for sunspots that I found myself volunteering to bring it less and less. With the Coronado I can carry the scope and the tripod in one hand from my car to the event, and people are much more excited about seeing solar prominences than sunspots.

Truthfully, I've been spoiled by looking through all the 18"+ Dobs owned by the other members of our club. I really got spoiled rotten a couple of years ago when Steve Kennedy (unfortunately not a member of our club ) showed up with one of his "smaller" scopes, a beautiful 28"  f2 point something truss Newtonian Dob (he was looking to sell it because he had "moved on" and only wanted to concentrate on making mirrors of 32 inches or more. )

The dumbbell didn't even look like a white dumbbell as it usually does. It had nebulosity and amazing depth. M13 actually had COLOR! It also looked three dimensional and had quite a bit of nebulosity as well as thousands of stars and detail that I had never seen before. I got to look at the Swan and a few globulars as well. With that super-fast mirror, the eyepiece was less than 8 1/2 feet off the ground, and that included the distance of the mirror face from the ground!

I couldn't look through my own scope for a month after that night! [drool drool ] Of course, one of his 30" mirrors costs more than most cars or a room full of slots. Oh well. I can dream...

[Thor777]

One of our astronomy club members has a pantograph device.

   I can only WISH we had a club here in Yuma...  ... I guess they had one many many years ago but nothing in the last 10. 

I have actually thought about transferring to Tucson since they have a club or 2 there...

   Yes...I understand all to well what it's like to lug around a big scope...Now i live in "the city" right across from the Hospital and their is so much light pollution i am lucky to see the Moon 

What area are you in? 

[StatFreak]

What area are you in? 

Sent you a pm.

[westec1]

My hobbies

Hanging out at the cottage , fishing , target shooting, I do professional fireworks,

but my most time consuming Hobie is this one, slot's

Wes

[bobn]

I am a game addict. I am either fixing/playing an arcade or casino game. I also play with my four kids. They love games as well. We hit Vegas arcades weekly. 

[Foster]

Here is my other inside hobby

[PWRSTROKE]

Are those transformers or legos etc. They are cool looking rigs. B.