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02/11/2003 05:48:15 PM · #26 |
Music has been an important part of my life and I love most genres. I listen to it frequently and enjoy live music the most. I hope to get to see my favorite singer/songwriter/guitarist in concert in April, (again) Vince Gill. Harmonizing is one of my favorite things to do, and I've sung in contemporary gospel groups, and in church, where I also have played drums. (amateur)
Animals and nature fascinate me. I like working with animals, interacting, and defending their rights. I'm keenly interested in the environment, and natural history.
Investigating, and studying various cultures is fun to me too. I especially love exploring sub-cultures eg: Cowboys, Cajuns, Bikers, surfers, etc. It's fun to see how other people live.
Food is a passion. I was a private chef to a billionaire and love to entertain.
That's all I'll say for now...lol
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02/11/2003 06:14:18 PM · #27 |
Forgot to mention. Another hobby of mine is making babies. My wife is pregnant,8 weeks. It's our first one.
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02/11/2003 06:44:17 PM · #28 |
Congratulations to you and your wife Jacko! How exciting - very happy for you! :)
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02/11/2003 07:32:14 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by rcrawford:
My other hobby is woodworking and I have spent the last year remodeling one room in our house. You can see photos Here
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Roger,
Great work. I'd love to know how you light the shelves - there doesn't seem enough space for a normal fluoro. What's the secret?
My hobbies also include a little woodworking but nothing as major. A coffee table and a (half-complete) bed. My other hobby is petrol-powered radio controlled cars - as shown in one of my pictures. My third hobby is gardening - building retaining walls, fences, decking, etc... This is my dominant hobby at the moment having moved into a new house. |
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02/11/2003 07:34:25 PM · #30 |
CONGRATS Jacko!
Right now my hobbies are sort of my work, since I'm not working. I'm living with my girlfriend while she finishes her last year of college. I finished last year and worked enough over the past few years to save up enough money to live off of until she goes to grad school and I will be somewhere permanently where I can actually get a good job that I am entitled to with my college degree in media arts. I live in Philadelphia right now and I can't get any good jobs that pertain to what I want to do since I'm only going to be here until May and I'm sick of doing telemarketing and retail, so I'm taking time to get my portfolio together so that I can get a good permanent position soon. My hobbies, and future career goals, include all forms of digital art, photography, design, illustration, video. I also just completed the rough draft of my first novel and am writing a few screenplays that I hope to one day direct as my own DV films. I also started painting recently. I also love anything to do with nature, traveling, animals, and cooking. Sometimes I even cook nature and animals. Basically, I've been very busy doing things that others consider unproductive because they aren't bringing me any income. I used to be an avid skateboarder, but haven't been doing it much lately if at all, but I'd love to get back into it. I just don't have friends that skate and my body can't take the falls like it used to. I especially want to start up again for the great photo opportunities. I have great photos and video from when I was a kid and now that I have good equipment that doesn't cost money to develop I should definetely start up again. It was always my dream to be a photographer for a skateboarding magazine. |
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02/11/2003 07:55:41 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by sparky_mark:
Originally posted by rcrawford:
My other hobby is woodworking and I have spent the last year remodeling one room in our house. You can see photos Here
Roger |
Roger,
Great work. I'd love to know how you light the shelves - there doesn't seem enough space for a normal fluoro. What's the secret?
My hobbies also include a little woodworking but nothing as major. A coffee table and a (half-complete) bed. My other hobby is petrol-powered radio controlled cars - as shown in one of my pictures. My third hobby is gardening - building retaining walls, fences, decking, etc... This is my dominant hobby at the moment having moved into a new house. |
Thanks Mark.
I used the rope light stuff from the home center. Basically it's a clear plastic rope with tiny lights inside spaced about 4 inches apart.
Saw the picture of your car, very cool. I also fly radio control airplanes and helicopters but not much the last year, too busy with the remodel project.
How about some action shots of your car?
Roger
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02/11/2003 09:37:36 PM · #32 |
i love reading all these messages. it's much fun getting to know everyone.
congratulations, Jacko!! that's wonderful news!!
my hobbies are music (classically trained pianist), singing with a friend's rock band, painting, cross-stitching, soap making and dirt bike riding. although i've had to kinda lay off the last one because of 2 knee surgeries in the last few months. i'm also about to try my hand at writing a screenplay based on a 30's era family murder and the trial that followed.
take care...
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02/11/2003 11:27:19 PM · #33 |
Hey Sher...nice to know someone else here likes soap-making. I haven't done it in a while, but I used to do a lot of it.
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02/11/2003 11:56:45 PM · #34 |
Motorcycling and golf in the summer,
Curling and bowling in the winter.
I own a '98 Honda ACE (my bike)which I will be happy to take out for 4-hour rides this summer just to go shoot pictures with my new camera! Now I have an excuse!
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02/12/2003 12:44:25 AM · #35 |
| My other hobby is GEOCACHING. It is an awesome sport. Basically someone has hid a "cache" somewhere and taken down the GPS coordinants. Then you put the coords into your own GPS and go out and try to find it. It's kind of like a high-tech treasure hunt. I've found so many cool places and since I've been learning photography it's even better because I find the coolest places to take pictures at. If you own a GPS and don't know about Geocaching I urge you to go at it. You'll find some of the best places that way. People share their favorite places by hiding a cache there and then you go try and find it. |
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02/12/2003 01:51:02 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by Jubei Kibagami:
My other hobby is GEOCACHING. It is an awesome sport. Basically someone has hid a "cache" somewhere and taken down the GPS coordinants. Then you put the coords into your own GPS and go out and try to find it. It's kind of like a high-tech treasure hunt. I've found so many cool places and since I've been learning photography it's even better because I find the coolest places to take pictures at. If you own a GPS and don't know about Geocaching I urge you to go at it. You'll find some of the best places that way. People share their favorite places by hiding a cache there and then you go try and find it. |
wow...that sounds like a lot of fun!!! i've been wanting a GPS for a while...finally a valid reason to get one besides my usual reason of "it's a new gadget...i have to have it!" |
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02/12/2003 02:11:38 AM · #37 |
Originally posted by chiqui74:
My other hobby is medieval reenactment. I'm a member of the SCA, short for Society for Creative Anachronism. We recreate almost every aspect of life from the fall of the roman empire to 1650. We dress up in garb, eat medieval food, dance medieval dances, fight with medieval armor (weapons are made out of rattan.....wont kill but it will leave a heck of a bruise!!!) and we have events, wars, etc. It's pretty cool. If you're interested, just go to //www.sca.org!!!! I tried to find a pic but they are on floppy disks and my laptop doesnt have a floppy drive, sorry. |
ahhh haa! I too was a member of the SCA... that's the inspiration behind my member name... :o) it's been a few years, however I do miss it very much... here's a link to some of the shots I took before digital cameras were available...
Anachronite's Anachronism Photos
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02/12/2003 02:39:30 AM · #38 |
Originally posted by sher9204:
wow...that sounds like a lot of fun!!! i've been wanting a GPS for a while...finally a valid reason to get one besides my usual reason of "it's a new gadget...i have to have it!" |
It is a lot of fun. I've been to caches where the coords led me to the mouth of a cave and then there was a riddle and you climbed through the cave until you found the cache, which was kind of neat cause the person that hid it had painted a plastic lunchbox gold and had filled it with gold plastic mardi gras coins.
My favorite set of ones that I've been on was a Lord of the Ring "themed" cache, where the placer put 10 caches all over 4 counties in Utah that where themed around places in the book. Very creative, that day I had cached from about 10 in the morning till 10 at night.
I had also forgot to put in my post before. That when you find a "cache" you leave it, but you sign a log book, and it is filled with small trinkets and you take something and leave something of your own behind for the next people to find. |
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02/12/2003 03:37:05 AM · #39 |
I just got a GPS and I think I'll have to give this geocaching thing a try! It sounds like a great way to get out and take pictures and just be outdoors. Unfortunately, I live in Philadelphia and I checked the site and the caches don't really seem all that interesting and are all in the city in places I've already been. I'm definetely going to pick a few to try though at least to teach me how to use this damn gps. oh, while I'm at it, is there any way to also get driving directions from your gps. I have the sportrak pro and I got the magellan maps downloaded onto it but from what I've heard you can't get real directions based on roads, just the main direction to head in and have to go on mapquest first or something. Its seems ridiculous that they can't put the software and hardware for car based gps's and hiking/sport gps's together. Is there anything that combines both well?
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02/12/2003 07:26:23 AM · #40 |
hey there everyone .... besides photography i love to go bowling - although i havent in a while ... and i'm well in central Florida .. so that means theme parks central! I love roller coasters and all the parks .. Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and Seaworld ... and typical things .. movies, out dancin' in the clubs with friends, and just having fun!
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02/12/2003 09:08:13 AM · #41 |
JasonPR,
The Garmin GPS V does exactly what you're asking about. I use mine constantly. It comes with a CD that lets you download detailed maps of an area with all the streets, many restaurants, points of interest, etc. You can plot a cross country trip and download it into the unit. The unit will beep at you and tell you that you need to turn left or right. It also has WAAS for increased accuracy. You can get sub 10 ft accuracy when picking up WAAS with it. Geocacheing is how I found the area I did for my Garbage shot. The cache was on an "island" in the woods. Geocaching can be as simple as a stroll or as demanding as having to repel down the side of a mountain to find the cache. The other neat thing is that geocaching is worldwide. Geocacheing and photography have worked very well together for me.
Message edited by author 2003-02-12 09:09:13.
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02/12/2003 09:51:01 AM · #42 |
Hmmm... Sitting on the couch bouncing my daughter on my (horsey) knee sounds fairly boring after all this :) But it fills up most of my spare time... Unless you include dressing in 14th century armour and whooping close friends (actually getting whooped is more accurate) with a ratan sword...
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02/12/2003 10:26:37 AM · #43 |
Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Jacko!!
Hobbies? You mean.. there is life outside of DPC? shock
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02/12/2003 10:45:30 AM · #44 |
Falconry and miniature gaming...
Mark |
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02/12/2003 02:33:40 PM · #45 |
Originally posted by chiqui74:
My other hobby is medieval reenactment. I'm a member of the SCA, short for Society for Creative Anachronism. We recreate almost every aspect of life from the fall of the roman empire to 1650. We dress up in garb, eat medieval food, dance medieval dances, fight with medieval armor (weapons are made out of rattan.....wont kill but it will leave a heck of a bruise!!!) and we have events, wars, etc. It's pretty cool. If you're interested, just go to www.sca.org!!!! I tried to find a pic but they are on floppy disks and my laptop doesnt have a floppy drive, sorry. |
For the past two years, I have attended the Poor Man's Pennsic in Marshfield, WI. The event is really interesting; I loved watching the medieval fighting and horse demonstrations. It's nice to see the reenactments.
But, I'm more of a rennie. :) I've been attending the Minnesota Renaissance Festival since I was 8 years old. It also happens to be one of my favorite events to photograph because there are so many interesting characters. Here's a link, but all the thumbnails aren't working, but some of them are. =D
MN Renfest Photos
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02/12/2003 03:52:02 PM · #46 |
Hi everyone :)
Besides photography, I like playing soccer, rowing and dragon boating (its sort of like a 22 person canoe) |
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02/12/2003 05:36:08 PM · #47 |
For the past two years, I have attended the Poor Man's Pennsic in Marshfield, WI. The event is really interesting; I loved watching the medieval fighting and horse demonstrations. It's nice to see the reenactments.
Thank god I know live but 3 hours away from Pennsic. I dont know if i'll be going this year, but I am going to Gulf Wars next month. |
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02/12/2003 06:07:05 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by chiqui74:
For the past two years, I have attended the Poor Man's Pennsic in Marshfield, WI. The event is really interesting; I loved watching the medieval fighting and horse demonstrations. It's nice to see the reenactments.
Thank god I know live but 3 hours away from Pennsic. I dont know if i'll be going this year, but I am going to Gulf Wars next month. |
If you ever make it to Great Western War (Caid) look up Iamys Huet of Gyldholt.
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02/12/2003 06:28:56 PM · #49 |
| I'm actally not too much of the artistic type - I love art but am not too talented in that area. I'm new to photography but i'm enjoying it so far - my boyfriend had been helping me out and giving me some pointers. Other hobbies include snowboarding (i've been riding for about 9-10 years) and hiking and anything outdoors - i'd really like to get more into rock climbing. currently i live in Philadelphia so the outdoor scene isn't great but hopefully i'll be in California next year- i'll be starting a PhD program in materials science. I'm just finishing up undergrad and so most of my time is spent in the lab doing research and in classes etc. I've also been working in the local public schools helping to teach science. |
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02/12/2003 10:29:30 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by chiqui74:
For the past two years, I have attended the Poor Man's Pennsic in Marshfield, WI. The event is really interesting; I loved watching the medieval fighting and horse demonstrations. It's nice to see the reenactments.
Thank god I know live but 3 hours away from Pennsic. I dont know if i'll be going this year, but I am going to Gulf Wars next month. |
Gulf Wars ey? I am left wondering which side your on? Either way, Victory for Ansteorra! :o)
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