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profoundfool

Mar 2nd, 2008, 05:30 AM

I read a little bit of everything. I am trying to compile a list of must-read classics, just for bragging rights, but for enjoyment I like anything suspenseful, or lighthearted, or funny...just basically anything that keeps me interested. I dislike books that are poorly written, that just seems a waste of time.

DoubleEdgeSword

Mar 2nd, 2008, 05:50 AM

For funny, I love Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. It will make you laugh out loud. Great writer!

For something that will make you think, and that (I believe) is a classic, Toni Morrison's Paradise.

And my guilty pleasure is the vampire series by Anne Rice. I resisted her at first, thinking they were little more than some gothic romance novels, but she's surprisingly literate and an excellent writer.

db44

Mar 2nd, 2008, 07:21 AM

Knives DES? I never pegged you as a serial stabber. :p

It depends on how you categorize hobbies, and since I started the thread I think I'll do that... I guess that's what you like to do in your spare time, not necessarily group endeavors.

Watching sports
Reading
Making jewelry
Listening to music

And on a recent trip to Disney I started drawing cartoon characters by pencil.

SteakSauce

Mar 2nd, 2008, 09:47 AM

Photography
Reading
Music (singing, listening, playing, composing)
Writing
Graphics
Movies
Traveling (I try to as often as I can. I've been to at least one foreign country every year for the past 11 years)

Interests of mine are:
Lord of the Rings (and all things Fantasy)
Scandinavian Folklore
Norse Mythology/Ásatrú
Vikings
Languages (especially odd, historic or made up ones)

Yah I'm a tad bit weird, I know ;)

profoundfool

Mar 2nd, 2008, 09:58 AM

Photography

Languages (especially odd, historic or made up ones)

Like Esperanto?

SteakSauce

Mar 2nd, 2008, 10:46 AM

Like Esperanto?
No more like Icelandic, Old-Norse, Anglo-Saxon or Quenya and Sindarin (Tolkien's Elvish languages) hehe

profoundfool

Mar 3rd, 2008, 02:54 AM

No more like Icelandic, Old-Norse, Anglo-Saxon or Quenya and Sindarin (Tolkien's Elvish languages) hehe

You should go to Scotland if you're interested in Old Norse. Lots of remnants of O.N. in their dialects. Btw, did you know that "they, them and their" came from Old Norse? I just held a class on lots of loan words from Old Norse among other languages (I am an English teacher). There are quite a few.

SteakSauce

Mar 5th, 2008, 09:26 AM

You should go to Scotland if you're interested in Old Norse. Lots of remnants of O.N. in their dialects. Btw, did you know that "they, them and their" came from Old Norse? I just held a class on lots of loan words from Old Norse among other languages (I am an English teacher). There are quite a few.
I'd love to go to Scotland.

And yes I did know about "they, them and their". We still say "de, dem and deras" in Swedish :)

DoubleEdgeSword

Mar 5th, 2008, 10:17 AM

Knives DES? I never pegged you as a serial stabber. :p

Moi? Mais non! :angel:

You know what, though? One of the coolest knives I have in my collection came from Arizona. The sheath is made of Green Mojave rattlesnake.

http://joeorman.shutterace.com/Ghosts/GhostsRattlesnake1.html

Here's another link with some cool photos of the place (although they have the name wrong).

http://www.eugenecarsey.com/camp/cochisestronghold/rattlesnakeranch.htm

db44

Mar 5th, 2008, 10:19 AM

I used to have a Turkish dagger. It was amazing in the good old days the things you could buy at a Renesiance Festival. :eek:

db44

Mar 6th, 2008, 05:59 AM

How's this for when hobbies collide? Tuesday's build day with Habitat (I guess that's another hobby for me) was spliter-filled. As I was making a necklace yesterday, I realized I still had some small splinters in my left index finger, right exactly where I hold my beads as I string them. :(

tiger_rascal

Mar 6th, 2008, 07:01 AM

I was doing some early gardening work, without gloves cause Im a man, and I got two nasty splinters, one in the tip of my finger, the other in the side of my finger. The one in the tip of the finger does not hurt and its very little, looks like its working its way to the surface, but the one on the side of my finger was big and it was hurting. It took me about 30 minutes to dig that thing out, I eventually became numb to the pain as I dug at my skin to get the splinter out, once the tweezers grabbed hold of it and it was out I was so relieved.

Splinters suck!

Whoda Thunk?

Mar 6th, 2008, 07:43 AM

Making blankets
Cross stitching
Making pillows/pillowcases

db44

Mar 6th, 2008, 07:50 AM

You call yourself a man Chad? I dug my splinter out from under the skin without tweezers. :p

tiger_rascal

Mar 6th, 2008, 08:04 AM

:tongue:

profoundfool

Mar 6th, 2008, 08:21 AM

Making blankets
Cross stitching
Making pillows/pillowcases
Do you knit or crochet the blankets? I've been wanting to learn how to crochet for the longest time.

profoundfool

Mar 6th, 2008, 08:22 AM

You call yourself a man Chad? I dug my splinter out from under the skin without tweezers. :p

Having long nails is hardly up there on my top 100 masculine features :p

db44

Mar 6th, 2008, 08:25 AM

Who said anything about long nails?

And if they were long, who said anything about them being anything but grungy and dirt-packed?

profoundfool

Mar 6th, 2008, 08:32 AM

Are these yours? :o
http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/31/62/23126231.jpg

db44

Mar 6th, 2008, 08:34 AM

No, not that bad. Dirty under the tips of the nails, not as the cuspids. And while not manicured, still clean and healthy in between the two extremes.

princess_bee

Mar 7th, 2008, 09:08 PM

Whoda Thunk?

Mar 7th, 2008, 09:32 PM

Do you knit or crochet the blankets? I've been wanting to learn how to crochet for the longest time.
Actually, I make those double layer fleece ones that you tie. Last Christmas, I felt like a cat with a hairball from breathing so much fleece.

princess_bee

Mar 7th, 2008, 10:07 PM

Actually, I make those double layer fleece ones that you tie. Last Christmas, I felt like a cat with a hairball from breathing so much fleece.

Those happen to be my favorite kind ;)

Whoda Thunk?

Mar 7th, 2008, 10:32 PM

Those happen to be my favorite kind ;)
My family and friends seem to really like them. I love shopping for fabric to fit individual personalities.

Miss_Sunshine

Mar 8th, 2008, 02:23 AM

Reading and collecting vinyl.

profoundfool

Mar 8th, 2008, 05:02 AM

Actually, I make those double layer fleece ones that you tie. Last Christmas, I felt like a cat with a hairball from breathing so much fleece.
I don't think I've ever seen one of those! Could you link me to a website that has them so that I can see what they look like?

profoundfool

Mar 8th, 2008, 05:02 AM

Reading and collecting vinyl.

Any specific genres?

Whoda Thunk?

Mar 8th, 2008, 05:51 AM

I don't think I've ever seen one of those! Could you link me to a website that has them so that I can see what they look like?

http://www.joann.com/static/project/0711/P408253.pdf

DoubleEdgeSword

Mar 8th, 2008, 06:28 AM

Cooking and photography are two hobbies of mine. My hubby is an amateur photographer and just got this new Nikon camera (the D3) and we're hoping to go lens shopping this weekend. Travelling and antiquing (sp) are also fun.

The D3, wow. Nice camera, very nice. I'm looking at the D40. What made him go up to the D3 (other than the "boys and their toys" thing?) ;) Is he looking to buy the Nikor lenses? Which ones does he like?

DoubleEdgeSword

Mar 8th, 2008, 06:31 AM

http://www.joann.com/static/project/0711/P408253.pdf

You make those? Dang. Those are so pretty, Whoda. :) I really admire people who can do stuff like that. I defintely didn't get the craft gene. lol

Whoda Thunk?

Mar 8th, 2008, 07:55 AM

You make those? Dang. Those are so pretty, Whoda. :) I really admire people who can do stuff like that. I defintely didn't get the craft gene. lol
Yep. Once you get the hang of it, it's really not too bad. The worst is all the flying fleece you inhale and getting hooked on shopping for more fleece. I have two HUGE storage totes full of fleece right now just waiting to be made.

I actually made one for the girls that were graduating on the basketball team my brother and sister in law coached. I didn't think I would EVER get done with those.

Miss_Sunshine

Mar 8th, 2008, 01:37 PM

Any specific genres?
Pretty much everything except classical, country and weird stuff lol

profoundfool

Mar 8th, 2008, 01:58 PM

You'd have a field day in my parents attic. They have tons of vinyl records lying around. My dad still hasn't given up hope that my sister or I will take an interest in them someday. :)

princess_bee

Mar 8th, 2008, 03:06 PM

The D3, wow. Nice camera, very nice. I'm looking at the D40. What made him go up to the D3 (other than the "boys and their toys" thing?) ;) Is he looking to buy the Nikor lenses? Which ones does he like?

Actually he started out with the Nikon D200 and loved it, but decided to make the switch to Canon and owns the 5D. Yes it's about the whole "boys and their toys thing" lol but he also loves full frame. He then looked at the 1DS Mark III (since the 1D Mark III was re-called for auto focus issues and then since fixed), but being an amateur the price tag was a bit much lol. He really enjoys being able to shoot full frame, so he decided to go with the Nikon D3 and just picked it up a bit over a week ago and loves it. The lens he was looking at is the Nikon 70-200 f 2.8 since it's supposed to be quite sharp. He mostly does landscape photography, so that would work well for him.

The D40 is quite a good camera and I was asking him about lenses and he recomends the Nikon 18-200 since he says it's a good wideangle and telefoto lens.

db44

Mar 8th, 2008, 06:48 PM

Pretty much everything except classical, country and weird stuff lol

Oh, I thought you were talking clothing. :eek:

DoubleEdgeSword

Mar 8th, 2008, 07:08 PM

Actually he started out with the Nikon D200 and loved it, but decided to make the switch to Canon and owns the 5D. Yes it's about the whole "boys and their toys thing" lol but he also loves full frame. He then looked at the 1DS Mark III (since the 1D Mark III was re-called for auto focus issues and then since fixed), but being an amateur the price tag was a bit much lol. He really enjoys being able to shoot full frame, so he decided to go with the Nikon D3 and just picked it up a bit over a week ago and loves it. The lens he was looking at is the Nikon 70-200 f 2.8 since it's supposed to be quite sharp. He mostly does landscape photography, so that would work well for him.

The D40 is quite a good camera and I was asking him about lenses and he recomends the Nikon 18-200 since he says it's a good wideangle and telefoto lens.

I'm just entering the digital age of photography, so I'm not even sure what "shooting full frame" means. With my trusty 35mm film cameras, it's not something I think about. I see the image in the viewfinder and that's what I get. Digitals don't work that way?

I'm considering the D40 only because the reviews I've read have been very good; however, now I'm a bit curious about this "full frame" thing. lol

princess_bee

Mar 8th, 2008, 09:37 PM

DES I too am learning as I go along in terms of digital photography. I had no clue what "full frame" was either lol. I found this link which might explain it a bit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-frame_digital_SLR

also, I am not sure if you are familiar with the site DP review. It's a great place for reviews and sample shots.

http://www.dpreview.com/

DoubleEdgeSword

Mar 9th, 2008, 01:16 PM

Ohhh! Thank, Bee. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's a good reason to go up to the D3 then. Although, perhaps as more and more people get into the higher end amateur digitals, some of them will start making the full frames. There is a pretty big price difference.

Thank you for those links. :)

princess_bee

Mar 10th, 2008, 05:07 PM

You're very welcome Des. The D3 is Nikon's first full frame format camera, and I agree there will be more and more of them. In terms of cameras and technology, it seems that every few years they have new models, which make your current one seem obselete lol. I'm just happy tagging along with the hubby and learning as I go.

profoundfool

Mar 10th, 2008, 11:57 PM

http://www.joann.com/static/project/0711/P408253.pdf
Thanks! I've seriously never seen those before, but they look nice! I might just give those a stab someday, I love creating. :)

Whoda Thunk?

Mar 11th, 2008, 12:50 AM

Thanks! I've seriously never seen those before, but they look nice! I might just give those a stab someday, I love creating. :)
I love making those and I'm surprised at how much people like them. My cousin's teenaged sons got them for Christmas after some not so subtle hinting. I didn't think boys that age would care about a blanket, but they love them.

profoundfool

Mar 15th, 2008, 12:54 PM

I love making those and I'm surprised at how much people like them. My cousin's teenaged sons got them for Christmas after some not so subtle hinting. I didn't think boys that age would care about a blanket, but they love them.

Isn't it nice to make things when you know the effort will be appreciated? I am thinking of making blankets like that for Christmas next year. I have some relatives that I know would love them if only I can find fleece with a nice pattern. Our local fabric store tends to carry fabrics that are hideous IMO, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will find nicer, better options in a city 2 hours south of here. :laugh:

Whoda Thunk?

Mar 15th, 2008, 09:25 PM

Isn't it nice to make things when you know the effort will be appreciated? I am thinking of making blankets like that for Christmas next year. I have some relatives that I know would love them if only I can find fleece with a nice pattern. Our local fabric store tends to carry fabrics that are hideous IMO, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will find nicer, better options in a city 2 hours south of here. :laugh:
I do love knowing people really like them.

Try looking online. I usually just buy mine at the store, but sometimes they have a wider selection online. I need to stop buying it until I finish using the two storage totes of fleece I already have.