A quote form the Job/Colleges topic:[quote=gloomyandy]I'd say you can make your hobby your job, but you had better be really, really sure that you have a very deep interest in it, or as others have said you may find that you lose interest. Oh and it's also good to have something to get you away from a computer screen![/quote]So which interests/hobbies other than Lego do you guys have?
My main reason for playing with Lego: Mechanics
Other interests:
Storage, organization and communication of data in software systems.
Other hobbies:
Anime, Visual Novels
Designing software systems (and if they are interesting enough, code them)
Music, playing the piano (however I couldn't get piano with my when I moved, so it is on hold until I can afford a digital one...)
I love to do stuff which combine several of my hobbies if I can. Common combinations:
Metal (Metallica, Iron Maiden, recently Dream Theater, etc)
Rock
Programming (C++; will learn some gamedev)
Art
See my deviantART profile (I am going to add a bunch of even more awesome images within the holidays)
"Doodling" (Or rather, making extremely realistic, dark, depressing images)
Calligraphy
Photography
Writing
To everyone who hasn't done so, go check out Little Brother by the Boing Boing dude, Cory Doctorow. Hackers unite! As a gift, you can give someone the free ebook under the CC-license. (Stingy, maybe, but it's the thought that counts!)
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I know it's really annoying.. take G+ for example (though that's google). I'd really like to be on there, but I don't see them lowering their minimum age anytime soon (but I hope I'm wrong)
Most of my non-work activities are Mindstorms related but there are a few things I do outside of that:
Read, mostly Sci-Fi
isten to music, mostly electronic stuff, trance, old school techno
Program for the Android platform
C# programming
Chat with friends on Skype
Walk my dogs
Watch TV shows and movies
Things I do that are LEGO-related:
Programming my drivers
Run my blog
Give workshops
Give demos at events
Secret MCP stuff
Hardware (sensor) testing
Software testing (mostly ROBOTC)
Keep some of you young whippersnappers in line on the forums.
- Xander
| My Blog: I'd Rather Be Building Robots (http://botbench.com)
| RobotC 3rd Party Driver Suite: (http://rdpartyrobotcdr.sourceforge.net)
| Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll use threads,"
| and then two they hav erpoblesms. (@nedbat)
dimasterooo wrote:I know it's really annoying.. take G+ for example (though that's google). I'd really like to be on there, but I don't see them lowering their minimum age anytime soon (but I hope I'm wrong)
shhhhh.. nobody will know.
make another gmail account
I didn't realize that it was only available to my 'friends' on Goodreads for <18. I've fixed the problem by uh... adjusting... uh... you know. 
