Hobbies

Just a list of hobbies I have or had (back when I had a life and had time).

Ideally, I will make pages for different hobbies.

• Parkour
• Bicycling
• Freeskating
• Other outdoor/physical activities

  • Longboarding
  • Tag
  • Capture the flag
  • Urban exploration
• Learning random skills

  Especially skills that are free or relatively cheap.

  • Beatboxing
  • Hand-whistling
  • Knot tying
  • Origami
  • Hand-sewing

    Like a more-practical knot-tying, sewing is helpful for mending clothes or modifying them to be of better use to you. Garment or bag construction also feels related to origami in a way.

    It’s also fun to reuse the fabric of old clothes and make something interesting, like rags, bags and such.

  • Handwriting (see Spencerian, for example)
  • Shorthand
  • Juggling
  • Firebreathing (learned this at The Crucible in Oakland)
  • DIY haircuts
  • Straight-razor shaving
  • Learning to control different facial muscles

    Yeah, this is weird, but I enjoyed learning how to wiggle my ears, nose, and wave my eyebrows. I couldn’t originally wiggle my ears, but I figured out the muscles and built them up over time. I will probably make a tutorial on this at some point.

• Martial arts

  • Krav Maga
  • Taekwondo (when I was a kid)
• Photography
• Watching movies
• Listening to music or going to concerts
• Travel
• Building/modifying stuff

  • Structural pipes
  • Hypertufa pots
• Computers

  Which I will try to avoid here since I have other outlets for my coding. I have other sites that are more about that.

  I guess this site is an exercise in a hobby of coding and making things.

• Learning about (maybe this should go in interests)

  • Statistics
  • Philosophy

    • Philsophy of science
    • Pragmatism
  • Law

    Which to me is kind of like applied philosophy.
  • Buddhism, mindfulness, meditation
  • Learning itself