Other hobbies?

Myke · **Posted:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:33 pm

Do any of you have any other hobbies besides anything related to the cube?
My other hobbie is electronics especially high voltage.

Q · **Posted:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:39 pm

I play guitar and bass.
I love to play tablesoccer, and I practice martial arts.

Q

Clayne H. · **Posted:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:39 pm

I play guitar and bass! I try vocals. Work on solo acoustic folk punk type music. Used to be in a band but it fell apart after a year and a half or so.

I read (political philosophy, novels, etc)
I make things/sew things.
I try and stay active in community things - different forms of activism.

Pembo · **Posted:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:45 pm

Used to play guitar but got bored of it.
I juggle every now and then.
And I play a lot of computer games.

darryl · **Posted:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:12 pm

I'm taking some culinary classes right now.
I take my chili way too seriously. Perhaps I should enter a chili cook-off or something.
So aside from puzzles and cooking, I tend to read between the lines and bitch about the governement and the media.

-d

Caleb · **Posted:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:48 pm

Just wondering: I know that many cubers out there also juggle. But do any of you guys contact juggle? I'd be really interested in watching a video of someone contact juggle a spherical puzzle.

Adam Zamora · **Posted:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:57 pm

i know Quinn Lewis juggels as well as Tyson Mao. but Tyson is not a member here. i know how to juggle but only 3 objects.

Caleb · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:22 am

Maybe I worded my question in a way that made it easy to misunderstand. "Contact juggling" is completely different from "juggling." Contact juggling is when the ball(s) stay in contact with your body at all times. (it never/rarely leaves your body). A sample can be found here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... ling&hl=en

Clayne H. · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:19 am

Haha, contact juggling is cool!

David Bowie can do it..

jaap · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:26 am

Clayne H. wrote:

Haha, contact juggling is cool!

David Bowie can do it..

I've you're referring to the film Labyrinth, it was Michael Moschen doing that.

Clayne H. · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:27 am

jaap wrote:

Clayne H. wrote:

Haha, contact juggling is cool!

David Bowie can do it..

I've you're referring to the film Labyrinth, it was Michael Moschen doing that.

aww..Everything I thought to have known as truth is crumbling down beneath me!!

Kyle Allaire · **Joined:** Tue May 30, 2006 10:53 pm **Location:** FL

kyle plays day of defeat and counter strike on the computer ^_^ also kyle enjoys drawing.

Stefan Pochmann · **Joined:** Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:07 pm

Adam Zamora wrote:

i know how to juggle but only 3 objects.

I know how to juggle 15 objects. Though, I'm not able to actually do it.

Scott Bedard · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:25 am

im really into hockey, i'm the starting goalie for my high school.

also i do alot of programming.

jaap · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:47 am

Stefan wrote:

I know how to juggle 15 objects. Though, I'm not able to actually do it.

In about 1995 I wrote a computer program to generate (siteswap) juggling patterns, transitions between them, and animate them.

I can juggle 3 balls in a standard cascade, but not much more. It does fascinate me, and I must recommend this 3 dvd set:
http://www.gandinijuggling.com/newmedia ... eswaps.htm
It is just amazing.

Anyway, my hobbies are buying and watching dvd's (I must have about 700 now), computer programming, maths, and magic tricks.

dim5 · **Joined:** Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:29 am

I can juggle 3 and 4 balls well, and 3 pins very badly.

Board games are my biggest current hobby... maybe even ahead of twisty puzzles. :oops:

Pembo · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:45 pm

Kyle_A wrote:

kyle plays day of defeat and counter strike on the computer ^_^ also kyle enjoys drawing.

So does Pembo!
and World of Warcraft.

Clayne H. · **Posted:** Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:46 pm

I can juggle 2 or 3, but not extremely well.

Used to play ice hockey. Loved it. Wish I still played.

Quinn Lewis · **Joined:** Thu Dec 25, 2003 4:08 am

viewtopic.php?t=4911&highlight=juggling

Georges · **Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:01 pm

Clayne H. · **Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:10 pm

georges wrote:

Haha, great post.

Bryan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:35 pm

georges wrote:

If you follow that fourth link, there's a post with a bunch of links.

Myke · **Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:36 pm

kinda sorry :oops:

Didn't see those.

Haara · **Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:07 pm

Caleb wrote:

Maybe I worded my question in a way that made it easy to misunderstand. "Contact juggling" is completely different from "juggling." Contact juggling is when the ball(s) stay in contact with your body at all times. (it never/rarely leaves your body). A sample can be found here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... ling&hl=en

Anyone know what type of spheres are used in contact juggling?
My brother is a good juggler, so he has some decent juggle balls, but I feel like trying contact juggling, but I don't think his is good for that purpose (I may not end up trying it, but if I do, it can be good to know...)

Adam Zamora · **Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:27 pm

i have a kite that i fly every now and again. does anyone else fly kites?

Mr.Twisty · **Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:45 pm

I bought a nice kite when I was in Seaside, Oregon several years ago. Sadly it hasn't seen much flight time.

The last couple of years I have visited family and camped at Lake Michigan. I have several nephews that have some cool kites that they try to fly at least once during our stay.

Myke · **Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:04 pm

A long time ago I used to fly a kite once in a while.

joey · **Joined:** Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:02 pm

Myke wrote:

A long time ago I used to fly a kite once in a while.

Most people probably have!

Pembo · **Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:32 pm

Adam Zamora wrote:

i have a kite that i fly every now and again. does anyone else fly kites?

My friend has a power kite that I sometimes play with when I go round his house.

Noah · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:17 am

My friend is one of the top female jugglers in the world, and she always gets mad when people call them 'pins'. It's 'clubs'. :wink:

Haha.

I've taught her the 3x3 and I'm begingin the 4x4, now she needs to teach me to juggle.

Erik J · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:09 pm

I know there are some other people here who memorize pi other than me.

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862

I'm not even sure how much that is.

Darren Grewe · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:34 pm

CaptianCrash44 wrote:

I know there are some other people here who memorize pi other than me.

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862

I'm not even sure how much that is.

I found a topic that I once made that talks about PI.

viewtopic.php?t=3852

Pembo · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:45 pm

Pi, gives a whole new meaning to number crunching....

Quinn Lewis · **Joined:** Thu Dec 25, 2003 4:08 am

at one point last year, I had 413 digits memorized....

GarrettDickerson · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:29 pm

I juggle, I was actually surprised to see the amount of cubers who juggle as well, someone should see the correlation between solving a rubik's cube and having the ability to juggle. Any people who have a hobby of making graphs? hah.

I taught myself to juggle when I was 7 and had no life or friends. Now I'm 18, still don't have a life, but a few friends.

I can juggle 2, 3, 4, and I can do 5-ball flashes but thats about it for 5 right now. Clubs, I can do 2, 3, and 4. I kind of had a period of 3 or 4 years where I didn't juggle, mainly because of time constraints.

I've tried contact juggling, but believe it or not, even after being able to speedsolve a rubik's cube and juggle, my hands don't seem to be flexible enough to do it.

Myke · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:44 pm

Where did you get the contact juggling ball(s). I memorised 70 digits and then
stoped

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816

GarrettDickerson · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:48 pm

Myke wrote:

Where did you get the contact juggling ball(s).

Me? I originally got a starter juggling kit when I was 7, those little bean bag type balls.

Once I got older, on of my dad's friends from work juggles and gave me some clubs to try out. They arent anything special, but they are clubs, so I'm happy.

As for now, I just use baseballs, softballs, tennis balls, bouncy balls, anything I can get my hands on, and when there aren't any balls, I juggle rubik's cubes, hah, well now Megaminxes since I have enough. (edit: the bouncy balls and tennis balls aren't too good for contact juggling if you couldn't have guessed, megaminxes not so much either, but rubik's cubes worked, lol)

Also, now that it's snowing, I make snowballs and juggle those while I'm walking down the street.

Search eBay though, they have a good stock of juggling equipment for relatively cheap prices.

edit #2: speaking of contact juggling, has anyone else tried contact juggling clubs? I should probably try to master it with balls first, but I tried with clubs, and it was definitely something to look at, lol. It's kind of hard to get them spinning across your arms without colliding, but I can get it for a few rotations.

DLitwin · **Posted:** Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:06 pm

I also juggle, mostly 3 ball with some patterns (Mills Mess is a lot of fun). I am OK at rings and clubs, but nothing special. I occasionally juggle my puzzle balls, because they are just sitting there...

I used to play paintball, but not on a unicycle as shown in the avatar of CaptianCrash44...

I used to do gymnastics, but that was many years ago. One of my favorite cubes was a gift from my wife. She sent a picture of me doing a cross on rings to rubiks.com and had a custom sticker cube made

I enjoy Ska music, and go to shows once in a while.

Dave

Clayne H. · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:18 am

dlitwin wrote:

I enjoy Ska music, and go to shows once in a while.

Dave

Ah. Not too much of a fan of ska besides a few punk ska types (Op Ivy and AAA). I go to shows somewhat often. I'm a fan of different types of "punk" mainly crust punk, some UK82, anarcho, folkpunk, regular folk, indie, etc.

And I still listen to a couple of the bands I wouldn't shut up about on here 2 or 3 years ago.

nytelyte · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:01 am

I'm brand new here but I figure I better share my non-cubing hobbies...

I'm an avid music-game fan. Started with DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) and eventually branched out when I got tired of DDR. Been playing an obscure Japanese music game called Beatmania IIDX which later became available to the USA for the PS2 which was just called Beatmania.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gNlAvtsiKY - One of quite a few videos of me playing Beatmania IIDX.

I'm also hooked on an online MMO called Albatross18. It's cute anime-looking fantasy golf. Yes, golf. I've never played golf before in my life but this game is ridiculously addictive, I don't understand it.

I guess another hobby of mine was playing guitar/bass/drums/keyboards, but I kinda grew out of that.

There you go, weird hobbies. ^_^

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

hehehe

puzzles, poker, video games for me

Kid w/ the Mohawk - Op Ivy rawks!!! Ya listen to The Pietasters at all?
hehe I could go on and on about punk/ska

(pre-2000 though, I'm a bit older punker, but not ancient punk lol)...

Clayne H. · **Posted:** Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:40 pm

reeeech wrote:

hehehe

puzzles, poker, video games for me

Kid w/ the Mohawk - Op Ivy rawks!!! Ya listen to The Pietasters at all?
hehe I could go on and on about punk/ska

(pre-2000 though, I'm a bit older punker, but not ancient punk lol)...

Does my name still say Kid_with...? It shows my actual name for me..

Nah, I never really gave them a chance, but I'm very limited on what I like as far as ska. Some other ska/reggae type is the "rock steady" genre that has a large punk influence. EX: Leftover Crack, Morning Glory, INDK, etc.

And yeah, most of what I listen to is either from the late seventies/early eighties, or current bands that grasp the "older" sounds. I hate to use the word, but "underground" can explain my musical tastes as far as punk goes.

Good to see someone else appreciates Op Ivy and related bands!

reeeech · **Joined:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:19 pm

Clayne H. wrote:

Does my name still say Kid_with...? It shows my actual name for me......

Well in your sig it says it. Plus when I came to the forums, you were kid w/ the mohawk - so that's how I knew you (well by that name).

Clayne H. · **Posted:** Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:02 am

reeeech wrote:

Clayne H. wrote:

Does my name still say Kid_with...? It shows my actual name for me......

Well in your sig it says it. Plus when I came to the forums, you were kid w/ the mohawk - so that's how I knew you (well by that name).

haha, alright! It's cool, call me whatever you want.

Anyways...more hobbies!! Maybe some of you collect things (besides puzzles!)?

I collected PEZ dispensers when I was younger..

Myke · **Posted:** Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:14 am

I am still coleting coins. I colected high voltage parts like I have 5 MOTs
(microwave oven transformer) but don't worry I am being safe because I
don't toutch and of the HV wires.

David J · **Joined:** Tue Mar 04, 2003 11:17 am

My single contribution to juggling was a kind of pastry.

They looked like colorful juggling bags and I called them "hacky snacks." I believe that they were the first food created that you're supposed to play with.

DJ

*

S.Rubiks · **Posted:** Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:12 pm

Caleb wrote:

Just wondering: I know that many cubers out there also juggle. But do any of you guys contact juggle? I'd be really interested in watching a video of someone contact juggle a spherical puzzle.

Yeah, I'd love to see someone juggle 3 rubiks cubes, and solve them as they juggle them.

fingerflips perhaps?

Pembo · **Posted:** Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:14 pm

Macky had a video of him doing a 1 handed two ball shower while solving a 3x3 in the other.

Quinn Lewis · **Joined:** Thu Dec 25, 2003 4:08 am

http://lewislink.com/cuberecord/images/ ... ggling.wmv

At the end is me doing the same thing as macky (as you said), under a minute.

Save the file, try not to stream it, it will take forever to download.

Adam Zamora · **Posted:** Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:07 pm

if you can memorize pi you should be able to do BLD solving very well. its no different then remembering 20 numbers in a short amount of time.

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