• From: North Shore Maui
  • Registered: 2006-06-29
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Re: Anybody has not water related hobbies?

Decided to bump the Mad Russian's thread about non-water related hobbies.
Last night I sang and played guitar in front of a crowd (6 employees and about 8 customers) at Moana Cafe in Pa'ia. I was a little like Johnny Cash with some Mark Knopfler thrown in. Or really I was more like a band you remember from High School that never made it. :-) Unfortunately there weren't any groupies there (that had their own teeth) so I went home with just the fruit thrown at the stage during my set. One thing I can tell you though, is that my set didn't remind anybody of funeral music like the woman who played before me. I feel safe that she won't read this (because she probably can't read). She even monotoned and slowed Nights in White Satin down to half speed. Yikes!
So bruddahs and sistahs... what have you been doing besides wasting your life away on Internet, TV, junk food, drugs and alcohol? (though there's nothing wrong with that)
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  • From: Peahi, Maui and Portland, Or.
  • Registered: 2007-01-30
  • Posts: 126

Re: Anybody has not water related hobbies?

I'm about as far to the other side from you guys as I can get. I don't believe the future is all about riding pedal bikes and getting by. I want my fricking rocket back pack that we were all supposed to have by the year 2000. And where's my flying car?

Seriously though, to live an alternative lifestyle requires that a lot of people live a mainstream one. Especially the way you guys do it. Sure you get to pick and choose, and try to live light on the earth. Commendable, but don't get too holy about it, the infrastructure supports what you do. Your life would be very different if it wasn't there.

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  • From: Peahi, Maui and Portland, Or.
  • Registered: 2007-01-30
  • Posts: 126

Re: Anybody has not water related hobbies?

Oh, hobbies other than water. Racing cars (I guess I'm kind of a recycler in my choice of race car--vintage, 1959, a TR3-based special called Peyote), riding motorcycles, bicycling, building stuff (big shop), playing music (guitar, uke) badly, writing, building software, physics, fishing, skiing. Used to fly ultralights and skydive but that got boring. Beer--I consider beer a hobby, scotch too.

I watch a lot of F1 and MotoGP. Sure was a great year for F1. I really don't understand folks who don't like F1--the purest expression of pushing the limits of human and mechanical capability with no militaristic or even practical agenda, basically just for the sheer hell of it. What a lovely human thing to do. Likewise MotoGP to a lesser degree on the mechanical and a greater degree on the human side.

If you understand what Valentino Rossi is doing it's very hard not to respect him. I want to be Valentino when I grow up. Unfortunately I'm almost certainly going to die before either of those things happen.

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  • Registered: 2006-06-26
  • Posts: 19

Re: Anybody has not water related hobbies?

Here's one. But problem is, it requires wind. And when there's wind. I wanna be on the water:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/rc-sl … 2342834012

Build indestructable foamie warplanes, find a slope with good updraft, get some buddies out there and try to knock each other out of the sky. I should say, around here (Marin County, CA), if it's windy enough for me to sail it's probably too hairy for slope soaring anyway. 10-15 is perfect.

Steve

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