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I love programming, its my career. But I have some alternate hobbies as well

Digital Art: Photoshop
Origami (Will post a few pics of my creations as well)

Whats your alternate passion ?
 
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My Origami folds :
https://www.facebook.com/salvin.francis/media_set?set=a.1326640781386.35676.1691912026


 
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That's pretty cool, my mother used to make a paper duck that I really loved.

I have too many interests to list, so I'll just list the first one that comes to my mind - cats. I love cats.

 
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Bartending. Not just at the Ranch, but back home as well!

 
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salvin francis wrote:My Origami folds . . .

Link didn't work, I am afraid.
 
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From my side I do not do much programming as a hobby. My alternate passions are:

Studying History. Doing Athletics. Watching Football (Soccer for the Americans). Helping my daughter with her Social Science studies. I lately helped her with something like her philosophy essay. Studying languages a bit. But that is just because I am lazy. I should study but then I say to myself I am practicing languages watching an original German, Korean or Spanish movie.



 
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@SvH - wow, that looks pretty cool, but pardon my ignorance - what exactly are you doing there?

@CR - I think you have to sign into Facebook to view that origami link by the OP.

@JdB - I hope you are Belgian and not Dutch, otherwise you might have a tough summer next year!
 
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Ahmed Bin S wrote:@JdB - I hope you are Belgian and not Dutch, otherwise you might have a tough summer next year!



No I am Dutch. But my philosophy in this is that there is only joy in winning if you also lose sometimes. Other fanatic supporters say the same, there is no victory as sweet as the one you have after a really bad period of your club. So bad times are just part of being a socio. Apart from that I am more a club supporter, than a supporter of the national team, my life it's not that bad since my home club leads in the completion in the Netherlands at the moment.
 
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Ahmed Bin S wrote:@SvH - wow, that looks pretty cool, but pardon my ignorance - what exactly are you doing there?



I'm preparing a special shot: there's a bowl filled rum and mint liqueur on the bar, and if you look carefully, you can see there's a small shot glass standing in the middle of it. I put the whole thing ablaze and then put the long glass over the shot glass. The burning alcohol will create a vacuum which will draw the mixed drinks upwards into the shotglass along the edges of the glass.

The guest then takes the shot, and using a straw, they suck the alcohol vapors remaining in the long drink glass.
 
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Its really interesting to know that we have folks with such varied interests !!!
Thanks for sharing guys, keep up the good work.
Campbell you can open the site in Facebook if you are logged in, I'll post some pics here in the near future
 
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I don't use FB. Full stop.
 
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Stephan van Hulst wrote:. . . suck the alcohol vapors remaining in the long drink glass.

They say you absorb the alcohol much faster by inhalation.

Or is it like American presidantial candidates who when asked whether they smoked pot drank vodka as students say, “I didn't inhale?”
 
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:They say you absorb the alcohol much faster by inhalation.


I can attest to its effectiveness
 
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@JdB - when I first got interested into football as a kid in the 80s, the team I chose, Leeds Utd, were in the second division. Almost everyone at school supported Liverpool. Leeds managed to get promoted, and then won the league - I think what made it so special was that I never imagined they would do this, and had Leeds been a top team who were winning the title every other season, I doubt it would have been so "special".

Ajax, eh? They used to be a very good team in the 90s, when they had that youth academy, I think Dutch clubs have declined because they just cannot compete with the money in the Premiership, La Liga and Bundesliga.

@SvH - oh, that's cool, although it looks dangerous to me, I'd be worried my clothes will catch fire!

@SF - not everyone has Facebook, doesn't Facebook have an option where you can mark some posts as "public"? Maybe you should mark your origami stuff as public so people without Facebook can see it too?
 
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Ahmed Bin S wrote:. . . it looks dangerous to me . . .

It is drinks at the other end of the temperature scale that are really dangerous.
 
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:I don't use FB. Full stop.

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My origami shelf
 
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Very nice
 
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i m 208cm [ 6 feet 9 inch ]
so in 1989 i started to make my own clothes
that is mutch cheaper

i doing some Esperanto
that is my part on creating world peace

i draw cartoons and art posters

i have fishertechnik(r) to build robots from
and program them
 
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great post.


Structural anthropology.
Ancient philosophy, mainly Plato.
Trading, not playing but follow.
The economist, the journal
Johan Sebastian Bach.
Fruit Loops: compose some easy songs
historical fiction/no fiction novels
Documentaries
Chess:few openings, few studies, more playing, if focused elo<1800
Shiatsu
Poetry: Dante, Borges,Ungaretti, Montale
martial arts since long time: wingh chun and muay thay
running, currently 10km in 50 min and deskcycle.com also if my colleagues tell me I look as a clown:)
psychology: enneagram, psychoanalitics,dynamic, nlp.
History of religions worldwide, mysticism and esoterism, politics, freemasonry( amateur of their 'building' philosophy, not member)
Reddit
FIFA16 videogame
Italian renaissance Art
Toastmasters
Old movies, neorealism,
but also some nice tv series and easy going commedies.
 
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I love to work out, and really do what I can to keep trim. I have never been what I would consider thin enough, in my life. Oddly, I have had better luck with it after having reached a certain age. Perhaps it is motivation.

I also have interest in Science Fiction.

And, I find that I enjoy posting comments on FaceBook. That sounds like a trivial waste of time (actually, it probably is), and not as creative as actually making the photoshop images, but I've gotten praise from some of the posters for my comments. These things seem to flow, and tend to be humorous juxtaposition things. I would give an example, but though hardly risque, it might not be fitting for JavaRanch.
 
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Herb and kitchen gardening
which led into: cooking
which led to: watching cooking shows, plundering websites and subscribing to magazines
which led to: installing Gourmet Recipe Manager on my LAN, where I can search for and serve up recipes on my tablet devices.

Reading
Bookbinding
Computer-assisted typesetting (both dead tree and for ebooks)

Linguistics

Electronics, both stand-alone and in conjunction with devices such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Home Automation

Music, including composition.
The occasional flight simulator excursion - and some day I hope to actually land intact on a runway!

Designing and Maintaining a full Enterprise-grade cloud-capable LAN including databases, fault-tolerance, backup systems, mirrors, SANS, and IBM mainframe emulators. OK, so that one kind of leaks into work, but what the heck.
 
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Tim Holloway wrote:
which led into:


YES, this is to be a programmer:) the old cause-effect from logic from Aristotle.
structure the caos!

and by the way +1 for cooking also for me!
one of the best way to relax when one can work from house.

and also +1 for the linguistics( general linguistics), I followes 5 courses for fun at the university, and I learned a lot of skills applicable in other fields.
I found really gifted people in this sector, it is not a case that really bright minds as Chomsky, or Eco to quote the most famous, are linguist, in particular I love
sassure and russian formalist school, and a bit also the prague school

@I.Foster : I learned to be slow in the judgement, FB apparently can be trivial, but gold in, gold out( instead of garbage in, garbage out), if the comments are smart
if you have time, here are more silly comments by me:
why not, in theory fb could be a really nice way to increase the IQ of the people. It depends by the inputs, not by the system per se.
FOr instance I love Naples footbal more than ever because is trained by Sarri. Seeing the schemes when the ball is out, the way he motivated Higuain, while the preceding coach was not able to do it, his declarations and so on, make the footbal worthy to be followed by me, although I considered it a corrupt and not smart sport for the last 20 years. the same is for FB. Also if I do not have a real profile, has several fantastic pro points if you know how to use it and minimize the damages that can do at your brain. the same also for videogames, it looks from a recent authoritative research that playing videogames for a limited period of time, I guess between half an hour and a couple of hours per day, increases the problem solving activities, when the environment presses for a reply.

 
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I like birding, and I like travelling. The two go together quite well, because when I go to another country I can look for different birds there. So far I have been birding in 27 different countries -- New Zealand being the latest. I saw 91 species there, of which 50 were new to my world list.

My partner and I also like walking, so we have done that in a lot of countries. Several years ago we spent 10 days walking a circuit around the Tatra mountains, and more recently we did a 600-kilometer walk across England and back across Scotland.
 
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Gardening
I have to say that gardening is the most rewarding hobby one can have (after coding, of course)
 
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