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Either I play online games with my friends. (We are all older professionals. Not any of this Leet Pher Me Dood crap.)
I also build model wooden boats.
Tim Smith
I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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What online games do you play?
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At the moment, just DungeonSiege. We are waiting for NWN to come out and are starting a world. www.shroudworld.com
Tim Smith
I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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Dungeon Siege does look like a great game.
At the moment I'm wasting a lot of time playing Anarchy Online. I did originally start playing to fill the time while waiting for Star Wars Galaxies, but it may become more than a stopgap game.
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DS has very little depth. And between NWN and DS, I expect that NWN will do a better job at it.
Tim Smith
I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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Thats a shame. From all the pre-release previews and comments, it sounded like it was going to be a great game. Sort of like Diablo, only with more depth. I quite liked D2. I must admit I havent read any reviews because I've been preoccupied with AO.
As for NWN. Yes, thats another that I've been keeping an eye on, but I'm currently in a Sci-Fi mode, so Fantasy hasnt been getting my full attention.
Heh. I just realised. Thats another missing option in the Poll. Reading fiction. Thats another great way to let off steam.
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Cycling ? Kayaking ? Give me a break. I go home, play with my kids, and then I program my own projects.
Christian
The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little.
And you don't spend much time with the opposite sex working day and night, unless the pizza delivery person happens to be young, cute, single and female. I can assure you, I've consumed more than a programmer's allotment of pizza, and these conditions have never aligned. - Christopher Duncan - 18/04/2002
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You can do all of these things. My daughter (she's 10) bikes with me, and will be running her first 5K at the end of the month. And no, I didn't push her into it; she brought it up on her own. And yes, I still have time to program my own projects. A lot of my time on the bike or running on the roads ends up with the back part of my brain solving programming problems.
"Think of it as evolution in action." - 'Oath of Fealty' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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I'm with you, except I don't have any kids, so I just go home and work on my own projects.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
http://www.ravib.com
ravib@ravib.com
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"All this Silicon Valley types have a Kayak in their garage. And when you aske them what they do in their spare time, they say 'Um.... Kayaking. Yes, that's what I do. Kayaking'"
[free quote from "Microserfs"]
A dirty mind is a joy forever.
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well I COACH my oldest son's SOCCER team...attend ALL my daughters Cheerleading practices...and still have time to show my youngest son how to play soccer also....and CODE all night...work ALL day...
Wise words:
Never raise your hands to your kids.
It leaves your groin unprotected.
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Who said "girl friend" and can we see a picture please? (No not in action  )
A dirty mind is a joy forever.
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I was wondering if we should place bets on who answered 'Smoking Herb' 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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it wasn't me...
-c
I don't care, and you can't make me.
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That's too funny 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I was wondering if we should place bets on who answered 'Smoking Herb'
As in Suter ?
Christian
The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little.
And you don't spend much time with the opposite sex working day and night, unless the pizza delivery person happens to be young, cute, single and female. I can assure you, I've consumed more than a programmer's allotment of pizza, and these conditions have never aligned. - Christopher Duncan - 18/04/2002
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not every day but I increase
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The old stereotype of the computer nerd dies hard. You envision one of two things. Either a pencil neck geek who hasn't seen the sun in years, or a guy with a huge gut from too many nights of Jolt, Twinkies, and menthol cigarrettes sitting on his butt twiddling his latest killer app.
Instead, you've got guys (and girls) who ride century's for fun, or can run 8:00 minute miles for an hour (not me; I'm more the 9:30 pace ). The funny part is, most of us don't do it because of the health benefits, or to blow off steam, or any of those other things. We do it because we like to.
"Think of it as evolution in action." - 'Oath of Fealty' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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Well, I have the huge gut... but then again I came right out of the era when the computer nerd stereotype was born. I have *never* used a pocket protector though...
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One time a saw a BBC serial (correct term? You know what I mean) about cycling. One episode was about recumbents. They showed a recumbent rider from the UK, who has equipped his bike with a computer, power comes from solar cells. As a replacement for a mouse he uses a laser pointer attached to his helmet. Looked cool
But I prefer to look at the road and/or the landscape if I use one of my bikes. Do I need to say that one of them is a recumbent?
Greetings,
Martin
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I like to ride too. Have you done any tours? I'm signed up for the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure, a 300 mile tour of Ohio in June. The last one I rode there were a lot of recumbents, including a tandem or two. I did see a couple with full enclosure windscreens. The most unusual bike I saw was a custom built quad (a bike built for 4 riders). I talked to the guy who built it. He was a machine shop manager for Westinghouse, and built custom bikes in his spare time. On the day I talked to him, we had had a really steep downhill in one spot. I was doing 42 mph when I got to the bottom . This guy told me that the quad was a beast going uphill, but on that same downhill they had reached 50 mph. And people say road cycling is too tame...
"Think of it as evolution in action." - 'Oath of Fealty' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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50mph on a quad?
It's funny but I've been putting off buying a motorcycle because I've had too many friends come off worse for wear in riding accidents - but I regularly hit 80kmh/50mph on my road bike dressed only in cycle shorts/top and a foam helmet.
Everytime I scream down a hill at that speed I'm always thinking 'one little slip and it's going to be a new skin for me'
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I wouldn't have believed the guy, except I had gone down the same hill. I looked down at the computer, saw 42mph, and thought: "If I spill this thing, they're going to have to scrape me off the road with a spatula..."
"Think of it as evolution in action." - 'Oath of Fealty' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Everytime I scream down a hill at that speed I'm always thinking 'one little slip and it's going to be a new skin for me'
ugh. i know that feeling. the one time i broke 50mph i was terrified. it was in a race and i was in a crowd - i couldn't have slowed down without taking out a dozen other people. and the course actually did a hairpin turn in the middle of the hill - you came down one lane of a two lane road, then in the middle of the hill, you had to turn and go up the other lane.
so in the middle of the hill they have a huge wall of haybails set up, orange cones for 1/2 a mile, people with flags telling you "slow down! turn ahead!" of course, though, there was a crowd of torn up cyclists on the other side of the wall with smashed bikes and many cuts.
1990 Cannondale Black Lightning, sr500. still going strong, though i go through at least one tube each week.
-c
I don't care, and you can't make me.
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