What are you into?

[Rupert]

3 times the energy... please share 

Ok, riding 2 wheels is all good.  not seen that Honda before, looks lovely. I agree, twisties are such fun Like turning on skis!


Riding my bike; the Ducati, the Scott Mtn and the road bike. 6000 miles on the motor this last 12 months.  I should be doing more.
From the other thread... Tennis. Really enjoying getting back into it.

[ergophobe]

I organize PGP key signing parties.

Bill wins.

I feel like I'm going through a period where I'm interested in more things but passionate about fewer. For example, I had two great days of rock climbing this weekend. Just absolutely super fun with great company. But 20 years ago climbing was more of an obsession.

Lately I'm focused on reading about climate disruption and especially what we can actually do. I believe that we have a very short window (5-10 years) where we can still act and pass on a liveable planet to children born today. Pretty soon, it will be too late to turn the ship to avoid the rapidly melting iceberg. So I'm trying to focus on how to help get two messages out:

- the situation is dire and urgent
- the situation is not hopeless

I do know that framing it as I have above (dire warnings) is not the way. I just don't know yet what the right way is. I do really like what these "kids" are doing. http://www.yecaction.org/

Otherwise... my "fallback" hobbies/interests include - climbing, running, skiing, biking, hiking, wildflower hunting, paleography, getting my house paid off, reading books, articles and Th3 Core, and various things related to the interwebs.

Unusual life choices? That's a strange one because your social set defines normal and my choices are very mainstream among my peers. But I suppose the decision to more or less toss away our Phd degrees in history (me) and molecular and cell biology (wife) and eek out a living in Yosemite is probably not a usual path in the broader society. But a surprising number of people have done the same. Just in my little corner of the building I work in, out of 18 people, we count three doctorates (history, education and economics) who are all doing jobs unrelated to degrees after making the choice to move here.

[DrCool]

Golf - Used to play once or twice a week. Then a wife, kids, and a real job happened. Down to about once a month at most now. But I still love getting out on the course.

Football - Pretty much if there is a game on I enjoy watching. Don't get to watch them all but I watch at least 3 or 4 games a weekend, both college and NFL. Seattle Seahawks are my favorite team by far. I actually sprained my ankle watching the game yesterday jumping around after a big play.

Cooking - Particularly meat. I love cooking steaks, smoking pretty much anything, testing new recipes, improving other recipes, and so on. I have a site where I talk about meat at http://completecarnivore.com and when live doesn't get in the way I post there.

Sports in general - I love playing pretty much anything but rarely get the opportunity any more. Basketball and volleyball are two of my favorites to play but I enjoy pretty much everything at some level.

[Brad]

>Africa Twin

Now I'm jealous. Your BIL is so lucky to have that.

I do have the automatic duel clutch transmission, and I won't go back.  Honda is really on to something there. I'm hoping they will bring out a larger cruiser with DCT. If not then I'll look at the VFR1200X (aka Crosstourer in UK) or maybe the Africa Twin.

Rupert: Ducati? You can't leave us hanging, please elaborate on the Ducati!

[Rupert]

Brad, it replaced my Fazer 1000 I had for 8 years.... which I loved the most, until I got this baby:

http://www.ducati.com/bikes/multistrada/index.do

Now I love this monster more I have to work the gears harder, but its worth it. She is 2013, and I have a givi topbox, that ruins the lines, but hey, thats behind me.

I had to go to the post office last week with an urgent parcel (3 miles).  I came back the 20 mile route. She made me do it I could not help myself.  So good to hear you love 2 wheels too!

[ukgimp]

Bonsai

[Rumbas]

Getting into training again and hopefully will dust the golf clubs as well in the spring. Been fishing quite a bit this year as well, however the Alaska salmon trip kind of took fun out of my local fishing.

Otherwise spending time with the kids and enjoying the summer.

>"new supplement system"
Saw a post from Amy about it. Do they ship innnernationally?

[Drastic]

>Do they ship innnernationally?

Just looked up, also ships to:
Canada
UK
Australia
New Zealand

no vikingland unfortunately.

[Rooftop]

You are all making me feel that I need to work some more on work/life balance.

I love being on the water. That is my exercise, reflection time and sanity check.  Despite great weather for once, it hasn't happened much at all this year thanks to long hours and being too knackered after work.  I've done pretty well at maintaining family time though, which it top of the pile for me. 

One of my goals for next year is to reclaim some of the hours the business owes me.

[Mackin USA]

I'm NOW into a TV series on Netfix

http://movies.netflixable.com/Netflix-USA/502591/very-british-problems-season-2

VERY FUNNY & TRUE, I think

[littleman]

 >- the situation is dire and urgent
>- the situation is not hopeless

Are you familiar with the idea of ocean seeding?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

The earth may need some liposuction.

[Brad]

Rupert: That Ducati is fantastic.  You folks in the UK get all the cool bikes.

[ergophobe]

Are you familiar with the idea of ocean seeding?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

I am, but I worry that most cases where we introduce things in order to solve problems end up causing other problems often worse than the original problem. That solution brings to mind one of my favorite sayings: "If you're going to tamper with nature, remember to keep all the parts."

That said, solutions will be manifold, but like solving the federal debt problem, we won't do it until everyone accepts that a workable solution is going to involve things they don't like (nuclear power, higher taxes, windmills in your backyard, etc, etc). I think it will involve dozens of 2% solutions rather than a magic bullet.

Right now I don't think the primary challenge is technological so much as social. That is, we can solve it with current tech if we had the will. So my current "interest" is thinking about how we build the social will before it's too late.

[littleman]

This should probably be its own thread.  I find the discussion on climate change incredibly frustrating.
375 National Academy of Sciences members sign an open letter expressing frustration at political inaction on climate change

>manifold, social

Yeah, I think you are right.  From what I've read though it seems like even if we brought greenhouse gas emissions down to 19th century levels we would still need to pull existing excess carbon out of the atmosphere to stop major damage.  Seeding may be risky, I think it should be tested and studied, but it seems like it has potential to be a major tool if done right. 

On a personal note, I'd love to have an electric person mover, but I just do not have the budget right now.  I have an electric bicycle that is a lot of fun, I'd like to convert it to 1000w 48v and put some saddlebags on the thing to use more as a grocery getter.

[littleman]

Right now, it's gutting and repairing an old fiberglass sailboat.
http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=209

That's cool RC, are you doing it for profit or pleasure?  You going to sail it when you are done?