Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

I bounced off him even harder back in the day, although I think I made it through the entire Riverworld series.

It would be interesting to go back to some of the classic SF now that I've been away for a long time. There are a few things that I've reread over the years, and a bit of new stuff, but nothing like the multiple-books-a-week intensity of HS and college.

 

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I was very disappointed years ago re-reading "Stranger In A Strange Land"

 

Larry Niven has some good stories.

 

I was a big Niven fan, and still reread his old stuff occasionally. Fell behind on the post-1980s stuff, although I did make it to the end of the Ringworld series, and I kind of liked the Fleet of Worlds trilogy he did with Lerner.

Actually, I just Googled that series, and found that there are two more books I hadn't seen! Guess it'll be back to the library by and by.

 

Yeah, that's one I probably ought to revisit. I went back and reread parts of Time Enough for Love not so long ago, and while I wasn't disappointed, there were parts that made me cringe a bit.

 

How about fossil fish, freshwater herring, from the Green River, Wyoming?

 

Not read Fleetworld series yet! Thanks for reminding!

 

NFS = not for sale. hehehe...

 

I know that! I wouldn't sell them if they were mine either. I have a little copper from Michigan as well. Some is smooth like yours and other pieces are very rough, like you could easily cut yourself. You have some really nice pieces. That malachite is great.

 

Coins......aquariums (specifically planted tank, as well as raising Caridena shrimp), gardening, scenic, as well as figurative photography. Also, learning Italian (slowly).

 

I Grok that

 

LOL, yeah, I used that phrase a couple times in conversations, JUST to see if anyone knew what that meant.

 

It got adopted as slang by the old-school "hacker" (obsessive programmer) community back in the late 70s/early 80s, but I'd already seen it from the book.

 

Just bought this of Ebay... for the spider collection.... I don't have the orange 1 called "Hot Rod"

 

I also just bought 2 used spiders called "Red Beard" the pirate and "Spike" (top right)...



and another very large spider next to my new all silver cast tarantula...

 

Jiu Jitsu for nearly 10 years. But due to social distancing it has been a no go since mid March. Frustrating but I have been able to expand my ancient coin knowledge and collection in the time off.

 

I'm trying my hand in photographing opals, not an easy task.

Here are my initial attempts with an Ethiopian opal, 46 grams:

 

Nice, would like to see what you would get with more depth of field.

 

I previously posted the following two images. I'm posting them again for continuity.


Added some smaller bellows cameras to my collection -
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The camera in the lower right is a factory cut away from Russia via eBay. I'll upload some close up pictures tomorrow.