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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KDD, post: 4107122, member: 110611&quot;]I don&#039;t know what I have count as hobbies. I have a few I&#039;d like to get into but no manouvrability to do so. I&#039;d like to for instance go to dried up ocean seabeds (because I&#039;m scared to death of the oceans) and dig up shark teeth, especially Megalodon. I&#039;d like to get a metal detector and look for gold nuggets. I bought some basic electronics equipment and would like to get into electronics repair, I have bought maybe 100 very cheap watches and would like to repair those. I bought my first model set (a WW2 Japanese battle ship) because it was cheap and would like to tackle that.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I am doing, but haven&#039;t touched much for months is self-teaching programming. Later I want to learn game design. I have created various things, my most recent is a program that reads from MIDI to computer perform piano pieces. I&#039;m not sure how MIDI works and I&#039;m reluctant to call it a MIDI player. I believe MIDI players probably use libraries with little programing involved from the various programs that play such files. There is no difference between them, and indeed the MIDI (for better or for worse) sounds like how the designer intended it to sound. Some MIDI files can sound great (even without changing soundfonts), most sound rather ordinary. Most people don&#039;t flip the right switches to bring the best out in the format. My program however is my interpretation of these MIDI files with barebones notes/volumes/tempos and a fantastic open source collection of piano samples. My program does not sound like the MIDI file intended, it does not use it&#039;s designations for instruments for example, and personally I think it sounds better. But I just received a thumbs down and no thumbs up for a video of Beethoven&#039;s Waldstein sonata so what would I know? (Personally, I&#039;d like to know what I done wrong so I&#039;d rather a comment to that thumbs down so that I may know what I am suppose to fix.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to use programming in this way: to learn about multiple things simultaneously. In the example above, I am learning about music while doing it. I am currently (haven&#039;t touched for months because I feel tired all the time) working on a basketball statistics project, but I resent some advanced statistics. I would like to program in a chess engine as I am trying to learn chess (very bad player, but I intend to see this through).</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if collecting counts as hobbies, but I have been collecting chess sets, playing cards (including vintage, some borderline antique from the 1920s and missed a few from the 19th century). Gaming in general. I have a very large steam library of games I never get around to playing because people and weather won&#039;t let me sleep, around 9,000 titles, including lots of &#039;shovelware&#039; from various bundles I&#039;ve bought over the last decade.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to like films. Fantastic hobby, huh? I watch films. Like 99.999% of the rest of the human race. But I was a member of the defunct IMDb boards, I do have thousands of movies in my collection from all periods, and I am particularly fond of the South Korean and Japanese obscure films from the 1990s and 2000s, ones you can only usually get from Hong Kong or South Korea because the west (unfortunately) doesn&#039;t care about them. One of my favourite films ever is The Classic, a South Korea drama film. Reluctant to call it a romantic film as it&#039;s so much more. However, over the last decade I&#039;ve become colder inside and feel my appreciation for such films withering. I am also a big fan of Japanese and Korean music. (I am German-English-Scottish in ethnicity so no ethnic bias.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I also like to tackle the issues with the riddle of the universe basically in my own way. I don&#039;t find it easy to learn like others do. I can&#039;t learn from people teaching me, I have to forge my own path. And it&#039;s awkward, especially when it comes to physics as you have to learn complex math, both of which I have tried to understand but fail at. But with the help of a geometry program, I have found things like not only lorentz factor to explain the time-velocity relationship in relativity, but also composite velocities and I like to think I have conceptualized it in a unique way. I am trying to wrap my head around dimensionality, including possibly more than 1 dimension of time, and various things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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