Mine is mapping. I am a big OpenStreetMap contributor and I have mapped many towns near me that were previously completely unmapped.
Does raising and training ducks count? I’m really good at it. I have care down to a science and I’ve done quite a bit medically because there aren’t any vets that treat ducks around me. I’ve rehabilitated crazy injuries, performed minor surgery, treated severe malnutrition and vitamin deficiencies.
I have trained all of my birds to listen to basic commands and they know their names and respond to them.
Well thank you very much Emerald for the mapping and the great question.
For me, it’s something much more modest:- Amiga, or retro-computing in general. Not just for gaming. There’s something deeply inspiring about browsing the web or creating spreadsheets with entirely different hardware and software. Hoping to get an Alpha CPU and/ or an Atari soon.
- Dreaming of a better world.
Low level coding and free open source software for me mostly.
I’ve met some people who like to map areas on OpenStreetMap and I’d be interested in trying it myself but like with contributing to anything I’m new to I’m scared of doing something wrong. I understand that with OpenStreetMap there’s a sort of discussion of changes like on Wikipedia?
When you started what resources helped you, did a friend show you? Is there a tutorial you recommend for starting off? (If you explained some of this somewhere else please feel free to link to it or tell me, I haven’t read through all the comments here yet.)
I’m so shit at low level programming. Don’t understand a lick of it
I’m not good at it, but I like geocaching.
How do you map
Is there any liability? NSA, angry exes, employer, anybody finding out that you mapped your own town?
Why would someone be mad you mapped a town?
The reason I asked is because I don’t know what it entails. If it’s just installing an app and driving around, there’s probably low risk. But if it requires taking pictures of people houses or driving to private properties or parking for more than a few minutes in front of buildings, surely you can see the liability? I’m sorry I had to explain this, honestly. It feels like common sense.
Overblown/unfounded privacy concerns, perhaps?
I have a weird obsession with fonts. I love a good, well designed font. How it looks on the screen, how it looks in print. Nothing too gaudy or showy, but a really good League Spartan or Lato Light. (Not a fan of serifs)
Other than that, normal stuff; 3D modelling, writing, etc…
My other interest that might fall “outside the norm” is that in University, if I had continued beyond my bachelors my primary focus would have been studying the Bronze Age Collapse, and that topic still fascinates me to this day.
Edit: Oh…and spreadsheets. There’s no problem in the world that can’t be fixed with a well designed spreadsheet. All problems come down to data sorting.
I have almost no opinions on specific fonts. Except… I absolutely despise the $ and ¢ symbols in Apple’s San Francisco font. Since it’s the default font I have to look at it a lot.
Are the vertical lines angled? Or is that just an optical illusion?
Oh my God I LOVE FONTS
Spartan is a bit wide for me (see that w?) but Lato with a good colorscheme is always sexy
Another thing: if you’re familiar with fonts you can have a weird pseudo-Sherlock funtime guessing how something was made.
points This book is using Georgia instead of Times New Roman. See how the 9 is low? But the page numbers are Times New Roman because the 9 isn’t low. Was paging in the author’s control?
and
font with the light blue shading thing. This club recruitment poster was made in Microsoft Word.About serif disdain… what about LaTeX’s serif? :}
If you hate someone, teach them to spot bad keming.
Gawd, bad Keming is the worst!!!
Ayy fellow font enjoyer! I have like 50 GB of fonts, I’m a bit crazy. Honestly, Noto Sans is the greatest font out there. Looks good everywhere
I like Noto Sans. But as a Linux user it often irks me too, since every…single…language…is included in most distributions; so half of my time finding a nice font that I just installed consists of scrolling past a bajillion Noto variants.
Haha, yep. You can uninstall the other languages if you want though.
I know, I’m just really lazy!
Metal guitar, comic books, epistemologies. A lot of people write off metal as just distortion and shouting but it’s a huge genre like jazz or classical without as long a history. Comics interest I stopped for awhile but got back into it and helped me learn drawing and story writing to better appreciate the artistry. Epistemologies from an interest in reading philosophy books and that was just the subtopic that always held my interest most.
And not to hang up on superficial stereotypes but metal is sophisticated too – a lot of the voicing/structure/styling is so classical-and-jazz that, with instrument switches, it can be indistinguishable. Don’t get me started on trying to claw my way through metal time signatures
Case in point: Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet 8 (guitar version)
*nix Servers
I’ve had several multi-year long ones:
- As a child: Stargate SG1
- Adolescent: paraphilias
- Young adult: the care of high violence risk and cluster b psychiatric inpatients
- As I’m entering middle-adulthood: western esoteric spiritual tradition and philosophy
This week? AuDHD doesn’t let me have one for long.
Okay, what were your last ten hyperfixations? (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧
A Gold in Deficit?? Well done!
Picking up new hobbies, investing in them far beyond what would be considered a casual interest, then getting bored or disillusioned with the community after 6-24 months.
See
- Foam dart blasters
- yo yos
- magic the gathering (This was like 15 years)
- coin collecting
- juggling
- pocket knives
- archery
- running
- Currently working on 3D printing, though that’s been more of a means to get back into foam blasters because it’s far cheaper to print your own blasters and mod parts.
Fountain pens and inks
Thank you for your contributions!
What are you doing with your time this week then? 😬
We love OSM for finding gravel routes for our bikes. However, since no bike maps ever say the state of the gravel, and mark many as paved, we’ve been pre-driving and contributing. It’s fun!
In any event, my interest is serial hobbying. I’m a maker, so my site is full of random projects. I’m in a techy phase right now, so just released some Steam Deck accessories, the Only Sensor, and am now working on a DIY solder extractor and building a Voron.
What are you doing with your time this week then? 😬
This week I mapped one small town in full (took only 2 days lol). I also mapped various cemetery roads and did a few other assorted things. I also had a couple days off since OSM was down.
Hedge laying. It’s a technique where you almost cut through the stems of the plants in a hedgerow in order to bend them down. This promotes the growth of new shoots and results in a very dense hedge, which historically was done to make sure animals didn’t escape or enter pastures and fields.
Is a hedgerow more economically feasible than, say, a chain-link fence or any other kind of fence, really (fences are expensive)? About the same? More expensive? What about comparative difficulty? Is it the kind of thing that takes years to grow out?
Wonderful! I’ve been hoping to learn to do this to replace my neighbor’s vinyl fence. What’s your preferred style? Do you recommend any resources for learning the skill?
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