How do programmers relax?
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Spending my hard earned cash on my hobby. Building, flying and crashing radio control model airplanes. Gets me out in the fresh air (or rain and wind as we mostly get in the UK). Fairly vital after a long week in the office behind monitor. http://www.youtube.com/user/ditchit
modified on Monday, September 1, 2008 3:48 AM
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5-a-side footie (soccer for the wrong-thinkers among us - I mean how can American football be football - they hold the ball in their hands 95% of the time). Spend an hour running around getting sweaty, shouting at other people and trying to inflict grievous harm on them. What could be better :-)
Stuart Dootson wrote:
I mean how can American football be football - they hold the ball in their hands 95% of the time
So that's where Maradona got his inspiration.
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Write more code... but this time only the interesting and fun stuff.
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Children. I have two beautiful[1] little girls and just being with them is enough to relax me. Even when they're being the Terror Monsters from the Darkest Pit. I also have a half hour on the train to get home, so I read a book; it's very good detox. Alternating between fiction and non-fiction. I'm going to start reading Pterry's "Moving Pictures" tonight. [1] After thirty *cough* *cough* and a bit years, I still think to myself "'Boiled eggs are useful to Italians', fumed Uncle Leonard" whenever I have to spell beautiful. I was told that ONCE when I was about six.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Do some easy manual labour work. Tighting bolts, re-organizing and cleaning the desk, cleaning the sink, build a plastik model kit...
Code4Fun&&$$$
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
I read, dive (scuba), climb (indoor bouldering), hit the gym, and occasionally play a little WoW. Since I spend all day in front of a computer, I like to get out and about to relax.
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Read some nice book, play airsoft, whatever works to relax after a working day
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Drink beer and sleep.
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I read, dive (scuba), climb (indoor bouldering), hit the gym, and occasionally play a little WoW. Since I spend all day in front of a computer, I like to get out and about to relax.
Dark Hippo wrote:
...climb (indoor bouldering)...
Climbing's my thing too. Do a bit of bouldering but not as much as I ought to. Most other exercise I do is just to get myself in shape for the rock. My fingers are still trying to recover from a weekend hauling up some really flinty rock near Swanage.
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Dark Hippo wrote:
...climb (indoor bouldering)...
Climbing's my thing too. Do a bit of bouldering but not as much as I ought to. Most other exercise I do is just to get myself in shape for the rock. My fingers are still trying to recover from a weekend hauling up some really flinty rock near Swanage.
I've only just started, so still on the indoor stuff. Plus I tend to head to the wall by myself, so boulding is my only option really. I know what you mean about your fingers recovering, first time I spent a few hours climbing, I had real trouble typing the next day at work :)
Punkyduck technical media agency
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Spending my hard earned cash on my hobby. Building, flying and crashing radio control model airplanes. Gets me out in the fresh air (or rain and wind as we mostly get in the UK). Fairly vital after a long week in the office behind monitor. http://www.youtube.com/user/ditchit
modified on Monday, September 1, 2008 3:48 AM
How about the costs? How much should one have to start with some crappy airplane? ;)
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How about the costs? How much should one have to start with some crappy airplane? ;)
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Stuart Dootson wrote:
I mean how can American football be football - they hold the ball in their hands 95% of the time
So that's where Maradona got his inspiration.
And Paul Scholes, of course! Although he's a bit small for the American game :-) And too English to get away with it!
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I've only just started, so still on the indoor stuff. Plus I tend to head to the wall by myself, so boulding is my only option really. I know what you mean about your fingers recovering, first time I spent a few hours climbing, I had real trouble typing the next day at work :)
Punkyduck technical media agency
I used to do the same, go along to boulder at a local wall and then after meeting a few people started on the roped stuff. You spend half the next day trying to stretch your fingers straight at first. Where do you climb, I didn't think there was much about in the Ipswich area? I was in Bungay on holiday in may and had to go a whole week without any climbing at all. It's such a great sport when you get going, gets you to places you wouldn't normally see and teaches you a lot about yourself.
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
play golf, drink coke or energy drink... See my wife :laugh:
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Taking a shower to solve the remaining problems!
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
Taking a sh :omg: t to solve the remaining problems!
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
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I used to do the same, go along to boulder at a local wall and then after meeting a few people started on the roped stuff. You spend half the next day trying to stretch your fingers straight at first. Where do you climb, I didn't think there was much about in the Ipswich area? I was in Bungay on holiday in may and had to go a whole week without any climbing at all. It's such a great sport when you get going, gets you to places you wouldn't normally see and teaches you a lot about yourself.
There's a climbing wall at Copleston High School in Ipswich (I believe it's called The Leading Edge), although I've never actually used that one. The main one I go to is in Stowmarket called The Cragg [^]. Like I said, haven't been to the Ipswich one, but I've heard they don't have any top ropes and don't allow bouldering, so you have to partner up with someone who knows how to lead. The Cragg on the other had has one side dedicated to bouldering (wall is only 4m high) and the other side as climbing with top ropes already hung. It's about £5 for 90 minutes, but I've been in there most of the day and no one's said anything, just keep friendly with the staff and they don't seem to care how long you stay for :)
Punkyduck technical media agency
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I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????
Rahul Sindhu
Fly R/C airplanes and helicopters. Very relaxing once you get over the "pucker factor". :-D
Paul