How do programmers relax?

[apocsantoz]

Read some nice book, play airsoft, whatever works to relax after a working day

[Brady Kelly]

Drink beer and sleep.

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[Russell Jones]

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.

[Dark Hippo]

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 :)

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[Pawel Krakowiak]

How about the costs? How much should one have to start with some crappy airplane? ;)

[ditchit]

Depends how much you want to spend. You could buy something cheap, ready to fly for 100USD, or you could buy anything up to a twin gas turbine F-18 for 20,000USD. Depends how much your crappy software development job pays. LOL.

[Stuart Dootson]

And Paul Scholes, of course! Although he's a bit small for the American game :-) And too English to get away with it!

[Russell Jones]

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.

[adxcreation]

play golf, drink coke or energy drink... See my wife :laugh:

[Member 3717204]

Taking a sh :omg: t to solve the remaining problems!

[kirankss]

I prefer a nap, else I would be resting with a novel. :-)

[rexwang1]

Read some specs, and, finally, you will be relax and fall into sleeeep... Rex

[Dark Hippo]

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 :)

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[Paul A Howes]

Fly R/C airplanes and helicopters. Very relaxing once you get over the "pucker factor". :-D

Paul

[Joe Q]

Either coding for fun in a better environment than work (kicked back in an easy chair with classic rock playing in the background) Or Vegas, baby!

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[Fabio Franco]

The difference is you dont interact with the later, it does all the job for you and you can relax just watching and eventually falling asleep. The best for me

[Member 4586576]

gotta be movies, and when not movies i like to go carp fishing and sometimes just a mad drive to know where and back is good. especially if something is really screwing with my head

[Alberto Bencivenni]

Hey, I have two kids and I actually relax programming :-)

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[Chasimil]

Well... I usually play some PC games... strategy games. Or code something. I don't know, I feel much more relaxed than watching TV or doing something else.

[Lim Yuxuan]

Go get some tibits to eat or make myself a sandwich.