Something I've been thinking about recently...
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
Matthew Page wrote:
If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
Making sawdust.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
cooking, bedroom dj-ing, ... not much.
Watched code never compiles.
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
I play a bit of guitar. Most programmers I know are musically inclined in one way or another.
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Matthew Page wrote:
If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
Making sawdust.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
Me too. What do you like to make? I haven't been able to make much in the past couple of years, but I like making toys for kids.
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I play a bit of guitar. Most programmers I know are musically inclined in one way or another.
I've been thinking about taking up an instrument... No idea which. Piano or maybe guitar. I think guitar may be to easy though... I can play expert on Rock Band, afterall... *Rolling eyes* (Just ignore me!)
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
I used to sing in a choir, and play in a brasss band, I also used to maintain my own classic car. My music teacher said (and there is research evidence to back this up) that there is a good correlation between musical ability and maths ability.
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I've been thinking about taking up an instrument... No idea which. Piano or maybe guitar. I think guitar may be to easy though... I can play expert on Rock Band, afterall... *Rolling eyes* (Just ignore me!)
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I play a bit of guitar. Most programmers I know are musically inclined in one way or another.
I guess I help to keep that statement alive. I started producing music when I was 18 years old. Now I have an ear for the music, I play keyboard and I'm getting pretty good with the guitar. :-P As for other creative/artistic hobbies, I love photography and graphic design.
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Me too. What do you like to make? I haven't been able to make much in the past couple of years, but I like making toys for kids.
Matthew Page wrote:
What do you like to make?
Stuff for around the house (e.g, bookcases, clocks, furniture), decks, gifts, etc. I want to start on a cedar hope chest soon for my daughter. Right now I'm adding a room to our garage. I've done everything except texture the walls. I just don't trust myself enough.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
In my spare time I bake. Mostly sourdough bread which I bake in a wood-fired oven. But I bake anything - pies, cakes, cookies, etc. I'm more interested in the theory of music than in the playing (although I did start learning violin) as I find the mathematics of it fascinating and how that can be translated, though sound, to something that can affect the emotions.
It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it’s because we do not dare that things are difficult. ~Seneca
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Matthew Page wrote:
What do you like to make?
Stuff for around the house (e.g, bookcases, clocks, furniture), decks, gifts, etc. I want to start on a cedar hope chest soon for my daughter. Right now I'm adding a room to our garage. I've done everything except texture the walls. I just don't trust myself enough.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
DavidCrow wrote:
Right now I'm adding a room to our garage. I've done everything except texture the walls. I just don't trust myself enough.
If you're unsure of your skills the garage is the perfect place to test them. The impact from a botched job is far lower than anywhere else in the house.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
Vehicle mechanics. Not exactly artistic, but I feel better after making something better. I wish to take up oxy-acetylene welding sometime soon so I can start flamewars. And it sometimes helps in my day job when the office generator or UPS doesn't work as expected.
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
Used to play the trumpet... Technically still do, but I haven't practiced in a long time... I am a writer, though... Sci-Fi/Fantasy... See the sig link. Does having an outlet help me in my day job? Sometimes. At work, I'm pretty much a one-man development team (I'm front-office, so it's me and 3-5 end users), so I'm doing everything from requirements/design to testing all by myself. Some days I might be designing a new framework or piecing together a WPF interface, and my creativity would be mostly satisfied. Other days, I'm doing "busy work" like putting together a data layer or running endless tests, in which case it's nice to have an outlet when I get home.
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
I write code. I am sad to say it's my hobby and my profession. I am completely talentless when it comes to pretty much everything else. I like fishing, but don't get much time for it and am pretty poor at catching fish.
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
Matthew Page wrote:
what are your hobbies?
Drinking Margaretas on the weekend. Everyone needs to have a hobby. :~
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
I have my BA in Fine Art and I'm a musician. I got into computers when I was hired to animate some illustrations I had done for a HyperCard application back in the early 90's. Started as a Photoshop weenie, then worked on sound effects and foley stuff. Then got into the animation code later when we moved from HyperCard to Macromedia Director. Took one programming class in college and got a D. Pascal and Fortran X| For me programming was a creative process. But now it is a way to pay the mortgage. Not very much creativity welling up from a document tracking system! :sigh:
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I'm not trying to start a flamewar about whether coding is art, architecture or construction. I'm curious about your hobbies... How many of you coders have 'artistic' hobbies such as painting, drawing, carving, composing, writing etc... Do you think that the 'artistic' outlet helps you in your day job? If you don't mind sharing, what are your hobbies?
I play guitar and write songs, and I grow a lot of our food on our farm. I think it's very different to coding and gives me a different outlet, and a good way to clear my mind.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I've been thinking about taking up an instrument... No idea which. Piano or maybe guitar. I think guitar may be to easy though... I can play expert on Rock Band, afterall... *Rolling eyes* (Just ignore me!)
I think guitar is easier than piano, especially the basics.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.