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It's common sense to say that everyone on here has an interest in music in common, but the more I have read about people on here, in facebook or in webchat, the more I have realized that there is a pretty wide variety of interests on here. Off the top of my head, I can think of Pops with comic books, Delicious Meatball Sub with pies, @ntellier85 with poker, Flanz with the Jets and Mets and mayonaise with crafts just to name a few. Then, last night, I was talking about Ultimate Fighter in webchat and @madeline asked me what the point of MMA was. I didn't get to answer her really because I got distracted, but it got me thinking. Everyone has their interests outside of music. What is yours and why does it fascinate you? I will start with two.
MMA - I really haven't been watching it that long, but it has been gaining interest on my radar. As I have stated previously in my defense of my Project Runway fandom, I love watching competition. It doesn't even really matter what. I just like it. Specifically to MMA, I like how the competition has been brought down to two people. There's coaches and trainers and such, but they don't have the kind of impact on the sport in the moment like football or basketball. Almost everything is resting on the shoulders of the two individuals fighting. Also, the parity of the sport is great to me. Almost all of the great fighters of the sport right now have lost one or more times professionally. Sometimes, it is to another great. Sometimes, it is not. For example, Anderson Silva lost to a guy whose pro record is currently 10-13. Finally, I really enjoy how much is going on when you watch a match at a higher level of competition. It feels like there is a constant game going on with one person acting, the other reacting then the first reacting to that over and over until someone makes a mistake. There's a kind of razor's edge happening on the line of sudden victory and defeat. Also, I like the juxtaposition of this very mental exercise going on at the same time as a very physical one.
History - I have been a fan of history for as long as I can remember, and oddly enough, it is more difficult for me to express why I enjoy it so much. Really, I think it goes hand in hand with an enjoyment of fiction. If you go to an actual historic site, you can start imagining being transported to that place and era much like you would with a novel. There's all the same elements of the novel in how you could write up a narrative, but all the drama and conflict actually happened. That just makes it 10000x more fascinating to me. Also, when looking at certain stories, the relationship between smaller events and how they contribute to guiding larger actions never gets tired to me.
Great thread Dave Maynar As you said, I enjoy the crafting. But it really boils down to being creative and having an outlet for that. I used to dance from when I was a littttttle kid until I graduated college. After school I didnt have that opportunity anymore, and so crafting is how I get some of that out I suppose. I enjoy creating with my hands and having a finished product to be proud of. If I had a garage, I'd have a woodworking area in addition to my craft room.
I also love organizing. And THAT boils down to the math of it all - the GROUPING. I love grouping. And my brain loves the puzzle of figuring out how to get all of whatever Im sorting into that closet, or that box, or how will I group these for the most efficient use later? I love it. I love math.
Related to math, I am not a physicist. In fact, its the one area of math I could never really grasp. But I LOVE reading about black matter in space. I will read an article about black matter 10 times before I have even an inkling of what the physicist writing the article is saying. But I WISH I could understand it. I feel like if I just keep reading about it, one day I'll know what it is and 'get it.'
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I'm a huge MMA fan, mainly because I did boxing and wrestling when I was younger and I watched UFC 1 on PPV and was instantly hooked (and then my cousins and I broke a coffee table showing off our moves after).
Silva's greatness is truly remarkable and if MMA had the following it has now a decade ago he'd be a household name. He is a jiu-jitzu brown belt (higher than black), a Gracie jiu jitzu black belt (highest belt), a world-class kickboxer, a professional-level boxer and the best counter-puncher ever. Watch his fight against Forrest Griffin, he knocked a light heavyweight with a jab while backpedaling (Silva is a middleweight, a 20 pound difference for weigh-ins, a nearly-30 pound difference in walking-around weight).
I think you undersell the gameplanning that goes into each fight, though. Those trainers are essentially the same thing as a basketball coach, setting up everything in practice/training and then calling plays/shouting instructions. It's definitely a greater war of wills than a typical basketball game, but the trainers have a huge role.
My five favorites fighters right now: Silva, Hendricks (seriously, the guy is a runaway train of knockout power, it's insane), Benson Henderson (nicest guy in MMA, btw), Alex Gustaffson and THIS GUY:
(Roy Nelson)
History is easily one of my favorite subjects to learn about, and that's not surprising given that my dad is a history major and we spent entire vacations tracing our geneology when I was younger (it was in Cape Cod, MA...so I guess the beaches weren't too bad, either).
Post by ShortieSensei on Apr 3, 2013 10:31:54 GMT -5
I'm an aspiring filmmaker. Film has been a part of my life ever since my parents bought their first camcorder that I was able to use. I remember taking it and filming fake news segments and MTV cribs when I was in elementary school lol. Now I co-own a production company called DreamSeeker Productions that started up in college and we're in the process of getting all the necessary equipment to start filming again since college. I've done a lot of music videos and shorts for different people.
I'm also a huge video game & comic book geek lol I'm a Marvel loyalist and a Mass Effect junkie. My uncle passed away a year ago in a boating accident and I found his stash of comic books that he collected when he was younger. I'm now the proud heir of Iron Fist issue 1. Waiting for the movie to hit so this thing will skyrocket in value.
Surprised to see the first posts mention MMA, as I never see any mention of it on here. MMA is without a doubt my biggest interest. Been watching since day one, but really got into it in 2003 when PRIDE was really taking off. I can (and do)talk MMA all day, lol. It's the only other msg board I am a part of.
If our trips aren't planned around a concert, they are planned around UFC events. Been to 6 so far.
Oh, and Flanz, I gotta correct you. A brown belt is NOT higher than a black, it is the belt before black. Also, he is not a Gracie blackbelt. He got his black belt from the Nogueira brothers. The Nogs did get theirs from the Gracies, but they do not officially teach under the Gracie banner. It also needs to be noted that black is not the highest, red is. Of course, red is just about impossible to obtain, and only a dozen men have ever obtained this level. But, once you reach the highest degree in black (7th I believe) you switch to a red/black belt, which is before redbelt.
Also, you mentioned Gus. It sucks that he had to pull out this weekend. Was really looking forward to that fight.
Other than MMA, gym/fitness, and music, photography is my biggest interest/hobby. I've sold a few prints here and there, but nothing too serious. it's just something I love to do. Nothing more relaxing than going out by myself with my camera. I've always been tempted to risk the dust and water-fans and take it into centeroo some year.
Post by Roo'adelphia on Apr 3, 2013 10:50:51 GMT -5
I’m a sucker for history as well. I think there is something to be learned from the past as we move towards the future. As they say, History repeats itself. Not so long ago in the grand story of this planet, nothing was given. People had to fight for their lands, Races had to fight oppression, and Religions went to war for the right to call their God all powerful. We’ve seen peasants rise and kings fall. Heard of Leaders of the people and for the people, as well as egotistical individuals drunk off their own power do vile deeds. There is historical accuracy and then there is historical fiction. Morals and values from these stories are not to be decoded for you, but instilled in you from the lessons learned as you personally experience them, relate them to your persona, your life. Put yourself in the shoes of the time. History is a timeline of trial and error. Not being in tune with the mishaps and correction of thousands of years will have one trying to invent the wheel rather than discovering new means of fuel.
Also I love fishing, clamming, crabing,...anything to do with the sea.
I'm huge into hiking. -About halfway through my junior year of college I almost dropped out from substance abuse problems. I had packed up and gone home. I eventually got talked into going back after missing a week of classes, but after talking with friends and professors I decided I needed a hobby other than partying and getting high. I discovered the mountaineering and whitewater club and discovered hiking. I never went hiking growing up because I lived at the beach and was more into surfing and the likes. After my first hike I was in a great amount of pain, but new I had stumbled onto something great. It was a new, natural way to get high. After a few months in the club I found out about the Appalachian Trail and did some research on it. I made it a goal of mine to thru-hike the entire thing. Within 4 months of graduating I started what is easily the greatest thing I ever accomplished in my life. I finished the AT about 6 months later and it changed me forever. Now I have to hike all the time. I get seriously depressed if I go too long without being outside and away from society. The AT made me very cynical towards society and humanity, but it put me in the best shape of my life (in certain aspects) and kept me that way. It's what I live for now and I can't wait to thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail in 2015.
Yeah, I forgot he got his with the Nogs, maybe it was Wanderlei I was thinking of?
Red is reserved for people who reinvent the game, basically, isn't it? I'm pretty sure the only red belts awarded are to Gracie's and Luis Franca. I am probably thinking of some offshoot jiu jitsu that had Brown as the highest, because that obviously goes against how the belts work for pretty much all forms of karate, judo and jiu jitsu. Or maybe I'm going senile at a young age, because I have no idea where I got that from.
Speaking of Gus, I think he's the only guy that has a legitimate shot at taking out Bones, at least right now. He has the same body structure (all arms and legs) and is just as lethal with his assortment of strikes. But with the way the UFC works, it'll be a year before they fight with injuries and match issues delaying it some more. The UFC is really snake-bitten with the injury bug right now, it's ridiculous.
Really bummed he had to pull out and derail that title fight.
I'm huge into hiking. -About halfway through my junior year of college I almost dropped out from substance abuse problems. I had packed up and gone home. I eventually got talked into going back after missing a week of classes, but after talking with friends and professors I decided I needed a hobby other than partying and getting high. I discovered the mountaineering and whitewater club and discovered hiking. I never went hiking growing up because I lived at the beach and was more into surfing and the likes. After my first hike I was in a great amount of pain, but new I had stumbled onto something great. It was a new, natural way to get high. After a few months in the club I found out about the Appalachian Trail and did some research on it. I made it a goal of mine to thru-hike the entire thing. Within 4 months of graduating I started what is easily the greatest thing I ever accomplished in my life. I finished the AT about 6 months later and it changed me forever. Now I have to hike all the time. I get seriously depressed if I go too long without being outside and away from society. The AT made me very cynical towards society and humanity, but it put me in the best shape of my life (in certain aspects) and kept me that way. It's what I live for now and I can't wait to thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail in 2015.
My brother is starting the AT Southbound 3 days after Bonnaroo this year! He is so pumped. He's been planning for a couple years. I plan on meeting him at some point to do a leg, and then we're all (family) gonna be at the Georgia end to cheer him "over the finish line" so to speak. I'm so excited to see him accomplish this goal he's had, and it's really inspiring to hear your story about hiking the AT as well. Thanks for sharing!
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You're going to laugh, but a huge interest for me is Clemson athletics. Big surprise.
I didn't care anything about Clemson up until the first week of my freshman year. I didn't even want to go there. See, I grew up a Georgia fan. I didn't know where I wanted to go to school, so my dad made me apply for Clemson my senior year of high school because I had to go somewhere. Even the summer after graduating high school I had decided that I would transfer to Winthrop or South Carolina after one, two semesters at the most. One week after moving into the dorm, I was hooked. I started dating my now husband, we went to all the games and it became another new love of mine. Football wasn't that good while I was in school, but it was still fun. Basketball got good while we had Rick Barnes as coach, and I have so many fond memories of camping out for basketball games (like the Clemson-Wake Forest game when Tim Duncan was playing). I don't know why I became obsessed, but I did. Maybe it was the fun times tailgating with friends (Bowden Bowl 1 will always be know as the best tailgate ever), maybe it was the shared interest with a boyfriend, maybe it was the fun trips to other schools & bowl games. Who knows. We became season ticket holders right before we got married, for both football & basketball. Our oldest child's middle name comes from Clemson & all 3 kids came home from the hospital wearing their own Clemson outfit. I get so excited once August rolls around & the season is getting ready to get underway. I used to be on a Clemson message board all the time until I landed here. A loss devastates me, especially one by the you know who. I am like a kid before Christmas when it comes to National Recruiting Day. I go to the ladies' football clinic & my son goes to the youth football camp every summer. I do enjoy Clemson baseball, but not as much as I do football & basketball.
So now you see why my user name for everything is custeph.
Pride/DREAM was so much more entertaining than UFC.
I wouldn't go that far. They were just different. There were definitely some amazing matchups and great rivalries there. They also had the better talent for a few years. People often forget how boring Pride events could be though. For every crazy, amazing fight, there was two slow, boring fights. The first ten events, in particular, were horrendous. Things really picked up in the 20's though. That was their real heyday.
I definitely miss Pride events, and wish I had have been able to go to one of them. There were pure spectacles.
Pride/DREAM was so much more entertaining than UFC.
I wouldn't go that far. They were just different. There were definitely some amazing matchups and great rivalries there. They also had the better talent for a few years. People often forget how boring Pride events could be though. For every crazy, amazing fight, there was two slow, boring fights. The first ten events, in particular, were horrendous. Things really picked up in the 20's though. That was their real heyday.
I definitely miss Pride events, and wish I had have been able to go to one of them. There were pure spectacles.
As for DREAM, I thought it was mostly awful.
Yeah, I never get why people rave about DREAM. I do like how they work stuff like kick boxing into their events, but I wouldn't say that their shows are more entertaining than the UFC's by any stretch. The UFC has always had a better roster than Dream, and better fights tend to come with better talent.
Pride was like old-school MMA had a love-child with the WWE and it lived in Japan. It was part spectacle, part fighting promotion, but mostly entertaining. I think it had the same hit-or-miss aspect the UFC has. You do your best to pair these guys up for exciting fights, but it doesn't always work out that way.
Sometimes it works (like the Wanderlei/Stann fight, which people weren't really high on, turning out to be a fast-paced fight with both guys scoring knockdowns before the eventual KO finish by Silva), sometimes it doesn't (Jake Shields laying on top of Mike Miller for an entire 15 minute fight in the single most boring fight I've ever witnessed in any promotion). But every fight promotion deals with those same scenarios. I'm glad that Bellator has some stability, Elite XC and Strikeforce were terribly run organizations that sputtered before they really got going, but Bellator's tournament setup definitely makes their fights/shows entertaining.
I want Ben Askern to f*cking fight someone in the UFC, like Condit or MacDonald. He talks a lot of smack from his perch in Bellator, would like to see him back it up against the world's elite fighters.
I always enjoyed Pride more than UFC back in the day, even with their worked fights... they had a pretty neat thing going there, much like the late 80s puroreso scene of pro wrestlers and (not quite mixed) martial arts fighters of the day. Interest in MMA for me personally has died a bit since Dana started buying out all the competition.
As for the real subject here... you know, I don't know why I like the things I like. As some of you know, when it comes to music and movies in particular, I'm into some pretty odd stuff. Probably just being crazy is what makes me like what I do, haha.
I've been writing poetry since I was eight. Got heavy into the Beats, Bukowski and Gonzo Journalism while studying Lit in college. Plan on writing till I die.
I've worked in restaurants all my life and naturally developed a passsion for cooking. Also love menu composition and eating exotic things. Looking at running my own joint someday soon.
I love the water. Swimming, canoeing, kyaking, snorkling, cliff diving. I make trips to as many states/countries as I'm able, backpacking and camping. I have a strange habit of diving out of boats to catch turtles, reptiles, amphibians. Nets are for pussies.
I also have this fat-ass monkey on my back called music festivals.
I miss on-line poker so much :-( Damn greedy ass US Government and their bullshit legislation. Granted, doing it for a living made the game so less enjoyable for me and easily THE most stressful job I've ever had. However, playing on-line on the side while also working provided some pretty sweet side income that I really really miss.
Here's to hoping that some legislation passes soon bringing on-line poker back to the US. I have lots of friend who ended up having to move to Cananda and Costa Rica over it.
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I miss on-line poker so much :-( Damn greedy ass US Government and theirbullshitlegislation. Granted, doing it for a living made the game so less enjoyable for me and easily THE most stressful job I've ever had. However, playing on-line on the side while also working provided some pretty sweet side income that I really really miss.
Here's to hoping that some legislation passes soon bringing on-line poker back to the US. I have lots of friend who ended up having to move to Cananda and Costa Rica over it.
Sad I missed out on the legit sites. Live poker is much more enjoyable but you get less hands for sure.
I also love playing poker, but I normally just play with friends a couple of times a month. It's hard to get together with everyone's schedule being different. Also play Disc Golf a good bit, but not as much as I used to. Gardening, Cooking, Eating, Brewing Beer, and drinking all take up a good portion of time. Vidja games eat up a good portion of my time to. Currently plowing through Luigi's Mansion on 3DS. Obviously, the biggest interest is seeing as many shows/festivals as I can afford to do with the amount of vacation I get.
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
I love math. It's truly the only universal language we have today, but it's more than that, it's a foundation to realms of infinite possibilities. Should anyone, anywhere want to explain a change or interaction in the world, it's almost certain you can boil it down to math. Beautiful data visualizations, compound interest, building planes, playing a CD, and the effectiveness of fertilizer A vs fertilizer B on a sunflowers growth, all employ mathematics as a major tool. When I was studying I saw pure truth. Sure writing proofs and dealing with density functions can be a bit boring at time, but it's that truth behind it and sense that for whatever problem in the universe I can think of, there's underlying mathematic principles comforts me.
Algebra can help you with day to day problems, calculus can further your understanding of chemistry or physics, but math isn't confined to reality. Math can show you how measure in the 4th dimension, how to integrate through the Nth dimension, math can give you a true meaning to what change is. The best part about it, is that people all over the world can communicate and work on these ideas through numbers and formulas and this bizarre code we've made up over (at least) the last five thousand years. Math is beautiful.
Meet my bike. She was custom made for me. I used the money my Mom left me when she died to have her built. So she is named after my Mom.
Campagnolo Record components. Steel frame. Kevlar tires. You name it, she has it. We like to ride. I'm not fast, like she is, but that does not matter to her. People admire her as they pass us going up a hill. I've ridden her in two centuries. A usual ride is only 30 miles or so now.
I really love science and science things Anything and everything from hardcore unsolved math problems to astrophysics, to organic chemistry to vertebrate physiology. I seriously love it all. Even though it has nothing to do with what I do everyday, I still keep up as much as possible with a variety of different fields, and download interesting papers through my local library just to see what is happening. I have always wanted to know how something worked or what the underlying set of rules were. When I was younger, I would tinker a lot which resulted in a lot of broken toys and homemade experiments. As I got older, I got into cooking because of this love, and brewing beer. (After all, it is all just food science). I still love these things to this day. I am probably one of the only people you will meet who took organic chemistry for the fun of it. I thought the subject was fascinating, and still do. I hate proving work. I just want the answer to things and do not care about the detail.
Lets see, I also love literature. I have found it a much better way to learn history than memorizing facts. Not that I dislike history, I just never really got into it the way I did with storytelling. Until very recently, humanity's history was told almost exclusively through literature, which is why I never got why the 2 were separated.
Finally, I really enjoy swimming, white water rafting, mountain biking, and skiing. Anything like this where you think you are in control, but one wrong move, and the results can be catastrophic. Swimming I guess would be an exception in a pool, but I prefer open water scuba and snorkeling to pools.
I miss on-line poker so much :-( Damn greedy ass US Government and theirbullshitlegislation. Granted, doing it for a living made the game so less enjoyable for me and easily THE most stressful job I've ever had. However, playing on-line on the side while also working provided some pretty sweet side income that I really really miss.
Here's to hoping that some legislation passes soon bringing on-line poker back to the US. I have lots of friend who ended up having to move to Cananda and Costa Rica over it.
Sad I missed out on the legit sites. Live poker is much more enjoyable but you get less hands for sure.
What stakes did you play?
I was a SNG grinder. Typically running 20-30 $24 6-man's at a time in a session. I flunctuated stakes depending on if I was under a sponsorship agreement at the time or not. If I was playing with my own money I'd usually drop down to the $12-16 SNGs.
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I graduated last May with a Math/Stat double major.
Congrats. You find a job? And if so, what do you do? Who hires all Math/Stat majors? I have a friend that got a Math degree a few years ago and has been unable to find a job utilizing his degree down here. It's probably mostly due to him being lazy. I'm just curious. I'm a chemical engineer, btw, with 5 years of industry experience.