Things I *don't* do as a hobby
Jan. 31st, 2007 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Inspired by Scott Adams' wonderful oneliner from his current Dilbert blog:
I just started wondering if you lot had antihobbies. An antihobby isn't the absence of a hobby -- I mean, there are loads of things I don't do, like polevaulting for example, but I can't say that I make a hobby of not polevaulting.
<flamebait>Vegetarianism, for some people, appears indistinguishable to others as making a hobby of not eating meat.</flamebait>
Discuss.
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[Poll #918141]
Atheism is religion the same way that NOT collecting stamps is a hobby
I just started wondering if you lot had antihobbies. An antihobby isn't the absence of a hobby -- I mean, there are loads of things I don't do, like polevaulting for example, but I can't say that I make a hobby of not polevaulting.
<flamebait>Vegetarianism, for some people, appears indistinguishable to others as making a hobby of not eating meat.</flamebait>
Discuss.
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[Poll #918141]
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Date: 2007-02-01 02:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 02:18 am (UTC)(Yes, silly mood today, sorry)
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Date: 2007-02-01 02:53 am (UTC)Of course, then you'd have variants--does a stamp count as part of a collection if it is on a letter you are about to post? If it does, does an anti-stamp-collector have to post letters one at a time, between stamp-buying trips?
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Date: 2007-02-01 02:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 02:59 am (UTC)(Ex- power supply designer who managed to avoid going voom or pining for the fjords)
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Date: 2007-02-01 03:02 am (UTC)Andy did make some interesting sparks with the filter caps one time, and blew the fuses ... fortunately his guitar was grounded as well.
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Date: 2007-02-01 03:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 03:09 am (UTC)The connection from the pin to the chassis is, admittedly, via a very small value capacitor ... an electrolytic one.
I'm sure you know what happens to electrolytics after thirty years.
We pulled out the ground switch before we powered the amp up.
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Date: 2007-02-01 08:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 03:27 am (UTC)(I think the distinctions are covered well by the labels implicit/explicit and weak/strong atheism; an active dislike or opposition meanwhile I think is more antitheism than atheism.)
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Date: 2007-02-01 07:55 am (UTC)I love playing with ideas that break classical logic, and this is a good one! If you disallow ¬¬x = x, all sorts of fun stuff happens.
I'm fond of logics that have a Hasse diagram like
*
/ \
F T
\ /
B
where F = false, T = true, * = top (could be either F or T) and B = bottom (no information)
This lets you quite elegantly deal with nondeterminism, so you can say things like F /\ * = F, T \/ x = T, etc.
Things get even more fun if you allow values to change over time, however!
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Date: 2007-02-01 07:56 am (UTC)*
/ \
F T
\ /
B
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 08:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 08:50 am (UTC)Apparently, 'TV Detector Van' really equals 'underpaid goon with a database printout'. Ha. I moved to America, where I am Evilly Watching TV Without A Licence. Legally. And I even have BBC World. So Ner.
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Date: 2007-02-01 10:36 am (UTC)Also, how are you supposed to prove that you don't have a television?
(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 05:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 10:40 am (UTC)For some reason, now I'm in the Isle of Dogs, they've gone away after one letter.
For some reason your icon looks disturbingly cheery today.
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Date: 2007-02-01 05:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-02 03:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 10:41 am (UTC)Wouldn't it have just been simpler and easier to get a license? ;-)
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Date: 2007-02-01 05:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-02-01 08:36 pm (UTC)I've thought of a proper one!
Date: 2007-02-05 08:27 pm (UTC)I do read film reviews, somewhat obsessively. I am interested in cinema. But I do not see films. Not through choice anyway.
I'm not sure why, although I think its something to do with the fear of being stuck in the cinema for 2 hours watching complete crap and being very bored.