Free Time

[SolarFlare]

What do codegurus do with their spare time, when they(you)'re not working or doing other important stuff?

[phil edney]

Well I drink vast quantities of beer (Beer is good (http://www.ratebeer.com)), oh hang on,
when they(you)'re not working or doing other important stuff?
beer is important..:D

hmmm. What else. Oh yeah,
-eat,
-sleep,
-play stupid computer games and p%@s off the wife,
-doss on the beach,
-join forces with various other 'computer people' who have an absolute winner of a way to make loads of money, but that just fade away to nothing,
-try and persuade the missis that a new motorbike would be a wise investment,
-and of course, wrestle salt water crocodiles.

...

[Krishnaa]

Well I like to Hibernate (no man slipping.) :)

[Cakkie]

Originally posted by solarflare
What do codegurus do with their spare time, when they(you)'re not working or doing other important stuff?

I keep on programming... Ok, I need to supply myself with the basic needs of a human (like eating, sleeping, ...)
Of course, then there's this Discussion Forum called CodeGuru (or something like that) where I'm a moderator. :rolleyes:

Of course, in the weekends I tend to make some time for other important stuff, which usualy goes down in a pub.

[irona20]

Many things:
-Cinema
-Theatre
-Travel
-Spend time with boyfriend&friends&family
-Buy clothes (this would like to Xeon :D :D)
-Heavy pubs :D
-Good concerts
-Good restaurants :D

and a thousand things more :)

[SolarFlare]

Does anybody have any interesting hobbies, or collections?

[CiernyPeter]

OK,

May be it is not typical for a member of discussion forums, but I have my family and children and I spend a lot of time with them.:) Or :mad:

Regards,

CP

[CiernyPeter]

I want to reply to "Free Time" , but I pressed wrong button.:confused:


No matter: Cimperiali is here and can move you there!

[irona20]

Well, I collect tickets :), yes... all tickets: restaurants, museums, etc... all places in I have been with my boyfriend, I have them in several albums :)

[Simon666]

Originally posted by irona20
Well, I collect tickets :), yes... all tickets: restaurants, museums, etc... all places in I have been with my boyfriend, I have them in several albums :)
And I thought I was weird as a Satanist. :p :D :rolleyes: I've never collected anything, except between the age of 12-15 red Ferrari 1:18 scale models. But that's it. Never been fan as a kid of rages such as pins, cards, and other specially designed collectable crap to get the money out of teenagers like Pokemon recently. I think collecting things is for people who have a screw loose. But that's just my personal opinion.

[Elrond]

Yeah, I collect bugs :D:D

Nah, just kiddin' ;)

Nothing really special. Cooking, eating, sleeping, playing badminton, drinking a few pints, watching TV, making a 5000 pieces puzzle, petting my cat, going out. Most of these with my wife.

[irona20]

When 13-15 years, I collected all about Real Madrid :D :D

[Yves M]

Hehe, I also collect my cinema, theatre and concert tickets :)

In my free time, I watch movies, post on Codeguru, play games, go out, used to travel (before getting this **** job :p) and practice Kendo.

I also like cooking, and am making some progress on spanish dishes, but I still have a lot of trouble with getting my paella as good as the ones of spanish mothers ;)

[Simon666]

That's already two people who actually like cooking. :rolleyes: Anybody planning to set up a restaurant after being fired as programmer? Hypothetical question.

[Cakkie]

I collect Euros, but only the paper money. If anyone happens to have notes of 50, 100, 200 or 500 Euro, just send them to me. I'll send you a note of 10 EUR back to cover any mail charges :rolleyes:

[irona20]

Originally posted by Yves M
Hehe, I also collect my cinema, theatre and concert tickets :)

And restaurants??? :D :D ... I'm rarer than you :p


I also like cooking, and am making some progress on spanish dishes, but I still have a lot of trouble with getting my paella as good as the ones of spanish mothers ;)

It will be better than me, because I have never done a paella :)
Do you like Spanish food?

[Simon666]

Originally posted by Cakkie
I collect Euros, but only the paper money. If anyone happens to have notes of 50, 100, 200 or 500 Euro, just send them to me. I'll send you a note of 10 EUR back to cover any mail charges :rolleyes:
Maybe you need to read more books in your free time :

"How to set up a scam" by the Nigerian maffia.

You can order this book on my website using VISA. Just give me your number and I'll make sure you'll get it. :D :p

[Doctor Luz]

Since two months ago (and until various months I think) in my free time I:

1) I change dirty nappies.

2) I clean baby pooh

3) I wash dirty baby's cloth

4) I change baby's cloth

5) I can't sleep more than 3 hours one after the others

That's my full free time.

Anybody wants to join me?

[Simon666]

Originally posted by Doctor Luz
Since two months ago (and until various months I think) in my free time I:
1) I change dirty nappies.
2) I clean baby pooh
3) I wash dirty baby's cloth
4) I change baby's cloth
5) I can't sleep more than 3 hours one after the others
That's my full free time.
Anybody wants to join me?
My cruelty knows no boundaries : congratulations. :D Boy or girl?

[irona20]

Originally posted by Doctor Luz
Anybody wants to join me?

No!!! :p :D :)

[Doctor Luz]

A Boy, Simon.

And he has better lungs than Tarzan. If you don't belive this ask to my neigbours! :p



Originally posted by Irona20
No!!! :p :D :)


Why not Irona? it will serve you as training when you decide to have your own baby... :D

[irona20]

Originally posted by Doctor Luz
A Boy, Simon.

And he has better lungs than Tarzan. If you don't belive this ask to my neigbours! :p


And his name is Dr.Bombilla Junior? :p


Why not Irona? it will serve you as training when you decide to have your own baby... :D

I have many nephews&nieces, and I don't want more nappies in my life :) :D

[Doctor Luz]

Originally posted by Irona20
And his name is Dr.Bombilla Junior?


:D Very funny! but no. He is too young yet, "Dr. LED" is more appropiate for the moment. ;)


Originally posted by Irona20
I have many nephews&nieces, and I don't want more nappies in my life


Do your boyfriend think the same? :D

[Tom Frohman]

Three nights a week, when I want real excitement, I go the the humane society shelter and walk the dogs in the slammer.

Tom likes dogs they are much more fun than babies.

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Doctor Luz
Since two months ago (and until various months I think) in my free time I:

1) I change dirty nappies.

2) I clean baby pooh

3) I wash dirty baby's cloth

4) I change baby's cloth

5) I can't sleep more than 3 hours one after the others

That's my full free time.

Anybody wants to join me?
I wonder if more programmers are single or married...

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Tom Frohman
Three nights a week, when I want real excitement, I go the the humane society shelter and walk the dogs in the slammer.

Tom likes dogs they are much more fun than babies.
I can't tell, from this language, if you are kidding or being serious. :confused: :confused: :confused:

[Simon666]

Originally posted by solarflare
I can't tell, from this language, if you are kidding or being serious. :confused: :confused: :confused:
Usually Tom is kidding, but I do not understand this one. Slammer = jail? :confused:

[Tom Frohman]

Slammer=kennel with all the stray and surrendered dogs waiting for adoption.

Yes, I am serious.

[proxima centaur]

- I study
- I go to the movies
- I rent movies
- I buy movies
- I read books
- I bike
- I train
- I ski
- I surf the net
- I watch tv
- I play music
- I make love
- I sleep
- I dream
- ...

[Yves M]

Originally posted by irona20
It will be better than me, because I have never done a paella :)
Do you like Spanish food?
Yes, it's great :) Actually my sister used to make paella when we were still living at home and I hated it :p My sister cooks really well, but I guess I wasn't prepared for these things yet ;)

That's already two people who actually like cooking. Anybody planning to set up a restaurant after being fired as programmer? Hypothetical question.
If I get fired as a programmer, I'll just become a manager and fire the manager that fired me :p Sometimes revenge is sweet ;)

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Yves M
Sometimes revenge is sweet ;)
Yves, you are too wordy. It would be just as true without the first word. ;) Only kidding.

On the topic of food, I think the French have the best food, although I'm very partial to real Belgian waffles (from Belgium -- not else where, or they're not Belgian). Can one of you Belges fax me a waffle?

[Yves M]

Originally posted by solarflare
On the topic of food, I think the French have the best food, although I'm very partial to real Belgian waffles (from Belgium -- not else where, or they're not Belgian). Can one of you Belges fax me a waffle?
Hehe, two years ago I was living in France and the food was pretty good too. The great thing was that I lived just 500 meters away from a market, although I had to get up early to get the fresh stuff ;)

And no, Belgian fries are the best. Belgian waffles are not any better than Luxembourgish ones ;)

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Yves M
And no, Belgian fries are the best. Belgian waffles are not any better than Luxembourgish ones ;)
I still go with the waffles. Anyway, the Luxembourgish waffles are the same as the Belgian ones, but "Belgian waffles" is much more internationally known than "Luxembourgish waffles". Most people would probably end up saying "Luxlkdjaoseiush waffles" because they don't have the time to pronounce it right! In American cities, you can go to a street corner and get a hot dog, and yahoo, great, it's a hot dog. But in France, they have such interesting things to eat from vendors! And you have so many options with crepes, it's hard to decide.

[Andreas Masur]

Well basically the same I do in my not free time...programming... :cool:

Of course the above also includes the standard things like little bit of sleep, little bit of food...

Oh...and of course riding my motorbike...although this is more a summer-thingie... :cool:

[dimm_coder]

2 Tom: lol... dogs.. hahaha... funny :D

2 Irona and Yves : What is poella?

Ohh, and about my free time...
Now it is hot time for me. I have been spending the time from 9 till 6 at the work, excepting time when I go to some studies at University. So If I am working, I cann't go to every study.
Soon I will have the examination session at University, but before it some curs works and laboratory works must be done.
As result I will not have much free time during next 1-1.5 month. :(
But then .... drink drink drink .... :) joke of course, but may be some.

[Cakkie]

As a resident of Belgium, I do want to make a correction here... it's Brussels waffles, not Belgian. Along with the waffles, Belgium has a few other TOP products. We have our famous frites with mussels, we have our famous sprouts, but I admit that most of us don't even like them, we also have more than 1500 (!) different beers, including Stella Artois and Jupiler. And finally there's our delicious Belgian chocolate.

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Cakkie
As a resident of Belgium, I do want to make a correction here... it's Brussels waffles, not Belgian.
Oh, sorry about that. Here in the states they're called Belgian waffles. When I was in Belgium, I managed to survive calling them Belgian waffles.

[Simon666]

Originally posted by solarflare
When I was in Belgium, I managed to survive calling them Belgian waffles.
Consider yourself lucky. In the tribal areas we would have eaten you for such blasphemy, probably with French Fries. Hmmmm... what do I hear in the background...


akkerdzjie...French fries...mbmbmml...Belgian invention...mmbmmmblll...blasphemy...eat him....


AAARRRGGHH

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Originally posted by Tom Frohman
Tom likes dogs they are much more fun than babies.

Amen. :)

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Simon666
Consider yourself lucky. In the tribal areas we would have eaten you for such blasphemy, probably with French Fries. Hmmmm... what do I hear in the background...

akkerdzjie...French fries...mbmbmml...Belgian invention...mmbmmmblll...blasphemy...eat him....


Actually, I'm sorry you had to know this, but everything in the world is an american invention. Sorry guys, the truth had to come out.

[Simon666]

Originally posted by solarflare
Actually, I'm sorry you had to know this, but everything in the world is an american invention. Sorry guys, the truth had to come out.
Did Adolphe Sax (you know: the saxophone) have an American passport? :D :p :cool:

[Cakkie]

Originally posted by solarflare

Actually, I'm sorry you had to know this, but everything in the world is an american invention. Sorry guys, the truth had to come out.

So who invented America? Correct, the Spanish people (or was the Portuguese?).

[Yves M]

I have heard rumours that Ugda Lat'tri, from the village that lies where the crow flies actually invented the wheel before the americans. But they did patent it shortly afterwards and drove poor Ugda Lat'tri out of business. What a cruel world :rolleyes:

[Elrond]

Originally posted by solarflare

Actually, I'm sorry you had to know this, but everything in the world is an american invention. Sorry guys, the truth had to come out.

Does thatg mean they invented war, poverty, stupidity, bad food, bad presidents, racism, pollution, slavery, ... ? :D:D:D

[Simon666]

Originally posted by Elrond
Does thatg mean they invented war, poverty, stupidity, bad food, bad presidents, racism, pollution, slavery, ... ? :D:D:D
No they didnt invent it, they started mass producing it.

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Elrond
Does thatg mean they invented war, poverty, stupidity, bad food, bad presidents, racism, pollution, slavery, ... ? :D:D:D
By American standards, we wouldn't call it "war", or "bad food", or "racism", or "pollution"... but by international standards, yes, of course - everything.

To clarify: yes, America invented America. The European explorers (starting with the Norwegians, not the Spanish or Portugese) merely discovered what was already placed there by America as a big hoax. America invented itself and then it was found by Europe. An intercontinental hide-and-seek, if you please. And right now, Antarctica is hiding ;)

[irona20]

Originally posted by dimm_coder
Irona and Yves : What is poella?


Spanish food :)

[Cimperiali]

Originally posted by Krishnaa
Well I like to Hibernate (no man slipping.) :)

I enjoied a lot this answer. I am still trying to defragment by breath (LOL a lot and not able to stop).

What do I do in my spare time?
Well, go catching and reading book on software development (Vb expecially), spend time in CodeGuru VB Forum (yes, when not working. Or else I would not be here) - by the way, this is me:
Total Posts: 3319 (3.84 posts per day) - , play with playstation, play with Vb, go find some friends, speak of Vb, try some Api with rollerblades, switch to Com+ to understand my wife (who is not Com compliant), and so on...

[galathaea]

I'm an obsessive person like most of the posters here. When I'm not coding I'm reading about coding (or one of my other fields), or working on math. I try to escape my obsessive mind sometimes through the standard ritualized means (dancing, beadwork, etc.) and love good movies (still trying to get a copy of the newest Almodovar film through various illicit connections, but may have to wait for the translators...), but these are rare. I sleep as possible, eat when I have the time (or money), but those aren't as essential as THE CODE.

Don't want nappies here, either. Wouldn't know what to do with the attached, crying little bugger. Though I'd love to teach one of them things...

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by galathaea
I'm an obsessive person like most of the posters here. When I'm not coding I'm reading about coding (or one of my other fields), or working on math
What kind of math stuff

[galathaea]

Mostly hypergeometric (normal and q-) relationships, combinatoric enumerations (of various types), with a little bit of algebraic geometry and topology tossed in if I find something interesting to work on. Basically, I just set up problems for myself that seem interesting and new and try to work them out. Most of it is just series manipulations (inversions, expansions in various basis sets, etc.) and applications of various transformation theorems on the spaces, so basically its another thing to obsessively manipulate and is very much like coding...

[Tom Frohman]

This discussion is off topic. It has been moved to the gross grilled cheese sandwich forum.

Your assistant vice duke unmoderator.

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Tom Frohman
This discussion is off topic. It has been moved to the gross grilled cheese sandwich forum.

Ok Mr. Assistant Vice Duke Unmoderator, what other threads are in that forum?

[galathaea]

This discussion is off topic. It has been moved to the gross grilled cheese sandwich forum.

Kicking us out of the dog house?

[Cimperiali]

Originally posted by Tom Frohman
This discussion is off topic. It has been moved to the gross grilled cheese sandwich forum.

Your assistant vice duke unmoderator.

Hi, UnModerator.
Your avatar - in the green parts- remind me about a strange story on Yves...ehrm....

Hi, Galathaea.
How about Chess?


Have a nice day, you all

Cesare Imperiali

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Cimperiali
How about Chess?

Do you play chess?

[Cimperiali]

years, years, years ago, when I was too old to spend my time playing footbal (national sport here), I used to play chess, and I was a tournament player. Of course, one of the weakest...you know: I was old...;)

[Tom Frohman]

I used to play really mediocre tournament chess too. Nowadays, I play lots of speed chess at chessclub.com and fics.com.

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Cimperiali
years, years, years ago, when I was too old to spend my time playing footbal (national sport here), I used to play chess, and I was a tournament player. Of course, one of the weakest...you know: I was old...;)
Are you growing younger or something????

[galathaea]

I used to be a tournament player when i was 10-12 way back when I lived in California. There was this chess school there call Chess For Juniors (previously Chess Wizards) taught by this rather eccentric (not always in a good way) guy out of his house named Snyder (can't remember his first name) who was only a Master, I believe, at his highest (maybe IM? not sure). My highest rating was 1796 at that time, but I fell out of the tournament scene when my mom remarried and we moved. I used to play chess with my mom a lot, too...

Anyway, anyone remember (or still get) those monthly chess magazines from the rating board/company/whatever-it-is... It's been so long I can't even remember their name...

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by galathaea
My highest rating was 1796 at that time
...
Anyway, anyone remember (or still get) those monthly chess magazines from the rating board/company/whatever-it-is... It's been so long I can't even remember their name...
That's a really high rating!
I think you mean USCF. Yeah, you must, because you said you were in California. I am a member, and my rating is below 1000, but I haven't played many games... I should be around 1200-1300-ish but that's nothing compared to yours!

[CBasicNet]

I am a hobbyist programmer so I do programming in my free time.:D

But I do intend to get into the programming line as it is my interest.

[galathaea]

It is not as great an achievement as it may sound, my rating. The thing I remember about the ratings calculations was that your first 20 or so games counted much higher towards your rating than any subsequent games. My first games really gave me a high rating, but it started to get more difficult to maintain when I was in more difficult tournaments paired up against equal rated opponents. Since my tournament time was so short (a year and a half or so), I don't think my score was ever really representative of my skill. And I haven't read any books on openings, midgame strategy, or endgames since that time, long, long ago...

PS: My all time chess hero was Mikhail Tal. Who's yours (anyone who cares to answer)? I mean playing style, ingenuity, etc.

[SolarFlare]

I've never done any chess reading... I've asked people I know to tell me about openings, but that's not really helpful. No favorite player either, I'm afraid.

[Tom Frohman]

USCF 1859

Tal was always one of my favorites but I got more out of going through Alekhines and Smyslovs games and annotation than I got by going through Tal's games and his annotation.

I could never understand Tal's games all tactics not much positional play.

[TheCPUWizard]

Of course, in the weekends I tend to make some time for other important stuff, which usualy goes down in a pub.


WHAT!!!! Your PUB doesn't have high speed internet????:D

[SolarFlare]

Originally posted by Tom Frohman
USCF 1859

I seem to be in the presence of another chess genius! Any advice for me, the budding superstar? ;) If you don't have any advice, you can at least applaud me for my great modesty! :D

[galathaea]

I could never understand Tal's games all tactics not much positional play.

Yeah, that pretty much explains how I used to play. I never could get the discipline to develop a positional advantage when I had some super-sneaky muliti-pronged attack sequence planned. In the area of Smyslov, I remember reading some works by Botvinnik (sp?) and being pretty interested and wanting to develop in those directions, but now I find that information seems to have sieved out somewhere in the past 15 years. If anyone finds this memory, please return it to me, the owner.

Nostalgia seems to be pushing me to check out the web sites you mentioned, Tom. I'm not usually the one for that type of nostalgia, so thats freakin' me out. Am I getting old???

[Cimperiali]

My highest rating was 1796 at that time

Mine was much lesser than yours (aorund 1600) when I was 20...(I told you I was old to be a "young" player!)

I read a lot of book on chess in those time (someone once revisiting a game with me complained he was playing "against chess opening encyclopedia"), but nowaday it is all gone. I do remember Richard Reti as one of my favorite old Masters: I liked his way on chessboard.Never been able to follow Tal (my preview span of memory was around 3-4 movies....even lesser sometimes ;)). Never been able to play a complete blind-chess play - loosed all positions after 10 movies...


In italy we have a magazine that is out every two months and is called (translated)"Tower and Horse".
Each time I went to buy it, the seller firs looked in "animals" review, then in "building" ones...

Btw, I am getting younger each time I am playing Vb....
;)
Have a nice day, you all