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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited March 2010
    I enjoy making things from cut down trees and metallic objects in my shop, collect and use things that are really rapidly loud, long handheld pointy things from a disagreement we had back in the 1860's, collecting items from the past and girl watching among other things.



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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited March 2010
    Keiko wrote: »
    Farting, another great hobby.


    that just stinks....:eek:
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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited March 2010
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Hey Tim
    Bev's mom (affectionately referred to as "granny") found a wicked cool arrow head up on their mountain. It almost looks like it's emerald. It's green, and translucent---it's very small, maybe just a 1/2" long, and the shape is perfect. Do you know anything about this type of arrow head? They live in Lakeview, Oregon--and that's where the arrow head was found...

    Hmmm...Many points from that area are Obsidion, which it is obviously not if it is green. Could be maybe Agate or Jasper...I think Chalcedony has variations of green as well. I am thinking more like a translucent Jasper, which would be beautiful. Have you held it up to a light bulb?

    I think Lakeview falls into the Great Basin area which had a lot of activity. Being only a half inch long, my first thought would be a birdpoint. Used for small game and "birds". If so, this would probably put it into the Great Basin Archaic period...from a couple hundred years ago to about 4000 years ago. Probably later in that period, maybe 500-1000 yrs old. Could be older...its style and technique would need to be compared with other specimens.
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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited March 2010
    Actually, I think you should Karma it to everyone with between 100 and 110 posts that collects them.:D
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited March 2010
    Cars/racing is my other main hobby.

    Part of the reason why i haven't been on here much the last couple days.

    I had about $1000 worth of parts stolen off my MX6, so i've been frantically trying to find replacements.

    But hey.... at least i'll have lots of stuff for the "what's your newest toy" thread.
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,141
    edited March 2010
    I had a hobby in woodworking before I broke my heel and started this audio journey all over again.:D

    I also collect chess sets and boards. I was getting ready to start making boards when I broke my heel.:mad: I still haven't made one in 9 yrs. now..

    I still look for sets at thrift stores and flea markets while I'm out looking for stereos and speakers.

    This HDMI thing is putting alot of fine $$$ receivers on the market at yard sales for a song. People think they don't do digital if they don't have a HDMI plug and nobody is telling them differently at the stereo stores either I guess.
    That's good for us who like bargains.:p
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited March 2010
    BuckeyeTim wrote: »
    Hmmm...Many points from that area are Obsidion, which it is obviously not if it is green. Could be maybe Agate or Jasper...I think Chalcedony has variations of green as well. I am thinking more like a translucent Jasper, which would be beautiful. Have you held it up to a light bulb?

    I think Lakeview falls into the Great Basin area which had a lot of activity. Being only a half inch long, my first thought would be a birdpoint. Used for small game and "birds". If so, this would probably put it into the Great Basin Archaic period...from a couple hundred years ago to about 4000 years ago. Probably later in that period, maybe 500-1000 yrs old. Could be older...its style and technique would need to be compared with other specimens.

    I'll see if Granny can snap a pic for me, I should have photographed it when we were there for Christmas. It's pretty tiny, but perfectly formed (no splits, breaks anything--it's easily recognizeable as a "point"). She found it up on the hill when Bud was falling timber one day. It's definitely green, and translucent---it looks very much like emerald, but not quite that clear.
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited March 2010
    I took up playing the bass (the instrument, not the fish) about 2 years ago, currently in a band, nothing serious.

    I was taking Krav maga for about 3 years but am on a haitus right now.

    now I just go to the gym to lift and do cardio. have been into spinning classes lately, I like them for some reason. great workout and its hard to get bored when a hot hardbody chick is screaming at you to go faster. I have a feeling this will lead to me mountain biking again, as I used to love doing that in my younger and stupider days.

    I can finally take my Mustang out since the weather is nicer up here, so that will be a hobby until it gets cold again.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,807
    edited March 2010
    My hobbies:

    - Destroying the environment
    - Scaring women and children
    - Menacing small animals
    - Waging smear campaigns against lollipops, sunshine and rainbows
    - Stealing candy from babies
    - Kicking all manners of pets
    - Stomping on fields of wildflowers
    - Pissing people off on the Internet
    - Preparation training for the Zombie Apocalypse

    And that's just what I have planned for Sundays!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,807
    edited March 2010
    Keiko wrote: »
    Sneaking a laxative into your co-workers lunch is kinda cool.

    So is grounding computer power supplies to the telephone chassis. Doesn't work so well on the newer IP phones.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Keiko wrote: »
    Sneaking a laxative into your co-workers lunch is kinda cool.

    Just buy McDonald's for the entire office and watch the faces as they run for the rest rooms in 15 minutes. . . . pics please.
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited March 2010
    Keiko wrote: »
    Actually did this to someone that liked to steal other peoples lunches at work. Baked up some brownies with chocolate ex-lax. End of story. :rolleyes:

    And you didn't get sued for leaving hazardous foods available to steal?

    WOW.
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited March 2010
    Keiko wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    :p;)
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited March 2010
    concealer404 wrote: »
    And you didn't get sued for leaving hazardous foods available to steal?

    WOW.


    actually ex lax isnt considerred hazardous. now if you laced it with arsenic....you would then have a legal problem.

    maybe I like ex lax brownies to loosen stuff up? someone else eats it = there fault.

    besides, ex lax tainting = hard to prove.....arsenic? not so much.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Keiko wrote: »
    Sharting, another great hobby.

    Fixed the lame one for ya!:D
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,601
    edited March 2010
    Polkersince85 wrote: »
    I enjoy making things from cut down trees and metallic objects in my shop, collect and use things that are really rapidly loud, long handheld pointy things from a disagreement we had back in the 1860's, collecting items from the past and girl watching among other things.

    Ken, you should ride up to my place one weekend. I do some metal detecting from time to time. There is a old civil war grisk mill not far away, that is NOT on Corp land. Found a few goodies there. Plus an old civil war stockade, Fort Hood. And we find a few arrow heads around the lake shore from time to time. My father-in-law found a spear point last summer. While digging a hole in his yard to plant a dogwood tree!

    Also there is a Revolutionary War fort in what was the town of Lisbon, GA. Most of the city was covered up when they backed the water up in the lake for the damn. :(
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited March 2010
    That's just nasty, Sal!
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited March 2010
    Keiko wrote: »
    It's not nasty. It's a hobby. :p

    I think your hobby would make a surprise visit if you got a ride in my hobby. Oh baby. ;):p
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited March 2010
    halo71 wrote: »
    Ken, you should ride up to my place one weekend. I do some metal detecting from time to time. There is a old civil war grisk mill not far away, that is NOT on Corp land. Found a few goodies there. Plus an old civil war stockade, Fort Hood. And we find a few arrow heads around the lake shore from time to time. My father-in-law found a spear point last summer. While digging a hole in his yard to plant a dogwood tree!

    Also there is a Revolutionary War fort in what was the town of Lisbon, GA. Most of the city was covered up when they backed the water up in the lake for the damn. :(

    Once again, one of my part time hobbies. I have been using my trusty Fisher CZ-6A for the last 10+ yrs.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,601
    edited March 2010
    ^ White's XLT or Garett's 1500/2500 models are hard to beat imho.
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited March 2010
    steveinaz wrote: »
    I'll see if Granny can snap a pic for me, I should have photographed it when we were there for Christmas. It's pretty tiny, but perfectly formed (no splits, breaks anything--it's easily recognizeable as a "point"). She found it up on the hill when Bud was falling timber one day. It's definitely green, and translucent---it looks very much like emerald, but not quite that clear.

    I'd bet on agate. I used to find a lot of green agate on agate beach of all places. Used to find a lot of pyrite there too.
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  • BuckeyeTim
    BuckeyeTim Posts: 483
    edited March 2010
    skipf wrote: »
    I'd bet on agate. I used to find a lot of green agate on agate beach of all places. Used to find a lot of pyrite there too.

    You are probably right that it is Agate. Jasper isn't really translucent unless it is very thin, it is more opaque. I am not real familiar with Jasper and Agate.

    Around here it is mostly Flint and Chert. I live very close, maybe a half hour away, from a place called Flint Ridge. It is a several mile long vein of flint that is dotted with a couple hundred ancient quarries and workshop sites. The old dudes used to come here and quarry their flint and then fashion them into smaller blanks for transport home and final finishing. You can't pick up flint inside the park, but in the surrounding countryside you can find huge and beautiful pieces. Lots of reds, greens, and blues.
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited March 2010
    Throwing all of Toms CDs out in his back yard and watching flip the fook out!
    Good Times!!
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    As a poster and lurker here, anytime lightman1 weighs in, I want to check out his response.

    The one he posted at http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80453&highlight=spearkers&page=77 was beyond classic!

    lightman1, you rule! :D
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited March 2010
    Hillbilly61 wrote: »
    As a poster and lurker here, anytime lightman1 weighs in, I want to check out his response.

    The one he posted at http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80453&highlight=spearkers&page=77 was beyond classic!

    lightman1, you rule! :D

    If you find lightman1 funny you can have him... The **** will do nothing but piss all over the yard, eat you out of house and home and try to steal your wife/girlfriend and your best friend from you. I don't know why he takes the women though as he doesn't swing that way from what I have been told.:eek::eek::p:D:D:cool:
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  • tkfoh
    tkfoh Posts: 30
    edited March 2010
    Run live sound and make six figures a year. My wife calls it my hobby but it pays more bills than she does as a dental tech, and only tour 6 to 7 months a year and get paid for 12 months, but what I am really in to is raising bucking bulls for all the rodeos around Oklahoma and Texas, and if you think high end audio cost big bucks ,dont get in the bull program, Feed, vet bills,transportation, and never turn your back on most of them, they for the most part dont care for humans, feeding them or not they can get on you fast and most will park on you if they get the chance. but they are putting my son threw collage.
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  • Radridd
    Radridd Posts: 43
    edited March 2010
    Harleys:)
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited March 2010
    Hillbilly61 wrote: »
    As a poster and lurker here, anytime lightman1 weighs in, I want to check out his response.

    The one he posted at http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80453&highlight=spearkers&page=77 was beyond classic!

    lightman1, you rule! :D
    You're my bestest buddy in the whole wide world!:cool:
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited March 2010
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    If you find lightman1 funny you can have him... The **** will do nothing but piss all over the yard, eat you out of house and home and try to steal your wife/girlfriend and your best friend from you. I don't know why he takes the women though as he doesn't swing that way from what I have been told.:eek::eek::p:D:D:cool:
    Your wife says "Hi" John. She's leaving my house after she makes breakfast for me.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited March 2010
    lightman1 wrote: »
    Your wife says "Hi" John. She's leaving my house after she makes breakfast for me.

    Damnit!!!!!


    She don't even do that for me!:mad:;):D
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