Trying various new hobbies until I get bored and wallow in buyer’s remorse, which drives me to cure me sorrow with a new hobby, hoping it breaks the cycle, but knowing nothing ever will. Hey, anyone else getting curious about aquatic flower arrangement? Feels like a solid 6-monther, and I still have tanks from my foray into breeding goldfish (DON’T)
If cooking is on the list, why not EATING? If it is palatable, my eating can match anything culinary you can create. (Just leave snails and insects out of it…)
@DrWorm@phendrick I don’t know. At a molecular level, converting an amazing assortment of chemical compounds into ATP could be a creative outlet. No one stipulated it had to be efficient (or even pretty).
@Hrairoo so you do work most days in your life just hope to get paid for your hobbies. Wouldn’t that be nice? Although I guess we only call them hobbies till it’s someone’s primary revenue.
@Hrairoo
A. What’s a Letterkenny
B. Meh. normal work is
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think you might have read that with the wrong inflection. Work is in general… Meh for most people. If you get to do something you love that’s obviously awesome. For most people I think at best it’s a range of I have this to I semi enjoy this. I’m glad to be on the upper half of that scale.
@DoctorOW I’m a retired I.T. guy and spent my last 5 years of work primarily doing DevOps FinTech.
Nowadays I primarily work on (what my wife calls) my “Science Projects;” automating things around the house. Keeping our DVRs (and our kids’ DVRs) all sync’ed, for example. Home automation. Like that. Doing a little consulting / debugging work.
Mostly in python and shell scripting. As little java / nodejs as I can get away with. In the process of learning Go.
There’s something about the process and art of coding that, when one gets into that flow state, makes the whole world recede into the background. And at the end I can look at my work and say to myself, “Hey, I did that!”
@DoctorOW@TrophyHusband I totally get that. Especially on personal projects. Or emergency fixes.
Those are SOOOOOO satisfying. I got what I wanted out of you. Go forth and do as I command. Problem solved.
But when working in a production environment doing something “creative” in something like c… It’s a whole wtf did you do… Ok… I get why but you were just being fancy/cheating… Anyone who modifies this in the future is not going to understand it. Etc etc.
On your own system or a small system. Fun to play and get creative. I still have my college fpga and micro controller but I will admit I haven’t programmed them for a decade. Nothing at home to motivate that need. I just have open source router software and a pihole dns.
@TrophyHusband I’m actually a huge fan of Go. It’s a lot of fun in my opinion. The coolest thing I’ve made was a tool that encoded text in to images for a fun Easter egg a friend of mine was making.
Beadwork, patchwork, (haven’t yet finished a whole quilt top so can’t say quilting) letterpress printing. I used to enjoy cooking but it seems more like a chore these days.
@unksol Well, the product being sold is art supplies… and lots of people have provided more creative answers to the survey!
So what’s your special form of creativity?
@Kyeh simply noting that they seem to lean toward the the left brain/right brain thing. Sciences vs creativity/art.
Which I’m not sure is true. Most sciences/invention require a massive amount of creativity to imagine anew possibly… You just have to prove them after instead of them remaing abstract. But if scientist/engineers couldn’t be creative… Yikes.
@Kyeh@unksol The top tier scientists are almost certainly very creative. But many scientists are grinders: running tests, checking samples, comparing results, etc. Repetitive & necessary work, but not too creative.
@compunaut@Kyeh there is obviously an element of practical vs artsy. But other than cooking it was all on paper vs…constructive? Tell me a kid with legos or or a construction set isn’t creative lol.
I really wish I had a creative side.
@iluvmingos
Same, my friend.
3D printing/design. Also cooking.
Not really making music so much as making noises with musical instruments.
Photography. A stick figure is advanced art from me.
Make with the links, creative types! Show me what you’ve been working on!
I do computer things.
Photography! I absolutely love it. Just wish I had more time for it.
I collect dust
@jakeline Since you asked, here’s a link to one of my favorites:
@grammarhole the voiceover is super soothing and the recipe looks super solid! That’s an instant subscribe from me!
@jakeline That’s awesome! Thank you so much for watching and subscribing!
PANS! GLANDS! CRAYONS! AWESOME!
Drinking!
Trying various new hobbies until I get bored and wallow in buyer’s remorse, which drives me to cure me sorrow with a new hobby, hoping it breaks the cycle, but knowing nothing ever will. Hey, anyone else getting curious about aquatic flower arrangement? Feels like a solid 6-monther, and I still have tanks from my foray into breeding goldfish (DON’T)
I lie.
@tweezak That can’t be true!
I lay down and nap until the feeling is gone.
I collect spores, molds, and fungus.
Repairs. Creative repairs.
Food, glorious food.
@hchavers
We’re anxious to try it!
Sewing (for work and play) and cooking.
Papercraft!
If cooking is on the list, why not EATING? If it is palatable, my eating can match anything culinary you can create. (Just leave snails and insects out of it…)
@phendrick Because eating is not creative, it is quite the opposite. We (I am including myself here) just destroy what the cooker’s create.
@DrWorm @phendrick I don’t know. At a molecular level, converting an amazing assortment of chemical compounds into ATP could be a creative outlet. No one stipulated it had to be efficient (or even pretty).
I make amazing PowerPoint slides. Really. I can turn a boring slide show into a thing of beauty.
Tinkering with electronics, or infernal combustion.
A little of all these things. I write, paint, sing, play guitar, I do all sorts of things! Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!
@Hrairoo i mean the is true. As long as you get paid for it. That’s not guaranteed.
@unksol truth! Which is why I have a day job! Lol
@Hrairoo so you do work most days in your life just hope to get paid for your hobbies. Wouldn’t that be nice? Although I guess we only call them hobbies till it’s someone’s primary revenue.
Or you retire and do it for fun
@unksol first off, I can tell you’re not a Letterkenny fan
2nd- you ok, friend? You seem a little… on edge… hope you’re well
@Hrairoo
A. What’s a Letterkenny
B. Meh. normal work is
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think you might have read that with the wrong inflection. Work is in general… Meh for most people. If you get to do something you love that’s obviously awesome. For most people I think at best it’s a range of I have this to I semi enjoy this. I’m glad to be on the upper half of that scale.
Love your work is a whole separate category
Cooking, music, woodworking/carpentry, photography, winemaking, gardening, and general tinkering.
Also the occasional bit of community theater, but it’s been a while, and my onstage days are probably behind me at this point.
@dannybeans
Woah! Those are pretty good. I like the editing style of that composite/collage-like one.
Coding!
@TrophyHusband
@TrophyHusband What do you code? What languages do you prefer?
@TrophyHusband I wanted to say this but often “creative” coding is a negative lol
@DoctorOW I’m a retired I.T. guy and spent my last 5 years of work primarily doing DevOps FinTech.
Nowadays I primarily work on (what my wife calls) my “Science Projects;” automating things around the house. Keeping our DVRs (and our kids’ DVRs) all sync’ed, for example. Home automation. Like that. Doing a little consulting / debugging work.
Mostly in python and shell scripting. As little java / nodejs as I can get away with. In the process of learning Go.
There’s something about the process and art of coding that, when one gets into that flow state, makes the whole world recede into the background. And at the end I can look at my work and say to myself, “Hey, I did that!”
@DoctorOW @TrophyHusband I totally get that. Especially on personal projects. Or emergency fixes.
Those are SOOOOOO satisfying. I got what I wanted out of you. Go forth and do as I command. Problem solved.
But when working in a production environment doing something “creative” in something like c… It’s a whole wtf did you do… Ok… I get why but you were just being fancy/cheating… Anyone who modifies this in the future is not going to understand it. Etc etc.
On your own system or a small system. Fun to play and get creative. I still have my college fpga and micro controller but I will admit I haven’t programmed them for a decade. Nothing at home to motivate that need. I just have open source router software and a pihole dns.
Work is enough for now
@TrophyHusband I’m actually a huge fan of Go. It’s a lot of fun in my opinion. The coolest thing I’ve made was a tool that encoded text in to images for a fun Easter egg a friend of mine was making.
A lot of different ways, all at once.
Knitting
Baking, knitting, writing, doodling (or would be an exaggeration to call my doodles “drawing”).
Quilting
Beadwork, patchwork, (haven’t yet finished a whole quilt top so can’t say quilting) letterpress printing. I used to enjoy cooking but it seems more like a chore these days.
A few ways, including photography and TV repair :B
I extremely disappointed these are all artsy type options… That’s such a narrow view of creative
@unksol Well, the product being sold is art supplies… and lots of people have provided more creative answers to the survey!
So what’s your special form of creativity?
@Kyeh simply noting that they seem to lean toward the the left brain/right brain thing. Sciences vs creativity/art.
Which I’m not sure is true. Most sciences/invention require a massive amount of creativity to imagine anew possibly… You just have to prove them after instead of them remaing abstract. But if scientist/engineers couldn’t be creative… Yikes.
@unksol well, I do agree completely. The really great scientists are super creative. I think our culture separates these things too much.
@Kyeh @unksol The top tier scientists are almost certainly very creative. But many scientists are grinders: running tests, checking samples, comparing results, etc. Repetitive & necessary work, but not too creative.
@compunaut @Kyeh there is obviously an element of practical vs artsy. But other than cooking it was all on paper vs…constructive? Tell me a kid with legos or or a construction set isn’t creative lol.
@compunaut @Kyeh @unksol most kids are creative until adults smash it out of them…focus kid, you have homework…
@compunaut @unksol Well, cooking and “something else” got the most votes, so it looks like people got around the possible paper-based bias.
@compunaut @Kyeh nothing against art. Just the choices seemed one sided. Not that it really matters on a meh poll lol
I make a weird improvised sci-fi podcast. It’s on the first page of Google for the phrase [weird improvised sci-fi podcast].