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Idaho Conservatives wrote:

Pope Joan wrote:
I built a crystal radio, it was amazing, no power source yet I could get Am stations. Magic!

I had a nice transistor radio and dropped it while I was doing the dishes. Something happened to the tuner, and after that it would only broadcast Dominion Observatory Canada, accurate time given every minute. Some kind of astronomical clock. CHQ it was. Can you explain to me what happened?

Was it shortwave? There are clock stations running around on 40 meters.

Ah! I see it was CHU, not CHQ. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHU_%28callsign%29

Somehow my radio must have transformed into a (very limited) shortwave!

Since it declared itself to be Dominion Observatory Canada, it must have been prior to the shift to the National Research Council of Canada in 1970. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Observatory

My grandmother had a shortwave (floor model!) on which I listened to the takeover of Radio Brazzaville by rebels in 1963.

Pope Joan wrote:

Idaho Conservatives wrote:
Was it shortwave? There are clock stations running around on 40 meters.

Ah! I see it was CHU, not CHQ. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHU_%28callsign%29

Somehow my radio must have transformed into a (very limited) shortwave!

Since it declared itself to be Dominion Observatory Canada, it must have been prior to the shift to the National Research Council of Canada in 1970. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Observatory

My grandmother had a shortwave (floor model!) on which I listened to the takeover of Radio Brazzaville by rebels in 1963.

No idea how that would happen, but it's kinda cool.

Model railroading, target shooting, videogames, stuff like that.

Cetacea wrote:

The God-Realm wrote:Collecting old and new porn.

My oldest piece is from 1899, a reproduction though.

Just out of purely historic interest could you post a scan of it?

it's from 1899 so we can consider it Art:)

No, i'm not getting deated for posting boobs.

The United Soviet Socialist Republic wrote:

The God-Realm wrote:Collecting old and new porn.

My oldest piece is from 1899, a reproduction though.

1899? Wow.

Yup.

The God-Realm wrote:

Cetacea wrote:
Just out of purely historic interest could you post a scan of it?

it's from 1899 so we can consider it Art:)

No, i'm not getting deated for posting boobs.

You could TG it to those that ask.

The Corparation wrote:

The God-Realm wrote:No, i'm not getting deated for posting boobs.

You could TG it to those that ask.

Asking~

Masturbation. Reading. Writing. Making alternate-historical maps. More masturbation. I also have a coin collection.

The Corparation wrote:

The God-Realm wrote:No, i'm not getting deated for posting boobs.

You could TG it to those that ask.

I don't have it on me anyway.

Unilisia wrote:Masturbation. Reading. Writing. Making alternate-historical maps. More masturbation. I also have a coin collection.

So do I!

The coin collection, I mean.

Hobbies are a bit out there on my view
I've created a 8kJ railgun, then given it to my uncles shooting range.
I've tested an idea for a solar power plant (think a giant magnifying glass) failed miserably
I NS
I play EVE online, Mass Effect, C&C, and TF2
And I do school speech and debate and American football

Pope Joan wrote:

Nazis in Space wrote:That's not old.

My oldest original print dates to 1902 or so.

My oldest are Aladore by Henry Newbolt, 1914, Peter Pan and Wendy, 1911, and my prize, Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, 1911 (first English translation).

I also have a Victorian printing of The Vicar of Wakefield but of course it is not the original.

I have a 1901 German Bible (Die Heillige Schrift) It even has a personal note written in Fraktur on the first blank page.

The God-Realm wrote:

Unilisia wrote:Masturbation. Reading. Writing. Making alternate-historical maps. More masturbation. I also have a coin collection.

So do I!

The coin collection, I mean.

Mine isn't particularly special or extensive, mostly old American pennies from the early 20th century and Asian/African/Eastern European Cold War era coins.

Also I have an Israeli dollar but that isn't really special, just cool lookin'.

Unilisia wrote:

The God-Realm wrote:So do I!

The coin collection, I mean.

Mine isn't particularly special or extensive, mostly old American pennies from the early 20th century and Asian/African/Eastern European Cold War era coins.

Also I have an Israeli dollar but that isn't really special, just cool lookin'.

I got a peace dollar and a couple pre-apartheid South African coins.

The God-Realm wrote:

Unilisia wrote:
Mine isn't particularly special or extensive, mostly old American pennies from the early 20th century and Asian/African/Eastern European Cold War era coins.

Also I have an Israeli dollar but that isn't really special, just cool lookin'.

I got a peace dollar and a couple pre-apartheid South African coins.

I think I have a German coin from the Sudwest-Afrika colony somewhere in my collection.

Unilisia wrote:

The God-Realm wrote:I got a peace dollar and a couple pre-apartheid South African coins.

I think I have a German coin from the Sudwest-Afrika colony somewhere in my collection.

Pretty cool there.

I write books.

Lolnojustkidding.

I just smoke pot all day.

Playing NS and kind of into WWII stuff

Reading Fanfiction, playing video games, arguing on NSG, listening to Nightcore music, watching AMV's, and fapping to Hentai.

I play hockey, which takes up a lot of my time. When I'm not playing hockey or in school, I like to play guitar (acoustic).

trees, trains, computers and little furry creatures with big sharp teeth. and a good many other things that involve creating and exploring.

i don't count collecting as a hobby, that's a con game and an ego trip.

real hobbies are about creating things and being creative.

of course i don't create trees or life forms, just models of trees and images of imaginary sapient life forms, which may or may not resemble people on other words.
trains are the main thing. my first love was seeing a model railroad when i was little more then a year old. i wasn't talking coherently yet, but i was able to toddle around a friend of my father's basement, chasing the little trolly he had running all the way around it, much as my housemate's cats chase mine around now.

then there was the forest i grew up in. i don't mean i have a hobby of silvaculture, nor even zooanthropology, but i do number myself among some wonderful people who have a particular affinity for non-humans.
the latter evolved out of an interest moon mining engineer's daughters and their little extraterrestrial friends. or something like that.

actually i like to imagineer little people size houses and trains and alien worlds and naturally, to make pictures that anyone will look at, and hopefully be inspired by, they need to have people and furry people just look better, so there you go.

Frisivisia wrote:People play Diablo 3?

Nah, they just get banned for using the program Blizzard told them to use to run D3. (Linux users only. )

Unilisia wrote:Masturbation. Reading. Writing. Making alternate-historical maps. More masturbation. I also have a coin collection.

Collector: "Why are these coins all sticky?"

Anime/manga, vocaloid and metal music, fanfiction and the Football Manager series of games for the PC.