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    Quote Originally Posted by mlcor View Post
    So, not a pretty sailboat.

    Ah! I was wrong! I would never have got fish.

    But I'm still intrigued by the measurement of ponds by volume rather than surface area.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hayday View Post
    The canoeing I can get behind, but the Mets? Really? Oh well, better than the Yuckees.

    -hayday
    Yeah...canoeing is great fun, watching the Mets is not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tribe125 View Post

    But I'm still intrigued by the measurement of ponds by volume rather than surface area.
    It's a deep subject.


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    -restoring/riding vintage bicycles
    -restoring/playing vintage synthesizers
    -astrophotography
    -drinking
    -sleeping



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    Quote Originally Posted by popoki nui View Post
    -restoring/riding vintage bicycles
    -restoring/playing vintage synthesizers
    -astrophotography
    -drinking
    -sleeping



    ~Sherry.
    Yeah, that sleeping part usually follows the drinking. Cool with the vintage synthesizers, any particular type? I have a lot of friends that were with Kurzweil and Moog back in the day, and they restore as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wschofield3 View Post
    Yeah, that sleeping part usually follows the drinking. Cool with the vintage synthesizers, any particular type? I have a lot of friends that were with Kurzweil and Moog back in the day, and they restore as well.
    So far it's been mostly vintage Rolands, mostly because there are more of them on the market around here than other brands. A couple of old Korgs as well.
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    Chess, tuba, photography, and Ophthalmology
    La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un cœur d'homme; il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TigerDore View Post
    Walter, your hobbies are extraordinarily cerebral. After a business day, my recreational reading is more brain candy.
    I've been a space cadet since the early Gemini missions and my father in law was with Lincoln Labs/MIT as a principal engineer for the Apollo radar and guidance systems. I am fascinated by the Kepler planet search and all things that Hubble discovered, and it doesn't hurt to have a couple of astrophysicist friends from MIT to do the "splainin".

    Just last week, when out with Cybotron and Dojoca purchasing my VC and Cybotron his beautiful Cartier Drive, we met an astrophysicist from UNH at Shreve Crump and Low and invited him to lunch with us, and while the other guys went home as I was waiting for Donna to attend a Diana Krall concert in Boston that evening, he and I sat at the bar for a couple of hours while he further took me down the rabbit hole of dark matter, recent black hole discoveries/theories and the possibly Dysons sphere discovery a mere 40m light years away. We postulated that it was probably much ado about nothing though. I love this stuff!

    Regarding the medical fascination, my Dad, while not a physician, was a rehabilitative expert that helped revamp the medicare system with Nixon, and that got all of us into his world as my Dad spoke of open heart surgeries that he was in the operating room instructing the doctors how to install the first artificial valves, and all of this at the dinner table replete with photos. Yeah, that was weird.

    The oncology part, quite frankly, came out of necessity as my best friend and bride was diagnosed with breast cancer 6+ years ago, so I went into overdrive to learn everything I could, guided by the Chief of breast cancer oncology at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Dr. Mehra Golshan, perhaps the best cancer hospital in the world and one of the worlds leading surgeons/researchers. We still remain in contact with bi-annual visits and I now know more about targeted gene therapy and experimental procedures than I have a right to, and by far the best and most important part is that Donna, my heart and soul, is cancer free now going on 5 years after a mastectomy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by popoki nui View Post
    So far it's been mostly vintage Rolands, mostly because there are more of them on the market around here than other brands. A couple of old Korgs as well.
    Very cool. I got into the business I'm in because I was such a horrible musician and wanted to be around music. One of these days I plan on mastering the guitar, although, I know no one ever really masters an instrument...except for Jimmy and Stevie.

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    I'm not sure painting quite qualifies as a hobby. It's more like halfway between a lifestyle and a second profession.

    I cook, but as well as "normal" cooking I like to bake bread, preserve meat and fish and occasionally make cheese. I really like preserving meat and fish. I am starting on making mead.

    I garden outdoors and indoors and am now to the point where it wouldn't be too difficult to be more than 50% self sufficient for food.

    I like to swim and when I am in warm oceans I love kayaking and snorkelling. I am seriously thinking of taking up scuba diving.

    Music and sitting in my back yard drinking are pretty high up my list.
    Solve all your doubts through question mode.

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