Curious here. ALL 914 whackos are detail oriented. Deny it if you want, but you're detail oriented.

Race? Probably more detail oriented than anyone. Ounces=lost time.

CW - nothing else needed to be said.

Restorer? see above.

But......who else has something in life besides Porsche? You do, don't you?

Family? Extremely important. Buddies? very important.

What are your non-Porsche interests?

Classic rock, contemporary rock, baloons, slot cars, ....what?

You DO have other interests, right?

Share them? Pic's are great, too.

Artist, stone carving, girl watching and naval lint harvesting.


I would have mentioned shooting but after that thread on NARP... It didn't seem nesessary

Skiing, hockey (still playing at 46), Soccer coach...antique wooden boats..."Honey-do" jar

re-vitalized old hobby. . . Legos
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=chunger

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new hobbie shooting w/ wife




Profitable hobby .. . audio recording



Necessary hobby. . . construction

Recording studio- sweet! I have a small pro-tools set up, and way too many guitars, and not enough time.


BTW, why are people beating each other up in your studio? Foley work?

School take up alot of my time (mechanical engineering student)

I really love mountain biking and sailing. I really wish I had some good pictures of me flying in my sunfish . . . the boat keel is always at least at a 60 degree angle to the water The only one who consistently will ride with me is my girlfriend

I also like woodworking and all forms of construction (though most if a little forced like Chunger's).

I was just mocking up a recording studio for a friend's garage in Sketchup. Construction later this month Needed some people in the model to get a feel for the space. . . see if it'll actually work. I thought the fighting guys were cool. Guy on the couch is smoking a fatty.

RVing/camping

Boating, waterskiing, wakeboarding

snowboarding, bodysurfing, school (civil engineer student), desecrating national parks (thanks bmunday!)

boarding...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h87uIuOugAQ

chillin...

red rocks....

"Thugging" as trekkor calls it....

Brewing

School, I'm studying EE. This takes up a huge amount of time even though I'm still just doing my lower division work.

I also like fooling about with computers and things, I run the site http://www.thextremeresources.com The site used to be much bigger, but the old site died, and the hosting company wouldn't sell us the domain so we had to change it slightly and we've lost like 90% of our members in the transition.

WTF! where was that when we came over? bohemia aint bad... but homebrew is tits!

hehheh...it was fermenting just inside the garage by the computer. Its a batch of mead I made in 1/06. It's a very high gravity (high octane) honey wine. I have a batch of dark beer fermenting in the west wing (inacoolerintheshowerthatnooneeverusessoitsnotgross:))

When I'm bored I like to board....snow, skate, wake, surf, mountain, whatever.
Mountainbiking and hiking wiht the dog are up there too.
I'm an environmental toxicolgist with a PhD
Start my new job as EBMUD Biology Lab Supervisor March 15

ps. I like BEER too, it's not just a cool emoticon

pic below is from indoor ski show where I was representing NPD

um..

I got me a bike.. I have airsoft BB guns, a potato gun,

I enjoy welding, long walks along the race track, and blowing stuff up..

Im also learing how to solve a rubiks cube.......


Oh.. I have a girlfriend, that takes up all of my free time.. so I havent touched my hobbies (nor my car) in months..

Hopscotch and jump rope.
Kidding!

Anything I can ride in or on; motorcycles, mountain bikes, karts, rollerblades, skiboards, wakeboards, things you pull behind a boat.
I haven't tried horses yet (not sure how to operate the throttle).

Hiking, exploring, playing catch (especially frisbee or football), kite flying (the bigger the better!), disc golf, geocaching (and no, Grant, I'm not a metrosexual ), swimming, rafting, snorkeling, skydiving, playing drums, working on mechanical things (especially if I can ride/drive them too!), any traditional sport (hockey, tennis, basketball, etc.)

My latest other hobby would be getting into motorcycling and building a streetfighter bike and things that go bang that the state if it had it's way would ban .

Leching,
cars,
and more cars..
shooting IDP and 600 meter long rifle,
tooling on anything that i can,
teaching,
in summer BODY SURFING!!!!!!!!!
Cooking big ass meals for non profits...... And blow em away with care and quality. Outdoors only... BBQ style.

Oh... In case I forget... cars....

Other than that... I am lame as hell..............

C

I don't have time (or am in the wrong place for many of my hobbies), but they include diving, whitewater rafting, rock climbing, woodworking, and aquariums. I also enjoy collecting fountain pens.

I really don't get into marksmanship or camping - I've done enough of that at work.

here are a couple of pics of me at work and play

here is work

Reenacting

Shooting

Hiking/camping/backpacking. Goingon a three day back pack trip for presidents day weekend. Can't wait, I leave tomorrow at 4.

Sailing - though I have not been able to race more then once a year since I moved to PA in 2005. I really miss it.

Photography. It was 1/2 my degreein college, and I dropped it for ~ 10 years but am picking it back up again.

Zach

I spend most of my time here at work, tending to my servers and network.

When I am not working on 914s, I have honeydos around the house. I also like flying, and I have a license. I just need to get current.

I want to buy a Swift. Think flying 914.

The Swift Homepage


These guys are just like us.... passionate about their Swifts.

Sailing classic yachts, kite-boarding, wakeboarding....basically anything that has to do with being on the water and happy hour.





Last weekend: Air temp 30, water temp 37


Adam

Here's my main "other" hobby. Add to this some snowboarding, kayaking, flying, fishing and boating. Sorry for the crappy pic.......

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Travel is my main hobby ... I try to take 3 vacations a year, and at least one of those out of the country.

This year is Skiing (another hobby) in Park Cities UT, Trip to Vietnam for 16 days in June and Christmas in London England (where I used to live).

Other hobbies include 3D graphics and animation and Tai Chi. That is when I'm not doing SOMETHING to the house.

Me? I am in Construction so home remodeling projects are next on the list after the cars.

My hobby is traveling! Yes, thats a purpleheart log and I am wearing a 914 shirt.
We carcamp during the summer so Westy Camping is this years plan.
Zach (Monique's 15yr old) is into Boy Scouts, Snoboarding so I assist at the Troop and ski with him.
The MPS repairs takes up alot of my hobby time, trying to come up with a reasonable diaphram repair.

My main hobby is my job.. medicine. It consumes me. Terrible, I know but I have done it for the last 30 years. I work 6 days a week. My other hobbies are scuba diving, photography, of course cars, and computers. I belong to the Speedsters forum and now this one. I used to enjoy travel, will do so again after I get the last child thru college. I enjoy my dogs and am looking forwards to my next 914 aquisition (V8).


Michael

Travel, beer.

On the travel note, my fiancee and I have basically become groupies for 'Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers' , a band out of AZ. Next month we'll hit our 10th show in a years time...

I race 1200cc PWC's professionaly.

Scuba diving, bass guitar, fishing, aquariums, and reptile breeding.

I am a marathon runner.

I ran 2977 miles in 2006.

Most of my other interests have taken a backseat to the teener, so to speak. My wife and I race our sailboat doublehanded on SF bay. Borderline just won her class in the Three Bridge Fiasco. It's a strange race where you sail around marks at the 3 main bridges (Golden Gate, Bay, and Richmond-San rafael).

My other interests are biking, surfing (when my shoulder is feeling ok), and kayaking.

Jeez...

• Porsches (just bought a Boxster in additon to my 914) and BMW's, BMWCCA member and I'm rejoining PCA
• Music - Play electric and acoustic guitar, mostly classical right now. Big collection of classical and jazz music, B&W/Denon system for listening, home recording setup with drum machine, 5 guitars, and a Schimmel DP169 grand piano (wife and kids play)
• Astronomy - have an 8" Dob, another smaller scope, several binocs - awesome viewing site at our house in the prarrie outside of Flagstaff
• Electronics - small circuit building setup, Oscope, many meters, function generator, pulse generator, supplies
• Cub Scouting with my son - your usual set of projects, meetings, events, and camping
• Bicycling - I raced bicycles on and off since I was 13, still get in about 3000 miles per year, just riding these days
• Home Theater - have two setups, one with an HTPC I configured
• Computers and Home Automation - multiple PC's on home network, networked A/V sharing, X-10 home automation integrated with our security system
• Family - wife and two kids (7 and 9) keep me busy, busy, busy, lots of activities and family stuff
• Work - principal engineer at Intel working on global collaboration solutions, previous life at Intel was as a silicon microcontamination specialist for our factories and TD
• Houses - one here in Phoenix, one in Flagstaff, with near-infinite "to-do" lists

... and probably a dozen other minor things I can't think of right now.

Oh, and I like to watch TV and sleep.

Skateboarding and surfing. Never as much as I want though.

http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p207/cl...nt=PC310224.flv

cycling

hunting, mainly ducks, all my other hobbies are put on hold between Oct. and Jan.

Fishing
camping
Boating


Taxidermy, yes taxidermy! There I said it! it sounds morbid, and it kinda is, but the finshed prduct is nice.

Keith

Working in motorsports I speand lots of time hanging out at various race tracks across North America, hey somebod has to do it.

Also, I love music. I spend loads of time looking for new music. I am big fan of John Butler Trio, Jack Johnson and the White Stripes.

I love cars so I speand a lot of time surfing car related internet sites and reading about the latest motorsports news.

Freezing my ass off surfing, the water's 51 degrees today.
Home improvement projects.
Racing.
Camping, backpacking, hiking.
Walking the dog.
Travelling.
Cigars.

Pogo stick jumping.
Bean collecting.
Memorizing trivial pursuit cards.
Japanese Anime (Go Speed Racer!).
Aglet painting.
914

EDIT: Obviously stand-up comedy is not my strong suit.

The "real" list is:

my family
fly fishing
modern architecture & design
news/politics
building my company
writing a book
reading
cars in general and my 914

Ran roadrace karts for 25 years. Won last regional championship in '02, then retired and sold everything a year later. Been in and around racing my entire life; dabbled in stock cars and dry lake stuff. Went through all the usual hobby stuff; skiing, fishing, dirt bikes (still have one), backpacking, etc. Otherwise, the 914 LS1 V8 swap is my hobby for now. It does extend into the hobby/skill stuff like designing and machining, fabrication and welding. Too old to chase women any more (well I can chase, but what do I do if I catch one?), but did that ever classify as a hobby?

Andys

Well, I used to play darts on leagues and went to tournaments alot but being here has stopped that for now. Other interests are,

- medical field specializing in trauma, been in it since 84
-sports medic for a few rodeo cricuits in the south east
-work fire/rescue/medical at race tracks like Road Atlanta and Atlanta Speedway
-safety diver for power boat tour races
-shooting many many guns which I own quite a few
-body sculpting, not body building, big difference going for symetry
-80's music
-and last but not least.....women!!

Ian in Iraq...Again

Wow, what a diverse group with a great common denominator (914’s).

For fun I sail (cruse and race) in beautiful Narragansett bay and RI sound. I’ve also done some blue water sailing on classic yachts (12-meter Gleam).

I am also a musician (there’s a lot of us on this forum) and play lead guitar in a kick-ass classic rock band. We are setting up a studio and will soon be recording some original music.

Proud Dad (11 year old daughter)

Dog owner (Rocky, 3-yr old yellow lab)

Recreational beer drinking

Work: Program Manager for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. Working on AN/BSG-1 TLAM-N (google that for an interesting read)

Hmmm... Boats.

This one I've driven to 117MPH so far. I dont want to go any faster...
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Then there's Skiing, and the other boat, much more family and ski friendly
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The slow boat (82 on the speedo, 78 on GPS )
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And I play hockey 2 nights a week

video games
guns
paintball
home improvement/woodworking

Snowboarding - two weeks , can't wait...

fishing - not that i'm any good at it, I just like doing it...

RV camping, wife and kids, no more hiking for miles then making camp...

Have two PWC and looking to trade up to a nice boat, maybe next year..

fish keeping - I have a Saltwater reef tank and a koi pond...

Right now I'm concentrating on keeping my daughter on track for college next fall. This would be easier if she didn't have hormones.

As for the things I like doing...

Motorcycles - I'm a member of www.vfrdiscussion.com and have a 2003 Honda Interceptor. I also have a 1972 Honda CB350F in a partial state of restoration.

Martial arts - Been studying tang soo do for about 19 years

Brewing - Like a couple others here I've discovered the benefits of brewing my own beer! Better than what you can buy.

I also like any kind of fishing and usually get out out into the Chesapeake a couple of times a year.

And I wouldn't call her a hobby, but my sweet lady takes up a lot of my time. Or I should say I give it to her freely.

Bryan

My work takes much of my time.(Natural gas pipeline and appliance technician)

When I manage to get some spare, I repair submersible water pumps, get to fix all of the neighbours tools and toys, construction work (ex-carpenter).

My own personal time is: fishing, hunting, atv, and backyard mechanic.

Meanwhile the teener waits, and waits, and...

Steph

i've always been into motorcycles, now the 914. so what do i do? go buy an 86 Jaguar XJS just to add more excitment to my life

Robin