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Re:The Free-Time Paradox in America by toomuchtodo on Monday September 19, 2016 @07:08PM (#12535539)
To reinforce your point, here is the Youtube channel of a database admin (by day) in Tulsa, OK who spends his free time learning how to (and building) a ~70 foot steel cutter vessel in his front yard.

https://www.youtube.com/user/submarineboat

Re:The Free-Time Paradox in America by adamnemecek on Monday September 19, 2016 @07:12PM (#12535552)
Or this http://makezine.com/2015/04/20/understand-1700-mechanical-li...

A retired mechanical engineer spends his time making videos of mechanical linkages in CAD. He's was at 1700 a year ago, hard to say how many he's at now, he's still releasing them. This is what technological progress looks like I think, in a couple of years this will be shown in just about any intro class into the subject and it will reduce the learning time by like, i don't even know, 100x? 1000x? Idk how these were described before but boy do they seem hard to describe in anything but animation.

I'm also having a hard time imagining his brain isn't getting exercised just fine.

I'm not a mechanical engineer and I spent like good 15-20 minutes watching them and getting quite a bit out of it.

Re:The Free-Time Paradox in America by 205guy on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @06:47AM (#12538467)
S/V Seeker! I love it when two different interests of my own find a match somewhere. I've spent way too much time catching up on his videos, but he's phase inspired me in some of my own projects.
Re:The Free-Time Paradox in America by tuna-piano on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @12:24AM (#12537047)
Wow, thanks so much for the link. Amazing watching people build that together.