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A comment on Ask HN: What else do you do besides computers?.

Re:Ask HN: What else do you do besides computers? by mindcrime on Friday February 18, 2011 @03:56PM (#2237231)
Over the years hobbies have come and gone, but some of my other interests include:

Mountain Biking

Wrestling (amateur wrestling, that is. I wrestled in High School)

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu / Submission Wrestling

Powerlifting / strength training

Running (mostly trail running these days, when I run)

Live music - I'm mostly a metal-head and I love a good live metal/rock show. But I also like classical, so I'll go to an NC Symphony Orchestra performance every once in a while.

Watching Doctor Who and Torchwood.

During football season I like to go out to a sports-bar and eat wings and watch the Miami Dolphins games. I'm also a UNC Tarheels fan, but I am not as into the college game as I am the NFL.

Every now and then I like to do the dance club scene, although not as much as when I was younger.

Reading is big: I like horror, suspense/thriller stuff, sci-fi, fantasy, urban fantasy, and all sorts of non-fiction topics. Most of my non-fiction interests are fairly typical geek fare though: various topics on science, math, philosophy, economics, etc.

I'm also something of a Libertarian activist and actually ran for Lieutenant Governor of NC in 2008 (I wasn't elected.)

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Re:Ask HN: What else do you do besides computers? by bartonfink on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:05PM (#2237258)
No shit? You're Philip Rhodes? I voted for you (and then got the hell out of NC).
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Re:Ask HN: What else do you do besides computers? by mindcrime on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:13PM (#2237291)
Yeah, that's me. :-)

Oh yeah, and thanks for the vote! I didn't win, but I did pretty well by historical standards for a LP candidate for state-wide office in NC.

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Re:Ask HN: What else do you do besides computers? by bartonfink on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:48PM (#2237411)
Well it was good to have LP candidates to vote for. I hope you guys make some inroads even though I won't be around to see it.

I went to Wake Forest, stayed around for a few years after in Winston-Salem and found that, as my friends from college moved and were getting better jobs elsewhere, I wasn't making new friends and my career was fairly stagnant (Winston isn't the best job market).

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Re:Ask HN: What else do you do besides computers? by mindcrime on Friday February 18, 2011 @08:09PM (#2237986)
Yeah, Winston-Salem isn't exactly a hotbed of activity. :-)
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