Hi Brian.
I like wrestling a bit. But I'm not so interested in sports. Things I like though is reading books, listen to black metal, humor, Lord of the rings, and wrestling, as I said earlyer.

I really hate this kind of topics, but I'm still going to reply to this one.

To be short, I don't like sports that much. So my hobbies include tweaking and tuning my PC until it either is blazingly fast or until it's totally screwed up. And I'm doing pretty well: I haven't had that many crashes the last year. In fact I had none.
And further, well, I like to damage my ears, so I keep messing around with audio stuff.

Hi
I love playing around with computers and assistive technology and finding new technology that is interesting to some one who is Geeky such as the Level star Icon. I like audio production and I currently use sound forge. I also love playing music. I sing, play the drums, and play the piano. I also like to read and if the book is good, I can read a whole volume in one day like I've read one volume of the lord of the ring in one day before.

Well to continue from the introduction thread Brian, I actually have a huge list of hobbies.

As a deffinitional point though, I do not considder myself "a blind person" ie, part of a disperate group who can be lumped together under a specific banner. I'm me! the fact that I'm blind is only one aspect of what I do, ----- true, it makes many things harder, and some things impossible, but as far as my actual identity goes, it doesn't make a difference.

to illustrate, when looking around universities, the disabilities adviser at one uni said "why do you want to do philosophy? that's not what blind people usually do" I told him that I was me, not "blind people" and was doing what I dam well wanted.

This isn't to deny the fact, just the emphasis.

Anyway, to get onto my hobbies. I don't play sports, though I do find things like Rock Climbing, cross country skeeing, cycling, Canooing and the like highly fun (and will take up cross country skeeing as soon as I have the time and money), these all require sited assistance, ----- though in something like cross country skeeing the assistance is slightly less than in something like canooing or tandom cycling.

generally, I'm more interested in the feelings of travel and going places than competing, so sports like football, crickit goal ball or whatever don't particularly interest me as much.

I share quite a few interests with people here, such as playing computer games of various sorts, interactive fiction, and reading (my prefered genre is Sf fantasy or horror, but I generally like anything that's got an interesting perspective or is written in a different way, I'm also a fairly mega Hp and Lotr fan).

I also have a fairly serious music interest, with my taste ranging from full orchestral, to progressive rock (I'm a big fan of Film and Anime scores).

I have a very large Dvd collection, and as I said in the other thread, occasionally knick anime from my brother. Quite often, if there are plot details I miss, i find going on the net to look up a synopsis from somewhere like Wikipedia, or a dedicated fan site can sometimes help.

I think the most major thing I do, is sing and perform. I've done occasional one man shows, but I enjoy stage performing more, In particular, I'm a huge Gilbert and sullivan fan and have done some very serious stuf as regards performing in those.

sinse g&S is almost but not quite opera (I really dislike grand opera anyway), a lot of stage related stuff tends to be singing (you physically can't prance about too much and expect to hit some of the notes). But I also use a large amount fo memorization of stage movement, ----- particularly with reference to the music. I also stick a line of tape with a wire undernieth across the stage near the edge so that I can concentrate on performing, and not worry about falling off.

I have just about enough site to follow somebody on and off stage, ----- though if their in a low contrast costume, or moving quickly, this isn't an option and I'll use an inobtrusive contact (such as a hand on the back.

Other random interests of mine include coffee (I grind my own), occasionally going for random wanders around Durham with or without my friends, playing various instruments, composing music and occasionally writing.

being a philosophy post graduate, I also spend lots of time having weerd discussions with my friends, ----- that or watching old episodes of He man! ;D.

as to the Larp point mentioned in the intro thread, generally the Larp I've seen tends to require either combat or at least a good throwing arm, ----- the mage's spells etc for example are represented by chucking balls at one another. Also running around the woods, which might not be so easy. also, while I'm not certain of the idea of playing a blind character either for the reasons mentioned above (though for Larp purposes it might be something I'd considder(.

Sorry about this massive post of doom, but i'm interested in lots of things! and will try just about anything if I can work out a way to do it and have enough energy.

Hmmm, that's a thought. A friend of mine did actually suggest that i play a bard, sinse I could do all the magic etc with my voice and accordian. That might be a plan, I'll have to look into it.

I'm sorry if I was slightly rude over the generalization issue, it's one of my favourite philosophical wranting topics, not just in terms of disability, but in feminism, nationalism and discussions of prejudice as well.

I'd personally say that all generalizations are always bad, all of the time, ----- grin!

I guess I left somethings out" I like to read books franging from realistic fiction to science fiction or horror
some of my favorites are all of the harry potter books, the adventures of huckle berry fin, and desperation by steven king that was a real good book
really got me scared
on the music perspective, I love classic rock and like jaz
but on a classic rock note, some of my favorate artists are the doors, the rolling stones, deep purple, and boston
does anybody like classic rock too?

Dark Empathy
yeah the Betles are good they have some really good songs

Lucy in the sky with diamonds is ok.
Well CJ, Deep Purple is good. They are actually heavy metal. I'm a huge! fan of black metal.   I like bands such as Dimmu Borgir, Satyricon, Emperor, Mayhem and such.
Speaking of books. My favorite is the Lord of the rings trilogy. The best books I've ever read!

Don't worry Dark, I don't think your or DavyKager his post was rude.

As for books, the Discworld (Terry Prachet) series is my favorite for the moment.

Ah thanks Brian. I've unfortunately met too many people in philosophy who go ballistic when discussing various issues, which certainly doesn't help the discussion.

Diskworld is indeed very humorous, but I don't find I can read the books more than once, as the second time through they're just not too interesting to me, whereas I make it a point to reread Lotr once every couple of years, ----- in fact for my 18th birthday my parents got a wedding ring engraved with the appropriate rhyme in "the speech of mordor" which i now wear on my right hand, ----- it's! our birthday presesent my precious!

then, I don't know how many times i've reread the Hp books, even book six I've reread about four times just to get all the twists and turns of the plot firmly in mind.

Some additional stuff about me then. I've all HP-books (for my HP Deskjet and Scanjet). No, I meant the Harry Potter books, I've them all as audiobooks (that's 80 CDs). And man, I like doing strange kinda DJ things either.

I don't know. That's confusing. And, I play sports and I am fully blind.