Archive for the 'Everybody Needs A Hobby' Category

Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Old: Collecting stamps. New: Spending months mastering the Cadbury Eyebrow Dance. 

[reddit.]

Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: “Hero”: Miguel Endara draws his dad’s face on a scanner using nothing but dots — 3.2 million of them, to be exact.

[booooooom.]

Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: The Miniatur Wunderland model exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, features both the world’s largest and most intricate model railway and, since May, the world’s largest model airport as well.

Scores of staff members have spent years constructing the expansive miniature sections with a mind-boggling attention to detail.

And they are far from finished: According to attraction’s latest promo, the 260 Wunderland employees plan to keep adding new sections to the sprawling exhibit until such time as science perfects the shrink-ray technology necessary for them to finally join their diminutive brothers and sisters in the Little Utopia. 

[mefi.]

Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Pianist Paul Barton celebrates his 50th birthday in style: Playing Beethoven for old, injured, blind, and handicapped elephants at a nature preserve in the mountains of Kanchanaburi, Thailand.

“It was a 50th birthday present to myself,” Barton is quoted as saying. “My wife and I have been working with blind elephants for many years, and I thought it might be something they would enjoy to listen to.”

Sure, he had to drag the piano all the way up there, but it was an experience they will never forget.

[metro / arbroath.]

Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Chinese snake charmer Liu Fei performs the sort of tricks you’d expect to see from a guy walking around with a bag full of snakes.

[obviwin.]

Everybody Needs a Hobby of the Day: Not fast enough says accelerated accordionist Peter Grigorov, who performs “Flight of the Bumblebee” at a record-setting 20.3 notes per second.

[recordsetter.]

Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: On last night’s Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions final round game, contestant Roger Craig — who is best known to J!-heads as the guy who bested the legendary Ken Jennings by setting a new single-day earnings record ($77,000) — made Jeopardy! history yet again when he went all-in on two back-to-back Daily Doubles.

Craig, a computer scientist from Delware, didn’t become the Jeopardy! superstar that he is today by shouting answers at the TV screen. He actually designed a special web tool to help him track and analyze his performance through thousands of practice questions.

Watch a demonstration of the software below:

[esquire / tnw.]

Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: Not athletic? Not a problem! Johnny “Sticky” Budden’s got your back: Introducing Finger Freerunning!

Because using your legs is for showoffs.

[thanks adam!]

Everybody Needs A Hobby of the Day: And now, some dude strategically stacks 3,118 coins on top of a dime.

[fark.]

Early Bird Special: Dr. Trish Wild conducts a demonstration of Equine Yoga — a discipline of her own development — with the help of a 13-year-old Morgan Mare named Northerly Magdalena.

[thanks anon!]