Where I am in The Princess Bride

I have to say this is pretty cool:

Where are you in the movie?

I think that the Princess and Wesley are about to enter the Fire Swamp here, but I'm open to other comments.

Also, put a lid on the "middle aged" comments. Yes, I am at minute 46 of a 1:36 movie. That means I am a full TWO MINUTES away from the middle. Still on the first reel.

I got my life expectancy from the link at the bottom. Luckily there were no questions about my regular visits to opium dens.

Super Geektastic

The new phonebooks are here!
The new phonebooks are here!

Addictive Tips uses my graph!

So does

Cnet!

It's this kind of spontaneous publicity - your NAME IN PRINT - that makes people! I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.

Thank you to IMDB for the verification on the quote.

43 Things quiz

I just did this:

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a

Money Managing Lifelong Learning Believer

it was fun!

Welcome! The first post

Hi!

This blog is at least 5 years in the making. I first came up with "Accidental Hobbyist" as a name, based on a good friend of mine (thanks, Steve!). I was commenting that I don't really seem to have a single outside interest. He replied that I did - I collect hobbies.

I just about wore out my ancient copy of the Whole Earth Catalog looking at everything from beekeeping to (apiaries) to model railroading (Z-scale trains - really!). You can imagine the effect of a broad band internet connection in the time of Make Magazine.

So, posts to follow will cover sports (triathlon, being the most gadgety, a fave) to agriculture, winemaking, learning various languages, games, building robots and generally trying to make sense of the mounds of books and gear I've collected since Amazon.com opened and added the "one click order" button.

If you have a topic or hobby or language or game or technology or generally anything geek-tastic that you don't think I will be covering, let me know. I'll do it.

Enjoy!