fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Current hobby is finding out what the heck is using all the power in the house ! 
What are you other hobbies?
- Thread starter Distorted Vision
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Current hobby is finding out what the heck is using all the power in the house !
hot tub and sons gaming PC and the love of leaving things switched on lol
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Aye. Daughter's gaming set up is 1.6w on standby, son's 4w. Leaving power monitors on them for a couple of weeks now. Hot tub has been powered down !
Aye. Daughter's gaming set up is 1.6w on standby, son's 4w. Leaving power monitors on them for a couple of weeks now. Hot tub has been powered down !
i may allow ours to powered back up, when the solar gets fitted....but havent told her yet lol
OP
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Distorted Vision
Veteran
Wtaf has it got to do with me? 🤷♀️ It’s your money to spend on whatever you want
I don’t even know what the point of that thing is
It's just a fuse albeit with a ludicrous price tag. It's an extreme example how ridiculous hi-fi can be.
Imagine the look on the face of someone if it blew the day they fitted.
Do you really think I was serious about buying it?
I don’t have much time for other interests, work full time with a pretty demanding job and have two older teenagers, when I do have some time to myself, as well as building and riding bikes, I always been mad on motorcycles and ride as much as I can. In the past I’ve also restored a couple of 90’s sportsbikes.
vickster
Legendary Member
I don’t understand why you felt the need to tag me 🤷♀️
ShawnBikes
Regular
- Location
- Metropolis, Illinois
I do a lot of day hiking and some overnight backpacking. I usually hike every weekend. I enjoy hikes with bluffs and rock formations. I also chase waterfalls and enjoy scenic overlooks and creeks. I rockhound, too. That's collecting rocks.
I also love snakes, even venomous ones. I don't like to handle them but I love watching them.
I've just got into kayaking. I've never been the best swimmer so I never tried it. I know how to swim. Just never done it. I really enjoy kayaking and I make sure I wear a PFD every time I do it.
I love website management and marketing stuff. I like blogging, forums, SEO, link building, and all that geeky stuff, LOL.
I also love writing. I write for my own blogs and freelance write. I write about 10,000 to 30,000 words each day usually.
All these hobbies keep me pretty busy. I try to get some bike riding in between them!
I also love snakes, even venomous ones. I don't like to handle them but I love watching them.
I've just got into kayaking. I've never been the best swimmer so I never tried it. I know how to swim. Just never done it. I really enjoy kayaking and I make sure I wear a PFD every time I do it.
I love website management and marketing stuff. I like blogging, forums, SEO, link building, and all that geeky stuff, LOL.
I also love writing. I write for my own blogs and freelance write. I write about 10,000 to 30,000 words each day usually.
All these hobbies keep me pretty busy. I try to get some bike riding in between them!
Reynard
Guru
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Goodness me, you must really be banging away at the keyboard to generate that much in a day...
My typical daily output is between 300-500 words a day, but I *do* polish and edit as I go.
ShawnBikes
Regular
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- Metropolis, Illinois
Goodness me, you must really be banging away at the keyboard to generate that much in a day...
My typical daily output is between 300-500 words a day, but I *do* polish and edit as I go.
Polishing for me is Grammarly Premium. I can usually edit my writing pretty quick with that but I do try to also read it out loud to ensure that I use a personal voice in the tone. That's mainly how I write.
I like to write. I have a few of my own blogs and I want to stay far ahead, so I write a lot of articles for them. And then I have a few clients that want articles on a consistent basis of 3,000 or more words at a time. As long as they keep paying, I'll keep writing, haha.
Reynard
Guru
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Which is, as with many such things, only as good as the person who has written the algorithms... They're not infallible, ergo I much prefer to do things the old-fashioned way. Maybe I'm a Luddite, but that's how I was taught.
Quality over quantity for me, I'm afraid.
I've written a PhD dissertation and multiple academic papers, done a stint as a motor racing journalist, had poetry published, written fan fiction and am now currently working on a novel.
ShawnBikes
Regular
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- Metropolis, Illinois
Which is, as with many such things, only as good as the person who has written the algorithms... They're not infallible, ergo I much prefer to do things the old-fashioned way. Maybe I'm a Luddite, but that's how I was taught.
Quality over quantity for me, I'm afraid.
I totally get that.
I do try to remember that human editing is better than "bot" editing.
They have AI now that will write the article for you. I don't like that at all!
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
Blimey, by most standards, that's a reasonable quantity! What flavour of novel?Quality over quantity for me, I'm afraid.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
AI writing articles... Oooer...
Which reminds... Have you ever seen the Star Trek TNG episode where Data recites his poetry? There's also a couple of the books where Data's erm, literary creations form part of the story - "Gulliver's Fugitives" and "Eyes of the Beholder" IIRC...
The books (for ST ones) are actually rather good and thought-provoking.
As far as editing is concerned, there's a real satisfaction in finding the right word or phrase to illustrate a concept, isn't there? It's weirdly addictive in a way...
