Any other hobbies?
 

Aside from being an MS3 fan, what else do you spend your money on other than mods?

I am into bow hunting. I do bird hunt too...just another hobby that sucks up my disposable income! This fall I'm going on an Elk hunt in Colorado! Good times!

Here are my kids and my latest deer:

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I also am into Nitro R/C cars. I have a HPI Savage that has alot of hop-ups! It doesn't look nothing like what it did when I first took it out of the box.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2.../Savage001.jpg

So tell us, what else are you into?

I used to bow hunt back in the day... now i just play big buck hunter

I collect vinyl records :) Today was record store day and I managed to snag a complete set of the TRON vinyls....one set already sold on ebay for $225 and these sold in stores for only $10.99 a piece

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i play on 4 soccer teams, 1 bball team, i do car audio, and i play or try to play PC games competitively.

i go to men's self help groups on weekends to :grouphug:

they call me big rod and i have bitch tits

Wrenching on and racing my built '00 Camaro SS, collecting high end models and die casts and I play in a flag football league.

All my big spending goes to my Genpoo but I do spend a little towards Street Luge. Going 60-65mph on a piece of plywood is not too expensive but it's fun as hell.

full time engineering student + job = my hobbies

still manage to get some drinking in - tried live oak hefeweizen today - delicious if you like wheats
pc gaming - no time for the competitive stuff anymore - used to do cod4 and SC2 tourneys
pc building/modding - see bbq in sig
been slacking on basketball since I started school again
I still try to make some time for running still - 2 mi in 15mins at least twice a week
I have managed to pick up a teeny bit of weight lifting for my skinny brown ass since my birthday

and my favorite semi-hobby - MSF

Can't wait to graduate and get real hobbies that aren't homework or projects

bbq for lazy mofos:

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I've been drumming for nine years of my life, pretty much the whole time being involved with bands (all of them with my brother and a combination of other people) and the music community overall. Up until a couple years ago (no health insurance for a while until recently), I used to skateboard a lot. Also, although I can't afford to travel abroad or even to other faraway cities within the country just yet, I enjoy spending some weekends taking drives out of state because I hate being stuck in the same location all the time (touring with my band during the springs and summers helps this a lot). I actually just recently purchased a bike so I like to ride as far as I can on occasion and experience different places without having to be in a car.

You and Tony (Dash08) would make a good couple.

i think a lot of people here suck dick on the side

on the side implies that this would be a secondary gig for them, .......... let's ammend your statement to just "plain ole' suck dick"

Weight lifting, black belt in Goju Ryu

I know its fucked up but I rebuild old shitty garden tractors. I prefer the Allis Chalmers brand.
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I guess Im a hillbilly at heart. Oh and running my daughter to lacross and my son to tennis. Keeping the boat in shape and keeping both homes in working order. And prey the MS3 dosn't blowed the fuck up.

^ That is the first time I heard of such a hobby!

Mountain and Road bike riding. And Photography, but that's a side business of mine, so really not "just" a hobby anymore. Into R/C trucks and heli's too. In fact, I am selling my HPI Baja 5T to get me some mod money for the MS3, lol

Road cycling, Archery, Out-doors stuff like hiking, climbing and mountaineering, and most recently billiards.

Everything sucks money.

Play acoustic and electric guitar, beat my wife and curb stomp punk ass bitches for looking in my general direction. On occasion, I will hold up a gas station for a few spare coins. I also own a tank.

Do the singer/songwriter thing (couple of compilation records, but nothing too serious). Avid weight lifter. Lots of video games.

Photography takes the majority of my money.

Playing guitar coming up on 6 years now, but I'm a cheapass in that department.

Soccer, basketball, softball, karting.

Soccer, ballroom dance (don't laugh!) and I just recently picked up a mountain bike. So no extra for mods or the desire to.

R/c cars, and planes. I get rid of RC cars, and still aquire more. To man yfriends in the undustry. So it only cost me about 1/4 than most people.

Since it takes money and free time. Startign to work on my Oldest childs car. A body off Rebuild and upgrade 1966 Bug. Started with a sittign since 1994 shell from Oregon. and going from there.

this is a fun thread..

i love bouldering, it's what i spend most of my free time doing. just me and some rocks!

i will also sporadically participate in some gym jones inspired workouts with some friends. they hurt but are so intense they make me happy.

i also practice yoga because it feels so damned good..

and i used to collect records and dj, but since moving to arkansas and having child number 2, that has disappeared. and that's just fine..

edit: how could i forget? i start mtn biking this time of year. i have a handbuilt rigid steel frame i've been riding since 1994. oh yes, i am old school. (well, kinda. true old school would be riding a beefed up schwinn that i built in the late 80's)

next..

I brew beer. I curently have a 3 keg setup but I am expanding to have 5 beers on tap at all times. I also dick around on the lake alot.

Mountain and road riding, 7 to 10 thousand miles a year depending on how the weather is and which I do more of, fishing, 220 average bowler, hiking, and this smiling car.

Off the top of my head....

drinking - I usually have a few good beers every weekend and sometimes during the week. I prefer hoppy beers - my favorite is Stone Ruination.

R/C stuff - I started with bulding an RC10GT when I was about 10 years old. I still have it today but nearly every part is upgraded. Its current engine has over 3 times the power of the old OS .12 CV. I also currently have an RC18T with an 8000kV brushless mamba system and 3C LiPO batteries, along with the remains of a Tamiya TL-01... Even with full bearings and a bunch of other upgrades it couldn't handle a high-power brushless system. At over 60mph something locked up and it literally exploded into about 100 pieces.
I also built a trainer R/C plane when I was 15. The recommended engine size was .32 to .40, so I figured a .61 ball bearing engine would be perfect. I still have it but don't ever get around to flying it.

mountain biking - I just upgraded to a GT Zaskar Pro. I'm waiting on a friend to get a new bike so I have an excuse to ride more often.

soccer - I'm on 2 teams that play every Sunday and I also do pick-up games on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

lifting - I have a curl bench, a power tower, a pair of U-90 PowerBlocks, and an incline/decline/flat bench press in my basement complete with full man size bars - none of that 35lb bullshit.

music (both playing and listening) - I have pretty decent audio setups both at my house and in my car. My primary instrument is the tenor sax but I'm also decent on the guitar and piano.


... and now I know why I don't have more time or cash

Mountain Biking(In Louisiana, more like trail riding)

2011 Specialized Hardrock Disc
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Flag Football League on Tuesdays(Me Sacking the QB)
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Skateboarding, although not as much anymore.
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I also produce and remix music, play guitar, and can hang on the drums.
(Vestax VCI-100SE, Axiom 49 midi,NI usb interface, Traktor, Ableton)
(Agile Les Paul Copy, Ibanez RG series, Takamine Acoustic, Line 6 Spider III 150w head with FBV Shortboard, Marshall 4x12 cab, Yamaha 400w PA,)

I also play soccer on sundays, with people playing pick up games at the park.

i do the music thing, as well. played drums in a band for 8 years before moving away. i've also been doing the solo thing for about 15 years now.

[SHAMELESS PLUG] here's my website: elocine [/SHAMELESS PLUG]

i do all my own recording, so i put together my own little studio setup:

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what kind of kit you rocking??? here's mine:

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I have been wanting to get one of those DTExpress IV yamaha kits for a while now. I found some used for around 500 which aint bad at all. A friend of mine has one and its sick.

$500 is a great price. i paid $700 and it was worth every penny. plus, yamaha kits are the only ones i've found that use triple-zone cymbal pads. the stock module samples are rubbish IMO. they're ok for messing around, but i wouldn't even think about recording with them. i just use the module as a MIDI interface to trigger the Superior Drummer VSTi on my computer. sounds A LOT better.

here's a sample. when i'm not recording my own stuff, i like to record covers:

Fords, Quads and Computers
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My hobbies consist of

-Drinking Beer.
-Fucking Bitches.
-Getting Money.
-Wrenching on me or my friends cars.

oh and i forgot the most important one.

WINNING!

I used to be a rock star (drumming).

Now, I just smoke a shit load of herb, play video games, and watch old episodes of Beavis and Butthead.



Despite what some of these closeted sausage jockeys might say, This door does not swing both ways.

Skeurton nice Bjork cover, I dug it.

As for me I like to mod computers when I can these days, snowboard, and collect lowbrow artwork. I try to get it straight from the artist so it is one off stuff.

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I see the Columbia Gorge.

the majority of my money goes into wakeboarding. its one fucking expensive sport. hoping to be sponsored by the end of this summer, but we'll see. either way its worth every penny and i wouldnt give it up for anything

here's the new boat, and me doing a 540

Computers, cars, writing, rendering (not creation just baking), masturbation, stalking, masturbating while stalking, and last but not least, bacon.

Bass Fishing, Guns, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, car shit, and trying to keep up with a 2 year old.

I want to try brewing my own beer next. My IPA habit is getting really expensive.

This has consumed my life for the past 20 years. I stopped competitively once my four years of college were up. I now coach and am hoping to jump on board of a collegiate team once my GA ends.

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I am getting back into weight lifting, road cycling, and just overall fitness. I can't hop back on my mountain bike as it's completely flat where I live.

I also enjoy reading research articles regarding strength and conditioning; and, quite frankly, learning in general, especially about the physiological process' of the body.

My hobbies besides MSF and my car are:

Snowboarding

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Dove hunting

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Pig hunting

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I shot the big one:wave:

and Bow Fishing (shooting fish with a bow and arrow)

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These are a bunch of Gar that my friend and I shot in the Neches River. These are the little ones...

Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Brand New, The Beatles, Kid Cudi, Mae, Jack Johnson

Video Games: FIFA 11, GT 5, COD Black Ops

Smoking Greenery

Tennis: Played college tennis. Am a tennis pro now. Teach in East Hampton, NY and Ft. Lauderdale, FL and play money tournaments around the country.

Sweet kit. I have a maple Shine kit which is in a blue sparkle finish with a white stripe in the middle of each drum. I don't have any personal photos I could show you but I'm sure they're floating around somewhere. 18"x22" kick, 5.5"x14" snare, 9"x12" rack tom, 14"x14" floor tom, and a 16"x16" floor tom. As for cymbals, I have some vintage Zildjian A Rock Hats (heavy and awesome as hell yet very versatile), an 18" Zildjian A Custom crash (it's okay... I miss my collection of Sabian AAXplosion crashes before they all bit the dust), and a 21" Zildjian A Rock Ride (awesome versatility yet the bell sounds solid unlike other light rides).

Oh, yeah?

I fly model airplanes http://tapa.tk/mu/a6898dd7-3d9f-0db6.jpg

Cars and video games are my two hobbies! Most of my time lately has been spent house hunting which I am enjoying.

bodybuilding not comepetively though. play B ball, shoot handguns. and play the greatest game on PS3 COD

[QUOTE=JacksonMS30;816509]My hobbies besides MSF and my car are:


Dove hunting

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lol, dove hunting?

what do you do with them afterwards?

1). Pull the feathers and stuff off that you don't need (everything but the breast)
2). You then take the breast and pull the meat off the bone. (it comes off in two halves)
3). Place a little cream cheese on each half of the meat (and a jalapeno if you like it spicy) and wrap it in a strip of bacon.
4). Grill to perfection (usually when bacon is cooked, the dove is also cooked just right)
5). Enjoy one of the best tasting meats you've ever had in your life.
6). Chew with caution as every great once in a while you will find a small metallic suprise in your meat...

You need at least 6 birds to make a meal but I like them best served as an appetizer with other stuff such as steak or venison.

:eek2: 6 birds to make a meal. Damn. never tasted them thats why i asked.

Good to know

That sounds like fun.. Fukin delicious turtle doves lol

Yeah they are pretty small. I usually go on a 3 day trip to west Texas and if I get my bag limit (15 birds) each day (usually do) I come home with 45 birds + whatever my friends that live there give me as extra. 60 birds will go a long way if you don't share... lol! But I always cook them as appetizers at cookouts and stuff so they never last very long :shrug:

I live in Austin and am outside pretty much the entire time I'm away from the office.

I would say Mountain Biking would be #1, Wake Surfing #2, Road Biking #3, Camping/Backpacking #4, Sailing #5, Deer/Dove Hunting #6.

If I'm not doing that then I'm brewing beer or drinking beer or both.

Whew...no wonder my engineering job still leaves me broke.

Not really. I don't like 4 piece drum kits. They're weak. I play an 8 piece Pork pie kit with 15 cymbals and a remote hi hat. All mounted on a Gibraltar rack system.

4 piece drum kits are for old timers and emo bands.

A big drum kit shows you take your craft seriously.

Dove hunting rules!!

My first trip was at the tender age of 6. I shot 8 birds with a single shot 20 gauge child sized shotgun. Cleaned them and ate them right on the spot. That was also the first time I ever bit down on a shot pellet. Not fun. But, it is kind of cool eating something with your own ammunition still lodged in it. Kind of a savage feel to it.

I need to go again. I have a 28 gauge english field gun with a straight stock that needs firing. Plus, it's an excellent dove and quail gun.

For me it's flying radio control helicopters and turbine jets
when free time comes along

Cars, weights, beer, poker, basketball.

Craig's List hookers and Valtrex.

added a new vinyl to the collection today :) Its a European pressing of the TRON soundtrack, limited edition #3427 :)

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That's pretty cool.

I ride bikes:

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Ride my standup jetski:

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And love computers and gaming:

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RC sailplanes
Preferably in 3.5-4 meter range

Any golfers out there? I live close to Pinehurst resort and there's ton's of great courses in the area.

I live out in Sanford man

I've played the guitar since I was 8, so about 12 years. Used to be way into the heavy stuff now I only really pick up the Acoustic. I used to mountain bike but I ate shit way to much so I gave that up.

I also used to be way into RC cars when I was little, I had team associated T3,GT,and B4

I sold those and got into rc helicopters and had a Blade400,Trex250,450 and now I'm building a flybarless Trex 500 for any of you who know what those are.

Any of you heli guys care to post what your flying? I'm thinking about selling mine since their soooo much money, honestly comes a little too close too car modding as far as $$ go.

My biggest hobby
:loveweed:

nice. I'm just down 15/501 from you. 20 minutes or so. I'd like to come up and check out your ride sometime soon. Maybe grab some beers. looks like you have a fair amount of mods going there.

I thought that was a keyboard in front if a window until I saw the icons..

nice setup..


I am a musician and have been much longer than I have been into cars. Been playing the drums for about 20 years, played brass in school, sing in various choir groups. Was in a half dozen bands or so through my teens and 20s. Now I'm old and am lucky if I get a few minutes a week sit down on the Roland kit.

Rockin a Priemier XPK acoustic kit and a Roland TD-7 & old school P-7 triggers. Gotta get me some V-drums one of these days:)

I have a extra 300 with a 50cc motor for a plane..... And I have a trex450 with an airwolf body kit that has retracts..... I fly it purely scale as possible.... Now the plane.... I huck the shit out of that thing

Flying, guns, skydiving, and horses. No wonder I'm broke all the time.

This is a cool thread. I collect Hot Wheels with my 6 yr old son. Build computers. Video Games PC,PS3, Wii. I used to Collect Star Wars Figures, but they cost so much any more. I quit about 2 yrs ago. Now I have a whole room full collecting dust. Oh, and the most important one of all: online Poker. Sucks to be me lately. Jonesing for my Full Tilt.

I have a friend that has over 6 digits in his online poker accounts, he plays for a living and he's so mad now cause he actually has to get off his ass and go to the casinos now.. Oh and not to mention they owe him all that money.

awsome setup...so obviously u game in 3d..curious on the specs of ur PC man.

Mines not great but not bad:
i7 920
asus p6t
ocz agility SSD 60gb
WD 1.5tb green cav
12gb ddr3 ocz gold 1600mhz ram
2 geforce gts 250's SLI'd
and a 23" LG 120hz 3d monitor.

Salt water fishing on the boat,or beach, surfing,road bike riding. I raced road and mountain the past but just do it for fitness now. Ham radio in the winter and my favorite is raising my two sons.

Not 3D, just Eyefinity.

Specs are:

i7 920 OC'ed to 3.4GHz
EVGA X58 SLI LE
6GB Corsair XMS C5D Dominator Series RAM
Sapphire Radeon HD5870
WD Raptor 74GB Primary, 750GB Secondary
Creative XFi Platinum
1 Dell 2408WFP, 2 Dell 2407WFP-HC S-PVA monitors in Eyefinity
Logitech Z-5500 Speaker System

I wrench on Honda's that hasn't been beaten by an MS3 yet (my del sol). Car audio on Honda's that were beaten by an MS3. Some pc gaming, console gaming, cooking, and last but not least, photography.

It's neat how we all like different things, but yet we're all drawn here because of one automobile.

It does look like alot of use can get together and mountain bike. I'm not very good (matter of fact I suck), but I'd show up at a MSF meet with my shitty bicycle.

Sometimes I fall sleep reading other thread/replies. This one kept me awake and interested in seeing what all other people are really like.

Thanks for replying ya'll!

Thanks!!!

Nice! Never played one, but I've heard a set. Sounded phenomenal. I kinda wish I had gone maple instead of birch.

I'm too short to play anything bigger than a 5-piece. And my brain is too stupid to process anything more than a 4-piece. So 4 it is!!!

Hey everyone,
I am heavily into firearms and now my stupid MS3....

too much expensive shit. guitars, skiing, guns, and now this thing. i also have a late 1800s house i'm trying to keep standing and unwind a pretty disastrous rehab on.

What do I have to buy to have a set up like this? Can I have your background? It's awesome!

i got the same recipe when i cook mine

i ride pitbikes (crf50 bored to 88cc with all the goodies, and drz110 bored to 144cc)
fly helicopters
anything outdoors, hunting shooting camping hikeing
boyscouts
photography lately, just getting into it
lacrosse
Flickr: gr1290's Photostream

I just dipped into my MS6 budget for a new RC car. I got sick of waiting on car parts and really just wanted something to build. I decided I wanted 1) at least 1/10 scale, 2) 4WD off-road, and 3) electric... So I got a new RC8Be.

The deets:
RC8Be Factory Team kit
Hitec 7955TG digital titanium gear servo
Mamba Monster speed controller with 2650kV motor
Castle motor cooling fan
1 Venom 14.8V 35C 5000mAh LiPO
1 Venom 11.1V 20C 5000mAh LiPO

I also picked up a Skyline GTR Z-Tune body to custom fit. I want to paint the body black and get some rims that look close to my VOLKS to paint bronze so it will match my car.

Computers - currently running a water cooled i7-2600K OC'd to 4.8ghz; blazes in lightroom, games great and folds proteins like a boss

Photography - stills/event photographer, credited on IMDB; slowly getting into other roles in films and productions

R/C cars - just got back into it with some friends. mainly 1/10 scale countersteer drift cars (zero ackerman, 45+ degree steering lock, front one-way, rear spool, front wheels slower than rear, etc). have a Yokomo MR4-TC but picking up another car next week. Really wish there was an MS3 body but it wouldn't be realistic as a drifter. Gonna be rockin a blacked out Impreza WRX hatch, Impreza sedan, S15 and old Datsun 280ZX. There's a Mazda 6 body but it's fugly as all get out.

Sailing - I crew for a 33' yacht and we race Thursday nights and occasionally weekends

A little gaming on the side but constantly being cut back on by the aforementioned. Some starcraft 2 and some xbox/ps3. I find myself gaming on the iphone or android tablet more often these days in very short bouts.

Craft Beers, Cars (currently looking for a new project car to restore), Cigars (probably have a few hundred right now) and computers.

What I do in my down time...Count money and touch bitches.



But really... snowboarding, trees, gaming, cars. Nothing complicated or impressive.

'Bout to start playing soccer again (after 16 years).

Hell yeah! Do work son! I miss my old DW 4 piece... Good times.

I've been into music for over 10 years. Drums, bass, my PRS and Taylor Acoustic.

Got into nutrition and bodybuilding, built a 9 sec Camaro, and now I'm addicted to vacationing. Haha! :biggthumpup:

How exactly do you fold proteins? Is this a computer term? I'm not familiar with this? :scratchchin:

yea snowboard when i can here in jersey, ice hockey(haven't played in a couple of years but wanna get back into it), longboard down the shore in the summer(and home in central jersey), hunting/just shooting, I wanna pick up surfing this summer,

Longboarding is fun. Too bad skateboarding is illegal in OCMD. Surfing is fun. Hard, but fun. Ive become a fan of body surfing. Just need yourself! And none of the tourist shit, riding the wave straight in on the white water. I'm talking about riding the face.

I have a 7'6" Walden Mini Magic and a No. 6 Bludgeon bodyboard. I'll sell you the Walden and you can get started surfing!


Tapawhat?

It relates to running Folding@Home software. Your computer gets work units of a snip in time of a protein fold, runs a streamlined GROMACS environment used for molecular dynamics, calculates the results in a matter of hours or days, and then sends the results back to Stanford. You're awarded points based on the complexity and speed at which your computer(s) can fold. Some people own entire server farms or have access to significant idle processing power and dedicate it to folding. Some just have a laptop or their PS3 to fold with. It's a very abstract involvement toward helping to cure various diseases and cancer by donating spare CPU cycles to research. To date, F@H has contributed toward 78 peer reviewed results.

Any decent computer can fold proteins. Mine is overclocked about 40% to fold faster and often times people will use the rate of point gain (referred to as points per day) as a benchmark for system performance, and where minuscule overclocking gains will still add up. My computer can pull 46k PPD. An overclocked dual hexcore Gulftown Xeon server much like what MSF is running off of can do 130-150k PPD. A Core2Duo machine will probably pull around 7-10k PPD.

What the fuck are you saying?

Doesn't matter, it's way over your head like a 10' wave surfer dude.

On that bombshell, going to Maui next month.

Haha. I suck at surfing, hence me wanting to sell my board. And you would want me to save your ass if that 10' swell was over your head. Don't generalize, please.

And if you saw my earlier post, you would see what I'm interested in.

I could start throwing out some big words...gluconeogenesis. But would prefer not to.

For what it's worth, my post was meant to be somewhat humor based, as I'm sure many are reading jibberish as I was. Moreover, I'm somewhat interested in what all of that translates to. Hint - I like to learn.

im into computers like most are here. other than that only hobbies are drinking, gaming and working out.

Stanford's site describes it more succinctly than I ever could, but if I were to take a stab in layman's, it might go something like this:

DNA is a sort of like a gigantic custom recipe book. Some of those recipes include how to make proteins. A protein typically starts off as a chain of amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins, but will fold, bend, twist and stretch into a final shape based on how the individual atoms interact with each other.

http://cnx.org/content/m11461/latest...in_folding.jpg

This happens very quickly in biological time and to simulate on a computer, requires a tremendous amount of processing power to calculate how one atom amidst hundreds, thousands or millions of atoms moves in three dimensional space over a sequence of time.

The reason for simulating protein folding process is so one may understand how to alter it so the final structure may no longer be functional (potentially in the case of proteins related to diseases), to see the final orientation and understand how it may bind to other molecules, to understand what may cause a specific protein not to fold correctly and then aggregate (such as believed to be the case with Alzheimer's disease), and so on.

I did molecular dynamics simulations (which includes protein folding) for research while getting my degree in biochem back in college. So, some of the vocabulary is still in my mind. It's more challenging to write less and more abstractly for me in these cases.

To simplify what was said previously, Folding@home is a software program that hides all the technicalities of protein folding from you and distills it down to a few numbers. In my case, I use it primarily as a meter for how fast my computer is, and simultaneously a stress test for my water cooling setup.

Just finished building my new RC8Be and TC5R

http://www.mazdaspeedforums.org/foru...1&d=1305323918

^ expensive ass hobby right there.

Try to do as many things as I can: played college football 4 yrs.(U Sioux Falls), snowboard(Burton Custom), mountain bike(Felt Six Elite), supermoto(DRZ400SM), motocross(RMZ250), just started photography, many guns, and try to golf in any other time that's available. Enjoyed seeing what everyone does on their down time!

Super interested in this folding at home stuff now. Gotta see what my new Alienware M11x can handle. i5 520m 8GB RAM 1GB Nvidia video....

Other hobbies, I just sold my street bike so I am looking at something to fill that time, which recently has been spent trying to integrate Win7 and my XBox into a solid home entertainment setup. Others include shooting (I have a few trap shooting awards), video games, and preparing for the zombie apocalypse.

Also, training for Tough Mudder Phoenix which is in January.

R/C's have been huge part of my life for the past 8 years. Mostly build custom crawlers. Since I just got my MS6 guess that also. I also like to weld.

This what I currently own.

FJ40 tuber with 2 speed transmission

http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/a...3/IMAG0213.jpg

Toyota tacoma flatbed

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...p/DSC02646.jpg

Custom tube out FJ cruiser still working on it.

http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/a...3/IMAG0074.jpg

Hpi sprint drifter

http://www.compprocrawlers.com/album...4/DSCN5548.jpg

Traxxas slash 4x4

[IMG]http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/a...3/IMAG0139.jpg[/IMG]

Sailboat

http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/a...3/IMAG0159.jpg


Here some my old competition trucks

http://www.compprocrawlers.com/album...6/DSC01925.jpg

http://www.compprocrawlers.com/album...3981.sized.jpg

http://www.compprocrawlers.com/album...4138.sized.jpg

You have/had too many. lol