[yolesaber]

Bookmaking. I run a small independent press that publishes art and writing. I make a lot of the books by hand but I also do it for my own pleasure. It is INCREDIBLY satisfying to bind books, especially personal journals. I'm a huge bibliophile and for a while books were just like magic grimoires to me but once I learned a few of the techniques, you can make some really innovative designs and then the real magic begins.

Writing. Working on a novel right now (written out in longhand), but before that I've written a few collections of poetry and even had some work published here and there. I think my most successful piece is an OKCupid bot that creates poems from people's profile text and then sends them the generated poetry. People really liked that - even got to speak about it at Brown University and it was heavily used in an academic paper someone wrote about conceptual poetry and technology (okay so technically that last one is a computer activity haha).

Have been debating getting back into astronomy, but I live in a very light-polluted area so probably wouldn't be worth getting a telescope. Occasionally I will take the rail upstate with a good pair of binoculars and a starmap (and maybe some weed).

The other activities I engage in have pretty much been covered in the thread. +1 to hiking, cooking, and biking.