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Things you want to try your hand at

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 20:10:48 GMT

Are there things you want to try your hand at but haven't as yet?

As you'll have noticed from my contributions to the What are you listening to thread I quite like Trance tracks and a couple of years ago I bought a licence for Native Instruments' Traktor software with the intention of having a go at mixing.

I now have an incredibly powerful PC stuffed with 32GB of RAM and am determined to give it a go over the winter as would love to be able to create my own mixes as I love this genre of music and am as passionate about it as I am about computing.

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

gmarkj — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:38:09 GMT

I would love to be able to play a guitar, but also had dreams of making music - funnily enough, in the same genre as you @Anonymous!
Remember being at a number of gigs/events and thinking I could do a better job - but never did...

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

jonsie — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:16:00 GMT

I can play guitar enough to sing along to. Trouble is my guitar is still in Thailand so I can't practice any more. I'm not good enough to join a group but I have borrowed a guitar from one of the performing group and played drunkenly in a couple of bars there. Sang a few classics which seemed to go down well with the small audience of fellow drinkers. 🎸

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:28:13 GMT

Tai Chi in the local park on a warm sunny day

Done in a circle with friends & a teacher

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

EmilieT — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:01:09 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Tai Chi in the local park on a warm sunny day

Done in a circle with friends & a teacher

@Anonymous One of my friends started doing Tai Chi in a park near her and is loving it! I don't know when I'd do it, but that's actually something I'd really like to try too

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

jonsie — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:14:32 GMT

My son wanted to do something different for his 40th birthday last year.

He decided on a month doing Tai Chi in a Chinese monastery. He loved the relaxation of it all and is now 'at one with the world'.

I asked him if he could now use it as a form of self defence, "Yes dad, if they attack me in slow motion"

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

Cleoriff — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:17:52 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
My son wanted to do something different for his 40th birthday last year.
He decided on a month doing Tai Chi in a Chinese monastery. He loved the relaxation of it all and is now 'at one with the world'.
I asked him if he could now use it as a form of self defence, "Yes dad, if they attack me in slow motion"

Love that @jonsie

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

EmilieT — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:21:09 GMT

@jonsie

Jokes aside, that must have been quite a special experience for him!

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

jonsie — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:29:21 GMT

Yes it was certainly a special memory for his 40th. After he met up with his girlfriend and had a month back packing around China, Hong Kong and Po Toi.

This year they have both left today for a month doing the same in Africa, flying into Morocco in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

EmilieT — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:53:29 GMT

Those are wonderful experiences @jonsie, do you know whereabouts in Morocco? I used to live there

Sorry @Anonymous for thaking this off-topic, I've wanted to try my hand at many things and try to tackle them one at a time. This year I took up running and candle making for example, not sure what will be next yet!

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

jonsie — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:07:24 GMT

I only know he's flying into Rabat and working his way down @EmilieT

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

EmilieT — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:20:10 GMT

@jonsie wrote:

I only know he's flying into Rabat and working his way down @EmilieT

Oh I see @jonsie, I was Sotuh of Rabat, in Agadir. Hope they'll have a fantastic trip

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

jonsie — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:23:50 GMT

I believe Agadir is on his itinerary. He's going to send it to me this evening.

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:06:25 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
My son wanted to do something different for his 40th birthday last year.
He decided on a month doing Tai Chi in a Chinese monastery. He loved the relaxation of it all and is now 'at one with the world'.
I asked him if he could now use it as a form of self defence, "Yes dad, if they attack me in slow motion"

Made me laugh @jonsie regarding the last line in your post above

I should like to think it would promote a feeling of well-being in me if I were able to do Tai Chi

I like the sound of your son @jonsie

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 16:08:00 GMT

@EmilieT wrote:
Those are wonderful experiences @jonsie, do you know whereabouts in Morocco? I used to live there

Sorry @Anonymous for thaking this off-topic, I've wanted to try my hand at many things and try to tackle them one at a time. This year I took up running and candle making for example, not sure what will be next yet!

@EmilieT

No prob.

Running while candle making?

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

EmilieT — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 07:16:27 GMT

@Anonymous I'm doing those separately but it could be a very interesting, although quite dangerous, challenge!

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

Martin-O2 — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:12:15 GMT

Great thread @Anonymous! I've always wanted to try my hand at audio visual editing but I currently lack a decent PC setup to get started on. Definitely something I want to pick up on once I have the equipment.

I'm also going to start drawing again over the winter months. It's something I've not done for years but really want to get back into.

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 19:28:53 GMT

@Martin-O2

Had my system built (as can't be bothered RMAing parts) by Scan Computers, it's the second system I've bougbt from them and you get exactly what you order so if you are in the market they are definitely worth looking at.

I used to know someone who had his own business filming weddings and events as well as video editing and it was really professional stuff and he did it all from his PC setup in his spare room and this was the mid 90s so processors and video processing has moved on leaps and bounds since then.

Re: Things you want to try your hand at

Martin-O2 — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:51:02 GMT

Thanks for the heads up on Scan Computers @Anonymous! I'll check them out when I get around to sorting out a new desktop.

At home I only have a very old laptop which is fond of freezing up when performing the most basic operations so even a modest desktop setup would get me started.