What hobbies do you practice that is other people's professions?
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"Cocktail" is more specific. Originally, it was identical with what's now called an Old Fashioned, i.e. spirit, sugar, bitters and water/ice. Later the term started including other alcoholic drinks like sours, martini etc.; I've seen people claim in discussions that's it's down to the amount of ingredients (e.g. a Rum & Coke is not a cocktail, but rum, cola and lime (Cuba Libre) might be) or a specific care exercized in preparation, but I think it's ultimately arbitrary.
Anyway, one of my favourite drinks is the Twice Up (whisky and water mixed 1:1, works great with many other spirits). Hard to call this a cocktail, considering adding water to whisky is just a completely normal way of drinking whisky in Scotland. The Scots just pour the water freehand instead of measuring an exact amount.
I'm Scottish and used to drink single malt straight from the bottle lol.
There's nothing quite like drinking an entire bottle of glenmorangie and waking up the next day still drunk
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
I do nature photography
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
Photography.
I've been doing it for a long time and I'm still somewhat mediocre. It could theoretically make me money, but for me the excuse for not doing it boils down to "but it would require me dealing with people", given that most sought-after and commercially viable things to shoot are weddings, graduations and so on. In the end I keep it as something I (mostly) enjoy and occasionally do as favours to friends and family. I mostly shoot live music in order to support the local scene; I also do extreme sports and a bit of wildlife & landscapes.
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I tried my hand at sourdough breads, but failed miserably. How long did it take you to become decent at it?
The second time I made a starter it "took". Just regular unbleached all purpose flour and water. From there it was smooth sailing, it's a lot easier than yeasted bread for me. Main things that help:
Always refresh the starter at least twice before making bread with it (so if you want to bake Saturday, refresh Friday morning then make the big starter on Friday night with some of that refreshed starter.)
Refrigerate the dough after it's shaped. Untill it's cold or even overnight. This does two things. Makes it possible to do the scoring, and cold dough into a hot closed cast iron pot will create steam that helps it rise.
Which leads to - bake it in a closed hot heavy pot. Commercial ovens can do things home ovens can't. I do all sorts of baking with the starter but for "the sourdough" as the kids call it, the one that comes out like a $12 Artisan Loaf, baking it enclosed by the hot pan is the trick. I tip the cold dough out onto parchment, score it then use the parchment to carefully move it into the hot pot.
There is a sourdough community on Lemmy, they are a nice group and I'm sure would have more tips but those are mine.
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I'm Scottish and used to drink single malt straight from the bottle lol.
There's nothing quite like drinking an entire bottle of glenmorangie and waking up the next day still drunk
Oh yeah, Scotland did (does?) have high numbers of drug deaths ... does Glasgow really suck that much?
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I guess it doesn't matter since you can't look at it with a dead battery anyway.
It doesn't even need batteries, it can run directly from USB power, but that doesn't answer any questions of how or if voltage levels affect instruction or pixel timing.
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Gardening or more specifically raising fruit trees. Right now I got about 50 citrus trees growing from trifoliate orange seeds. Once they're ready I am going to graft lemons and satsumas onto them. I'm not planning to sell the trees, rather I'll gift them to friends and family.
I also propagate houseplants and gift them to friends, family and colleagues. Since they're so easy to propagate it's almost no effort.
I also propagate houseplants and gift them to friends, family and colleagues. Since they’re so easy to propagate it’s almost no effort.
Neat gift idea! I do have this hardy as fuck spiderplant that keeps multiplying instead of dying like most of my other plants ...
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I brew alcohol and grow mushrooms(gourmet or otherwise)
Man I wish home distilling wasn't illegal as fuck where I live ...
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Linux Sysadmin here.
I have a couple open source apps/scripts that have tens of stars and ones of forks. I'm also getting into micro soldering to fix electronics. Mostly for myself but I'll hardmod or fix friends equipment for cost of parts. I've been known to buy a broken console, fix it, mod it, then sell it for some extra cash to buy more soldering equipment.
That reminds me of the box of half-broken Game Boys from back when I got really into chiptune ...
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
Doing stuff with CSS
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Man I wish home distilling wasn't illegal as fuck where I live ...
You can't even brew beer? No distillation needed there
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You can't even brew beer? No distillation needed there
I don't do great with beer or wine, increases my digestive issues. Otherwise I'd totally try my hand at an English bitter or something like that, British beers are nearly impossible to get here (at best pale ales or IPAs, which I hate) and I don't like the local styles.
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
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Oh yeah, Scotland did (does?) have high numbers of drug deaths ... does Glasgow really suck that much?
Highest in Europe allegedly. There are a lot of deprived areas in the country including parts of Glasgow, but Glasgow city is a great place to visit.
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I don't do great with beer or wine, increases my digestive issues. Otherwise I'd totally try my hand at an English bitter or something like that, British beers are nearly impossible to get here (at best pale ales or IPAs, which I hate) and I don't like the local styles.
FWIW if you’ve only ever had commercially produced wine, your issues may actually be stemming from the sulphates used to preserve the wine. You may want to pick up a bottle of sulphate-free wine and see what happens; You may be pleasantly surprised. And if that ends up being the case, homebrewed wine obviously wouldn’t have those sulphates.
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FWIW if you’ve only ever had commercially produced wine, your issues may actually be stemming from the sulphates used to preserve the wine. You may want to pick up a bottle of sulphate-free wine and see what happens; You may be pleasantly surprised. And if that ends up being the case, homebrewed wine obviously wouldn’t have those sulphates.
My assumption was that it's related to histamines (which would explain why I do badly with both beer and wine), but might as well try your suggestion.
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
Influencer (I shitpost non-stop)
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
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Just thinking about the little things we enjoy that is other people's way of earning, for example fishing.
I fix all the tech at work because our IT department is dog trash and not fixing something when I know how feels like bees in my brain. Does that count as a hobby?
I also sometimes cook food in a more elaborate way than necessary which I've heard some people get paid for
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Fixing bikes. But if I had to do it for a job, under time pressure, I'd hate it. Give me all afternoon to fix a bike and let me put on a 5 hour podcast about the collapse of the Aztec empire, that's my happy place
I would like to know which podcast covers the fall of the Aztec empire for 5 hours. Asking for a friend
