I won’t even handle my jumpers all that much, let alone a full size tarantula. I’m working my way there though. I’ve got a bold jumper, an unknown jumper sling with a missing leg I’m nursing, and my now full grown male western black widow. All happily existing in their large BigFatPhids enclosures. Where they can’t get me.
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And here is where our obscure collections part ways…
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Is that a Ranger 55? I’m about to pull the trigger on one of those. I’ll post it when it gets here. I’ve not dug our sharpener out since moving.
I have no idea what it is. That area was roped off so I couldn’t get too close to it. I really like the design though.
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It looks like it. The Boston Ranger 55 is the Mac Daddy of sharpeners. The cutting mechanism is supported on both ends instead of floating where the pencil goes in like most others. It has greater cutting surface than most and it cuts from the outside down to the tip. Most others start chewing at the tip and eat back. These also have a 3 setting “tip selector”. It sharpens to an amazing tip and really makes a nice taper.
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I’ve never met a Boston sharpener I didn’t like. Hot damn that makes a fine point! Much nicer than my pocket knife edges.
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Taking hybrid to another level.
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I like to solve Rubiks Cubes and play the Bass (not too good at either though). I like to code and play around in Godot a bit. I also run and wrestle for my high school but those don’t really count as a hobby
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why not? i dunno about the wrestling folks but i know plenty of folks who consider their running a hobby. a hobby is really anything you do for fun!
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I do kickboxing and consider it a hobby. No reason wrestling or running arent either!
I have to agree with @PlatonicCaveMonkey. Playing a sport is not a hobby. Funny though; the more I think about it, the less I understand why I say that… 
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nah just going on strictly definitions of words a sport is
“an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment”
and the definition of a hobby is
“an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure”
so strictly speaking not only are all sports also hobbies, yoyo is both a sport and a hobby
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Great Scott. We’ve found ourselves in an “all surge protectors are power strips, but not all power strips are surge protectors” situation.
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Spin tops intrigue me but I can’t quietly YoYo at my desk at work. I fear this would be a grave mistake to leave around me as it would result in a 50 percent decrease in productivity while I watch it spin.
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Where I am on this subject. Though I would never argue these activities can demonstrate exceptional talent worth admiring or generating great pride.
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Yeah yoyoing is a sport like playing video games is a sport. Ridiculing these things is more sport than they are sports. I love both but Pluto is a planet before these things are “sports”. Definetly misses the mark on physical exertion
i mean thats not a new point of view. ppl have gatekept what was considered a sport since forever despite being objectively wrong most of the time from a linguistic perspective. but at the end of the day, language serves us, not the other way around, so we can always change what a word means if necessary, but then you have to start asking yourself why it matters to you that ppl are calling these activities sports
Physical exertion? Pushing it a bit
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