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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Other Interests</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="appendixb.html" title="Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker"/><link rel="previous" href="reading_habits.html" title="Reading Habits"/><link rel="next" href="physical.html" title="Physical Activity and Sports"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Other Interests</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="reading_habits.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="physical.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="other-interests"/>Other Interests</h2></div></div><div/></div><p>Some hobbies are widely shared and recognized as going with the culture:
science fiction, music, medievalism (in the active form practiced by the
Society for Creative Anachronism and similar organizations), chess, go,
backgammon, wargames, and intellectual games of all kinds. (Role-playing
games such as Dungeons and Dragons used to be extremely popular among hackers
but they lost a bit of their luster as they moved into the mainstream and
became heavily commercialized. More recently, <i class="citetitle">Magic: The
Gathering</i> has been widely popular among hackers.) Logic puzzles.
Ham radio. Other interests that seem to correlate less strongly but
positively with hackerdom include linguistics and theater teching.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="reading_habits.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="appendixb.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="physical.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Reading Habits </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Physical Activity and Sports</td></tr></table></div></body></html>