Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Idle thoughts...
I went to a synth history event last year, and one thing that was noticeable was that the people who'd brought along synths to exhibit were mostly "of a sort": middle aged bloke, kinda lower middle class, cropped hair, bit of a beer gut, cargo shorts.
This set off a bit of a train of thought - twenty or thirty years ago you'd have said that mucking around with analogue synths was a relatively trendy young person's game, but these days it's arguably becoming part of the spectrum of "middle aged man tinkering in the garage / loft" activities, like lovingly maintaining an old car or motorbike, running an elaborate homebrew setup, "doing woodwork" etc.
Questions to the floor:
What else is this going to happen to, as 80s and 90s kids hit middle age and take their hobbies and interests with them? I can imagine some bits of computing going this way - Raspberry Pi-based DIY home automation, say, or hacking around with old home computers and arcade machines. From the older geeks I know I can see Warhammer Dads becoming a thing, too.
And does anyone on here have any Dad Hobbies, or are you all languid urban aesthetes who wouldn't know a sander from an impact driver? I homebrew enough to have Opinions about BSP pipe fittings and I'm worried that I'm starting to think that cargo shorts seem like they'd be comfortable, practical and hard-wearing.
I went to a synth history event last year, and one thing that was noticeable was that the people who'd brought along synths to exhibit were mostly "of a sort": middle aged bloke, kinda lower middle class, cropped hair, bit of a beer gut, cargo shorts.
This set off a bit of a train of thought - twenty or thirty years ago you'd have said that mucking around with analogue synths was a relatively trendy young person's game, but these days it's arguably becoming part of the spectrum of "middle aged man tinkering in the garage / loft" activities, like lovingly maintaining an old car or motorbike, running an elaborate homebrew setup, "doing woodwork" etc.
Questions to the floor:
What else is this going to happen to, as 80s and 90s kids hit middle age and take their hobbies and interests with them? I can imagine some bits of computing going this way - Raspberry Pi-based DIY home automation, say, or hacking around with old home computers and arcade machines. From the older geeks I know I can see Warhammer Dads becoming a thing, too.
And does anyone on here have any Dad Hobbies, or are you all languid urban aesthetes who wouldn't know a sander from an impact driver? I homebrew enough to have Opinions about BSP pipe fittings and I'm worried that I'm starting to think that cargo shorts seem like they'd be comfortable, practical and hard-wearing.
