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Yeah, both.
We play heavier music (Iron Maiden, Metallica, etc...).
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Yeah, that's good stuff. My sis probably has everything Metallica ever put out.
I remember the hair band days, which was kinda on the tail end of the metal like Iron Maiden. I was working the same bars in NY as Twisted Sister when they came out. Realized my career was going to be limited. I don't do well in lipstick and hairspray.
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DanielSheets wrote: We play heavier music (Iron Maiden, Metallica, etc...).
Nice! Steve Harris is a bass god! 'Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner' was what got me interested in bass. I don't play gigs anymore, but enjoy playing along to the WMP...mostly Rush, Maiden, Yes, Kansas, Spock's Beard.
Rock On!!! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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 Ahhh! One of my favorites! I shall now have to listen and try to play along with this album in it's entirety! Thanks!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Christopher Duncan wrote: I was wondering what other creative arts you spend your time on when you're not slinging code
Does herding cats count? 
I am afraid I couldn't play a musical instrument if my life depended on it. I used to go on road trips all the time as it was the best way for me to get my mind off of work things. I would always take a lot of pictures and have been told I am pretty good at it. The walls of my house is full of pictures I have taken along the way.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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So you may not be a musician, but you're clearly a photographer. That's creativity, to be sure.
SoMad wrote: Does herding cats count?
It does if you write about it: 
Herding Cats[^]
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My bad. I got the books mixed up I guess. I thought that was your book - probably because I bought that one and The Career Programmer at the same time.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Apress sent me Hank's book back then and I loved the title. Career Programmer is mine, as is Unite the Tribes. Haven't settled on a name for the other new one yet.
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Photography.
Writing.
Golf. (The creative part is coming up with reasons as to why I played so badly).
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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The few times I've played golf it was pretty much a break even game. I found as many balls as I lost.
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Rock-n-roll baby!
I need to update the page but this gives you a good idea.
https://soundcloud.com/stoodwalk[^] (The good stuff is further down.)
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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\m/
Fun stuff, man.
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I guess I fall under "other strange creatures of the night." I do comedy, mostly improv. I got paid $5 once for a show.
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That's not only creative, it makes you the bravest one in the herd.
I've stood on stage in biker bars where we would have paid good money for chicken wire, and that's still not as scary to me as doing stand up.
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Hmmm...
Guitar. Designing electrical substations and power lines. Designing and building various useful wood and metal objects. Landscaping. Decorating pigeons with red-tipped darts. Creating decorative arrays of different sized holes in paper targets using assorted high powered paper punches at long and short ranges. Drawing pictures of things I will never have the time or money to build.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Eloquent, as always. And you must have gone to a helluva decorating school. 
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Hehehe... My decorating skills are all home grown, not acquired from any school other than the one with the hard knocks.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I shoot fireworks. I'm a licensed pyrotechnician and have recently moved into fireworks choreography. I've been licensed for 13 years and have worked on the Red, White, and Boom show in Columbus, OH for the last 11.
I'd say it is a blast but that would be a silly play on words.
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Jason Gleim wrote: fireworks choreography
Oh, that's definitely going in the book.
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If you are interested, you can see the simulation of a show I designed for a contest in May that was part of Pyrofest outside of Pittsburgh, PA. It had to be 8 to 10 minutes, our original work, and the budget under $10K. It was actually pretty challenging. http://www.finalefireworks.com/node/1219417[^]
I didn't win... came in 2nd... but still had a great time. It takes a lot of creativity to develop a soundtrack and then design the looks that you are going to put into the sky. I don't see it as much different than other creative outlets... just a lot more transient and probably louder. Still, it is a pretty big rush to work on a show and then hear 500K people cheer for your work when the last of the finale goes off. 
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That's incredibly cool, man. Although it makes sense, it never occurred to me that thee would be visualization software for pyrotechnics. I particularly liked the shift when California Girls hit, and the report punches on How You Like Me Now.
I'm in the process of putting together a new band with a computerized light show, and what you're doing is very much like designing lighting. Except yours goes bang.
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S u n s h i n e wrote: They thought they could stop the train by standing on the tracks
Just pile enough people on the track and eventually it'll work
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