Nick's Hobbies 'N' Stuff.
If you ask anyone who knows me, I generally have at least one thing I obsess about at any given point. I'm not sure why, I think I just use it as something to keep my mind busy as I go about my day. My hobbies are pretty much seasonal. In the spring, I do the volkswagen stuff, in the summer I do r/c airplane stuff, and in the fall I do halloween stuff. You can see my R/C airplane page (here) and you can check out my past and present Volkswagens (here). In the fall we put on what I'd call an "amateur yard haunt" to find out all about that, see my haunt page.
I am known to spend hours and hours on this website, without any good explanation as to why I put everything on here for people to see. I've had a website since my second year of high school, this is version 5. At my first host was my brother's local isp, then I used tripod for a little while, then I went with Geocities for about 3 years. I ran out of space on Geocities and moved everything to tripod to make use of the 15mb of space they offered. I write all my pages on free-form editor or notepad using HTML. At first I used FlexEd, a html page creator, and using that I managed to teach myself what I call raw html. From using FlexEd I managed to laern enough basic html tabs and tables to create the look I want which results in easy, reliable webpages that don't take long to load. Right now there are thousands of words and about 10mb of photos on my site.
 | I have a collection of toy cars, including around 20 1:18th scale cars, 200 matchbox and hotwheels cars and around 40 other cars. The photo above shows some of the toys I have in the closet our spare room plus I have some other stuff put away and boxes and such. It all started when I got my first job... I would go to Toys 'R' Us every weekend and pick some out.. and I've been collecing them ever since. Lately I collect the 1:1 scale ones though. :) |
I used to be into radio control cars, but have sold pretty much all of it off. Click Here to see a pic of a tricked out clodbuster I built. To see a pic of the clod pulling my 2nd cousin in a wagon, click Here.
Click Here to see a pic of my clod with other cars I had, a TAO2RS truck, and a Losi XX. I sent this pic into R/C car action Reader's Rides around 1997 but it wasn't published. I did have a pit-tip published once though. For all the details of my R/C past, see My R/C Car Page. For christmas 2003 I got myself an 1/8th scale nitro monster tuck, and later in 2004 I sold it to buy parts for my latest toy, which was a 1987 Scirocco 16v.
I occasionally go lego crazy, so be sure to check out my Lego page.