Esther and I like to hike, especially through woods, preferably in mountains. For those of you in the Washington DC area, check out Billy Goat Trail at Great Falls Park, on the Maryland side. A friend of ours, Russell Neuswanger, maintains a chunk of the Appalachian Trail near Front Royal VA, and occasionally invites us out there for guided tours. We even planned to do a lot of hiking in the Blue Ridge for our honeymoon.
I run a humor list. It's not automated yet; I edit the submissions (received in my name) and whatever I find in other sources, into a digest, by hand. I am, however, in the process of converting it to an automated list run by ListBot. It usually comes out a few times a week. If you would like to join, sign up near the bottom of my main page. WARNING: Some of the jokes are racist, sexist, scatological, gross, or otherwise offensive, or may require special knowledge, mainly of Jewish customs or Hebrew/Yiddish words or phrases. (The Jewish Humor List is one of my main sources.)
Several friends of mine happen to have Turner's Syndrome. This is a genetic condition that consists of having only one X chromosome, and therefore appears only in women, affecting their height, appearance, and fertility. Therefore, I am somewhat active in the National Capitol Area Chapter of the Turner's Syndrome Society.
I play guitar, and have a good acoustic (Ovation Custom Legend), with a pickup that can be inserted in the soundhole, plus a crappy electric (Stratocaster clone by Memphis). Do I play well? Well... well enough to impress people who don't play at all, but not those who do. I haven't touched it in so long I've forgotten most of my repertoire, which was mostly Beatles, Neil Young, and Grateful Dead, and even some of my own creations. One of these days, I'm going to take up the harmonica, and get one of those holders, so people won't expect me to sing while I play -- 'cuz I can't worth a damn.
Due to discovering a talent for it at a Mensa Annual Gathering, I have become lately an avid player of Encore (and was on the winning team in the Encore tournament at the 1998 AG). This game mainly involves recalling lyrics containing a given word (or word fitting a category). The normal rules say that you must quote at least six consecutive words containing the one in question, but the usual Mensa "adaptation" requires eight, and is stricter in many other ways.
I like to see how other cultures, religions, people, etc. think. So, my BBS includes an echa called MYTHOLOGY, and used to have a lot of Christian, Buddhist, and assorted Neo-Pagan conferences on it. However, the Christian echoes were decidedly "unChristian", I got sick of the politics in the NeoPagan network, and that was my source for the Buddhist echo as well. So it goes. I still carry the Fidonet echoes INTERFAITH and HOLYSMOKE (for atheists). Meanwhile, it has always carried some Jewish echoes, and has been in the Jewish BBS networks Keshernet and Reshet (Hebrew for "network"), but those networks have both died off.
(So what are my religious beliefs, you may be wondering? My Judaism is more of a culture/knowledge thing; it means I get the jokes when the standup comic throws in some Yiddish phrases. I'm not at all religiously observant, except sometimes Passover, which I treat more as a celebration of freedom than as something relating to one specific religion. My beliefs are pretty much hard-core agnostic: "I don't know, and neither do you!" As Galileo said, "I cannot believe that the same creator who endowed us with reason, intended us not to use it" -- even if that means not believing in him/her/it/whatever. Believe whatever you want to believe -- but keep your @#$%^&* paws OFF my rights!)