Starting A New Tech Hobby Mugs

Little boy being punished in corner beside bag marked 'Little Computer Repairman'.

The Hobby Store

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

"He built his own airplane from a kit."

"River well stocked this year."

"Is this the first time you've been fishing?"

'I don't know what he gets up to in there, but it keeps him busy.' (Noises are recorded, man reads paper, has beer.)

Hardware Store Tools Wrench

"Our Rupert has swopped his gaming console for bagpipes...it gets us out of the house more often."

'Tommy is in the other room playing with the triangle we bought him in Bermuda.'

'First of all, relax.'

'This is suppose to be progress.'

"Oh we're fine, my husbands just learning to cook during the quarantine."

'My first camera'

'Dude, you can go for that new diving gear if you want, but if you ask me, I think it's a trap.'

'If it 'tells' the time, why do I have to look at it?'

"You're just gaming down there? Shouldn't you be issuing your first IPO for some billion dollar internet enterprise you've created?"

Patey's in a band! He's so cool!

"You do have your own way of enjoying the garden, don't you?"

Model Building

'Would you like some of our house wine? I just made it.'

"What do you mean, it's not an educational toy? I'd have to learn to ride it!"

"Go ahead and laugh, but this baby hasn't crashed since 1961."

"Ooh, another unsuspecting victim."

I bake my own bread.

'I don't actually want to learn so much that I become a wine buff - just a wine snob!'

'He may not be accurate but he's resourceful'

Open Source.

'Don't throw the little silicon chips away -- we may find a use for them someday.'

Pam collected ceramic pigs. Just one so far, but even that seemed like too many.

"You may not know this, but I've become quite the wine expert."

She found baking helped enormously.

"Frankly, I don't really want him to improve: he scares the predators away..."