Other Interests
Some hobbies are widely shared and recognized as going with the culture:
science fiction, music, medievalism (in the active form practiced by the
Society for Creative Anachronism and similar organizations), chess, go,
backgammon, wargames, and intellectual games of all kinds. (Role-playing games
such as Dungeons and Dragons used to be extremely popular among hackers but
they lost a bit of their luster as they moved into the mainstream and became
heavily commercialized.) Logic puzzles. Ham radio. Other interests that seem
to correlate less strongly but positively with hackerdom include linguistics
and theater teching.