Being a young academic leaves little room for other things, but I occasionally ignore my career and do other things.  

I have a wonderful partner, Korryn Mozisek.  I spend time with her, usually watching some form of sport or another.  (At her request, not mine.)  

I often spend spare time playing poker.  When I previously lived in California, I played limit hold'em regularly at the various L.A. cardrooms.  I expect I'll find some poker rooms around Pittsburgh and begin playing again.

I also contribute, when I can, to Wikipedia.  While it obviously has many problems, I think the movement for the creation of free content alternatives to traditional educational resources is very important.  The economic barriers to entry for undereducated are very large, and getting larger.  While there is a lot of content provided without charge on the web, it is not distributed in a way that enables people without internet access to use it.  Nor do they allow modification for other uses.  Copyleft materials, like Wikipedia, give these freedoms.

For many of the same reasons I try to use free and open source software as much as possible.  Increasingly with only a little effort one can use this software instead of  proprietary alternatives.  I use the following software regularly.

• Kubuntu
• Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird
• The GIMP
• Eclipse
• Open Office

If you're interested in learning more, the Free Software Foundation and the Creative Commons are good places to start.