ritalee76
Hummingbird
Joined: Mar 20, 2011
Age: 36
Posts: 23
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I think for me, once I've "mastered" something, I move on to a new one...
The ones that I keep on with are the ones that are challenging and I can't seem to "beat"..
I think that's why I'm so good at my job (another obsession) ... Its a challenge every day and I can't seem to "beat" it.. Its never easy and I love it!
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bumble
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 27, 2011
Posts: 1389
Location: Norfolk, UK
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Presently Sequin art! I need to collect every kit and do them all even though my thumb gets a bit sore from pushing all the pins in for 10 hours a day lol.
Also Cross stitching but that has been replaced by the sequin art for the time being unless I don't have a sequin art kit in to complete.
Health and fitness was a runner for a while as well but has gone dormant for the moment.
Other past obsessions include:
Jigsaw Puzzles
Logic Puzzles
Para-pyschology
Psychology
Algebra
Puzzle games
Grand Turismo or GTA
Zelda
Dancing
Horses
Museums
Madonna
And as a child:
Toy Cars (making lines of traffic jams and clearing them systematically but never just randomly driving them around!)
Filling out bank forms even though no one could ever read my handwriting lol.
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IdahoRose
Imaginary Friend
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Joined: Feb 25, 2007
Age: 22
Posts: 18651
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English actress Helena Bonham Carter
The British Royal Family
England in general |
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RedHanrahan
Phoenix
Joined: Sep 02, 2007
Age: 47
Posts: 1168
Location: Aotearoa/New Zealand
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I seem to be less obsessive these days but...
Skinhead Reggae [now of equal status to my ears as ska and rocksteady]
Bonobo's
Feeding the sparrows ouside my flat [it is winter and I want to help/have dumpster bread to spare]
Nasrat Fateh Ali Khan [Qawali singer]
Sobriety [I used to be preoccupied with drugs]
peace j
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Grisha
Aspiring Crazy Cat Guy
Joined: Oct 16, 2009
Age: 46
Posts: 8333
Location: LA-ish
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Modding my Jeep punctuated with thoughts about a woman I have an improbable crush on.
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klikmaus
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Apr 18, 2011
Age: 34
Posts: 60
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:01 pm Post subject: obsessions |
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HOLY $#!*
Ok I know I've got some off-the-wall interests, (at least in the minds of the NT's anyways...) I can't believe Zelda has made quite a few of you guys's lists! TOTALLY KEWL!!!!!
It's gotta be retro "The Legend of Zelda" on the 8 bit NES platform too.... I don't have my old console any more, it burned up YEARS ago. Fortunately, there's this concept called "EMULATION" (I'm sure many of you all are fully aware of emulators).
I have NES emulators on my Windows Vista laptop, Android cellphone, dinosaur IBM Pentium II desktop running Linux Ubuntu, and soon I hope to get a Wii game that will enable my daughters Wii to be homebrew channel enabled. (My fiancee just HAD to update to 4.3 and won't let me backdate the machine. GRRRRRR!!!!!) I have so many hacked ROM's of Zelda 1 I get so flustered on which one I want to "work on" I end up playing my guitar... Go figure..... Needless to say emulation was another obsession.. I've got over 700 NES roms, about 350 Sega Genesis roms, and I have no clue as to many SNES, N64, and Playstation roms I have stored on an external hard drive... a bunch....
My other obsessions--
Transformers (old school, nothing past the introduction of the dinobots... Anyone remember Go-Bots???)
teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles (again, only the original)
dinosaurs
spacecraft
aircraft (predominately WWII twin-engine aircraft.... Favorite: Lockheed P-38J Lightning!)
cars/vehicles... V.W. Bug, Barracuda, Charger, Camaro, Morris Minor, and motorcycles
fixing anything and everything that's broken (including myself)
cryptozology
bicycles
Dungeons and Dragons (mainly collecting as I DID game some but mostly collected and read the rule books, created uncounted characters, stat sheets, and scenarios. I guess it was the intensive use of random numbers to create order out of chaos (the dice rolls))
Magic: The Gathering
Pirates CSG by WizKidz games
the spirit world (we are NOT alone!)
old coins
anniversary clocks (man, all those gears! and they MOVE!... that pendulum rotating back and forth... Ahhhhh.. ecstasy!) I collect them when I find them, and I taught myself to fix them too!
quantum physics/mechanics... minor, minor obsession, more of a curiosity
stirling engines
electric scooters
skateboards (yes---quite a few broken bones as my desire to do certain things surpasses my coordination and agility)
radio control cars and aircraft. Currently tinkering with a Kyosho Mini-Z MR-03
computers-- hardware and software
woodworking
quite a bit more, I'm always doing/working on something. |
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joestenr
Toucan
Joined: Apr 23, 2011
Age: 36
Posts: 297
Location: niantic connecticut
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its starting to become posting on wrong planet
then I went 34 years without knowing why I felt so different from everyone else I encountered.
There was a bad stretch there were I didn't have a real obsessive interest things got pretty ugly (and self destructive).
Of course I do kinda miss the period when I was breeding/raising seahorses. The joy of getting to obsess over raising phytoplanktin to feed to the zooplankton that you will then feed to other zooplankton before feeding it to the fry. oooooo i get all tingly |
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NowWhat
Raven
Joined: Apr 24, 2011
Posts: 102
Location: PNWet
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Current: AS, powerline construction/maintenance, researching historical sites to go metal detecting, building salmon spinners
Past: arboriculture, small sawmills, kayak fishing, chainsaw carving, video games/1st person shooters, wooden boat plans |
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klikmaus
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Apr 18, 2011
Age: 34
Posts: 60
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For those who have engineering/tinkering obsessions-----
check out sterling engines! they're fairly easy to build, the concept is simple, but you have to have fairly close tolerances in the seals (not too tight, not too loose) and keep friction to a minimum in order to make them run. You can use common household items to build them, too.
SOOOO COOL!
And once you have a build that works..... It's like watching the ceiling fan........ but with a satisfying loping engine sound too. Nothing too intensive in either frequency or intensity. |
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Tomapella
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Nov 10, 2009
Age: 28
Posts: 54
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Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Grateful Dead, Warren Zevon, pretty much the usual  |
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bergie
Toucan
Joined: Mar 19, 2011
Age: 32
Posts: 290
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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| AS and analyzing my life up to now. |
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Moopants
Raven
Joined: Oct 01, 2010
Posts: 122
Location: UK
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| ritalee76 wrote: | I think for me, once I've "mastered" something, I move on to a new one...
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^^ this ^^
At the moment its growing veg. It seems so out of my control, its fascinating.
I'm also obsessed with politics, although less so than normal as there are elections at the moment and it becomes less about politics and more about spin and lies. |
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Kittendumpling
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Apr 30, 2011
Posts: 55
Location: Dundee, UK
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Knitting & crochet
Gemstones
PS3
Cheese
Trollbeads
Origami
Baking
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Trencher93
Velociraptor
Joined: Jun 24, 2008
Posts: 465
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My interests tend to focus on things that have some connection to me and my past. A few years ago, I discovered that comic books had been digitized and put online. I downloaded a number of these and rebuilt my old collection. Many of these I thought I would never see again, because I could not remember enough about them to locate an issue I remembered. By downloading an entire run of a title from the late 70s - mid 80s, I could find the issues I had. Sometimes by looking at the run sequentially until I saw one I remembered. Often, seeing something I have not seen since I was a child triggers memories and impressions I would have otherwise forgotten. This is one interest that can be exhausted, thankfully. (It's interesting that I don't care about other comics from the period. I looked at some I never read/could not afford and just didn't care. I also don't care about current comics, which seem to be obsessed with horror, vampires, zombies, etc. The old days had better storytelling.) Similarly for books, music, etc.
I also get fascinated by translations, comparing different ones to each other. I don't know how English readers even know what some works say. The Dhammapada is a good example. No two English translations are alike. I was fascinated about why a new translation of Camus' "Exile and the Kingdom" story collection was done a few years ago, since none of Camus' philosophical books have needed re-translation. Going word-for-word through the first page or two showed that the new translator followed the old translation almost exactly, but changed a word here and there. Constance Garnett uses the word "garret" which has a precise English meaning at the opening of "Crime and Punishment" - I think all the subsequent translators have used some circumlocution or the definition of "garret" in their translations to say the same thing. I don't know why this interests me.
I remembered going to my mother's office occasionally in the 80s and playing around with her computer and using WordPerfect. I found the old version she had, with the amber letters and almost blank screen (to use the program you had to have a keyboard template because it used function keys). Computer history is the only history I know of where you can immerse yourself like going into a time machine by actually running software. I collected several programs from that period which I could run in a MS-DOS emulator (or, better, a Windows 2000 instance in a virtual machine). I think this is a legit interest, because the MS-DOS era is fading rapidly and these programs are extremely difficult to locate. |
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klikmaus
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Apr 18, 2011
Age: 34
Posts: 60
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WOO HOO DOS!!!!!! Scorched Earth!! LOVE THAT GAME!!!
find yourself an old 386 or 486, keep it handy (make sure that you have a working floppy drive too), you can archive all your old DOS programs on CDR's or USB flash drives so you don't have dozens of shoe boxes stashed with all your programs.... |
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