N0tYetDeadFred
Sea Gull
Joined: Jun 18, 2011
Age: 31
Posts: 232
Location: Fortress of Solitude
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| I spent last weekend listening to nothing but Weezer, nonstop. It's starting to fade a little, but still dominant. |
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barnabear
Snowy Owl
Joined: Sep 17, 2011
Posts: 174
Location: Hampshire, UK
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Can't think of any (yeah right)
Umm ... well here's a list of things I have been or am currently INTERESTED in (but my wife says are obsessional)
Road Wars (and similar police documentary series)
Judge Judy
Monk (OCD detective series)
Really Useful Boxes
Building Computers, taking them apart and reusing the parts to build other computers.
Building Computers out of free components or bits bought off eBay for a maximum of 99p.
Building Computers to run with the lowest power consumption
Building Computers to run with the lowest noise
Fixing Computers (for friends / local school)
Computer components (especially disks, Intel processors and memory chips)
MythTV - I now have a MythTV system with 8Terabytes of RAID5 (fault tolerant) storage and (in theory) can record 20 programs simultaneously.
CCTV (since we were burgled)
Rewriting Perl computer programs for clarity (again and again and again.... got to do this as a job for a while which was great)
Teddy Bears (hence the username)
Early Learning Centre Happy Tracks train set - building configurations where the train makes progression through sequences of sidings/loops like a binary counter. My wife can't see the attraction, for me it is the predictability of the system.
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N0tYetDeadFred
Sea Gull
Joined: Jun 18, 2011
Age: 31
Posts: 232
Location: Fortress of Solitude
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| N0tYetDeadFred wrote: | | I spent last weekend listening to nothing but Weezer, nonstop. It's starting to fade a little, but still dominant. |
Nope, I'm still doing this. Listening to Pinkerton again...  |
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BitteOrca
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Nov 17, 2011
Age: 24
Posts: 44
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Let's see..
I'm happy to say AS! That's because my previous and most prominent obsession has been figuring out what's wrong with me 
I've also been trying to figure out politics for the past few months, due to the presidential election coming up probably. (RON PAUL ftw!)
others include, but are not limited to:
guitar (alternating from covering songs to making my own)
psychology (constantly trying to diagnose everyone)
philosophy
religion
stock market-Terrible idea, no logic behind it at all,. ha
Movies
drugs (not taking, more like pharmacology)
weed and weed politics
documentaries
fixing things, especially at work
also work I think, trying different ways to make things go smoother and more productively, Pondering on how the owners could run a better company 
oh, and i was hooked on runescape off and on for like 6 years... not so much the last couple months since i moved out and I still haven't gotten around to buying a computer table so I don't use the computer much..I hope that one doesn't resurface! such a time waster.. |
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fleurdelily
Deinonychus
Joined: Jan 04, 2011
Age: 46
Posts: 362
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english fine bone china (teacups most especially)
chinese tea (pu-erh and oolong most especially)
rose bushes
orchids
dollhouse miniatures
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Ynnep
Snowy Owl
Joined: Aug 21, 2011
Posts: 150
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Maybe that's why I feel such ennui right now, no obsession.
I've had a lot, here are some in no particular order:
Barbies
Jack the Ripper
serial killers
Marilyn Monroe
make up and beauty books from the 50s and 60s, I own over 100
makeup
clothes
sewing
olestra
Andy Warhol
scientology
Weibo Ludwig
suicide
Boy George
blogs |
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ElNy3
Emu Egg
Joined: Nov 19, 2011
Posts: 7
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Online Poker
Psychology
Stoicism
Reading news online
Self-help books
Science Channel
Discovery Channel
History Channel (especially ww2 stuff)
Dexter (series about a stoic serial killer who kills serial killers)
movies with Stoic characters- Gone Baby Gone, Rounders, Gladiator (off the top of my head)
I always tell people I'm boring even though most people find me interesting and fun. I look at my list and it confirms it
I don't even like going out... |
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SilverTung
Snowy Owl
Joined: Nov 18, 2011
Posts: 126
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jazz
bebop
soul
hip-hop
graffiti
rapping
producing
cooking
certain video games
certain TV shows.
certain movies.
writing.
aspergers
social interaction
drugs (yes, taking them. Also researching deeply into their history chemical make-up and effects. Ask me anything about Dextromethorphan hydrobromide/polystirex)
writing
lyrics...
drawing
this site
myself
my family
my dog
a whole slew of other stuff I don't have on my mind right now.
It alternates between pretty much this stuff. I get stuck on one and stay with it for a week or 2 then get reminded of another and do the same thing.
This is how my life has continued since I was self-aware. The only thing that changes are the subjects and how I look. It's pretty weird, but hey, that's life. A weird confusing place I don't fully yet understand. Know one does. We try, but no one does. Biggie and Tupac planned each other's deaths. Look it up... Not really I just made that up. Their deaths were entirely sensible. Rich black men living in a developing society still recovering from racial tension and economic crisis. Idk I must sleep now.
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Roxy75
Emu Egg
Joined: Oct 18, 2011
Posts: 6
Location: Denmark
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My obsessions through life has been:
As a child: Pippi Longstocking (Tv show from the 70's)
Other tv characters, which only people from Scandinavia would know.
E.T.
Horses
My Goat
The univers
As a teenager: Horses
Graffiti
Drawing
Trying to be like other teenagers
Dance (ballet, jazz and contemporary dance)
As a grown up: Dance (took an education, and made it my living until i was about 26 years)
Buddhism
Islam
Recent ones: Growing chili plants (for the past 4 years)
AS, ASD, ADHD, etc. (for the past 3 years)
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theimperiousdork
War resumes!
Joined: Jul 08, 2009
Posts: 5896
Location: Secret
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I might have posted this somewhere, but I'll post it anyway.
My current obsessions:
- Online radio broadcasting
- Wrong Planet
- Super Sentai series
- Photoshop
- Reading magazines
- Listening to video game OSTs (Super Mario Galaxy I and II, Bully/Canis Canem Edit, Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection)
- Tinkering with my laptop
- Interacting with fellow autistics online
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Can't think of anything more I am obsessing myself with... Count thinking of obsessions as one of them!
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Plumbum
Emu Egg
Joined: Nov 11, 2011
Age: 30
Posts: 7
Location: Los Angeles
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Tjolk
Hummingbird
Joined: Dec 15, 2011
Posts: 22
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Current,
Buicks from 1963 -1972, specifically the 1965 buick skylark
Plastic model building
Silence
Timelapsephotography
German military aesthetics from mid 30s to mid 40s
The color olive drab
Obtaining slow drying glue
My ex girlfriend
Sleep
Obtaining the cheapest possible trainticket from france to here and deciding what day that would be and how long I would be waiting between trains with an optimal waitingtime of approximately one hour.
The various shades of rust as a result of temperature,humidity and the quality of the used steel/iron
Past
The Roland TR808 drumcomputer
The supermarine spitfire
Psychedelic drugs
The doors
Minimal Techno
Nutella
The friendships I've ended
The russians
Lost and 24
The second world war
A girl that would become my girlfriend but is now my ex (see current)
Surinam
The benefits of analogue versus digital
Finding an ideal matras for a reasonable price.
Obtaining a deeper understanding why some girls have mistaken my aloofness for mysteriousness and wrote poetry for me and invited me for sex. (this has nothing to do with finding a matras for a reasonable price.)
Defending my kingdom from the invaders from planet Q149 and succesfully execute counterattack (which i have,)
The dutch history from 1602 till 1672
Finding out how I ended up on a branch of a tree in a forrest while the names of a friends and 2 of his mates were carved in that exact branch where i sat on.
Peak oil and it's impact.
Star wars (1977), i've seen it at least 40 times
BMX bikes
The lego 8860 car
Finding refuge and solace
Clan of Xymox |
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nolan1971
Toucan
Joined: May 13, 2012
Age: 41
Posts: 290
Location: Gainesville FL
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I love Alligators! I love all sorts of animals but my favorite at the moment is alligators. I go to spend time with them when ever I can at Paynes Prairie. I even sat down next to a 9ft alligator for an hour and a half. The largest one was a 14ft alligator that casually walked right past me.
Other obsessions: Music,Cars,Gargoyles and everything to do with nature! |
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NicoleG
Phoenix
Joined: Dec 26, 2011
Age: 36
Posts: 661
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth
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| klikmaus wrote: | | For those who have engineering/tinkering obsessions----- check out sterling engines! |
I'm ignoring you. I'm ignoring you. I'm....looking up stirling engines online and will be busy for the next couple hours. Curse you!
| gadge wrote: | | I just ask Why? & How? way too much.. |
Yep. This is me. The moment I find something interesting and want to learn just a tad little bit about it, I'm usually off and running with it from anywhere from the next couple of hours to the next couple of years. I was curious how planes flew, so I signed up for flight school and learned.
I got into tools and woodworking, and wanted to get into mechanics (yes, auto mechanics) about a year ago until I lost my friend that was also into that stuff, and now it pains me to think about those things even though I loved them sooooo much while learning about them.
I just picked back up cross stitch after a friend of mine keeps talking about hers. It's been 20 years since I last did cross stitch and now I hate that I have to put it down to accomplish other things, like the whole eating and sleeping and going to work kind of activities.
My long-term is puzzles of all sorts, which is how I got into cognitive psychology and A.I., because those are two puzzles that I would LOVE to solve. I also love creating things, building things, and putting things together. I love solving problems as long as I can think of it as a puzzle to be solved, like setting up accounting systems at work, but I don't like the maintenance stage of such systems, as that gets ridiculously boring and I need the constant stimulation. When helping people move, my roommate will find out that things need to be taken apart and put back together in the new location or things organized a certain way, so she has a habit of saving those things for me for when I show up, because most other people grumble about having to do those kinds of things, versus "just point me to the box and I'll move it". |
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Timeconsumer
Raven
Joined: May 05, 2012
Posts: 110
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| I'm currently between obsessions. My old ones are boring to the person i am now, somethings sorta changed me over the last year and now i'm looking for something new . I think i might end up trying something i didn't have patience for when i was younger, im spending a lot of time atm reexamining things i've previously passed over because at the time i passed over them i knew that my general youthful impatience wouldn't let me get the most out of the interest. |
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