So, whats your focus?

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I don't always live what I learn. For example, my diet isn't always nutritious and I don't conduct psychedelic self-experimentation.
Love to take notes on my interests. I had many notes from my teenage years, but I destroyed them after a doctor said my note taking and list making was unhealthy. Wish I didn't do that. I just want to know as much as possible, and note taking helps me learn. It's a tangible product of my reading. Almost every spare moment is spent learning; no time for idle chit-chat fodder (whatever that is). A lot of these subjects I simply cannot talk to anyone about because it would be inappropriate.

Dalebert, I LOVED Escape to Witch mountain and Return to Witch Mountain as a kid! I even made my own starbox and carried it around with me. I've never heard of anyone else who has heard of it. Awesome!

Had them on tape

I avoid collecting like the plague. I think it's because I know I could get really neurotic about it. In fact, I'm attempting a minimalist lifestyle soon in hopes of lowering my general stress level. I hate mess and I hate having stuph that I don't know how to organize. I'm going through the process of moving soon and I'm going to sell all of my furniture and most of my stuph and restrict myself to keeping the bare essentials. It will be very liberating.

my focuses are wildlife, music and wiggly patterns. Oh, and the Autism Spectrum!

Interests:

Pokemon (that's the card game, the films, the cartoon but mostly the video games.) My fave character is Lawrence III (Jirarudan) the Collector from the second pokemon movie. (Funnily enough, I adored the chatacter as soon as I saw him. Five years later I am informed that 'fanon' (widely-held fan belief) has him as an Aspie.....) I have created a whole life for him and written many fanfics abnout him and have even given him a pokemorph girlfriend (amongst other things....)

Dinosaurs (and this ps probably why I obsessed about the film "Jurassic Park" when it came out, calling mjyself Jurassica, wearing T-shirts, tracksuits, baseball caps, and even socks and slippers with the logo/dfinos on and buying any mechandise I could get my mitts on.)

Genetics-particularly of birds and manly humans

Riverdance and Irish dancing

More minor and on and off interests include:

The weird and wonderful (E.G cryptozooology)
The human body
Soduko
Human Origins and evolotion
Birds
Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, tornados and other natural disasters


Things I collect

Keyrings
RandomPokemon stuff (includes some pokemon kieyrings)-LOTS of pokemon plushies!! !!
Jurassic Park stuff (including some JP keyrings)
Fans (including one with Pokemon on it
Feathers
Pokemon metal tags

I wonder if there's any significance that collection 1) has some overlap with 2) and 3) , and collection 2) has some overlaop with collection 4)

JulieArticuno

COLLECTION:
Books
*Politics (spec. conservative; political science, political history, memoirs, biographies, books on a variety of sub-topics: the media, foreign policy, currently the focus is on more "serious" books, but I used to have more "general audience" books)
*Sociology (race issues, cultural topics, authors include: Thomas Sowell, Abigail and Steven Thernstrom)
*Baseball (Philadelphia Phillies, biographies, Bill James, fact books, encyclopedias, ect...)
*History (Roman Emperors, British Monarchs, Communist and other authoritarian regimes, WWI/WWII, American Civil War, Historical Atlases, disasters)
*Misc (Book of flags, book of facts, and random trivia, "weird facts", ect., a eccentric variety of humor titles, ect...)
*Fiction (Star Trek, Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Michael Shaara, others)
[EDIT: *Humor (P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Barry) thx to dexkaden for reminding me of this]
DVDs
James Bond (except for "Die Another Day")
Star Trek
24
Gilligan's Island
Hogan's Heroes
John Wayne
"Jack Ryan" movies (except for "Sum of All Fears")
Star Wars (Originial Trilogy, SE), Indiana Jones, Back to the Future
The Pink Panther movies
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Music
Classical CDs
Fiona Apple
Sheryl Crow
Lots of Random Stuff

Of course I do things other then collect things. I spent a large amount of time collecting stats for and then making maps of US presidential maps, and after I finished making varieties on those. I lost all of them when my old PC when down, but I haven't had any urge to do it again. There are more (I could mention past interests) but to remember and categorize would involve too much thinking .

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"Sum of All Fears" SUCKED!

I, too own The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, and Clear and Present Danger--I like them all, but Patriot Games the book is much better than Patriot Games the movie, I think.

Also,

BOOKS

-Economic/Philosophical Theory (Bastiat, Mill, Smith, Keynes, Marx, Rousseau, Hegel, von Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Polanyi, Plato, Aristotle, Aeturnus, Aurelius, Sun Tzu, etc.)

-Humor (Dave Barry, P.J. O'Rourke, Bill Bryson)

-Fiction (Orson Scott Card, Dickens, Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Forrester--Horatio Hornblower)

-History (American, Civil War,WW II, Pol Pot, USSR, Red China, Knights Templar, various biographies and autobiograpies of historical figures, Rome (especially all of Gibbon), WW I, Russian, etc.)

RANDOM
-socks
-Legos
-batteries
-magnets
-maps (all kinds of maps)

MOVIES
-Fantasia and Fantasia 2000
-Jack Ryan
-Indiana Jones
-Star Wars
-Horatio Hornblower (A&E series)

MAPS
-atlases
-road maps, physical maps, political maps, economic/sociological maps, topographic maps, and climate maps
-all sorts of different projections
-globes
-draw maps
-I love maps!

And more!

Oh by all means, I allow myself this neurosis.

My iperspecialization on topics in the very little bits of conversation I make, has perhaps something to do with my illbeing. Having studied the evolution of society in the last 6.000 years (as a scholar, if I may call myself a scholar) I am absolutely convinced of the inevitability of a catastrophic end of humankind in this planet (really wrong planet) within this century or the next. This is not a product of my folly. It's a view largely shared by quite sane scholars like Jared Diamond, the enthomologist Wilson, the philosophers Baudrillard and before him Gunther Anders. I think that sharing this view in conversation is more an indelicacy than anything else. People don't want to hear about such things, and after all I myself think the what happens on the large scale is not our responsibility and that voting or any other form of political partecipation are only delusional liturgic rites. Nevertheless sometimes I come out with such things, meeting incredulity and rejection (not refutation). Maybe this has something to do with people going through the streets with placards about the end of the world.
The other topic is biology and evolutionism. I am not a biologist, although I have read much about the evolutionistic bases of ALL our value systems, moral and esthetic.
|to follow, because now I have been interrupted by a phone call and I am tired and distracted|.

I have mostly been interested in Wars.
Not recent ones but anything from ww2 and before.
The times when countrys build empires and fought alot of wars.
After the time most countrys became democratic and ended theyr empires i lost interest.

My second biggest interest has been Germany.
I've learned all about Germany and it's history.
Especially the expansion to the east in modern day poland etc old maps interest me.

I've also recently read alot about the crusades, the napoleonic wars, the time of Rome, The Teutonic knights etc.

Apart from this i'm not verry interested in many things at all.
Your expected to be interested in Soccer and Cars here.
But i just don't care at all.
The only thing i like about Cars is driving 200kmh an hour in them.
Couldn't care less about how the car looks.
And the only thing interesting about Soccer are the fights the Hooligans have.

Whoa. Are you a libertarian too?

Making advertisements for odd Cash Jobs that I can do for people around both my current and future Neighbourhoods, through out the year.

Yeah.

My interests:

Dogs, first off. Always dogs.
Languages. Linguistics. Words (phronistry!). Books. Grammar.
Mythology. Stories, sociology, writing (although I can't write creatively for the life of me). Cryptozoology and mythozoology. Nonsense poetry.
Medicine, especially things like abscesses.
Evolution, especially evolutionary psychology. Genetics. Parasites. Symbiotes. Animals in general, excepting birds and certain invertebrates. How we learn, especially in conjunction with neurology.

I don't collect much of anything, except possibly canine equipment and books. My little library is huge--I recently ran out of space again and now have to resort to stacking books on the floor. Sigh.

Astronomy
Geology
Planetary Geology
Meterology
Cartography & Maps
Flute, Piano, Clarinet, Guitar
English etymology
Spanish
American Sign Language
French
Natural Health
Reading
Analyzing
Organizing
Patterns & Comparisons
Genetics & Chromosomes
Gardening & Lawn Maintenance