Anyone here have any weird hobby's?

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Well, I'm a yoyoer, with over $1600 in aluminum and titanium yoyos. I also am a 3D modeler and a compulsive tinkerer. So anyone else have any abnormal hobbies?

Dude. That's pretty awesome that you have over $1,600.00 in yo-yos.

Once I figure out how to hack something computer related it's very hard to stop myself from finding new applications to install, etc.

Yeh, This year I went to the national competition in chico. You have no idea how intense yoyoing gets.

I paint toy soldiers.

American Politics is my hobby, my passion, my intense desire. I have been wating for this current election campaign season for 8 years and I am psyched!


Merle

Really? how do you feel about Ron Paul's chances of winning the nomination?

My weird hobby is that sometimes I stalk people. I have to force myself to quit because it's just plain wrong really.

I used to be obsessed with learning everything there is to know about Roman Catholic doctrine. I need a new obsession to replace it. WP will suffice.

I want to ask more about this but I understand if you'd rather not say.

Paulsinnersboldly, it's one of my strong interests too.

Gosmokesome, Ron Paul's positions on the issues are too outside the mainstream for him to win. If he were going to have a chance to win, he would have shot up in the national polls like Huckabee. Perhaps he would have done better in Iowa, as well. His polling rates are just too low right now to win. His supporters are vocal and numerous, but the average American voter remains to be convinced.

My HFA son is incredibly fast and rythmic with finger snapping. It's a strange talent. I haven't seen anyone who can finger snap as good as he can, including people I've looked up on the web.

Tommy Smothers was into yo-yos. He said he was going for getting into the "state of yo" then he knows he's in the yo-yo zone.

Politics are my passion, too, but I'm more disillusioned and disgusted with the American electorate than I've ever been. They just sit there while our Constitution is shredded. I'm trying to make changes locally but that's just boring nuts and bolts, not the great excitement of national politics.

Well, my Transformer collection just broke 1,100, but collecting/hoarding anything like that probably isn't "weird" on this site.

Yo-yos should count a unusual enough though, especially if you're good enough at it to have the feel of each one in your arsenal and know their individual strenghts and weaknesses. Seriously, that's awesome! I could never get a yo-yo to do jack. I couldn't snap my fingers until high school either.

Recently I've developed a strong fascination with the storylines/potential of even the most obscure '80s toy franchises, and try to unite as many as possible into coherent mythologies inside my head. For some real flashes in the pan like Starriors, Robotix, and Power Lords, I've already read the handfull of comics for each, and have been getting upset that there's no other "story" to hunt down, even though they didn't have much story potential to begin with.

Making up cheesy phrases to use on forums.

My obsessive hobby is to research destinations exhaustively and build up itineraries down to the hour. Then when I visit, I have the best time, because I'm sure I'm seeing all there is to see that interests me, and knowing so much about the place gives me confidence, as I travel alone. I also get the best deals, and then people go "How did you find / afford such an awesome accomodation?", etc. I do this even with Jerusalem, because there's so much to see there, even after living in Jerusalem for years. I research, then just grab the train and pretend I'm a tourist in Jerusalem, and have a most enchanted time each time. Jerusalem is a real challenge to research, because it's a maze of thousands of years of history and there are almost no guide books about it.

The green catachism book? I see my copy, at hand.

I was raised Catholic, attended Catholic schools, wore salt-and-pepper pants and white shirt, got beat by Mother Superior's hair brush I can't remember how many times, and even attended a Catholic University and studied (by force, as they required a class of it every semester) theology there, while also studying physics and math. Although I did manage to learn to enjoy studying parallels and to translate source materials for a time and still have quite a library from that period, I have to say that the catechism never really became an obsession for me. Just something I used when I was curious about some official position and the reasoning about it. No, I'm not Catholic by belief. Lost that idea when I was... 12, I think. But certainly I'm comfortable with the practices, since I was in the routines 7 days a week for much of my early life.

I agree that WP would suffice as a replacement, though!

Jon

My obsession is probably math. I love to study the details of natural things and that's the language for it. When I got deep into how airfoils worked and started studying the old NACA books on various airfoils and then more books on how to design propellers (interesting it its own right), it required math. When I wanted to design and build my own telescope (I made 3 different ones by the time I was 20), I needed more math. When I started on my rocketry hobby (back in the day when one could actually order picric acid as a teenager and have it shipped to your home), I got deep into designing and fabricating the rocket nozzles (an important part) and again needed still more math. Relativity -- more math, including vector fields on manifolds, tensors, etc. Quantum mechanics -- more math; hamiltonians, eigen values and vectors, etc. And so it went.

So I suppose math's my obsession.

Jon