Really Stupid Special Interests

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Fighting games, airplane disasters/black box recordings and game theory.

Pretty diverse, no?

My newest strange special intrest is seasteading.

http://seasteading.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading

Looking for the devil.

Soviet Communism.

Nicolas Cage movies.



All of those are somewhat related.

Iceland and the Icelandic language. I'm not sure how weird/stupid it is, but it's useless in practicality.

When I was seven, I went through a period where I loved to dig holes.

I'd go into the backyard and dig a hole for about an hour, fill it up, then dig another one. This was in an area where our swimming pool used to be, so I wasn't digging up the grass. This continued for several weeks.

Dumbest obsession ever.

I was obsessed with rating systems when I was in elementary school. Don't ask. -_-

One of the stupidest ones I've had was blowing noses and peeing outdoors.

I love board games. We should virtually meet up and play one of yours sometimes!

When i was about 10-12 i had an enormous obsession with sharks - i guess my username sort of reflects that. I had - and still have - about 20 different books about them, i was obsessed drawing them and especially the many deepwater sharks were the main thing, and the pinnacle of interest within the deepwater sharks was the goblin shark (i guess my username sort of reflects that). I knew heaps of types (even their latin names) and where they lived. I remember getting really upset when one of my books that had a map and number legend where the different species lived had an error on it - naturally one of the deepwater species. I was on the verge of mailing - or sending a letter as was the case back in those days - the publisher demanding they A) fix the typo and B) tell me what they meant with that specific number code that didn't make any sense.
Further, I would go by my self to the local aquarium just to stand hours infront of the shark-tank for hours, when some fisher captured a so-called tope-shark (quite exotic around my parts) and bought it in to the local aquarium i gave it my own pet-name and was totally captivated by it. Unfortunately it died not long after and i remember being totally devestated when this happened.
Also when travelling with my father on holiday it was always a must to find out if there was an aquarium in the general area so as to go there and check out the sharks there.
Now i'm 30 and not that obsessed any longer, but i still have an above average interest for them - i remember a couple of years ago some japanese dude caught one of these mentioned goblin sharks and they managed to get it to an aquarium in Japan where it survived for a short while in one of their tanks. Seeing one of these things alive was fantastic for someone who had only previously seen photos of them as carcasses on some random boat...

Other than that, the "normal and aspie-stereotypical subjects" like astronomy, physics and computers were way up there on the list too - my father bought me my first reflector-telescope at about the same time as i had my shark-thing going. My classmates were playing football and had just started chasing girls - i bought a microscope and was secretly growing mold on old pieces of bread in a drawer to study this in said microscope. My mother wasn't happy when she found these stinking abominations one day.

Nowedays my special interests are still outer and inner space, obscure music (classical indian, hindustani and middle-eastern stuff mostly, even though i'm "ethnic-european"), languages (especially isolates like basque and burushaski) and some other relevant stuff which is tied to my current job.
It's strange, i can talk (and bore people) for hours about string-theory, preons, quasars and naked singularities, but i couldn't make sense of the math and calculations behind this stuff even if my life depended on it - i got an F at math at high school FFS...

Also this is my first post here on WP after having lurked for a while. Have a good night people.