Really Stupid Special Interests

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VHS tapes - the history of the format, mechanics behind them, the different releasing companies, collecting, displaying, and proper storage.

Listening to the christian radio station. I am not a christian, and not generally interested in religion. I like to listen to the emotional tone that the people speak in.

I have a fascination into how language developed.
How did we progress from the caveman’s “ugh” to our ultra sophisticated grammar of today?

Also; how did specific words develop?
Who decided which vocal sounds would relate to which objects?
How did that decision come about and when?

When did we start calling a “door” a door?
A “tree” a tree? Etc.

Cards.

Playing cards, trading cards, trading card games.

Also, French verb conjugation.

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"seasteading"--wow! i could get into that. (at one time i seriously contemplated moving to Alaska &...at least i didn't end up like Into the Wild, but i might have.)

"Icelandic"--i've loved the literature in translation, but too many other things kept me from taking the time to learn the language (despite Tolkien's endorsement!). i still, however, have a book of drottkvaett in the original...

i dunno... i could say, no pursuit of knowledge for its own sake is worthless.
some of my ideas in specific area, to others, would seem crazy: making paintings to be viewed wearing red/blue 3D glasses, for example; some of my elaborate systems of versification, which even other formalist poets would hardly subscribe to; calculating imaginary planets around actual stars, to 13 decimal places (which not even scientists do--they know better)... writing in an artificial language (or a mixture of several) without many (or any) potential readers: is this futile? no. it enriches my experience of ordinary language. other reward doesn't matter.

now, fesler (for those who don't know, that's the plural of fez)--that's an obsession which will one day make me rich & change history .

My weirdest SI recently was license plate numbers, it only lasted for a couple of months, but it was kind of fun.

These things

I have had special interests that seem so weird and esoteric that by golly I am almost hesitant to write them down (in no apparent order):

Winnie the Pooh.
Anything by Disney. (Wasn't so much the content but the nature of it; it didn't end as late as nine years old)
Snow. (It happens every single winter. Perhaps because of the 1996 blizzard I saw as a baby I don't have a snowy fear)
Geico commercials (Partly because they annoyed the s--- out of me, now they're so funny)
MMORPG games. (Daisy-chained from my previous Disney obsession via Toontown Online to WoW)
Street lamps and stop lights. (Progressed to the extent that I would notice a stop light being there even when it didn't used to exist)
Pokemon, or, to be exact, the weights and heights of them. (I understand Pokemon, but that deep? I don't know.)
Oh, and also, fruit punch and apple cider. Mmm, refreshing

Cleaning and everything that has got something to do with it. I'm a sucker for all kinds of different cleaning utensils for instance.