Weird/Funny stuff you are super interested in (AS)

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-daily life in the Soviet satellites during the Soviet era (recipes, school routines, what was in the shops, what was in the black market, feminist ideals vs. daily reality)
-improvised weapons
-party games from the 1850s century through the 1900s
-women warriors and women who cross dressed to join the armed forces
-commodity chains (ex: Salaula)
-improvised medicine
-innovative space saving
-ways the Victorians knowingly and unknowing poisoned themselves (ex: green dye, adulterated bread, adulterated milk)
-ways food has been adulterated and sold to the masses between 1750-1930
-grave stones (choice of words, motif, placement of grave)
-Tesla coil music
-glass harmonica music (waves at other person who mentioned it)
-the tulip trade in 17th century Holland
-school lunches around the world
-Bento

- Abandonware
- Vaporwave
- Terrible, god-awful movies
- Paranormal 'evidence' (even though I believe none of it)
- Black MIDI Youtube Videos
- Uncanny valley content
- Pixel art
- Autostereograms
- Aliens!
- Urban exploration videos
- Conmen

This thread reads like a bucket list of great ideas!!

Anyhao:

- Listening to Radio (anything outside the broadcast bands, especially digital modes, satellites and amateur radio).
- Watching the spectral display of said radio while listening.
- Designing, building, redesigning radios.
- Building weird antennas.
- Building amps.
- Building audio filters.
- Building HCI and game interface devices.
- Oscillators.
- If it's covered in buttons and switches: I'm there.
- CNC things.
- Telescopes and stargazing.
- Cameras and optics and photographic tech.
- Esoteric/archaic photographic techniques, equipment and processes.
- Iconic and Old photographs.
- Flight simulation.
- Flight sim hacking and interface building.
- Recycling, modernising old equipment.
- Collecting and maintaining old games and consoles.
- Maps: historical, modern, interactive.
- Ancient Coins.
- Language evolution and etymology.
- Illustration
- Design (in general across artistic and scientific disciplines).
- Typography, and evolution of type/printing.

I could probably go on, but yeah.

What I don't understand is why my interest in efficiency is so rare. People keep doing things the hard, expensive ways.

+1 good post

BetwixtBetween and enbalmed, though I have NOT studied most of those topics myself, I WOULD be very fascinated listening to someone talk about any of those for hours. I HAVE studied aspects of the following topics:

• Old coded communication techniques (flower language, signal flags, phonetic radio alphabet [had that memorized when I was a kid], distress signals, etc.)
• Old school tests, textbooks, and assignments from the nineteenth century through the 1960s or so- entrance exams and final exams in particular

• Maps: historical, modern, interactive.
• Ancient Coins.
• Language evolution and etymology.

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Aspies sure love to make lists, don't they? I think that trait may be as common as, say, not making eye contact, gullibility, or poor social habits. Anyway, here's a little of what I'm into.

Torture devices throughout the ages and from different cultures.
Methods of execution throughout the ages and from different cultures.
Obscure Romantic composers (I collect symphonic music and solo piano music from the Romantic era).
Researching varieties and species of plants and animals. For instance, learning about all the different types of tomatoes, zebras, wildebeests, mushrooms, peppers, monkeys, mangoes, coconuts, corn, etc.
Making lists of the uses of the most versatile fruit or vegetable. (So far I'm leaning towards the tomato although Native Americans would beg to differ and claim it's corn because, so far, they have 32 uses for it).
The psychologies behind why certain groups of people follow one particular dictator/king/chief/khan/etc.
The NYC Subway map.

Is being a "completionist" unusual. By that I mean, for instance, I don't simply have a few albums of music from, say, Franz Liszt - I have his complete non-vocal works - 106 albums. For Mozart, it's 74. For Beethoven, it's 42, etc. I also collect discographies and bootlegs of groups I like - KISS, Iron Maiden (48 albums), Judas Priest (48 albums), Rush (36 albums), Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica (30 albums), many others.

Foreign languages and accents.

I remember being obsessed with the orange traffic cones at a point and the "caution wet floor" sign. Mom told me at a point that I was obsessed with refrigerators.

staring into small insects scurrying on a big piece of paper or on a sidewalk,cage-linked fences,cage-linked windows & checker-covered notebooks.

I can't believe I forgot how into road signs I am! Domestic or international, I don't care, but I have a particular interest in scoping out pre-Worboys (before 1963) signs still standing today.

Watching tennis has made me listen to how the score is called in the language of the venue holding the tournament and how they say phrases such as "game, set match," "advantage" and the numerical scoreline. I like learning common phrases in different languages and, of course, enjoy watching tennis.