What are your fixations/obsessions?

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01 May 2005, 7:02 pm

PC games.
Books.
Loads of other stuff that would take me hours to list

and Sarcastic_Name, you are in luck. I teach HTML both free and unofficially, add me on MSN or tell me what times ur in chatroom and ill teach you.

Morlock
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01 May 2005, 9:59 pm

nanotech
AI
science fiction
Asperger's syndrome
fantasy novels and RPGs

loads of other things

Neon_Knight
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02 May 2005, 2:49 pm

Mine:

Science fiction (particularly the Dune novels),

Astronomy (I like stargazing with my telescope but have had hell from brain-dead neighbours in the past who have accused me of peeping through bedroom windows!),

Fossil collecting (good thing I live close to the Jurassic coast!),

Heavy Rock/Metal (Queen, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Manowar, etc),

Weather (the obsession of any true englishman!).

WhiteRaven_214
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04 May 2005, 9:45 pm

As a child, I had these obsessions: -

Planetary Astronomy (My favourate planet is Neptune and my favourate moons are Phobos, Calisto, Titan and Triton)

Manned space missions (Apollo, Skylab, Soyuz-Salyut, Space shuttle, Gemmini, Vostok, Mercury, Mir and ISS)

Unmanned space missions (Sputnik, Luna, Venera, Mariner, Viking, Pioneer, Voyager and Galileo) - My favourate is Voyager 2

Lego - Lots and lots of lego (I once made a 20*25 cm model of Voyager 2)

BWKermadecs
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05 May 2005, 4:01 am

Jet engines
The history of and types of commerical aircraft
The DeLorean car (technical workings and history)
Celebrity biographies
Constellations and the planets, their moons
Hauntings
Morbid stuff (like amusement park accidents)
Weather phenomena (tornados and thunderstorms are my favorites)
Etymology
Family geneology
Swords, particularly Japanese (I collect them, I can actually tell you what a tsuba and tsuka are)

There are probably more that I can't remember...

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CheckEngine
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05 May 2005, 7:07 pm

Hrm...

Police work
Analyzing art
The psychology of serial killers
Stand-up comedy

And I can feel an obsession with mystery novels starting....

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Sarcastic_Name
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05 May 2005, 9:16 pm

Well, it seems were mentioning past and present, so I'll add some of my old obsessions.

Magnetism
Family Geneology
Video Games
Puzzles
Monopoly (still obsessed)
Card Games (still obsessed)

OK, that's all of the other ones I can think of right now. BTW. BlackLiger, not to be rude, but I prefer to teach myself new things. I'm referring to your HTML teaching offer. Thank's for offering, though.

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BlackLiger
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06 May 2005, 6:10 am

Ok, but look at www.htmlgoodies.com that has good tutorials....

Roy
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02 Feb 2008, 4:48 am

OK, here are my current obsessions:

1. Taaibos and Highveld Power Stations - Taaibos is where my Dad used to work. Completely obsessed with the accumulation of historical data thereof.

2. Automatic gearboxes and turbochargers.

3. Front-loader washing machines - I love watching them running, and particularly when they start to spin. (MOM PLEASE DUMP THAT TOP-LOADER SPEED QUEEN!! !!)

4. Synthesized music produced by the Commodore 64 computer.

5. Another obsession that I mentioned in the Adult Asperger forum and can't mention here.

6. Tachometers (rev counters).

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02 Feb 2008, 6:54 am

Abnormal psychology.

AliceinOz
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Location: Australia

02 Feb 2008, 8:29 am

Books
Long 18th Century
Cars
cliffs and coastline

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Birdgirl
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02 Feb 2008, 10:00 am

Survivalism (in regards to both realistic, wilderness survival type stuff and also the more far-fetched, doomsday-type scenarios)
The paranormal
Reincarnation
Ireland
The Sims
Acne/skincare
Astronomy
Astrology
Lucid dreaming
Antique (late Victorian-1920s) clocks and dressers
Vodou religion
Supervolcanoes (mainly the one in Yellowstone, which I'm very paranoid about)

Current obsessions:
Lost, the tv show. Terry O'Quinn (John Locke) especially.
Ballet
Lucid dreaming (trying to get back into the habit of having them more)
Mary Pickford (the 1920s silent film actress)
Reading every single review of every single skincare product on this one (very large) website
Making perfect lists of everything list-able

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Tim_Tex
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02 Feb 2008, 10:01 am

Birdgirl wrote:

I've heard about the supervolcano. I'm majoring in geology.

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Birdgirl
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02 Feb 2008, 10:07 am

Tim_Tex wrote:

Birdgirl wrote:

I've heard about the supervolcano. I'm majoring in geology.

More people need to hear about the supervolcano, I say. When I start rattling on about it they think that I'm making it up/exaggerating though.
(I live in north texas too, by the way.)

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02 Feb 2008, 10:23 am

Cats
Roger Bannister
The Olympics
Medical issues (including AS, autism and Down Syndrome. I read a lot of books, fiction and non-fiction, about these subjects.)

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02 Feb 2008, 10:34 am

Flushed Away
Weight Loss
The Internet
Snowbabies
Snow
Routemasters
1977
Mustangs
Rolls Royce's
Abnormal Psychology
Finding the perfect job for me
Dogs
Cats
Movies
WrongPlanet
Christmas
British Punk
British Invasion type Rock music
Jazz
Classical Music
The Weather
Doing my art projects
England
Canada
London
Austin Powers

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