I want to know your special interest

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Meerkats
Veterinary medicine

Over the years... in sequential order...

Hot air balloons - mostly just drawing them
Recumbent bicycles - drawing and riding
Kites
Zen Buddhism - reading and practicing
The Ford Focus - modding
Atheism
Photography
Banjos - to play and make
Collecting movies on VHS

The Kinks
Mod Culture
Classic Television
Hogan's Heroes
The Mid to late 60s (1964-1969)
The Internet
The Summer and Winter Olympics
The old London with Routemasters and black taxis.
Sweet Peas (Pea-like characters)

These days it's my paracosm, football, Ireland, writing, weird books, and art although I'm not doing as much art as I ought to.

When I was a kid it was all sorts from crystal maze and gladiators through to Peter Pan through to (having bad taste in) football and anything else my best friend was into.

My best friend was basically the only person I socialised with from 7-10. Then I had a similar gang of mates at secondary, and I wound them up by figuring things out (or having my dad tantrum with me and I couldn't think of any arguments against what he was saying - by that age the mates had decided it was 'cool' to make fun of other cultures).

I spent time being obsessed with politics but I'm fed up of it cos nobody ever listens to the other side's arguments. I prefer philosophy and ethics because people are more individual there.

It's varied over the years.
History of the American Revolution
80's pop culture
romance novels
manga
aquariums
gardening
The Bible

Lately I've been interested in the history of people with disabilities and the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. I'm not excellent at math and physics so that makes those last two topics a bit of a challenge but I so want to know how our universe works!

*Vintage Color Televisions
*Vintage outdoor power equipment(mowers, garden tractors)
*Vintage appliances(washers, dryers)
*Vintage vacuum cleaners(I work in a vacuum repair shop)
*The Bell System

Politics, languages, demography, ethnic groups, LGBT+ culture, history, climatology, physics, animals, mental conditions, literature...

Politics
Music especially metal
Film/TV
Tennis
Doctor Who
History especially British and German history
Modern art especially Surrealism
Comics
Literature

Those are my main ones. I have lots of minor special interests that come and go but the ones above have been the most enduring.

My main interest is cataclysmic research, both from the threat analysis side and the disaster preparedness side.

But I have had many interest over the years, many involved collecting stuff. At around the age of 3 or 4 it was collecting snakes and salamanders. Then marbles. Then butterflies, moths, stamps, comic books, pre-1900 books. For awhile I was obsesses with having the world's sharpest pencil. I spent many hours sharpening it. Then hiking and sleeping under the stars. My interest then switched to cars, muscle cars. Then D&D. Then strange exercise routines such as doing 500 sit-ups at a time or jogging 10 miles every day after work. Then scuba diving. I lived a half block from the ocean at the time. Then high quality audio recordings, such as direct to disc recordings. That somewhat covers the first 30 years and my interest never slowed down any since, but just kept exploding.

Photography.
Collecting vinyl records.
Fixing old electronics.
Cars.
Drawing.
Gaming.

hearing old audio restored and in sparkling stereo

Turtles
Wolves
Dogs
Pokemon

Distilled alcoholic beverages, specifically whisky and rum. The complexities involved in producing a viable aged product from the raw base materials through fermentation, distillation and aging is immense. The number of variables is staggering and the impact on resulting smell and taste profile is very interesting. If only the average consumer understood the science that went into producing a bottle of the liquid they purchase I think they'd have a lot more respect for it - although I imaging the majority would neither understand nor care....

Geeking out on this has gotten so bad now that I've ended up writing a blog to stop my head exploding.


....also, Cyberpunk - all formats, games, literature and screen.