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That must be hard to focus on them if you don't drive...then again perhaps not, I began looking at maps and memorizing number schemes far before I could drive a car. New York's highways are not extremely interesting in themselves either. Although the ones around the City of New York are a bit more interesting...and it comes in handy when you're the person who always knows an alternate route. Most people think it's an uncanny ability, they have no idea I just spend my nights looking at maps

Thank you Tim

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I think that in some ways, the fact that I don't drive makes it easier to focus on roads...because I can pay attention to route numbers and signs and stuff instead of actually having to pay attention to driving. For example, a few days ago, I was the only one in the car who noticed that exit 5C had suddenly become exit 5B.

People rely on me for directions to everywhere, whether or not I've been there before. When I was younger, I would stay up in my room for hours with a map of Franklin County. Now, I just use Google Maps or Windows Live Maps, but I pretty much still do the same thing.

Wow, a road geek from Ohio! I'm from Ohio, but definitely not a road geek as maps give me lots of trouble, unfortunately. It is ironic not to drive though you love roads. If you did get your license, you'd probably really love driving! I don't so much. Anxiety, eek!

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I think that in some ways, the fact that I don't drive makes it easier to focus on roads...because I can pay attention to route numbers and signs and stuff instead of actually having to pay attention to driving. For example, a few days ago, I was the only one in the car who noticed that exit 5C had suddenly become exit 5B.
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Oh and I hadn't seen this one yet, but this is definitely true. I pay attention to roads best when I'm not the one driving. When I am driving, I miss my exit # all the time. A GPS is the greatest technological device on the planet, at least in my opinion.

Oh, and do any of you road geeks love looking at the maps on GPS units? You can actually program a route and watch the car navigate across the map from start to finish. I think that's pretty cool.

I have a permit (I'm 17), but I don't actually do much driving yet. It's fun, but like I said, I don't get to do it very often.

Hmm...I don't have a GPS unit around--no one in my family needs one because they just ask me for directions. But I do like to program routes in Google Earth and watch the "camera" fly over the route. It's pretty cool. I could spend hours and hours on Google Earth. The only downside is that G.E. doesn't have as high-resolution graphics as say, Windows Live or Yahoo Maps.

My obsessions (at least some of them I have many)

1.Music
2.Guitars
3.Computers and PDA´s
4.My health
5.Aspeger Syndrome

Countries - capials, cities, suburbs, street maps.
Lists of anything.

- Art
- Serial killers/forensic
- Sailor Moon
- Coffee
- The news channel (especially the weather)

pc games (e.a world of warcraft , c&c3, etc)

Interests you say? Obessions? *clears throat*

lets start with pathology
then
viral pathology (specifically HIV)
then
physics
then
Saturday morning cartoons
along with
VIDEO GAMES (specifically old NES, SNES and later RPGs and RTSs)
and
drawing
then
Spice Girls (for a time... i got better i swear, but unfortunately i can still sing almost every song and know who's singing when)
then
mythology(in the general sense)
and
religion(also in a general sense but i can get into all the messed up things specific holy books)
then
Anime
and
animation and computer graphics (as in making them)
along with
evolutionary biology, social dynamics, sex(and everything to do with the whole process), and Aspergers

current obsession: competing in a computer graphics competition called Dominance War 3, your given guidelines to follow and you create a character based on those guidelines, your work is judged and you can win prizes and such

Just developed a new obsession in electronics. Specifically audio circuits and am hoping to start designing guitar effects pedals. I know almost nothing about it at the moment though so am reading like crazy.

I swear these thngs get more strange every time...

DON'T be; be thankful.

I count parts, mostly mechanical but often in the composition of patterns.

I spent a few hours on my back in an emergency room once and counted every hole in a ceiling tile, then multiplied it by the number of tiles, then adjusted the running total for tiles that were only a portion of the standard size tile...

All the while imagining the machine that produced the tiles and the installers making the cuts to install the odd sized pieces.

I developed a grand headache.

My obssesions are:
Personal Computing
Final Fantasy
Anything with the colour Orange on it
Smartphones (I stroke my N95 8GB and even rub it against my cheek at the bus stop!)
Sex
More Sex

anime
psychology
biology
manga
sociology
philosophy
anatomy
sex ed
quizzes
quotes
collecting