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MELODY-S
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23 Jun 2012, 12:42 pm

Decorating and gardening. I just bought a house, so I am having fun obsessing over it

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23 Jun 2012, 12:47 pm

MELODY-S wrote:

Decorating and gardening. I just bought a house, so I am having fun obsessing over it

I just put in an offer for a house. In the next couple of months, this is most definitely going to become my newest obsession as well. Sooooooo looking forward to it!

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24 Jun 2012, 12:06 am

genealogy ,I just traced one branch back to late 1500's London.
the meaning of surnames
Gardening(I've always liked this especially heirlooms)
Reptiles(this has been my passion for the last 15 years or so,if I could start over I would be a herpetologist)
My flute and music(I have played since I was twelve)
Family crests
My scots-Irish heritage
Poetry
My art
Wildlife
Crows and their language
Collecting cacti and odd plants
Astronomy
Feeding the birds and other wildlife
Antique bottles
Fossils, and cool rocks
Since I just got a computer looking up stuff on the internet
Movies and classic films

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28 Jun 2012, 6:18 pm

My current obsessions are:

Juggling
RPG

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28 Jun 2012, 7:41 pm

Current obsessions:

Asperger's
Diagnosing my mom's swelling issue
Stock market
The Hunger Games trilogy
Ending factory farming, or improving standards

Ongoing obsessions:
Wildlife/bird watching
The Beatles
Screenwriting
My job (software testing)
Animal welfare
Inventing stuff

Past obsessions:
The movie Inception
Starting a business (panini shop, orange leaf franchise, takeout pizza, gas station featuring full service like the olden days, skating rink)
Retinal detachment

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29 Jun 2012, 12:57 am

Current obsession? Aspergers and autistic spectrum disorders. Tangentially, I am also studying other disorders of the brain to learn better what makes it tick and so that I can have intelligent conversations about it.

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29 Jun 2012, 1:07 am

i just got a neat bit of software called roland r-mix which is a fascinating way to edit sound visually, to isolate the individual elements of a sound mix [it works even in mono] and rechannel them/repan them differently in a new stereo mix. this can be used to convert old monophonic recordings into genuine stereo ones even. fascinating

Da223
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29 Jun 2012, 3:04 am

Right now it's acoustic steal guitars. I'm especially fascinated by how much tension guitar strings can withstand.

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15 Jul 2012, 7:28 pm

My newest obsession is the Parthian Empire.

They were top-noch.

OhioStateDolphins
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16 Jul 2012, 12:38 am

Aspergers
Sports gambling
self hypnosis
radios/police scanners

Da223
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24 Jul 2012, 4:25 pm

Da223 wrote:

Right now it's acoustic steal guitars. I'm especially fascinated by how much tension guitar strings can withstand.

I recently experimented with steel strings. Boy they can withstand a lot of tension.

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24 Jul 2012, 4:30 pm

Da223 wrote:

Right now it's acoustic steal guitars. I'm especially fascinated by how much tension guitar strings can withstand.

I recently experimented with steel strings. Boy they can withstand a lot of tension.

it takes mega callouses on the fingertips to be able to withstand that much tension.

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26 Jul 2012, 7:26 pm

Misslizard wrote:

Now you sound like a kewl person I wouldn't mind knowing. I like much of the same things, so I wouldn't get bored taking with you.

devilDriver
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26 Jul 2012, 9:57 pm

32yo
I'm interested in almost everything. Sometimes my interests make it hard to get things done. Everyone who knows me always says I'm VERY observant.

Since I was maybe 4 or 5 I've always known which way north, east, south, west is. I'm fantastic with maps and geography. I love turning wrenches on my 4x4's, road trips, 4-wheeling, camping, mountain biking, nature etc. Generally speaking, I love efficiency, re-purposing, and customizing things in every aspect of my life. I love seeking and finding patterns and also comparing and contrasting cultures.

Just a few minutes ago I was watering my vegetable garden and found some hyper-aggressive ants farming aphids on one of my aspen trees. Of course, when I was done I had to come inside and discover what species of ant this was and investigate them since they were so aggressive almost wanting to jump on me from the tree and hanging completely off the leaves. I've always loved watching ants and bees work.

I read incessantly. Prob 99.999999% non fiction. I watch zero sitcom/fictional tv. I guess I might watch some Seinfeld or Curb now and then. I watch very few movies, the fictional movies I do enjoy are typically nihilistic and/or ironic (Cool Hand Luke, Fight Club, Big Lebowski, etc). Sometimes I might watch odd cartoons like Metalocalypse or Ren and Stimpy. The last purposely fictional book I read was maybe 3 years ago. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula le Guin, in hindsight its probably a very good AS book and maybe the only book I've ever read that was written by a woman.

My job is computer coding and modeling. I love problem solving.
dogs
metal(music)
home brewing beer
linux
sport of all kinds
economics
science
pot
documentaries
podcasts
WP forums recently

Wikipedia, Google, and Twitter have exacerbated every aspect of all my interests

jeez, I gotta add this after the fact. I've been completely and totally addicted to capsaicin since I was about 7.

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26 Jul 2012, 11:03 pm

Currently... drawing. I keep killing my pens and I need another sketch pad...

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02 Aug 2012, 2:36 pm

I've been working on a kid's picture book-- so drawing and writing a lot

Office supplies---- love the smell of post-it notes, self-stick address labels, new reams of paper...

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