What's your current obsession?

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Firebirds. I like the lines of the 2nd & 3rd generations.

Brass.

Man, that stuff is neat-o! I've never liked gold as a material, it's too shiny, hurts the eyes. But there's something earthy about brass, and how it tarnishes and turns into a pleasant autumnal color. The sound of it when it's bumed or dropped. The smell of it. The micropores in it's surface when you touch it. It is more pliable, yet harder to drill through, than steel.

I'm adding a lot of brass to my (homemade) guitar right now. A carved coverplate for the (also brass) speaker cone. Brass rivets on the edges. An acid etched logo on the headstock.

And I keep acquiring little brass thingies somehow. Ashtrays. An engineer's compass. A little salt dish. Wall sconces.

Oh, that's just the newest one. Got so excited about brass I kind of lost track of the thread structure... D:

The big one:
-Making (& Unmaking) Things (30 years): taking apart toasters, locks, etc. then putting them back together. Building furniture for no reason. Fixing bikes. Making clothing. Making a guitar.

Which encompasses the following:
-Pop Music (32 years): specifically arrangements, # of repetitions in a verse, chorus, etc
-Cooking & Baking (20 years): specifically fermentation & the science of preparing food.
-Writing Music / Playing an Instrument (18 years): specifically teaching myself how to play new instruments and self-discovering new techniques
-Fabrics (20 years): Different weaves of wool and cotton. I love gabardine & oiled canvas.
-Electronics (17 years): Making amplifiers microphones and signal processors, and the science of how recording equipment works and how that science translates into sound. I have a tattoo of a 5 watt tube amp on my left arm, as an instructional diagram.
-Hand Tools (15 years): Doing things the slow, hard way gives more time to study what you're doing and enjoy the process. Listening to the rasp of a jeweler's saw is so much more interesting than listening to a dremel tool screaming.
-Wood & Woodworking (10 years): the feel and smell of unfinished wood. Different densities and patterns of grain. Esp fascinated by dark woods like walnut and hardwoods like oak and hickory.
-Printing (10 years): the processes thereof, but not the appreciation of finished prints

but really those are all just part of making (& unmaking, ie reverse engineering)

sudoku

Poker!

I have 3 obsessions ones long term,
and 2 are new.
Firstly my long term one is Beyblade since 2001 when it aired in Australia. (ive liked it for 10 years and am still obsessed).
2nd is learning more about aspergers, as i just found out i have it.
3rdly its a guy i realised i have known about a year before i met him and befriended, who is also an aspie.
I am not so much obsessed about him, him being the only male aspie i know really makes me fascinated.

My Obession is Freddie Mercury and Queen. It has been for 17 years already

Cars. Name a manufacturer and I can name every car they sell in this country, along with all of the engine and transmission options for each one.

Got a new job a few months ago working for an engineering company. I now spend ten to twelve hours a day driving prototypes of new models around LA.

I've read the major car magazines obsessively for years. At this job, I get to drive stuff that they're still speculating about the existence of.

And some of it quite high performance and exotic as well.

Yes, I am in heaven.

Paragliders & sailplanes!

This is great a great question you ask!! !! My daughter and I both have AS and we bounce from one obsession to the next... so right now I am focused on walking, I started about two weeks ago and find myself thinking about it all the time, I started walking for 20 minutes now I am already up to walking a hour after work!! ! I try and get my 12 year old to go with me, but she is stuck in her new obsession... her HAIR!! ! I mean she can spend HOURS getting it just right, looking for hair products online, etc. What a funny sight we must seem.... I, one my walks and her frantically brushing her golden mane!! !! I used to be obsessed with knitting but after the high ( yes it feels like a high when my projects first begin) started to ware off, and I was up until three am with very sore hands... I knew it was time to start anew!! ! and then ALAS<<< my love of drawing begins, and then fades after my dog chewed up my peice that took me three weeks to complete. For me I think it is the high of starting something and being consumed by it that always keeps me looking for the next .

WP has the most interesting people IMO ! !

I could quote most of the above but heres mine

# Engineering and Design of Anything Mechanical

# Architecture, Woodworking, Metal Working, Art.

# Earth Sciences, Nature.

# Aerodynamics, Hydrodynamics....a bit of Physics

# Photography

I just ask Why? & How? way too much..

I spent last weekend listening to nothing but Weezer, nonstop. It's starting to fade a little, but still dominant.

Can't think of any (yeah right)

Umm ... well here's a list of things I have been or am currently INTERESTED in (but my wife says are obsessional)

Road Wars (and similar police documentary series)
Judge Judy
Monk (OCD detective series)

Really Useful Boxes

Building Computers, taking them apart and reusing the parts to build other computers.
Building Computers out of free components or bits bought off eBay for a maximum of 99p.
Building Computers to run with the lowest power consumption
Building Computers to run with the lowest noise
Fixing Computers (for friends / local school)

Computer components (especially disks, Intel processors and memory chips)

MythTV - I now have a MythTV system with 8Terabytes of RAID5 (fault tolerant) storage and (in theory) can record 20 programs simultaneously.

CCTV (since we were burgled)

Rewriting Perl computer programs for clarity (again and again and again.... got to do this as a job for a while which was great)

Teddy Bears (hence the username)

Early Learning Centre Happy Tracks train set - building configurations where the train makes progression through sequences of sidings/loops like a binary counter. My wife can't see the attraction, for me it is the predictability of the system.

Let's see..

I'm happy to say AS! That's because my previous and most prominent obsession has been figuring out what's wrong with me


I've also been trying to figure out politics for the past few months, due to the presidential election coming up probably. (RON PAUL ftw!)

others include, but are not limited to:

guitar (alternating from covering songs to making my own)
psychology (constantly trying to diagnose everyone)
philosophy
religion
stock market-Terrible idea, no logic behind it at all,. ha
Movies
drugs (not taking, more like pharmacology)
weed and weed politics
documentaries
fixing things, especially at work
also work I think, trying different ways to make things go smoother and more productively, Pondering on how the owners could run a better company

oh, and i was hooked on runescape off and on for like 6 years... not so much the last couple months since i moved out and I still haven't gotten around to buying a computer table so I don't use the computer much..I hope that one doesn't resurface! such a time waster..

english fine bone china (teacups most especially)
chinese tea (pu-erh and oolong most especially)
rose bushes
orchids
dollhouse miniatures