Your random interests

Mid-Century Modern/Usonian homes Architecture/Decorating
Celtic and Germanic legend and mysticism
Native American legend and mysticism
Guitar/amp/effect building/modifying/playing. (Guitar building by hand would be "extreme woodworking")
Writing and recording electric guitar instrumental music.
Wildlife... Natural gardening/landscaping


Whole bunch of stuff I can't do anymore. (including the actual building of guitars as I used to be able to do, it's still an "interest")

Hot Rods/Street Machines/Muscle Cars.... In the 70's this is all I did 24 hrs a day.
Construction work, homes/outbuildings/gazebos/sheds/etc.


I'm sure I'm forgetting more than I listed above....

 

really!? you don't say!?

 

I'm interested in everything, but it's all bullshit.

 

I'm really into the history of our evolution from simple ape-like creatures into the homo sapiens we are today. I don't know what you call that--paleo anthropology maybe?

I'm also fascinated with the history of Southern California. In a generation, the region went from uninhabitable desert to a huge metropolis. The history of the freeway system in particular interests me. I'm one of those nerds who watches Who Framed Roger Rabbit and realizes it's all based in fact. Judge Doom's plans for the freeway and the end of the trolley service that is, not the part about cartoons being alive and sharing our world.

 

Yes! Evolutionary anthropology. I took a class on it and it was my favorite university class ever

 

Back when I was teaching guitar building I showed a guy how to build a dulcimer I had built years before that was based on acoustic guitar building principals. A couple of years later I got a letter from a lawyer saying this guy had a patent on my ideas and was going to sue me for something I had done 5+ years before he had gotten the patent... Some people are really stupid.

 

that's a tiny bit of a self contraction because the only bullshit is what people tell each other.
out beyond the box of people doing so, there is a real universe, that is not bullshit at all.
strange yes, and the unknown even stranger, but not bullshit itself at all.

 

Most Impressive....And To Think That For Years We All Thought You Had Nothing Going

For You But A Pretty Face.......



Cheers Glen.


PS:-...(just joking about the pretty face.....rugged yes.....pretty.???..most certainly not).....

 

Music/music history
Secret societies/the occult
Beer
Quantum physics
Altered states of consciousness
Geopolitical intrigue (aka conspiracies)

 

I'm interested in everything and nothing.
I don't know.

Etymology usually interests me.

 

narrow gauge railways, not because steam or nostalgia, but the aesthetics and environment of minimalist form factor.

non-rectangular small form factor architecture, because cars and rectangles break the magic of everything else.

and feral cats, and other furry small form factor living things, because no one species, however sapient, is the center of the universe.

forested mountains, because nature is what belongs here, and the results are far more pleasing of working with it then against.

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(however much fun some people might find an adversarial culture to role play, none would be my furst choice in real life.

stories about people finding ways to solve problems, not destroy things, or each other, even socially.

thus fiction ABOUT science (and engineering and technology and even visual arts), which is the REAL 'science' fiction.)

 

Mmmm, I am interested in everything, too--almost anything can be interesting if you are talking to someone who is passionate about the topic. I love talking to people who get excited about things: like asking a scientist about their current research, or asking someone who has a hobby to talk about their hobby and watching their face light up as they explain their passion to you.

 

Yeah, I could have made an endless list too (including architecture and psychology) but you got to stop somewhere. When i thought about it im technically more anthropologically (sp? ) interested in humans than psychologically.
It also feels like you're now not really interested in the things you didn't add. Not so of course

Basically when I'm in the right mood I'm interested (or can get interested) in everything. But I'm not always in that mood naturally :-D

 

What do you mean by anthropologically? Like your interested in different cultures or stuff like how we lost (most) our hair and became bipedal?

 

I took the class and had a really hippie teacher. Well he didn't dress like a hippie or act like that Beavis and Butthead teacher caricature but he had a super care free disposition. One of our extra credit opportunities was to go participate in a ceremony by the "local" native american tribe and when describing participating in the ceremony he actually said "... it's not like I'm asking you to come and take peyote."

 

mine can mostly be pretty much categorized as opportunities for creative self expression.
i think if something fits that description, i have at least some interest in it.

also i think someone was mentioning, well i have to admit i like to do crazy creative things with them, but anyway;

guess where by themnax

 

And the whole class collectively replied, "but why arent you asking us to come and take peyote, prof?!"

 

- Fingerless leather gloves
- Multitools (Victorinox stuff in particular)
- Zippo lighters
- Movies, especially 80's and 90's cult classic stuff, and in particular all the trivia, like deleted scenes, script differences, and behind-the-scenes shenanigans, and why a particular scene happened the way it did.
- Used to be a gamer, but got bored after the Playstation 2-era. But I got pretty good at doing my own cheat codes by way of hex editing and disassembly. Still enjoy a discussion about my favorite retro titles.
- Straight edge, and living clean.

 

Starshine
Moonbeams
And lunar prison colonies