Your most obsessive obsession...

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In the past, I've driven my family bonkers with my obsession over Tintin, ABBA, Star Wars, Spielberg movies, Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds, William Golding, Douglas Adams, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Simpsons. Other things I've obsessed over were the Apollo moon landings, Star Trek, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Asterix, Atlantis, Erich von Däniken, B.C., the Airport movies, military service, my school's drama club, H.R. Giger, Sherlock Holmes, I Dream of Jeannie, Bugs Bunny, Red Dwarf, Stargate, Shock Treatment, A Christmas Carol, The Matrix, Garfield, FoxTrot, Party Monster and Sherman's Lagoon.

Here's one for you.

I began my obsession with 3D by learning how to render a still frame the wrong way with the wrong program. Yet, by trial and error, I was able to render the single image I wanted.

I took detailed notes of all that went wrong at first, then homed in my solution. Near the end, my test renders took seven hours each.

I finally got the result I wanted after exactly 100 days. I didn't do anything during that time other than try and try again. I still have all the notes, nearly an inch thick.

Whew!

dp

pixar animations and drawing mazes

MsJ,

There is a Cat Appreciation thread. It has a lot of pictures of very beautiful cats. The kitty in your avatar is beautiful.

That's one reason why I love going to Washington, D.C.- I get to walk around near all those places, like the Hoover Building. For a while when I was younger I wanted to be an FBI agent, but nothing's really come out of it.

I'll have to hunt out that thread! Sparkle says thanks for the compliment, but she already knows she is beautiful because she is a supermodel (she is conceited like that. And delusional). She's a Somali, which is like an Abyssnian, only plusher, with a fluffy tail. Same wacko personality.

My two other cats - Binga, our shelter rescue and Boodie, the foster cat who never left - are also pretty kitties. Binga's a tortie with the requisite tortie personality and Boodie might be all or part Birman - the head of the rescue she came from picked her and sister up from their vet, who found them abandoned in a box in their parking lot.

When I find the cat thread, I'll post pics.

-J.

South Park
Presidents/Politics
Weather
Sports...ANYTHING sports!
Radio/music

I'm not sure if I've replied to this thread or not, but I want to talk about my obsession really, really badly, so I'll just say it:

Vampires. Vampires. VAMPIRES.

It started with a love of the vampire anime Hellsing, but it has spread to other vampire-themed things such as books, movies and even songs. I really wish our economy was in better shape, because I would love to splurge my checks on as much vampire stuff as possible.

I don't know. I know when I am heavily into a topic / subject then I know it's just an obsessive interest and I'm clear about that...

...but what I don't know is something like this example: We got a new petrol lawn mower, I wanted to take better care of it than the mower we had before - I read the instruction manual to excess - made notes from it etc, made notes about when it should be serviced and how [changing it's oil etc] then because it said it needed to be cleaned from the grass after use I would clean it, but not quickly, for hours - it got so I didn't actually want to cut the grass any more because I knew I would spend far to long cleaning it afterwards and as with everything, being all or nothing, with absolutely everything I do, I suddenly just stopped and I didn't clean it, all [last] summer long. I just got fixated on it and not because I particularly enjoyed it either. [I have done similar with many different things over time] I guess that sort of thing is considered more ocd??? If your prone to obsesses over subjects etc then it probably can just spill over to other areas and sometimes when you don't even really want to?

I Just wanted to add that, the lawn mower thing and situations like it - I don't know if that is just because I have trouble stopping one thing to start another - unless it is something I should be doing but not interested in - then I can't get started or stay focused at all. Anyway I feel that the stopping and starting thing is a major influence for me with these things.

Music, since I was 9.

At the moment: Baroque and pre-Baroque music.
: The development of our current notation system.
: The recorder.

Well... I had a four-week obsession with a computer game, averaging 14 hours a day at the peak of it and going up to 20 hours sometimes. Thankfully the really strong ones never last that long. Actually for me I think there's a nice inverse relationship between obsession strength and obsession duration.

My weakest obsession is medicine. It has lasted from age three until now. It averages about five hours a week time spent, but can be eclipsed by stronger obsessions to completely disappear until the stronger obsession fades a little.

Next up is science, which I would say is probably something like age five to current. Science in general is very broad; the way this one works is that it switches from specific topic to specific topic as the years go on. It started out with meteorology when I was very young, and has touched on epidemiology, physics, psychology, astronomy, and mathematics, usually centered on specific topics within the general topic, like being fascinated with general relativity in physics.

The best I can think of to use these obsessions is biomedical engineering... hopefully if I can stay interested, I can keep a job.

If it ain't Baroque don't fix it.

Playing with numbers and collecting firearms are my most persistent obsessions.

Currently AS and ASDs are my most "obsessive" obsession. Before that it was World of Warcraft. When I was an adolescent, I developed an obsession with a girl that extended well into high school. I'd say it lasted from 6th grade to 10th grade. I have read that this is a fairly common AS-type obsession more than NT.

ASDs for me. Before that, genealogy, and before that some very specific historic/art stuff. I've been called the "reigning expert" in a tiny area of art history. The Antiques Roadshow misquoted me once.

Z

relationships between separately originated number streams.

Anything to do with dreams/dreaming, when I have a dream I tell everyone I know in every detail. lol people always expect the first thing I say to be about dreams. And when I'm with a group of people and feeling particularly shy my confidence suddenly goes up when someone mentions dreams and I'm the one doing all the talking.
I have all my weirdest ones remembered like a database and when I get the right chance I talk about it, it's like I know exactly what to say because I've mentioned that certain dream so many times.