Calendars, tv guides, timetables, maps

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I've always liked maps.

Not sure about the other things.

okay, I get it. It was like xkcd or something related then?



It is a reference to the song "I'm blacker than I'm black; and I'm black y'all"

Historical maps! I love them. I always try to collect them, but older prints are quite expensive.

I was never terribly interested in maps until about a year ago when i got placed on a grant project here at work that involved writing online map software; now I'm practically an expert on map projections and GIS.

I love maps. I have maps and globes all over the house. As a kid I loved to color maps or mark what was where on them. When I got older I could just stare at them for a long time and study them and admire them. Maps are cool.

Your son might enjoy this website: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm It has geography games on it, with maps! It's educational and fun.

I love calendars!

I like ways of dividing things up into neat, labelled categories, so a calendar, that divides the year up into twelve visible sections, is very pleasing to me. I definitely look forward to the ritual of turning a calendar over to the next page on the first day of every month. I can't have a calendar with random pictures, either: they have to be ones that are appropriate to that month.

I think I like clocks for the same reason. They divide up the day.

I enjoyed the Silmarillion too!

But I might not have done it if I hadn't read The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings first (and got kind of obsessed with them the first time I read them, at the age of 12-13 years.)

I had read all the other lotr/hobbit books first also...

... it filled in some gaps.... and whatnot


Jeff

I've always had a great fondness for maps, calendars, and t.v. guides, but especially for maps.

I like those things, too.

Not really. It was about pretending to be Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, or Jane Goodall, using the neighborhood dogs (which all ran around loose) as study subjects. The notebooks full of graphs, if consolidated, would show you which dogs were friends with which other dogs and who dominated whom, and the way certain dogs (very like me, now and then) were 'leaders' in the company of certain others yet got beat up when yet another came along and totally changed the dynamic by its presence. I think my mother, an ornithologist, still has them. She thought they were amazing. I should ask her, 'cause I'm wondering now if they really made sense.

Come to think of it, this may tie in to the stuff that folks were talking about in the recent thread about styles of play. I'd draw huge maps (a dozen pages, taped together) of landscapes and make tiny paper cut-out creatures to inhabit them, and move the figures about the maps. I was pretending to be tracking the movements of wildlife with radio transmitters. My parents thought I was making board-games and didn't understand why the maps were on grids and had movement-rates for the various types of creatures recorded in the margins, but there were no rules about what the little animal 'characters' might do, and I was completely unable to explain to someone else how to 'play.'

I like all of those things, too.

Maps? Brilliant! Statistics, graphs, encyclopedias - anything more visual /scientific really.

I used to like those things a lot as a kid too.

I found calendars fascinating (the order and system, changing times and seasons and the things people did on those times, etc.), and often I would use a pocket calendar to write stories in about some fictional people I invented (typically a family with parents and children), and what they did through the year with all that was special for every month and season.
Day plans were fun too, to write down in a similar way what people (or I myself in my imagination, in connection to playing etc.) would do through a day from morning to night. Or through the days of a week.

As for maps, it was never as profound an interest as the calendars, but I remember that I liked to look at maps as a kid, in an atlas mostly, and I learned early what the different continents' and countries' shapes looked like.