things that interest you

[Rick Daris]

that don't interest 99% of people as much as they interest you and why (maybe).

1) new zealand-almost moved there two years ago. still want to live there at some point in time. own books about it and still have a couple of new zealand online newspapers that i check weekly.

2) jamaica/jamaican food- have spent a total of three weeks there. love negril cliffs. if i could (i can't), i'd move there and live there the rest of my life. love jerk chicken. hunt out jamaican restaurants anytime i'm in a new town. three in my area that i know of. little grill-mhk. caribbean negril-junction city. g's-kc.

3)travel deals- constantly look at travel websites and cheap hotel deals and stuff like that. sometimes look up random cities that i've never been to and try to find out where i'd want to stay and how i'd get there and how cheap i could get it and stuff.

4)just realized all my things were travel type things. so #4 is ears. ears interest me. no real reason.

[FBWillie]

I've got a good friend from Lower Hut New Zealand.  He tried to get me into Rugby - He's a huge all blacks fan.  Also an OU fan... go figure.  I'd love to go to NZ some day.

[Rick Daris]

I've got a good friend from Lower Hut New Zealand.  He tried to get me into Rugby - He's a huge all blacks fan.  Also an OU fan... go figure.  I'd love to go to NZ some day.

i may or may not own an all blacks long sleeve t. 

[krazykat]

1. avalanches. i could watch youtube videos of them all day long. would love to study/bomb/predict/whatever with them.

2. www.14ers.com   can spend hours at a time on this site.

[icatmember]

1. Really nice kitchen knives, and sharpening said kitchen knives.

[FBWillie]

I was really trying to think of something; but most of the things I'm interested most likely have several people that are also interested in them.   This thread has just made me feel lame. But anyway; most obscure interest I can think of.
1) Sculptures.  Auguste Rodin's work fascinates me.
2) B/W Photography Darkroom
3) Archery

Recent interest that may just turn out to by my flavor of the month
4) wanting to learn German
5) Wanting to learn the Violin &/or Stand up bass.

[steve dave]

that don't interest 99% of people as much as they interest you and why (maybe).

1) new zealand-almost moved there two years ago. still want to live there at some point in time. own books about it and still have a couple of new zealand online newspapers that i check weekly.

2) jamaica/jamaican food- have spent a total of three weeks there. love negril cliffs. if i could (i can't), i'd move there and live there the rest of my life. love jerk chicken. hunt out jamaican restaurants anytime i'm in a new town. three in my area that i know of. little grill-mhk. caribbean negril-junction city. g's-kc.

3)travel deals- constantly look at travel websites and cheap hotel deals and stuff like that. sometimes look up random cities that i've never been to and try to find out where i'd want to stay and how i'd get there and how cheap i could get it and stuff.

Mine are very similar to Daris' 1-3.

1) NYC:  Envy the hell out of GOSP and Bhyaaa for living there.  I'm in the city about 3-5 times a year for work and still take the wife at least once a year to visit.  I think my obsession may come from growing up on a ranch out in the middle of nowhere. I love the feeling of being able to eat/do/see pretty much anything in total anonymity while surrounded by people.

2) Hawaii:  Mainly the North Shore of Oahu but love all of it.  Best restraunt I ever ate at was Alan Wong's.  Hillwalking may like Hawaii more than me though, not sure.

3) Travel deals like Daris said.  Kind of obssessed with Delta Skymiles and Hilton Honors as far as points go.  Have both the credit cards.  Signed up all our cards under the Delta Skymiles dining points thing.  Have vicious all out brawls with HR about business travel when I demand to stay at the Double Tree an hour away from the meeting because it's the closest Hilton hotel or fly in 7 hours early because it's the only Delta/Northwest flight available. 

4) Buffalo Wild Wings.  I eat here every thursday with my brother.  Pretty much addicted to the combination of BWW Hot and BWW blue cheese.  Bought stock in the company so try to recoup some of my losses to the damn place. 

[KITNfury]

• boobs
• sports
• movies

[sys]

gonna have to copy some of the already listeds.


in no order:

travel deals
knives and sharpness of said objects (i travel w. my own knives, hate using bad ones)
languages/etymology, especially links btwn romance langs and english
accents/dialects (not the accents of a non native speaker, but different regional/class accents.  especially of spanish and english)
college bball/bball recruiting
snakes
rodents
breeds of domestic animals
wine
making foods (not cooking, but making stuff that people often buy, like cheese or pickles, etc.).  have a feeling ol' chings will be copying me here.  lol.
maps
bread/pizza


i could go on and on.  i have a lot of uncommon interests.

[steve dave]

i travel w. my own knives, hate using bad ones

Man, this is pretty elite.  Like fancy real timey chef stuff. 

Sys, you are not the top chef.  Please pack your knives and go.

[pissclams]

@sys
sys.  if you like pizza/dough/bread, i have two great resources for you.  the first is a book that every bread maker needs to have in his/her library-



second, a pizza website where the guy gets really in depth about dough making-
http://slice.seriouseats.com/jvpizza/

@OP
here are some things that interest me-
bread/pizza making.  i have spent several years learning how to cook pizza from scratch.  it's a fantastic hobby because there are an unlimited set of variables to continue to tweak.  it's like golf in that it's something incredibly hard to perfect, except it is actually fun.

wine.  again, like bread, wine is something that is incredibly detailed and something that is impossible to completely perfect.  i love trying new wines and buying and then aging wines.  own a ton of wine.

cooking.  i love to cook anything.  currently in the "smoked foods" chapter of my cooking career.  i've spent almost every saturday since early spring cooking on my smoker.  again, incredibly detailed and tons of variables to play with making it difficult to master.

skiing/colorado.  what's not to love right?  very interested in the many things to do in colorado.  want to move there but not sure if i want to.

mountainbiking.  they say that sundays are made for football.  i spit in there faces.  sundays are meant for a fast singletrack with your friends, or without your friends if you don't have any.  it sucks when it gets really hot but i love it in the spring and the fall.  generally i get scared of snakes and wood ticks, both of which love mountainbike trails.  tons of great trails in the kc area too.  want to visit my friend who lives near Taos and ride with him.  would feel incredibly elite bringing my bike to NM.  

photography.  have spent a lot of time learning the intricacies of photography and love the creative aspect of it.

oil painting/pastel.  baroque? neo-impressionism? roccoco? impressionism? modern?

hiking.  have hiked a ton of the peaks throughout the adirondacks.  would like to do the same in the rockies.  once ran into a bear on the trail, kept walking but was scared.

people.  i love meeting new people and learning about what makes them tick, what they do, and how they do it.  learn from them what works and what doesn't.

basketball.  omfg it's almost here.  love watching a team and disecting it's strengths/weaknesses, watching a team grow.  huggy's season herer was almost unbearable for me to watch.

[sys]

thx for the book tip 'clams, gonna have to check that out.


here's a similar little tip for fellow domestic animal enthusiasts.  if you only read one book about domestic animals this year, make it this one.





and a tidbit for fellow food makers - making quince butter tonight.  

[hemmy]

Roller coasters, riding as many of them before I die as possible.

[ksu_FAN]

A lot of these probably interest other people.

football: schemes, offensive formations, creating advantages
basketball: similar, more focused ond defense though
watercolor painting: landscapes, color
golf: playing, right now "fixing" my driver
diy home stuff: but I've had about enough of it
digital video production
the bible: study, particularly how the original languages translate into English
beer: like to try new ones
photoshop: just messing around though

[WillieWannabe]

Weather - Love watching forecasts and seeing days in advance when storms are coming. Love the nights before snowstorms come in. Always hoping for over 12 inches of snow. Absolutely love storm season. Love watching Radar and seeing how storms form. Probably have seen the Greensburg radar footage at least 100 times. Cannot WAIT for the new season of Storm Chasers on Discovery on Oct. 18th!

NASCAR - I know its popular, just not on this board. Parents watched it when i was growing up, so now i watch it every Sunday. It is a lot more interesting if you actually have a favorite driver.

[cyclist]

1.  RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) Calculators.  Hewlett Packard and otherwise.  I have some Soviet RPN Calulators as well as Novus, National Semiconductor and Omron models.  These interest me because I'm an engineer and fulltime geek.

2.  Cycling !  I used to cycle a bunch.  Not so much anymore.  Still love to follow the Tour de France and took time to see the Tour of Missouri time trial stage in Sedalia this year.  Here is George Hincapie checking out the route prior to the 'Race of Truth' :



3.  Photography.  Mrs. cyclist and I took a trip to Yellowstone and the Blackhills recently.  Here is a picture of Old Faithful:



And backcountry geyser, Lonestar:



4.  Single Malt Scotch Whisky.  I call it nectar !

5.  KSUFans.com.   I spend way too much time on these boards...

[Chingon]

Lets see...

conspiracy theories, and kooky occulty stuff (illuminati, rosa crucia, templars, homunculi, etc...) because its amazing how people come up with this stuff and shows the human need for order in the Universe.

cooking (from making basic ingredients to final assembly)  It's fun to make things, doubly so from scratch.

Rome (Late Republic Era) One of the most important time periods in human history

Mythology (of all types, not just Greek) Myths speak to the primal human condition and probably the most powerul and honest portrayal of how humanity deals with existence.  The consistency in archetypes across all cultures is stunning.

Quantum Mechanics Its amazing how such a simple theory can explain so much and yet lead to so many complications.

60's Ska I just like it!

Bollywood Movies  Real hit or miss, but the hits are always spectacular.

Newsradio Probably the biggest fan of the show in the whole world.  

[Chingon]

1.  RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) Calculators.  Hewlett Packard and otherwise.  I have some Soviet RPN Calulators as well as Novus, National Semiconductor and Omron models.  These interest me because I'm an engineer and fulltime geek.

I cannot use non-RPN calculators anymore...

[ksuno1stunner]

poker - always liked it, never thought it would be a job.  play a really mathematical style, love analyzing difficult hands, either through chatting about it or running a program, just trying to figure sh*t out.

music - love mainstream rap and pop.  also tried to make rap beats before, huge fail.  i used to be quite good at playing the cello, but that doesn't translate to creativity.  want to learn how to dj and mix/mash since it seems fun.

pool - love playing and gambling.  would like to eventually take formal lessons to crush souls.

pua/social dynamics - say what you want  not just w/ girls or whatever, but just being more talkative and outgoing with everyone.  always been quiet, and am just trying to improve in that aspect.  also goes kind of along w/ what pissclams says, its really interesting stuff, finding out how everything works.  i'm not hardcore into it or try and be cheesy like the show, just download ebooks on the topic and read when i am bored.

trying to think of what interests me but not others makes me realize i'm not a deep person.  oh well.  maybe why i am so anti-elite music, it is boring.  i find life's more enjoyable just seeking out fun wherever, and living without rules.

[cireksu]

Football (stuff that fan likes)
Food-cooking and eating going to ethnic rest.
wine and beer-set up my own tastings with friends, attend alot.
History-read lots of books and stuff.
Sociology-big people watcher.

[cyclist]

1.  RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) Calculators.  Hewlett Packard and otherwise.  I have some Soviet RPN Calulators as well as Novus, National Semiconductor and Omron models.  These interest me because I'm an engineer and fulltime geek.

I cannot use non-RPN calculators anymore...

Once you RPN...  

[I_have_purplewood]

Tobacco Tins- Have been collecting them for some time now.  Have a Times Square, Forest and Stream and a Three Twins tin that are probably my favorites and most expensive if I tried to sell.

Shuffleboard- I feel pretty comfortable saying that I think I'm one of the best in Kansas.  Lowest rated anyway.  (that would be the bar type and not the kind you play on a ship.)

[pissclams]

poker - always liked it, never thought it would be a job.  play a really mathematical style, love analyzing difficult hands, either through chatting about it or running a program, just trying to figure sh*t out.

stuns have you played at a casino?  would make a great mini-PAK oppy

[ECN]

Here is my non-sports list.

1. Photography/Designing — Hopefully getting my own biznitch up and running soon.  
2. Cigars — have a nice humidor stuffed with cigars. Nice to have every now and then.
3. People — Just read 'clams entry on what he said about people. It applies to me as well.
4. Collecting Cards of HOF'ers with a piece of bat, jersey, or autograph on it. Have a nice collection I'll sell down the road. (DiMaggio, Mantle, J. Robinson, Elway, etc.)
5. Making a family.
6. Whiskey/Scotch — love it.
7. Smokin' meats — Now is the perfect time.
8. Ebay — JFC I'm addicted

I'm sure there are more, but I don't have time to sit and think and type it out.

[slucat]

Uncommon interests of mine:
the Cello
wool rug hooking

I'm into a bunch of common things:
skiing-down and water
cooking/baking
photography
KSU sports
travel and finding deals
finding cheap gas

[steve dave]

Uncommon interests of mine:
wool rug hooking

OMG SOUNDS SO DIRTY!

[Kat Kid]

I've decided I'm not going to fix my xbox 360.

Have been having groups of people over for dinner.  Think I will continue expanding that circle.

Reading: books/magazines/online (should do this more)

Guitar Amps (not for a long time, but can basically could sell these)

Would like to get more in to:

travel deals, cheap stuff, cooking, stocks, mythology and ancient civilizations.

CHINGON EXPECT A DINNER INVITE!

[michigancat]

music - I read like 50 mp3 blogs and listen to about 50 new mp3's a day.  I obsess over finding new stuff and it just makes my day when I hear something that makes me stop what I'm doing to hear a sound combo I've never heard before.

yoga - not really obsessive, but I could be.  I love doing it.  If I didn't live in a BFE POS town, I'd probably be obsessive about yoga.

being cheap/saving - I love pinching pennies while pouring as much money as possible into retirement and 529 accounts.

being green - If I can help it, I recycle, reuse, etc.  it started because they opened a landfill close to my parents.

cities - they're just awesome.  I'm kind of like SD - growing up in a small town where everybody knows you and has a preconceived notion about you makes the anonimity of a city liberating.

[ksuno1stunner]

poker - always liked it, never thought it would be a job.  play a really mathematical style, love analyzing difficult hands, either through chatting about it or running a program, just trying to figure sh*t out.

stuns have you played at a casino?  would make a great mini-PAK oppy

just twice.  would definitely make a great mini-PAK'r though.

Uncommon interests of mine:
the Cello

  marry me

[jeffy]

1.  RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) Calculators.  Hewlett Packard and otherwise.  I have some Soviet RPN Calulators as well as Novus, National Semiconductor and Omron models.  These interest me because I'm an engineer and fulltime geek.

I cannot use non-RPN calculators anymore...

Once you RPN...  

I thought you were still using slide rules!