Random Fascinations?
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- mg33
Anything in particular you have a strange fascination with?
I, for example, am fascinated by the battle between snake and gator going on in the Florida Everglades. Can easily waste an hour or two every now and then searching for photos and news stories about how pythons and boas are taking over the Everglades, even killing off alligators there and several other animal species. They estimate there could be as many as 180,000 Burmese pythons living there.
- nocomply0
I've got plenty... but they tend to change fairly often.
For example, now that I have a backyard for the first time since I was a kid I've become fascinated with watching the neighborhood birds fly around. Our neighbor has a bunch of trees and a couple of Western Scrub Jays live up in there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We... Either he or someone else leaves whole peanuts in the shell out for the birds, and these birds pick them up and fly into my yard to crack open the shells and have a feast.
Admittedly this is all pretty lame, but since I'm working from home watching those birds has become the highlight of my day.
I've also become fascinated with how all of the plants in the backyard grow. I walk out to check on them every day... or actually, several times a day.
I'm also fascinated with knights and castles. I could spend hours reading about cool old castles and the dungeons in them and such.
Man, typing this out I really come off as pretty pathetic. I swear I have normal interests and "cool people" hobbies too!
- sounds like you live near my dad, he feeds the local blue jays peanuts every daymonospaced
- haha, old man passtimes!detritus
- you have a train in your basement?ernexbcn
- whhipp0
^ end of thread due to boredom.
- bjladams0
i have a pretty extensive collection of vinyl records.
- gaycannonball1978
- nope... one of the most rewarding hobbies/obsessions... searching for vinyl, coming home with a stack and finding one gem that makes it all worth it.sine
- ...one gem that makes it all worth it. i've been collecting records for over 12 years...sine
- haha - i suppose the 'randomness' would be that i'm deaf, so can't really enjoy them... fullybjladams
- haha... i'll take them!sine
- trade for 1/4 long desert frog?bjladams
- epic_rim0
Oil refineries are pretty interesting. I like reading about them.
- sine0
tadpoles... i collected a jar on a recent trip into the desert.
the first frog escaped today... he's somewhere in my apartment, and he's only about a 1/4 inch big. been obsessed with checking their transformation over the last month or so.
- GeorgesII0
Humans,
I could spend hours watching, like the little ants they are,MUAHAHAHAHAHAH
- ukit20
Random fascinations. I find them fascinating.
- Iifeinvector0
People.
- ShadowsIifeinvector
- Before & after picturesIifeinvector
- DiseasesIifeinvector
- Methods of parentingIifeinvector
- Neil deGrasse TysonIifeinvector
- CloudsIifeinvector
- Neil deGrasse Tyson is pretty coolukit2
- ChangeIifeinvector
- DreamsIifeinvector
- Our existence in the universeIifeinvector
- The number 7Iifeinvector
- Death & the human experienceIifeinvector
- http://i.imgur.com/W…Iifeinvector
- LandscapingIifeinvector
- ScarsIifeinvector
- The scents inside housesIifeinvector
- The relativity of everythingIifeinvector
- What others find importantIifeinvector
- pr20
--unique large machinery (oil rigs, large ships, mining gear)
--old stuff still influencing (or leaving its marks) on current world
--structures of stuff (mostly of power, politics, art)
--war (in it's "cooless" - explosions, machinery, accomplishments; and its horrors)
--looking at art from a new perspective (discovering that the past was treating its own way and our perception of it is often mistaken)
- animatedgif0
ICBMs and X-Planes, not that random because both are fucking cool.
- BaskerviIle0
That python story is insane. Had no idea.
But what the hell is Fox News Latino? Why are they segregating news audiences now? do not like.- so advertisers can target the viewers during that time slot more easily.CyBrainX
- Pixter0
Black holes, Quasars and some universe shit.
- < Yeah this for me. The universe has always been a fascination of mine, one that's never satisfied.CygnusZero4
- < SAME here. Universe Shit FTWmonospaced
- bobkat0
Religion. And how wrong it is.
- yeah, same heremonospaced
- Doesn't that just make you angry?HAYZ1LLLA
- albums0
Microexpressions.
I bought 5 or 6 books on the subject a few weeks back
- mg330
I'm also fascinated with the postal system and shipping in general. We hardly ever give it much thought but it's pretty awesome that mail always seems to get to where it needs to go.
- dijitaq0
i like exotic car spotting and take photos of the ones i see on the street.
- dijitaq0
and i also like watching shows like how it's made
on discovery, but i'm more interested on the automation system works. i think it's far more interesting than the product being made
- drgs0
running water, open fire, other people working
- utopian0
wet gaping holes, vagina, other people working
- monospaced0
How students can graduate from high school without being able to read in America. It's not only fascinating how this happens, it's infuriating.
- I apologize. Not America, the United States. :Dmonospaced
- They're not exactly illiterate, but they are far from proficient.monospaced
- no child left behind act? schools lowers the bar so they meet the quota?pango
- Mexico?fredddddd