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Posted on 10-23-10 05:01:07 AM Link | Quote
Is there anything unusual that you're interested in that few other people care about?

As for me, I've long been fascinated with, of all things, house numbering and addressing systems. I think it started when I'd read the house numbers to pass the time on car trips, and then I learned the various patterns, like odds and evens on opposite sides. Then, for a long time I tried to remember the biggest house number I've seen and look for bigger ones. Metro Detroit, where we wwent to visit the family, has a lot of addresses in like the 20000-50000 range, and I often wondered how high they got, and then I found this part of rural Ontario with 6-digit numbers.

Even today, I often use house numbers to judge distances and help navigate cities. I get confused by the European-style numbers that start with 1 and 2 at the start of the street and go up by 2, as they're generally less useful for navigation that the North American Cartesian-style numbers.

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Posted on 10-23-10 11:43:02 AM Link | Quote
I've always had an interest in "Magic Eye" pictures. You know, stuff like this:



I'm REALLY good at seeing these though, to the point where I'll use the Magic Eye technique in real life when I'm bored on anything with symmetry. This can be floor tiles, ceiling patterns, curtains, you name it, though obviously there's no hidden picture in those. I can do it without thinking. It's like crossing your eyes, but backwards. I even still have a Magic Eye VHS that taught me how to do it, and I still watch it from time to time to relax. I also think its weird that when crossing your eyes normal, you can overlap things that are a great distance apart, but when doing magic eye, your range is much more limited. Sometimes I try to see how far I can stretch my range.

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Posted on 10-23-10 03:47:50 PM (last edited by Orlandu at 10-23-10 12:48 PM) Link | Quote
I'm good at stereograms, too. Only takes me half a second to shift my eyes to see them.

As for my peculiar interest... I'd have to say it's RC cars and mostly drifting cars. Its pretty big in certain places. Here in Las Vegas they do mostly truck and off road races. There are some drifters and I got to hang out with them a few months ago.

I had a nitro truck by HPI first, it was a Savage X 4.6. Those things are rockets and very dangerous in my hands. I drive them like real monster trucks and would break something almost every time I'd start it up. Here is a pic:



Then we had gotten my wife a nitro on road car that was a drifter. It was our first drifter and not very easy to handle. It could go 45+ mph in a straight line and it was incredibly difficult to learn how to drift at those speeds. This was her Dodge Viper body that she painted for it:



Then we sold pretty much everything and got out of it for a while. Breaking so many parts on my truck made it a really expensive hobby.

This past Christmas we had some funds left over from selling our DSLR camera and I wanted to get a small RC car to play with. We got a Tamiya 1/16th scale on road car. It was only $100 and a really good deal. I still have it and haven't broken anything on it. And more recently, she bought me a 1/10th scale drifter from HPI. It came with a 2010 Camaro body so I wasn't going to argue. Its incredibly easy to drift compared to the nitro car we had before. Its just effortless and easy to pick up. I'm still learning the proper drifting styles and how to control it turn after turn, but I'm able to do pretty well. Here's a pic and video of our drift session a few months ago.



I'm in the green shirt and khaki shorts driving the black one.

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Posted on 10-23-10 04:01:48 PM (last edited by Terra at 10-23-10 01:02 PM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by BlackNemesis13
I've always had an interest in "Magic Eye" pictures.


A dentist's office had one of those things on the wall. It took me quite a while to be able to see the image in it properly, and I had to cross my eyes while looking at the reflected sunlight in the frame a certain way, and then I couldn't reproduce the feat.

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Posted on 10-23-10 04:13:47 PM (last edited by Sanky at 10-23-10 01:15 PM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by BlackNemesis13
I'm REALLY good at seeing these though, to the point where I'll use the Magic Eye technique in real life when I'm bored on anything with symmetry. This can be floor tiles, ceiling patterns, curtains, you name it, though obviously there's no hidden picture in those. I can do it without thinking. It's like crossing your eyes, but backwards. I even still have a Magic Eye VHS that taught me how to do it, and I still watch it from time to time to relax. I also think its weird that when crossing your eyes normal, you can overlap things that are a great distance apart, but when doing magic eye, your range is much more limited. Sometimes I try to see how far I can stretch my range.

I'm doing... exactly that. All the time. Windows, pillars, even the little squares in my textbooks! It's quite.. addictive.
I'm better at cross-eye. The focus further one takes a lot of concentration. Sometime I get them really far apart and it's gone and I can't reproduce it if I try too hard.

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Posted on 10-23-10 04:20:39 PM Link | Quote
I loved Magic Eye while growing up.

Not sure if this is related but I tend to see objects/animals/people in patterns on certain types of walls.

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I like rebuilding old computers. The 486 era ones. So much easier to do than recent ones. Unfortunately I haven't had a working rig in the longest time.

I also have an on again, off again hobby of collecting soda bottles.

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Posted on 10-23-10 07:16:50 PM Link | Quote
Radio and television stations... as well as cable television internals, etc. have always interested me for many years. It's interesting how some radio stations have evolved over 50 years, and I also like to follow the Arbitrons every quarter =)

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Posted on 10-23-10 10:13:28 PM Link | Quote
I have a bit of an interest in animation history. Appropriate, considering my interest in animation and cartoons.

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I also like old cameras. My old Canon AE-1, for example (which took this very picture in my background--and the other ones, too.)

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Posted on 10-23-10 11:49:33 PM Link | Quote
Collection and taxonomy of wildlife in video games.


Even I think I'm a little weird at times, but I absolutely love things like minor regional differences and multiple variations of similar creatures. The more variations, the better!

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Hurricanes. I tend to have the NOAA website open during the entire hurricane season.

When I hear someone saying that a storm will hit us I have to go into detail as to why it won't.

Most of the time, I'm right.

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I have an interest in urban rapid transit systems... especially those that have been demolished or were proposed and never built. And especially in Boston, but that's mostly because that's the city I'm most familiar with

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Ever since I was a small kid, I was always fascinated by power lines, or more specifically, the design of the masts holding the power lines up, and also their placement in the terrain. Especially steep terrain, which you would find in many places around where I grew up.

Also roads, as well. I would sometimes draw maps, where I planned the locations of both roads and electrical power lines, on copies of real, or made-up maps.

But I never did anything with this interest. I did not become a road constructions engineer or etc.

My interest for bad weather took the lead, and so I'm trying to become a meteorologist instead.
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Posted on 10-25-10 07:27:09 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Metal_Man88
I like rebuilding old computers. The 486 era ones. So much easier to do than recent ones. Unfortunately I haven't had a working rig in the longest time.


You're not the only one... though I typically lean toward newer stuff. The 486 I do have has a REALLY nasty-to-open case.

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