Ha Ha--great thread
I also like contra dancing, by the way, but was never obsessed with it.
Current interest--enneagram
I've learned to tone it down with respect to talking about my interests. It's only occasionally now that I get the "can we please talk about something esle?" plea.
Mine is chemistry and the synthesis/testing/pharmacology of novel psychedelic drugs.
Computer...err.....security arrangements, form another of my "narrow interests" as the OP put it, alright, lets see what the rest of you get up to behind closed doors
European royalty.
I'm probably the only person in England who was thinking last week, what a pity the Concert for Diana clashed with the christening of Princess Isabella of Denmark - another missed opportunity for Will & Harry to get to know their continental counterparts. Up to now the Queen has tended to send the Wessexes (Ed & Soph) to the European jollies, but Sophie's just announced she's pregnant again at the ripe age of 42. So will any of the Windsors go to Princess Victoria of Sweden's 30th birthday party?
Victoria is the firstborn of the current King & Queen of Sweden and are therefore to be labeled Crown Princess.
Yes, I'm aware of that. I must have been in too much of a hurry to include the word "Crown".
Of course not all firstborn daughters of monarchs get to be Crown Princess, e.g. Martha Louise of Norway, Elena of Spain.
Preparing to do paper collages. I'm accumulating material from magazines. Lots of material. There's colors with no patterns, colors with fabric patterns, colors from pictures of nature, picture of people, buildings, cells, etc. Text, numbers, signs. Hair, jewelry, valentines, images related to time and place. Art. Pop art. Food. So I cut out all this stuff and then I have to sort it. For just plain colors, I'm up to thousands of little sandwich baggies because it drives me nuts to mix different hues together. And depending on the light, time of day, season, I get different answers, so I'm always having to re-sort colors I've already sorted.
Some day, I'm really intending to make collages. Someday....someday.
And I'm facing a major problem of: a) where do I put these sorted papers and b) how do I find what I'm interested in?
My narrow interest as of late:
The procedures of the IETF standards track.
My narrow interest as of late:
The procedures of the IETF standards track.
Curious. What's that?
Internet Engineering Task Force?
I once put my grandmother's book collection in alphabetical order. She wasn't too happy because in so doing I mixed up the children's and grown-up's fiction!
I also love anthropology and studying druidry and meteorology. I was often noted for telling you that the clouds are spiking over 30,000+ altitudes and being a walking barometer
Did you predict the British floods?
My narrow interest as of late:
The procedures of the IETF standards track.
Curious. What's that?
Internet Engineering Task Force?
Damn right - the ones who author most of the RFCs
European royalty.
...what a pity the Concert for Diana clashed with the christening of Princess Isabella of Denmark - another missed opportunity for Will & Harry to get to know their continental counterparts.
So did any Euro royals go to the memorial service?
European royalty.
...what a pity the Concert for Diana clashed with the christening of Princess Isabella of Denmark - another missed opportunity for Will & Harry to get to know their continental counterparts.
So did any Euro royals go to the memorial service?
Hello! didn't mention any.
LOTR = "Lord Of The Rings". I like the hobbit best. Hobbits are cute because they have furry feet and no doubt furry chests too. But I bet they cop a lot of short jokes such as when they are in the pub and someone orders for them "and I'd like a half-pint of ale and an order of short ribs for my hobbit friend here".
Re: gibbets and such - I heard that drawing and quartering was done in England hundreds of years ago. I can't imagine doing something that barbaric but I think the idea was to scare people off from angering the king or queen of the day.
Also, in France when they had the Guillotine, there was a harpy who used to watch all the executions while she did her knitting. She was called Madame La Farge. One night, I was knitting furiously because of being in a bad mood and mum likened me to Madame La Farge. She said I got very cross with her.
Someone was telling me about these things the other day. I couldn't believe anybody could be so inhumane and barbaric but unfortunately, this kind of thing or equally horrendous punishments have not been exactly rare during recorded history.