I drive my wife nuts with my eclecticism in what I collect. Doesn't everyone have an odd taste or two. For instance, I have always had a fascination for fountian pens, watches and penguins. I have several Mont Blanc pens and I bought my first Rolex in November, and people are constantly getting me penguin items. I also like the odd clay pipe as well. This is kind of ironic as I know that Mike also collects clay pipes.

OK so I am weird! Although I abhore shopping I do not mind looking through antique shops. Since it is kind of a slow period over the holidays, let's have some fun and start a forum post where people can tell all about some of the odd things they like to collect!

I collect dust bunnies. Their under my bed, behind the bookcase, on top of the fridge.

I'm thinking of getting a government grant to study their mating habits.

I'll probably need a new 2.5 G5, 30" display (rumor?) and some high-end digital movie/photo equipment.

Thanks Uncle Sammy!

I collect beer coasters. I have a few hundred from all over the world, mostly from Europe and the US. I do not do much with them but decorate my entertainment area, but there are some pretty interesting ones.

I collect fantasy novels galore!
David Eddiings, Maggie Furey, Katherine Kerr, almost every Disc World novel by Terry Pratchett and even the Myst books by Rand and Robbin Miller that went with the games (most of which I also have, except for the new one, Uru, because it's not out for Mac yet!!)
The real world gets me down.
These puppies are my escape. : )

I collect VW Beetle things of all kinds. I have storage boxes full of make-up. (I used to want to be a make-up artist until I decided I liked my Mac better than people.) I collect nail polish (over 400 bottles at last count) and clothes too. We have a 3 bedroom house and one room is full of boxes (make-up, nail polish, paper & pens among other memory junk) the second is full of my clothes (we had to turn it into a closet, there was no other way, we have zero actual closet space.) And the third is the real bedroom. I collect lime green too. You'd be surprised how many things come in lime green (even my hair sometimes!) I love paper. Maybe it has something to with it having once been a living tree, but I love paper of all kinds, especially hand-made with little flowers in it. I even have paper made out of old money that's the most wonderful shade of green. Oh yeah, I collect icons too, but I only have about a gig of those. I also collect pictures of beautiful naked women. Not like Playboy though, I like the more artsy stuff, especially with piercings and tattoos. All of the things I collect can be put into one catagory, albeit an unusual thing to collect, but I collect color. I love bright loud colors and soft serene colors. I have a pink and purple couch and a lime green fur covered overstuffed chair with orange and yellow throw pillows. It looks like a rainbow barfed in my house. LOL ;-)

I collect history books and art / design books.

Christian

Don't we all collect money (a.k.a. paycheck) ?

I have collected many things and given up collecting many things. Never bothered to buy playboy but I know of a friend whom is obsessed by that.

I have collected and still do, a photo taken with my camera of every different form that nature takes.

My collection obssesion for the last 15 years has been collecting and studying, sometimes shaping and polishing, pieces of Australian Opal.

I collect antique boxes... They must be solid wood and have finely crafted joints. I too collect pens....... Sensa pens, that's all. My largest (and longest) ongoing collections would be my Comic books and Playboy Magazine. I have EVERY publication (to my Knowledge) of Daredevil and Elektra that either one has ever appeared in. Other comic books I collect are... Tomb Raider, Aphrodite, Danger Girls and Gen 13. (My wife cringes every time I go to a comic book convention) My Playboy collection dates back to 1978....every issue (centerfolds intact) Oh and Hot Wheels cars..... I have 679.

I am 32 Years old and have been collecting the latter for better than 20 yrs. Sometimes I'll go breezing through the comics or playing with the cars and am amazed with the amount of money spent acquiring these items over the years...priceless to me, absolute junk to others. My collections are so personal to me and I find it very therapeutic to immerse myself in them from time to time.

The comic books and Hot Wheels cars draw the most attention..... I guess they make people feel young again.

I collect adult toys (if you know what I mean). Especially antique ones. I am a eBay junkie and am always on the look for new toys.

I collect fountain pens,pocket watches,and dragons made of ceramic,pewter,etc

Belly button lint and flakes of dead skin :-)

I colletct toy VW Beetles - I have almost 200 now. I also seem to have a collection of odd lamps going. Oh yeah and I collect a lot of dust.

I am a pack rat that was raised by pack rats, but why blame them. My favorite collection used to be old Coca Cola "stuff", but they started releasing so many reproductions that I lost interest about 15 years ago. I also have a decent collection of cigarette lighters, from Zippo's to Wedgewood. My largest collection, however, would have to be my Bill Elliott collection. He's been my favorite NASCAR driver for as far back as I can remember, and I have everything you can imagine, and then some.

http://homepage.mac.com/pkrwud/Bill_Elliott_Stuff/Menu47.html

Good topic!

Take care,
~Chris

ANIME!!!!!!!
i collect tons annd tons of anime
many many gigabytes of anime.
irc and hotline are my favorite anime trees to pick from
for they are always ripe with the most colorful of fruits
:9

Hrm, have we run across each other on HL ever, Hoshi? I too collect Anime (26 DVD+Rs full (~4.25G each), ~200 CDs, 1 HD (80GB))

Other than that, I seem to be in the habit of collecting digital cameras... My count is currently at 4 (Olympus D300L, Olympus D490, Kodak Easyshare 3700, and a Canon Elph S110), with a possible fifth (Kodak LS443) soon...

ive got close to 300 possible gigabytes of anime.
dont know for sure.

yes we have run into each other on hotline i think.
do you remember an anime ring called TNK or AE
i remember an ultima on jww132's server he ran TNK
and the ultima i talked to on that server was the creator of an ultima anicon.

i used to run a hl server called hoshi[AE][SB] cable or photek's anime

there was one other hoshi anime server, some guy from japan that would capture episodes from his tv.

do you still hang out on HL ever? the last time i went looking around HL things have changed a lot. there's nothing free anymore and there's half the servers up now.

the digital camera that i want right now more than anything is the olympus camedia d-550 $250
its 3 megapxls and 2.8X optical zoom
such a good deal for the money right now.

what i would like most of all is something with a manual phocus and a movable lcd screen
¬.¬ hella xpensive

since i lost my cable connection ive been drooling over all the series im missing out on like

chobits
saishuheiki kanojo
hack sign
and aiyoriaoshi

hey its me jww132 the one who had the hotline server waaaay back when! now i run this big anime music website (http://www.jww132.com/) and i studied in japan last semester.

its nice to see some familiar screen names!
too bad hotline is dead :-(

have you looked at the canon powershot G2?
my dad just bought one over christmas, and it's really nice. the LCD flips out and turns. It's 4 megapixels and got some really nice features: manual focus, shutter priority, aperature priority, manual, auto mode, etc. Also you can take up to 30 seconds of movie (with sound) at 15 frames per second and a 320x160 or 120 seconds at 160x120. (Note that I'm trying to cite the resolutions on the movies from memory, so they aren't perfect). It is $500, but they just put out aa G3, so the price'll drop a bit I'd expect. The only thing it's lacking is the option to change the startup screen and all the sounds. the G3 has this though.

http://www.powershot.com/

well that really is great.
if only it was less.

the olympus im looking at is really great becuase its only 250$ thats an amazing price for what it has. the power shot is $500 and it only has 1 more megapixel a manual phocus and movable lcd display. ok well that is a deal but... i just dont have $500 to blow on a camera :(
plus the memory card is gonna be another hundred and then you need a memory card capture device etc...

hey man, the G2 comes with a cable to hook it up to the computer and some extensions to allow you to read the card that way.

actually, 538 including shipping...

although not intentionally, it seems like my house is a haven for older macs. only three are currently running(2 indigo imacs and a 7100/g3 upgrade), but there's a stack of oldies on the table behind me and a couple in the attic, i think. from the bottom up of the stack: 6100, 6100, IIsi, LCIII(and an old school 40mb external HD and a cd drive that you need to put the cd into a cassette-type thing). and in the attic are two SEs and a 128k. there are probably others hiding around here somewhere, but i can't find them/remember where they are. 10 macs seems to be a pretty impressive collection, wouldn't you say?

I collect the weirdest looking cacti I can find - luckily Sydney has the excellent Arizona Cactus nursery - full to the brim of weird spiky things. My favourite is one dubbed Mr Potato Head - which has recently sprung a little Mr Potato Head on its own head.
Also, native orchids.
Nosferatu

an Aussie then? nosferatu?
I also used to collect native orchids and cacti but as I have grown older I have realised that such things should be left in their own native environments and their native ecosystems should be protected from thieves and vandals so that such things are there for my childrens childrens children to enjoy, too.

I collect seeds now and grow tens of thousands of new plants to be replaced into their depleted ecosystems, each year. This I do for the birds and the lizards the insects and the Koala, the Platypus and the Sugar Glider. I collect the pelts of feral cats, they only cost a bullet each.

So do you know why Dendrobium's got a biggibum?
or why Cymbidiums asks caniliculatum?

Did you know that when you collect plants, that they came from an habitat that used to exist somewhere.

I collect watches, have heaps of them to sell.
I collect old coins too.
I used to collect postage stamps but they are too easily damaged by freak weather conditions, bad storage and insensitive buffoons.

I collect thoughts and characteristics. On paper. I collect things I think of, things others think of and behaviors of different people. things they do and things they say. I like to sit on park benches and write about how people act. I have tons of scrap books on thoughts and attitudes of the human characteristic. I guess I collect moments on paper, maybe someday i'll figure out why, but Its fun to go back over what you've written and compare different people.

Well... its fun for me.

Don't forget some of the Vanda PM...
Yea, I have a greenhouse with orchids and quite a lot of Mesembryanthemums.
Also pocket watches, old & foreign coins, old & foreign currency, paintings & sculptures, old electronic gadgets and contraptions, to borrow from The Wizard of OZ...
'A clinking, clanking, clattering, collection of caliginous junk'

fair dinkum?
so do you have cats and pahps and Phaleonopsis?
I love oncidiums too.
Orkwards (orchids) are difficult to get to grow well in the wrong climes, though it is said that it takes a genius to kill one.
I know I am a mega genius as I have killed thousands.

"likeanemuwithonelegorf"

...two cats, many Phaleonopsis, and quite a herd of those tiny magnificent oncidiums too; jonesianum jumping around, ornithorhynchum flying about, and the teretes tiny teeth on the kramerianum gnashing at my Australian Border Collie.

Among the thousand things I collect, I'll mention these:
Pre-raphaelite paintings.

I can't buy the real thing, obviously. Laminated,
true-sized copies are quite expensive as well. But.

I spent a whole year in College (ah, memories) downloading
hundreds of them from the internet, while working
at one of the Macs there. Which were reserved for
more "serious tasks", by the way.

one of my email signatuires .. (excerpted from the notes of Tony Visconti, a former Moody Blues Producer)
"I realize there is no place like home, because that is where I keep all my junk."

believe it or not but i am collecting
macintosh software.
and i am not talking about illegal copies,
i am collecting the original packages.

I dunno if u already have this but i have an original MS Powerpoint version 1.0 boxed - it came on floppy (think only one) and had a HARDBACK manual - i found it hilarious - think i saw it in a car boot sale and simply had to have it!

that's funny...
what do you think of this idea:
theres this kid in my class who wants to get rid of an old mac... If I can get it, and fix it up nice and get a bunch of cool junk on it (software, pictures, etc.,) what's the betting that my windows-loving teacher will admit that macs are better????

If your teacher saw my old Mac, he/she would have to agree that Mac's are better.

whats better, a mac or a pc ?

a new mac is better than an older mac.

I"m trying to collect old macs, slowly, but surely. I have two SE/30s so far, and missed a performa by a few days at a thrift shop.

Movies. over 200. none in perticular, I just love movies.

I used to collect bears, and mickey mouse paraphanailia (sp?).

books & magazines from the 30's and 40's, Anything that is better then what I have now, like telephones made of bakelite, foot powder in metal cans, stuff like that.

Dave

Rare Ibanez electric guitars (my most expensive was $5000)
Dead or Alive merchandise (The TECMO video game)
DVDs (Several hundred so far)

Ibanez?
Have you got a 1978 IC100 Iceman? I do :-) White

I collect lots of things, but one thing that I buy 'everyhthing' of (within reason) is Firebirds: model kits, matchbox, whatever. I have had three of those cars. I love 'em.

Man, Icemans are nice. I don't have one, but I'm a big KISS fan, so I've always thought I'd get one one day. Most of mine are Jems. I do have a Y2K DNA. No 135 of 300.

I don't collect guitars because they just collect dust.. I wear them out by using them.

110 said;"a new mac is better than an older mac" .. well i do have an older mac, someone was looking for a performa. Soon, when I buy my new computer there may well be a rare and well used 5500/250 (black) directors edition {as far as I know, only released in Australasia} for sale. ;))

icons, themes, and software... a naughty obsession. fortunately the G5 has 160 GIG HD.

oh and silly amounts of music