But the good news is you just kinda learn quite a bit about every hobby you pick up, so people are always impressed with how much random stuff you know.
"I know enough to finish this if I wanted to"
✅ I'm in this picture and I don't like it
Crap, I have ADHD
The story of this community 😂
With that I relate. I don't have knowledge, but only surface information about a variety of topics, because I fricking jump from one thing and the other, and this maddens me.
My knowledge base has the breadth of an ocean, but the depth of a puddle.
Good comparison
Analogy* 🤓
Thanks, I'm not native, so my written English is janky, but at least I can convey my meaning.
at least I can convey my meaning.
Yeah, that's what's most important. I just wanted to help you out with the emote as a joke.
This is true, though sometimes one may unintentionally come across as a "know it all" (I know this from experience). Having an unending number of hobbies and the philosophy of "there is no such thing as useless knowledge", just leads to accruing knowledge on a wide breadth of topics and surprising depth on some of the more esoteric.
I can tell you about some of the practical efforts required to safely raise chickens in the PNW (free-range, in a yard, or chicken tractors), several forms of metal casting, basic garment construction, luthiery, gardening, archery, industrial microbiology, and a number of other things. My former boss would often ask if I knew anything about a given unusual topic that came up in conversation, just to see if he could find something that I didn't have any knowledge or experience with (really old programming languages like COBOL were among the winners). Now, I'm currently really into digital electronics, so, I'm shopping around for an oscilloscope and other equipment that would allow me to reverse engineer some of the newer protocols.
Joke's on you, I have so many abandoned activities, I can just cycle through them
Sure, I haven't brewed beer in 3 years but I still have my equipment, so that when I get sick of building guitars, I can go back to brewing beer. But wait, what about the transition from guitar building to tabletop gaming? I guess I can store the brewing stuff and the guitar-building stuff for a year while I go down the TT gaming rabbit-hole. And then there was that quick detour into making kombucha...and then pickling stuff...
Dude you're fucking flourishing don't change a thing
Haha, I appreciate the support friend! It doesn't always feel like that when I look at all the stuff I could be doing and realize I'm doing almost none of it, but I guess at least my hobbies are generally productive (if expensive).
Although, most of them could be pretty cheap if my hyper fixation didn't generally focus on optimization above economy.
My brain and closet are like IRL Steam.
They're never truly abandoned if you cycle thru them taps temple
Yup. My blender is craft projects.
I discovered a great way to reduce the financial burden: join a Makerspace.
Since joining a local one, I now know:
How to use a CNC laser cutter
How to use a thickness planer
How to use a MIG welder (poorly)
And, as of today, how to use a TIG welder (also poorly but, I did better than with the MIG)
Still to come:
How to use a terrifyingly powerful, 2.5 ton milling machine
How to use a similar size lathe
How to use a plasma cutter
How to use a fiber laser
How to use a vintage oscilloscope
And a ton more. Seriously, its awesome.
I'm so so jealous. The closest Makerspace to me is over 1 hour away.
Plasma cutting is fun your gonna like that 1!
I've absolutely fallen in love with TIG. I need a lot of practice but I've NEVER been able to lay as nice of a weld with stick or MIG.
I literally have a blender on my counter that I haven’t touched in… probably 12 months.
I will use it soon. I promise! It wouldn't make sense to sell it. I'll literally need it the next day!
If you get bananas and frozen blueberries, you can use that as a base for any kind of smoothie, really. Unless you just don't feel like smoothies, which, valid.
Oh don’t worry. I also have a bag of frozen berries in my freezer that are also 12 months old.
Good good. OK, I see you have this well under hand.
I think blenders are in a category where you don't have to be ADHD to end up with a unused one in the closet. It's easy to get tired of blending and cleaning, and then they are noisy.
I have 4 RC cars because of this. They’re amazing and I still use them, but not like I did when the hobby first got injected into my veins.
I bought a 1/6 scale pos off a friend years ago, just for shits and giggles to see how much power I could dump into it before it blew up. After a bit it got shelved, and sat in the garage for a couple of years. This spring I dumped another couple hundred dollars into it to get it running again.. new esc, brushless motor, batteries, some lights, and a new steering servo. Used it twice and now it's been sitting again collecting dust for the last 5 months.
I have a cheap Arrma Voltage I did this with. It was my first RC car and I had a blast with it. Then I got curious about improving it and pushing it to its limits. I put better wheels on it, some lights, and dropped a Spektrum Firma Motor in it with the Smart ESC. The thing wheelies everywhere and basically becomes a missile lmao. If you turn it upside down and go full speed, the wheels balloon like crazy.
Glances nervously between 3 dusty RC cars, 5 dusty RC planes and a dusty RC heli. Also quickly hides browser tab with a selection of RC crawlers to buy
Sounds like it's time to get into fpv drones next.
Granted I did actually use all of the rc cars this year, so I'm making progress.
Someone start a community to trade hobby startup equipment once you're bored with it
Hah, nice assumption I would ever get past the deep analysis required to even purchase a blender in the first place
Haha, seems recognizable. Blender x has a pulse setting, but blender y has an extra mini bowl for herbs. Can't choose so I'll just forget about it.
And that's why I never made it as a writer
Totally unrelated, but I have a nearly new Dremel ...
You got yours out of the box?
bought a slow cooker last week, been absolutely on my midwest shit
Shit I was not ready for this personal attack
me
my pasta maker under an inch of dust
Seriously tho, I’m gonna start using the George Foreman grill any day now.
I love learning I might be on a spectrum from a meme
If you that stuff rarely then there's not that high chance for it but if most of the stuff that's posted here happens to you way too often then you probably do have ADHD. The self-diagnosis is a first step in the direction of the official diagnosis so I recommend you checking out this 3-part video to see how much you relate to stuff: https://youtu.be/GyZtYzFq4WY?si=ALTuerkvM9fWC1et
I gave mine to someone else, so at least it got used for 2 weeks more. Now I want it back but keep forgetting about it every time I visit them
Just bought some blendjet blenders for my wife and I a few months ago, they got used for a bit then haven't been touched lol.
You just reminded me that I own an expensive vitamix blender that I haven’t used or even thought of for over a year
But I keep the blender, cause once every year or two I want to make a smoothie and I have plenty of storage.
But the good news is you just kinda learn quite a bit about every hobby you pick up, so people are always impressed with how much random stuff you know.
"I know enough to finish this if I wanted to"
✅ I'm in this picture and I don't like it
Crap, I have ADHD
The story of this community 😂
With that I relate. I don't have knowledge, but only surface information about a variety of topics, because I fricking jump from one thing and the other, and this maddens me.
My knowledge base has the breadth of an ocean, but the depth of a puddle.
Good comparison
Analogy* 🤓
Thanks, I'm not native, so my written English is janky, but at least I can convey my meaning.
Yeah, that's what's most important. I just wanted to help you out with the emote as a joke.
This is true, though sometimes one may unintentionally come across as a "know it all" (I know this from experience). Having an unending number of hobbies and the philosophy of "there is no such thing as useless knowledge", just leads to accruing knowledge on a wide breadth of topics and surprising depth on some of the more esoteric.
I can tell you about some of the practical efforts required to safely raise chickens in the PNW (free-range, in a yard, or chicken tractors), several forms of metal casting, basic garment construction, luthiery, gardening, archery, industrial microbiology, and a number of other things. My former boss would often ask if I knew anything about a given unusual topic that came up in conversation, just to see if he could find something that I didn't have any knowledge or experience with (really old programming languages like COBOL were among the winners). Now, I'm currently really into digital electronics, so, I'm shopping around for an oscilloscope and other equipment that would allow me to reverse engineer some of the newer protocols.
Joke's on you, I have so many abandoned activities, I can just cycle through them
Sure, I haven't brewed beer in 3 years but I still have my equipment, so that when I get sick of building guitars, I can go back to brewing beer. But wait, what about the transition from guitar building to tabletop gaming? I guess I can store the brewing stuff and the guitar-building stuff for a year while I go down the TT gaming rabbit-hole. And then there was that quick detour into making kombucha...and then pickling stuff...
Dude you're fucking flourishing don't change a thing
Haha, I appreciate the support friend! It doesn't always feel like that when I look at all the stuff I could be doing and realize I'm doing almost none of it, but I guess at least my hobbies are generally productive (if expensive).
Although, most of them could be pretty cheap if my hyper fixation didn't generally focus on optimization above economy.
My brain and closet are like IRL Steam.
They're never truly abandoned if you cycle thru them taps temple
Yup. My blender is craft projects.
I discovered a great way to reduce the financial burden: join a Makerspace.
Since joining a local one, I now know:
Still to come:
And a ton more. Seriously, its awesome.
I'm so so jealous. The closest Makerspace to me is over 1 hour away.
Plasma cutting is fun your gonna like that 1!
I've absolutely fallen in love with TIG. I need a lot of practice but I've NEVER been able to lay as nice of a weld with stick or MIG.
Doesn't that just come with disposable income?
I literally have a blender on my counter that I haven’t touched in… probably 12 months.
I will use it soon. I promise! It wouldn't make sense to sell it. I'll literally need it the next day!
If you get bananas and frozen blueberries, you can use that as a base for any kind of smoothie, really. Unless you just don't feel like smoothies, which, valid.
Oh don’t worry. I also have a bag of frozen berries in my freezer that are also 12 months old.
Good good. OK, I see you have this well under hand.
I think blenders are in a category where you don't have to be ADHD to end up with a unused one in the closet. It's easy to get tired of blending and cleaning, and then they are noisy.
I have 4 RC cars because of this. They’re amazing and I still use them, but not like I did when the hobby first got injected into my veins.
I bought a 1/6 scale pos off a friend years ago, just for shits and giggles to see how much power I could dump into it before it blew up. After a bit it got shelved, and sat in the garage for a couple of years. This spring I dumped another couple hundred dollars into it to get it running again.. new esc, brushless motor, batteries, some lights, and a new steering servo. Used it twice and now it's been sitting again collecting dust for the last 5 months.
I have a cheap Arrma Voltage I did this with. It was my first RC car and I had a blast with it. Then I got curious about improving it and pushing it to its limits. I put better wheels on it, some lights, and dropped a Spektrum Firma Motor in it with the Smart ESC. The thing wheelies everywhere and basically becomes a missile lmao. If you turn it upside down and go full speed, the wheels balloon like crazy.
Glances nervously between 3 dusty RC cars, 5 dusty RC planes and a dusty RC heli. Also quickly hides browser tab with a selection of RC crawlers to buy
Sounds like it's time to get into fpv drones next.
Granted I did actually use all of the rc cars this year, so I'm making progress.
Someone start a community to trade hobby startup equipment once you're bored with it
Hah, nice assumption I would ever get past the deep analysis required to even purchase a blender in the first place
Haha, seems recognizable. Blender x has a pulse setting, but blender y has an extra mini bowl for herbs. Can't choose so I'll just forget about it.
And that's why I never made it as a writer
Totally unrelated, but I have a nearly new Dremel ...
You got yours out of the box?
bought a slow cooker last week, been absolutely on my midwest shit
Shit I was not ready for this personal attack
me
my pasta maker under an inch of dust
Seriously tho, I’m gonna start using the George Foreman grill any day now.
I love learning I might be on a spectrum from a meme
If you that stuff rarely then there's not that high chance for it but if most of the stuff that's posted here happens to you way too often then you probably do have ADHD. The self-diagnosis is a first step in the direction of the official diagnosis so I recommend you checking out this 3-part video to see how much you relate to stuff: https://youtu.be/GyZtYzFq4WY?si=ALTuerkvM9fWC1et
I gave mine to someone else, so at least it got used for 2 weeks more. Now I want it back but keep forgetting about it every time I visit them
Just bought some blendjet blenders for my wife and I a few months ago, they got used for a bit then haven't been touched lol.
You just reminded me that I own an expensive vitamix blender that I haven’t used or even thought of for over a year
But I keep the blender, cause once every year or two I want to make a smoothie and I have plenty of storage.
I feel seent