Daryl76679
May Likes TorontoYeah yeah, everyone on the fedi's heard about your ✨special interests✨.
But what about your fleeting interests?
Mine was apparently elm trees and emerald ash borers. Much fleeting
That’s a moray@mayintoronto Close! Elm trees and emerald ash borers are my fleeing interest. I'm extremely interested in fleeing any place where they occur.
@Bumblefish I would have thought that'd more be a problem for @tezoatlipoca.
Richard Eriksson@mayintoronto Or one’s interests graveyard. For me, it’s the replies to this thread: https://mastodon.social/@sillygwailo/115962087362244297
@sillygwailo Oh hey, I replied to that one.
fedward 
@mayintoronto I lost interest in those before I could post about them.
@fedward What were we talking about?
St. Chris@mayintoronto Love hard, love fast.
Brian Gettler@mayintoronto Homemade guitar effects pedals. They were gonna be awesome.
@brian_gettler Wow, that's so cool!!
Anna Anthro@mayintoronto Movies set in submarines! They are soooo specific - tight space, no costume changes so micro-facial acting & dialogue has to be good plus everyone knows what’s coming: there’s up, down, depth charges, leaks, torpedoes and tiny beds!
GeePawHill@AnnaAnthro @mayintoronto Once upon a time, way back on Usenet, there was a canonical list of all movies set on submarines. :)
FeloniousPunk@AnnaAnthro @mayintoronto Having recently re-watched Operation Petticoat, I appreciate this take. But they can be fun too!
@FeloniousPunk @mayintoronto No disputing it! Lol. My short-lived ‘deep dive’ into sub films made me realize that they are perhaps the easiest films to make but the hardest challenge. You need top level acting, script, editing, camera work… They are movie making’s equivalent of haiku… Tight, narrow but illuminating
@mayintoronto I watched several videos about making needle lace yesterday.
@GeePawHill I lack the patience for that, but it's amazing what people can make!
@mayintoronto I haven't even the slightest intention of ever doing it, but the videos were good, and I kinda had a crush on the woman doing the work, and overall, needle lace is amazing shit.
Shantell Powell@mayintoronto I tried classical guitar for a year. Realized I didn't love it enough to continue.
I studied goldsmithing and lapidary for a year and half. Decided I didn't love it nearly enough to warrant the shorter lifespan metalworkers have. Most of the chemicals and equipment will kill you, sterilize you, and/or maim you.
@Shanmonster ooof. It's the reason why I didn't pursue materials science after my undergrad. I didn't want to die of mystery cancer at 30.
Charles A-MA while ago I couldn't get enough of the Japanese YouTube channel about a cat- obsessed skateboarding turtle: https://youtube.com/@amechikannomona
More recently I went through a bunch of videos of handbell performances of epic songs, like this one of Bohemian Rhapsody: https://youtu.be/lPfCthM1wIE
American Mona (skate boat turtle)
Deliver smiles with cute and funny videos! Currently being distributed for people who like cats and turtles, and people who want to enjoy the daily lives of animals. Updated irregularly at 20:00🐈🐢 [Highlights] -Mona-chan changes her attitude depending on her owner - Koyuki-chan and Sergeant Kusagame are close friends - Sergeant Kusagami who rides a skateboard The daily life of the cat and the turtle 【 profile 】 Name: Mona🐈 Birthday: 2020/03/31 Gender: Girl Cat breed: Long-legged Munchkin x Short-legged American American Personality: Talkative person with two sides Name: Koyuki🐈 Date of protection: 2022/ 12/ 25 Gender: Girl Cat species: Kijitora Personality: Curious and spoiled Name: Sergeant🐢 Date of protection: 2022/08/27 Gender: Boy Turtle species: Kusa turtle Personality: Curious, likes cats
Momomoto@mayintoronto OK, I thought about this all evening and wonder if high-quality keyboards count for me. I wanted to buy a nice one, so I tried some switches out, and then bought two Keychrons with those switches. Love them, but I’ve no interest in looking for a better switch or building one from the board up. What’s the ruling?
@Momomoto I'm sure the Fedi Keyboard warriors (enthusiasts) will chime in here.
Kostyn@Momomoto @mayintoronto oh absolutely. e-notes too. One keyboard and one supernote and I'm good for as long as they last
@mayintoronto @Momomoto yeahhhhh it's bananas, I don't have a tablet though, so I was just like pretend it's an ipad, pretend it's an ipad, pretend it's an ipad 🙈🙈🙈 And I'm veryyyyyyy lucky that was an option for me
mhoye@Momomoto @mayintoronto I have a longstanding idea I call "olive garden optimization", that was born from learning that there was once upon a time an Olive Garden Culinary Institute in Tuscany. The idea was that they'd ship their managers there, show them a michelin star Tuscany-restaurant experience and then say "ok, we've got six sauces, four pasta shapes, decent wine, local line cooks and endless breadsticks. How can we use that to give people 80% of this experience for 15% of the price?"
@Momomoto @mayintoronto I see a lot of "fleeting interests" through this lens - what's the sweet spot for 'much, much better than what I had' without overspend or obsession, how do I get there, and then sitting with that for a while.
The nice part of it is that if you ever decide you need More or Better, the process of researching and living for a while in an olive-garden-optimal position gives you a lot of clarity about of what your next-steps options are and what they'll cost.
@mhoye @mayintoronto This is super good context, and I’m liking the Pareto principle aspect of it all. It’s a fleeting interest because I spent a year researching “good enough”, and now that I have it there’s little incentive in spending 80% more effort for maybe 20% more enjoyment.
Corvus@mhoye @Momomoto @mayintoronto
I like this perspective. A friend who has a couple of high-end bicycles explained something similar this way:
"It'll cost you $3000 for a good light road bike. Then it costs you $1000 more for each additional ounce of weight you save."
Ted Mielczarek@mhoye @Momomoto @mayintoronto this is pretty solid advice. there just aren't enough hours in the day to be That Intense about *everything* in your life, but that doesn't mean you can't make things a bit nicer for yourself. I looked into pens years ago, settled on the uniball jetstream, bought a few packs of them and have been happy ever since.
@mayintoronto Bonsai. Man it’s cool but, the patience required is astronomical. This is a key trait I lack.
@FeloniousPunk I have a hard enough time watering my thoroughly robust plants.
John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️@mayintoronto fly-tying 🪦
@mayintoronto
Video Games.
Video Games.
Chris Siebenmann@mayintoronto Does it count as "fleeting" if I did it for years and haven't entirely let it go? If it does, then (digital) photography, where I did Project 365 multiple times and still keep my Flickr account.
(I still have all my gear but it gathers dust now. I keep intending to get the energy to go out and take more pictures of things and process them, but ...)
@cks It's not special enough to be special, but coming and going is still fleeting!
jimfl@mayintoronto I recently went on a short binge watching performances by musicians who perform masked
Chris Ford 
@jimfl @mayintoronto Omg Angine de Poitrine!
@cford @mayintoronto That’s what started the binge. See also Glass Beams (who also have a KEXP performance)
@jimfl @mayintoronto Thanks for the tip!
Damon 
@mayintoronto I like pokemon, okay. And yes I'm experiencing an increased interest in it now but only because I'm playing a really easy game. You expect me to memorize type effectiveness, read all that text, /and/ take turns? Its just not going to happen. You expect me to sit through an anime with ear-splitting voices? No. You think I have enough money to buy pretty cardboard? You're joking. I want to be a pokemon autistic bc the character design is so neat, but I'm just built different okay (I have ADHD.)
James Hawley@mayintoronto I got really into the lore behind The Elder Scrolls franchise for a while. There is a lot of really cool polytheistic and magical world-building in there that really give the video games a sense of place and history to enable the kinds of stories they want to tell.
roland@mayintoronto lol I have so many of those too :-)
@roland I met a guy recently who called himself a dilettante, and that reminded me of your Mastodon handle, and I thought “I served with a dilettante, a dilettante is a friend of mine, and you, sir, are no dilettante.”
@sillygwailo omg rofl
@sillygwailo "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy"
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@sillygwailo from a search for "dilettante":
"a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
Similar:
dabbler
putterer
tinkerer
trifler
dallier
amateur
nonprofessional
nonspecialist
Opposite:
professional
archaic: a person with an amateur interest in the arts.
^^^--- this is about right?!? I have always been a computer dabbler / amateur / non professional even when I wrote software for a living :-) Perhaps its my attention issues :-) as well
"a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
Similar:
dabbler
putterer
tinkerer
trifler
dallier
amateur
nonprofessional
nonspecialist
Opposite:
professional
archaic: a person with an amateur interest in the arts.
^^^--- this is about right?!? I have always been a computer dabbler / amateur / non professional even when I wrote software for a living :-) Perhaps its my attention issues :-) as well
@sillygwailo embrace the "dallier" within :-) ROFL
@sillygwailo new personal slogan for me: "A computer software dallier since 1977" :-) or something
@mayintoronto I have shelves and drawers full of the cast-off remnants of my fleeting interests. I've been trying to get better about giving those things away to people who will use them. I mailed a bunch of candle-making supplies to a friend a few weeks ago!