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[Vector]

... Incidentally, "acetylsalicylic acid" was one of my spelling words in second or third grade.

The fuck?  Was your elementary school located within a Mensa campus?  I remember in the fourth grade, one of my spelling words was "blockade".

See... when I was little, about five or so, I had a different set of obsessions.

a. Mythology
b. Cats
c. The Amazon rainforest
d. Medicine (I'd decided I wanted to become a doctor and carefully bookmarked every single anatomy- and illness-related entry in my Junior Encyclopedia, mostly by reading straight through)
e. Cartography
f. Weapons manufacturing/knighthood/chivalry
g. Spelling.

I, being obsessive about entry g in particular, wound up being unable to use any of the normal spelling lists for kids my age when they finally realized I didn't belong in classes for the deaf and disabled.  So they asked me to make an appropriate spelling list for myself, filled with words that I didn't know.  And I, being a very organized and careful little girl, got my hands on my great-grandmother's college dictionary, opened it up, and started with the letter A.

[Darvi]

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Hmmm... that one's harder, but I guess it means "coward".

[Siquo]

and started with the letter A.

Done yet?

Happy because I found an opening I might like. Now to update my CV. Although I'd better do that at home.

[Vector]

It means "motorcycle gang member".

Done yet?

Didn't say I was tenacious =/  I got bored of all the chemicals and flipped to Z instead   And eventually I got pretty fed up with spelling in general.

[Darvi]

Bah. I interpreted that as "running from violence".
Less of an insult though. I guess even that site respects Japa.

[Kay12]

... Incidentally, "acetylsalicylic acid" was one of my spelling words in second or third grade.

The fuck?  Was your elementary school located within a Mensa campus?  I remember in the fourth grade, one of my spelling words was "blockade".

See... when I was little, about five or so, I had a different set of obsessions.

a. Mythology
b. Cats
c. The Amazon rainforest
d. Medicine (I'd decided I wanted to become a doctor and carefully bookmarked every single anatomy- and illness-related entry in my Junior Encyclopedia, mostly by reading straight through)
e. Cartography
f. Weapons manufacturing/knighthood/chivalry
g. Spelling.

I, being obsessive about entry g in particular, wound up being unable to use any of the normal spelling lists for kids my age when they finally realized I didn't belong in classes for the deaf and disabled.  So they asked me to make an appropriate spelling list for myself, filled with words that I didn't know.  And I, being a very organized and careful little girl, got my hands on my great-grandmother's college dictionary, opened it up, and started with the letter A.

You had a strange set of obsessions, Vector. Strange, yet.. awesome.

I used to be into biology as a kid, but physics and math tag-teamed and won that struggle later on. And I've loved computers ever since my father carried in that horrible box and booted up MS-DOS before my little eyes for the first time.

[Lysabild]

Personally I've always been obsessed with the past and history.

[Acanthus117]

Wheee weekend~

[Reelyanoob]

I used to be into biology as a kid, but physics and math tag-teamed and won that struggle later on. And I've loved computers ever since my father carried in that horrible box and booted up MS-DOS before my little eyes for the first time.

I remember when getting an XT with DOS 3 was an upgrade. Visiting the lab where my dad worked all he had was one of these :-



I used to play shitty games on this at my dad's work, my first video game playing experience (except for even shittier games on Apple II's at school - they had like a grand total of 1 or 2 Apple II's for the entire primary school's students to use, so really had to wait for highschool to be allowed to use computers very often)

[PsyberianHusky]

I liked Astronauts, Nuclear Power, and Trains as a kid, but I never felt comfortable with the math to pursue them.
I guess now I kinda care about the human condition alot because I believe if can understand it better we can live in a society that is better socially organized to facilitate the existence of feats of engineering that I adore.

[Kay12]

History is fascinating, indeed. Too bad they skipped past a lot of stuff in comprehensive school, but that's understandable because the history is long and interesting... one of the worst oversimplifications was the American intervention during World War I. What we were told...

Germans started to sink all vessels, even commercial and neutral ones, so America joined the war!

A few documentaries and history magazines later I actually know why they started doing that, which is rather important.

I used to be into biology as a kid, but physics and math tag-teamed and won that struggle later on. And I've loved computers ever since my father carried in that horrible box and booted up MS-DOS before my little eyes for the first time.

I remember when getting an XT with DOS 3 was an upgrade. Visiting the lab where my dad worked all he had was one of these :-

Heh, I remember when my father installed the first Windows 3.11 computer for our grandparents. Our home computer had the same version, but it booted to DOS because a lot of good stuff was easier to find there, but at our grandparents, father made a tweak so Windows started automatically.

Me: Why does Windows start up automatically? That's just silly. I have to close it if I want to use the DOS.

Oh, these memories!

[olemars]

Our first PC was a 286 laptop (My dad used it for some on-site work stuff). Weighed well over 10kg, couldn't use a battery and the monitor could display 4 different shades of brown. It was magic.

Still have it gathering dust somewhere. I think the HD died though

[Aqizzar]

(except for even shittier games on Apple II's at school - they had like a grand total of 1 or 2 Apple II's for the entire primary school's students to use, so really had to wait for highschool to be allowed to use computers very often)

I think it says a lot that my elementary and middle schools also had Apple II's, at the dawn of the 21st century.  Plenty of them to go around though.  And the games where exactly what you'd expect.

Hmm... What was I into at age five, besides Legos.  I honestly have a hard time remembering.  Archeology, ships, the academic principles of fortress architecture, as much of "the occult" as a five year old might have heard of, and Star Wars.

[Akigagak]

I'm digging this new Youtube Music thingamy. So much good music I hadn't heard before is now filling my ears and I'm happy and oh my.

[Simmura McCrea]

You guys can remember what you were into when you were 5? I can only remember what I was into last week by assuming it hasn't changed much.