I don't take any pride in my refrigerator... so I really don't care that much about it. I'm guessing that all those other things listed are things that you guys have little or no interest in and take no pride in. And that is fine.
When I cared about my car (and took a measure of pride in it), that was what I spent my time on. I've owned four Porsches, could do a lot of the work on them myself (with the aid of my Grandfather's workshop). At one point I bought one car took both that car and mine apart, and put mine back together using the best parts of both.
But my primary interest at the time was Porsches... and I even worked at Alan Johnson Racing to learn more about them back then. But that was more than 15 years ago, cars don't interest me anymore.
But here is the thing... I've been relatively poor all my life, so I always had to find other avenues to owning things like Porsches. There are plenty of Porsche owners who walked in, dropped thousands of dollars on the table and drove out with a car that was infinitely better than any of the ones I owned. But in the end I knew how things worked and the history of the company... it became more than just an object (and still is even though I don't have those cars anymore).
In recent times I've been on a computer kick... I own Apples, Suns and SGIs. At last count I own 30 computers, and a vast catalog of software that lets me do nearly anything I could want with them. And yet in the last 10 years I haven't spent more than $3,500 (total) on hardware and software. And I can take apart, diagnose issues and put back together all of my systems (it is good practice for what I do for a living). And still, I look for the hardest of tasks... I work in some platforms where I'm just about the last person using them and then document what I've found out about them.
So if this just a passing fancy... by all means, don't waste any effort on it. You should only put effort into it if you are actually getting something from the effort.
I'm sorry... was there a point to this?
Porsche is the dream of the Piëch and Porsche families. Apple was the dream of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. So what?
This seems like a rather odd statement... Are you saying that people shouldn't follow their interests? I'm not doing any of this stuff for money, I've shared everything I've come up with... this isn't even my main area of interest.
I most likely will lose interest in Star Trek again in a few years (in the same way I lost interest in it back around 1994). My main area of interest is mathematics, and what I do there is totally of my own creation. But today I enjoy Star Trek, and can tell you things about these models that most people don't know. For example, between the second and third seasons the 33 inch Enterprise was damaged (most likely dropped), and I made notes of what aspects of the model were damaged (and in some cases, incorrectly repaired). I like knowing these things, but someone who just wants to see a model on a shelf most likely doesn't.
But I enjoy studying the history of things like Porsche, Apple and Star Trek. I enjoy finding out about things that aren't easy to find out (after all, if it was easy, I wouldn't care about them). To study history you have to have a separation from it. I can't really study the history of anything I've done as I was part of it... I can (generally) give my accounting of those events. But assembling history from clues... that is quite fun in my book. And new clues don't generally pop up in information distilled by others (and the MR Enterprise is a distillation of someone else's work).
So again, what was your point with the Roddenberry comment?
When I cared about my car (and took a measure of pride in it), that was what I spent my time on. I've owned four Porsches, could do a lot of the work on them myself (with the aid of my Grandfather's workshop). At one point I bought one car took both that car and mine apart, and put mine back together using the best parts of both.
But my primary interest at the time was Porsches... and I even worked at Alan Johnson Racing to learn more about them back then. But that was more than 15 years ago, cars don't interest me anymore.
But here is the thing... I've been relatively poor all my life, so I always had to find other avenues to owning things like Porsches. There are plenty of Porsche owners who walked in, dropped thousands of dollars on the table and drove out with a car that was infinitely better than any of the ones I owned. But in the end I knew how things worked and the history of the company... it became more than just an object (and still is even though I don't have those cars anymore).
In recent times I've been on a computer kick... I own Apples, Suns and SGIs. At last count I own 30 computers, and a vast catalog of software that lets me do nearly anything I could want with them. And yet in the last 10 years I haven't spent more than $3,500 (total) on hardware and software. And I can take apart, diagnose issues and put back together all of my systems (it is good practice for what I do for a living). And still, I look for the hardest of tasks... I work in some platforms where I'm just about the last person using them and then document what I've found out about them.
So if this just a passing fancy... by all means, don't waste any effort on it. You should only put effort into it if you are actually getting something from the effort.
I'm sorry... was there a point to this?
Porsche is the dream of the Piëch and Porsche families. Apple was the dream of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. So what?
This seems like a rather odd statement... Are you saying that people shouldn't follow their interests? I'm not doing any of this stuff for money, I've shared everything I've come up with... this isn't even my main area of interest.
I most likely will lose interest in Star Trek again in a few years (in the same way I lost interest in it back around 1994). My main area of interest is mathematics, and what I do there is totally of my own creation. But today I enjoy Star Trek, and can tell you things about these models that most people don't know. For example, between the second and third seasons the 33 inch Enterprise was damaged (most likely dropped), and I made notes of what aspects of the model were damaged (and in some cases, incorrectly repaired). I like knowing these things, but someone who just wants to see a model on a shelf most likely doesn't.
But I enjoy studying the history of things like Porsche, Apple and Star Trek. I enjoy finding out about things that aren't easy to find out (after all, if it was easy, I wouldn't care about them). To study history you have to have a separation from it. I can't really study the history of anything I've done as I was part of it... I can (generally) give my accounting of those events. But assembling history from clues... that is quite fun in my book. And new clues don't generally pop up in information distilled by others (and the MR Enterprise is a distillation of someone else's work).
So again, what was your point with the Roddenberry comment?
