My CollectionDo you have display cabinets full of stuff? With it all neatly labelled, cross-referenced and entered into a database. Have you been to a convention? Do other collectors look up to you in awe?
I thought I was above this one. I'm not that autistically geeky that I have a Collection with a capital C. But no, I remembered I'm hoarding away every version of "Inside Macintosh" ever published.
What do you collect? And why? I mean, what makes you do it?
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chthonic, Thu 11 Jan 2007, 16:52)
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Even Mr Lawofnations doesn't know thisWhen I was about 10 or 11, I started collecting fluffy bugs. You know, the little furry pom-poms with eyes that have a ribbon sticking out of their bums saying "I escaped from Twycross Zoo" or something equally amusing. I don't really remember why, except that one day I worked out I had about 20 and that constituted a good start to a collection.
Labels were made and affixed to their feet, with a 6-7 digit classification number. A letter denoting whether I felt the bug was male or female, then a serial number (01, 02, etc - had to go round adding extra 0s once I got my 100th bug), then a three-letter code that uniquely defined the bug in question. So if it had a name, like Squiggle for example, it might be SQL or SGL.
Each bug was catalogued on one page of A4 lined paper - I drew a picture of the bug in colour to show its most prominent characters, put in measurements and observational notes on its behaviour and occasionally "married" a bug off to another.
I put this display of utter anal retentiveness down to the fact that, even at the age of 10 I was a frustrated palaeontologist, and this was the closest that I could get to a museum collection.
I am also collecting masters degrees. I have an MA, an MSci and an MRes. If I stuff up my PhD I'll have an MPhil too.
And the MRes is in taxonomy and systematics - collecting and classifying living things.
(, Tue 16 Jan 2007, 19:49, Reply)
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