hi. i'm...um...msamaki...
:oops:
i'm so nervous... i'm usually content to just read forums, but since i actually took the trouble of signing up this time, i figure i might as well introduce myself.

the first thing you should know about me is that i'm an obsessive person. along with cephs, i'm currently obsessed with:
spiderman 2 (i just finished watching it...for the *insert infinitely high number here* time...)
japanese cooking
BSSM
corn snakes

you can blame me being here on jacques cousteau's "octopus and squid: the soft intelligence." i read it and, being the obsessive person i am, wanted to learn more. and more. and more. that's one obsession that will never, ever, ever die. i love to learn about animals.

sorry for the long post.

BSSM

Business and Service Sector Management?
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon?
British Society for Strain Measurement? (We're all members.)
British Society for Sexual Medicine? (We wish we were members.)
Bgld. Schule und Sport Modell?

Or something unmentionable?

:welcome:

Clem

'tis bishoujo senshi seraa muun. a wonderful anime/manga and a personal favorite. i would reccomend it to anyone, whether they've seen the dub (:yuck:) or not.

you can blame me being here on jacques cousteau's "octopus and squid: the soft intelligence."
Not again?!! Curse that book! :mrgreen:

i read it and, being the obsessive person i am, wanted to learn more. and more. and more. that's one obsession that will never, ever, ever die.
Well you've come to the right place. We've got about 50,000 posts for you to test that claim. Enjoy!

And Welcome aboard! 8-)

welcome, I think we're all obsessed here! Some of us have multiple obsessions

Mine are....ahem......
Cephs
Dogs
Beads
Marine Science
Conservation
Science fiction
horses and so on and so on
Cephs
Dogs
Beads
Marine Science
Conservation
Science fiction
horses and so on and so on
Cephs
Dogs
Beads
Marine Science
Conservation
Science fiction
horses and so on and so on
Cephs
Dogs
Beads
Marine Science
Conservation
Science fiction
horses and so on and so on
J

:lol:

OOOhhh...I love lists !!!

Welcome to Tonmo, fellow corn snake afficianado !!!

Hmmm....
falcons
serpents,
wolf spiders named Matilda,
PT boats,
canaries,
surreal art,
women,
and good beer....to start.


greg

and good beer....to start.


greg

oh yeah......and tea/coffee, wine, gin, rum...(all in moderation of course 8-) )

J

Seeing all those winde range of interests makes me ashamed since my interests are confined to only a few wacky things.

Seeing all those winde range of interests makes me ashamed since my interests are confined to only a few wacky things.

Don't be ashamed........flaunt them! The wackier the better I say :twisted:

J

hey me to me to
tonmo
octopus
cuttlefish
halo <vidio game>
halo 2 <vidio game>
long lists
people
marine biologe
vidio games
running
stick figures
the meaning of life
fish
invertes
corals
saltwater
live rock
live sand
it goes on and on
usualy I go from one to the nexed.

hi everyone, thanks for the welcomes.

those aren't ALL my obsessions, just the one's i'm currently focused on. i have a long list, some of which would suprise you.

and now to retreat back into the safety of anonymity, where it's impossible to make a fool of myself...

chicken. lol....

First, Msamaki, I am also I fan of the hitchhickers(your sig)... so you share more than one common interest here.
Two: I didn't know so many people were so obsessive (although I'm not to sure how manywolf spiders are named matilda... I don't ask, I squish them)

Anyway, welcome to Tonmo, I'm sure you won't be nervous for very long!

~GPO87 :mrgreen:

Wooot! Welcome to tonmo! Wow I had no idea so many people had so many obsessions! Well as long as were all posting lists heres mine!

Cephs
Saltwater Fish
Nudibranchs
All other saltwater dwelling animals
Snorkeling
Hunting Things
Anything challenging I can catch
Conservation of all living things
Books
SciFi (Most of all Douglas Adams & Isaac Asimov)
Warhammer 40k (reaally geeky)
Manga & Anime
Food
Food
Drinks
More Food
Lots and lots of Foooooooood!
Oregon
Oh oh oh!! Chinese food!
The Sea
Writing
Pool (when I can)
Pools
Learning to Cook
Family Guy
Foood
My looks LOL jk
Carnivorous Plants
My Computer
Poker
Thinking about all the other things I could be obsessed with if I had the money and time...
Owning people at Sarcraft
Cephs
Video Games
Getting money and not saving it!
& Skateboarding

Yessss! Top that...

(although I'm not to sure how manywolf spiders are named matilda... I don't ask, I squish them)

~GPO87 :mrgreen:



"Them's fightin words" Uncle Jed Clampett

Two: I didn't know so many people were so obsessive (although I'm not to sure how manywolf spiders are named matilda... I don't ask, I squish them)

No ! No! No! You can't squish wonderful glorious wolf spiders!!! They're sooooo cute!
:mad:

If you squish wolf spiders, how will you be able to enjoy the music when the entire pack congregates to howl at the moon?

"Listen to them, the children of the night...how I love the music they make..."
Dracula

oh yeah, and i really like wolves!

and spiders are awesome too.

See? and you thought you weren't going to fit in....

Welcome msamaki - Glad you're here!

Not listing my obsessions - some can border on slightly, um well, nevermind.... :oops:

Anyone who loves cephs, wolves, and spiders, (oh, and I'd add bats in too,) has got to be great! Welcome! :welcome: :cheers:

i had a bat once for a pet when i was kid. caught it myself. until my mom saw it and i got the lecture on rabies. (i was a dum kid) anywhoo i had it only a few hours to observe it then brought it to these woods by my house and let it go. i do agree that there preety cool animals too. by the way any kids out there who may b reading i dont recomend going out and catching a bat. thats bad. well now u know. and knowing is half the ... ugh nevermind. this is so un ceph related.

Everyone else is chiming in, so....

Good scotch
Good beer
welding
anything that swims
women
learning
food, food, food
work (it's how I keep the food from collecting on my person)
music
woodworking
Italian motorcycles
Aston Martins
coconuts
raw fish
coconuts with raw fish
cooking for huge numbers of people

Hi I Got Crabs,

Yes, Bats are definitely not good choices for pets. For more information regarding bats and rabies, go to Bat Conservation International's website at www.batcon.org. A lot of what has been popularly believed over the last half-century about bats and rabies turns out not to have been true. Scientists studying captive bats and their effects on lab mice misidentified mouse pox - which produces rabies-like symptoms - as rabies and concluded that bats could be indefinite carriers of the dread disease without succumbing themselves. Well, bats can and do carry mouse pox, which is fatal to mice, but not to the bats or to humans. Although any mammal can contract rabies, it kills bats just as surely as it kills anything else. There were rabies-eradication efforts as a result of these faulty studies that resulted in entire beneficial wild colonies of bats being wiped-out. The truth is that you are many times more likely getting killed by a dog, deer, getting struck by lightning, etc., than being attacked by a rabid bat. Why the disproportionate coverage of the odd bat-related rabies case? It makes for better-selling press. Less than one-half of one percent of bats carry rabies, less than raccoons, feral cats, dogs, or rodents. Sorry for this tangent; I'm a hardened bat-freak!

Anyway, back to the existing thread!

:thumbsup: Good stuff - my sister is a bat-head as well, and rehabilitated a family of Big Brown Bats (great common name) as part of a high school service project (assisting the local wildlife rehab people). They were pretty cool, although I never got into the live-mealworm-feeding sessions... just a little too crunchy and gross for my liking. :yuck:

They taste like buttered toast....had them down in Mexico a few times...yum !

greg (mealworms, not bats...bats taste like peregrine falcons)

Can't say as I've ever had a pet bat........I'd like to!

Had a pet Rat (Buttons) and a pet Hedgehog (Herbie) tho'

J

Pet rats are great! 8-)

don't think i've ever heard of people keeping microchiroptera for more than a few days (unless the bat was injured/orphaned and needed care). but there are a few stories of folks keeping flying foxes or other megachiroptera for years. i don't know if that's considered acceptable, or even if it's legal, but i've definately read about it.

and yes, i also love bats! and rats! i love all animals, now that you mention it. (except maybe scorpions, they scare the heck out of me...:goofysca:)

no pet rats here, though. bloody farmers own the whole province. :mad:

and yes, i also love bats! and rats! i love all animals, now that you mention it. (except maybe scorpions, they scare the heck out of me...:goofysca:)

Don't like scorpions? That's a pallid bat's favorite evening meal! :mrgreen:

three cheers for the pallid bat.
i don't mind them (scorpions) behind glass, but the idea of being stung by one really doesn't appeal to me. that gives me nighmares. funny, because most other venemous creatures i'm not as terrified of.

oh, and i just came back from "rescuing" a friend from a house spider. it's beyond me why so many people are scared of such a tiny little creature.

but then, looking at BROs and poison dart frogs...

edit: oi, i just realized it's 11:45... vacations will do that to you.

yeah like i said i was just a kid so it was in my nature to catch things as (pets) but as is said no harm came to it and i released it later that day. i still see wild bats from time to time usually wedged up in the overhangs of local convient stores with bug attracting bright lights. i used to work at lps some many years ago and one of regulars had a pet bat. i dont what species but it was bigger then the locals and red. she brought it in a few times and it was very social. we would donate feeder bugs to see it being fed by hand. dont remember what kind of enviorment she kept for it but it seemed to be doing well. except for the dameged wing(it was a rescue) i believe thats why she was keeping it.

I agree pet Rats are great, can't keep one at the moment tho' we have a Miniature Pinscher (Diablo) and he's a ratter!

J

I ove those crested bats with mohawks... Now that's style!

I'm a fan of the vampyromorph bat - basically a vampire squid, but it has bat wings where it's fins ought to be and uses them to get tangled in peoples' hair when they come to the seaside.

I was out doing a newt survey the other night and the Daubentons bats were constantly skimming the surface of the pond catching small bugs. Shame its virtually impossible to photograph.
Also erich, we have put up even more of the large woodcrete bat hibernacula this year, might be interesting pics when we survey through this winter???

I can hardly wait! Gearing up for the October 14th Bat Show here in Hollywood - my major annual Autumn event - so I'll be bat-obsessed over the next couple months or so.

I'm a fan of the vampyromorph bat - basically a vampire squid, but it has bat wings where it's fins ought to be and uses them to get tangled in peoples' hair when they come to the seaside.
You make me laugh, thank you. :smile: I like those guys, too.

I'd love to have a NZ bat but they are rather rare. There are only two surviving genera, the long tailed bat Chalinolobus and two species of short tailed bat Mystacina robusta and M. tuberculata

The short tailed bats are unusual in that they are ground hunters using their folded wings as limbs to scuttle around and the males are lek breeders. I believe there is a recovery plan afoot to try and increase the numbers.

These bats are NZ's only endemic land mammals (all the rest are marine!!) but they are REALLY cute!

J

I was lucky enough to see footage of those ground-attack bats scurrying through the underbrush savaging wetas. They appear to have occupied a slot usually reserved for rodents.

here it goes

fish
fishing
keeping fish prisoner in glass boxes so i can watch them look like mimes
wildlife
hunting
camping
sleeping
eating
root beer
octopuses
sleeping more
cs
anime
driving really fast around corners
watching my octo dismantle crabs
watching movies
tv
food
shooting guns
archery
boating in general
building kayaks
kayaking
got a strange obsession with building the perfect skimmer... so far the best one is the most basic with sports ill. swim suit ed. cup from hardees on top...
taking long roadtrips just to go to fish stores in another city
staring into nothingness(do this alot)
obsession with carving antlers with a dremel tool( very weird considering i like the smell of burning bone)
guitars
music
old vinyl records
writing obsession list
tonmo.com
tonmo.com
my reef tank
reefcentral.com
simpsons
athf
family guy
adult swim in general


ok now ive lost intrest in this topic so im going now