i wanna learn about page 2

12/17/2009 10:43:00 AM

it's the same idea as changing gears on a bike.. you wouldn't start from a stop while going up a hill in the highest gear.

12/17/2009 10:49:16 AM

You think my amazon ass rides a bike?!

I don't know about bike gears either.

12/17/2009 10:50:53 AM

wine

playing the guitar--there's a nice acoustic one my father-in-law built sitting in our den, and it should be played not collecting dust

Spanish--I took Latin, Italian and French...silly me

12/17/2009 10:52:01 AM

Quote :

"A less extreme version of this happened once, involving my DD getting completely shitfaced drunk/stoned... long story short I tried to drive home and ended up rolling backwards down a hill at a stoplight, I was so pissed/freaked out that I walked home and left his drunk ass in the passenger seat in the middle of the road."

haha that is a situation I've actually been in- it wasn't my car, but me and the owner were the only ones in the group who knew how to drive it, and also were the only ones who were drunk (the 2 girls were fine to drive- just didn't know how to drive a manual)



and if you wanted to see how it works and why you are doing what you are doing, How Stuff Works has some really good animations on there (I have used them to show other people how it works before)- give me a second and I'll see if I can find them




http://auto.howstuffworks.com/transmission.htm

I can't find the actual animations (it has been at least 5 years since I last looked at them)

I'll see if I can find them somewhere else


[Edited on December 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM. Reason : moar]

12/17/2009 11:05:10 AM

My dad made a point of teaching me how to drive a stick at 16. It was one of his "No son of mine... yadda yadda" things. It's just like riding a bike, once you learn it, you'll never forget, but you may stall at first if you are rusty.

12/17/2009 11:12:29 AM

What goes on with the transmission:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-3SqMsgVdI&feature=related

12/17/2009 11:15:55 AM

lol..that isn't at all what she needs to know

12/17/2009 11:32:32 AM

why do guys love to teach girls how to drive a stick shift?

12/17/2009 1:48:31 PM

insider trading
money laundering
racketeering
check kiting
odometer fraud
ponzi

12/17/2009 1:52:24 PM

Tantra

12/17/2009 1:53:03 PM

gnostic gospels

12/17/2009 1:57:42 PM

I wanna know what love is, I want you to show meeee

12/17/2009 1:58:02 PM

i shoulda learned to play the guitar
i shoulda learned to play them drums

12/17/2009 1:58:09 PM

i wanna learn why boys are dumb

12/17/2009 1:59:56 PM

because we don't have enough blood to run our brains and penises at the same time

12/17/2009 2:00:24 PM

Sports betting

12/17/2009 2:01:40 PM

^^ oic

12/17/2009 2:03:13 PM

a one hand suture tie

the 2-hand suture tie

spanish(beyond HS level)

scrapbooking

calligraphy(tried here and there and then i forget about it for several years)

knitting

crochetting

sailing

skiing, both snow and water (i need to relearn how to snow ski)

gardening

dog training

horse training

sewing complex things

and the list goes on

12/17/2009 2:07:29 PM

Quote :

"i want to know what love is i want you to show me"

3/18/2010 10:24:42 PM

i need something new to learn about

i'm pretty awesome at everything i do now

but i havent found anything new that's interesting

3/18/2010 10:25:54 PM

i need to learn how to drill things into the wall with proper anchorage

5/9/2010 5:07:26 PM

cooking more unique cuisine (ethnic - i'd like to learn how to make indian, middle eastern and vietnamese food well errrrr at all cause i've never tried)

i want to learn more about religions - i think religion is really fascinating

languages - i REALLY want to learn to speak french fluently but i'd also love to do like arabic or chinese too (but what dialect i haven no clue)

WINE TASTING!!!! i love wine but i want to do tasting! this summer maybe i'll do some of the NC vineyard tours. my new life goal is to become a wine attorney in napa valley. hahaha.

sewing so i could make the kind of clothes i want

how to apply makeup better

i'd love to learn to knit

5/9/2010 5:13:38 PM

quantum physics

but there are too many damned complex numbers in quantum physics, and I hate complex numbers

5/9/2010 5:40:57 PM

space-time
how to fly a fighter jet
a foreign language (at a native speaker level)
tae kwon doe
play the electric guitar at a high level

5/9/2010 6:54:26 PM

photography.

5/9/2010 6:56:56 PM

i want to do more with photography too

been TRYING to drop hints to my dad about a digital SLR for a grad present

but i still also like my good old canon AE-1. it is a trooper! and there's something about taking photographs with an old camera and developing them yourself.

but digital slrs are fucking cool as shit and i want one.

5/9/2010 6:59:20 PM

welding

turbos

wine

suchi

world travel

Portuguese

'ow ta spayke austrayyian

5/9/2010 7:00:11 PM

my dad has a high school sports website and I've shot a few games using his digital SLR. it's pretty fun

5/9/2010 7:06:58 PM

i have the DSLR... i just don't have any good ideas about what to shoot.

5/9/2010 7:07:48 PM

nature shots are always interesting. especially if you manage to catch something like lightning on camera

5/9/2010 7:13:45 PM

i like people and things (especially broken down/industrial stuff). you could just walk around downtown and shoot a million pictures to practice.

i love people pictures - but not when they're posing. i think it is really cool to capture other people's emotions. that is hard though.

[Edited on May 9, 2010 at 7:16 PM. Reason : .]

5/9/2010 7:15:46 PM

i s'pose so. too many cows around here.

5/9/2010 7:15:54 PM

cows prolly make for decent photos. bodies of water are sweet, especially at sunrise/sunset. buildings at night are also neat.

5/9/2010 7:18:48 PM

The purpose of photography is to make people concentrate and linger on something they wouldn't otherwise even notice. You're capturing a moment and place for extended consideration.

5/9/2010 7:20:01 PM

^ that is why i like stuff (for lack of a better word haha)

some people call it shit or junk but STUFF is interesting. trash can be interesting. thats why you gotta just walk around/explore to find cool things to take pictures of

i'm not as big of a fan of nature shots. maybe scenery but...anyone with a digital SLR can take a picture of a lillypad and it will look good cause the camera is awesome.

5/9/2010 7:38:48 PM

lily pads are pretty meh, but there's something very peaceful about chaotic events in nature (storms, choppy water, etc)

5/9/2010 7:40:37 PM

^ quote of the day. nice thought.

5/9/2010 7:47:03 PM

Yeah, I sometimes stare at a square inch plot of chaotic and violent soil in my backyard for a half hour and come to the conclusion...fuck it.

5/9/2010 7:48:01 PM

Quote :

"lily pads are pretty meh, but there's something very peaceful about chaotic events in nature (storms, choppy water, etc) "

oh i agree! i have an awesome pic my dad took (WITH THE AE-1 haha) back in the day of water coming up over a jetty at nags head (during a storm). its pretty. when i think nature i usually think of people zooming in on a rose and taking the picture. god i hate those.

5/9/2010 7:49:23 PM

The world needs macro shots of roses!

5/9/2010 7:51:18 PM

roses and shit like that make for good shot, but they're boring. the background on my computer is a lightning strike over that volcano in iceland while it's still erupting or whatever. very chaotic, fucking beautiful, and it brings me peace of mind.

5/9/2010 7:58:18 PM

i'm really into trash and broken things and run down buildings and homeless people right now

5/9/2010 8:00:17 PM

i would like to get my private pilot's license and learn persian

5/9/2010 8:09:02 PM

more spanish

more about car repair/maintenance other than how to change tires and do an oil change

actionscript

learn to play more than a few chords on my guitar

how to make good photos consistently

5/9/2010 9:39:02 PM

- How to sew really well and be able to make fun clothes, curtains, etc.
- How to cook more stuff, esp how to bake really, really well

5/10/2010 12:03:41 AM

How to use Reason (a music program)

5/10/2010 12:06:08 AM

- Space exploration
- Time travel
- Black holes
- Physics
- M-Theory
- How to control gravity
- The Human Body (internal workings, as well as exercise science.. which I do know some of already thanks to personal experience)
- The Human Brain
- What human consciousness actually is (do souls exist? -- I would say they do)
- Following that, if teleportation devices (such as the one in the movie The Fly) actually existed, would your consciousness get transferred? I'd sure as hell not get into one of those things.
- An explanation of that crazy psychedelic experience I had with marijuana at a party (which is why I'll never smoke that stuff again)
- More time to write music
- More time to work on my personal computer projects, and potentially start a business -- with graduation approaching this seems a possibliity
- Become wealthy enough to learn anything I want while simultaneously enjoying life without work

5/10/2010 12:28:59 AM

- wet-folding origami techniques
- Japanese
- French
- capoeira
- bike repair/maintenance
- math (have an advanced degree, but I don't use it enough in my work and want to get back into it)
- genetics
- music production software
- Chinese
- how to apply make-up
- how to modify clothes artistically


Good thread! Awesome list on page 1, punchmonk.

5/10/2010 12:43:38 AM