Cannot stop watching mechanical linkages

I think everyone has something that attracts them. For me, it's machines. If it has several gears, it would be more attractive to me.
When I was small, there was a shop which baked and sold Imagawayaki. Imagawayaki is Japanese sweets; it's like a waffle that contains sweet azuki beans paste inside. The shop I liked had wide windows facing the main street of the shopping mall and pedestrians could see the entire progress of the Imagawayaki being made. I found a video of a similar machine on YouTube. Here is the video below.
 

There were lots of different parts which moved differently on the Imagawayaki machine and each of them looked very interesting. I could watch it until my mother became bored and said, "You've watched it enough, haven't you?"
I was a kid that had a little strange habit. I preferred to watch the washing machine moving as well. I said "It's rotating, rotating!" and my mother said, "Of course, it's rotating, it's a washing machine."
To me, the attractiveness that machine had was how each part of machine moved and to know what for. Some parts hold the Imagawayaki batter until it's baked, some parts squeezed the sweet azuki beans paste, and the most interest process was the last part where two burnt batters were attached to put it together. That last part was the highlight of the whole process.
Looking back now, I can understand why I liked that machine so much. I like mechanical linkage and gears. Therefore, I'm interested in automation as well. I feel like making an automata someday.

Here are two books I bought several years ago. One is "507 Mechanical Movements" and the other one is a Japanese book "Encyclopedia of the mechanism." There are various types of linkages and gears in the books. I like to look at the pages of these books and once I start, I cannot stop looking at them. 

 
I hope that it's not just looking at books; I would also like to make something interesting in the future.

People who love puzzles

I like puzzles and I think I have a sense of puzzles. It's hard to tell what puzzle sense is, but I can roughly guess who has a puzzle sense if I can talk with someone for a while.

Long ago, I was a member of a puzzle lovers group in Japan, and one of the members was famous puzzle designer, Mr Nobuyuki Yoshigahara (aka Nobu-san). One day, he said that most puzzle lovers like to use computers. That was a good point. It is true, all the puzzle lovers around me were good at using computers.
 

The other way to figure out who likes puzzles is if they show curiosity and an inquiring mind. I myself have had an inquiring mind since I was small. Anyone who remembers their childhood or knows a child knows that children always ask "Why?" Their questions are mostly easy to answer but sometimes they unexpectedly ask a very difficult question to answer, like, "Why the sky is blue?" which can confuse someone who was once four years old in the past. In most cases, people lose the feeling of wonder as they grow up, but I still have it and some of my puzzle friends do as well. Of course, I don't annoy other people by asking questions now; instead, I use the internet. I am grateful for the internet, I really am.

If something attracts my attention, usually a scientific thing, I just cannot stop myself trying to figure out what it is or why it is like that. This is my bad habit. Maybe that's why I like mystery novels. It is the same reason why I like to see magic tricks too. Magic stimulates my curiosity.
I still remember when I attended a gathering of puzzle lovers in Tokyo, Nobu-san brought foreign puzzles to the place where we had gathered. We were so excited like curious children seeing new toys for the first time, and Nobu-san said to us "Look at you, you look like small children!"
Now, I think you can guess what the favorite toys of puzzle lovers were when they were small kids. I have asked some puzzle lovers and they said that they loved to play with toy blocks, and they still play with toy blocks, namely puzzles, and I'm one of them. I like block puzzles and interlocking puzzles.

There are more common features of those who love or are interested in puzzles. It's not every puzzle lover but they are interested in impossible objects, magic, juggling, gears, 3D graphics, origami, science and, as I mentioned the above, computers.
I have no idea why some puzzle lovers like juggling. When I attended the biggest worldwide puzzle gathering's party, a juggler appeared on the stage and said, "Is there anyone who can juggle?" and several arms were raised. I don't think the juggler expected that.
So, if you have already read the above lines, you are now an expert in identifying puzzle lovers. They are curious and unique people with childlike minds. Unfortunately, they are not so many. It's easier to find someone who likes other hobbies such as book reading, exercising, driving, cooking, or whatever. Puzzle lovers are like the Giant Panda, what I mean is that they are a kind of endangered species. Oops, I exaggerated perhaps a bit too much. What I want to say is, it's difficult to find someone who has the same interest, especially women.

 
I've been looking for friends who have a puzzle sense around me, but I haven't succeeded well. One of the reasons that I couldn't find them is because the absolute number of puzzle lovers is small. I almost gave up meeting women puzzle lovers. I know they are somewhere on this planet. Maybe the internet will be of help.
This is one of the reasons I have started this blog. I want to write a blog through the eyes of puzzle sense. My family business is making and selling puzzles but I'm not a puzzle collector, so I'm not able to update puzzle pictures or the latest puzzle information a lot. The topics will be anything. I'm going to write about what I'm interested in. If I could find people who have the same sense or thoughts through this blog, I would be happy.