A TED talk by Adam Savage (of MythBusters) about obsessions, starting with his own obsession over owing a replica of a Dodo skeleton to modeling a the Maltese Falcon Falcon.
I find I am also like this with software, if I see something computer based that I find interesting I do crazy amounts of research to mimic. Recently made my site XML-RPC completely compatible with a WordPress weblog to use WordPress iPhone application.
You are not lost. You are one link away from your destination.