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Nicholas

An unfinished puzzle is the badge of uncertainty, and uncertainty stinks of weakness, and pressure f

About Me

come and live with me in peace and safety, away from all the Whangdoodles and Hornswogglers and Snozzwangers and rotten Vermicious Knids...
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My Interests


Which Trainspotting Character Are You?
filmmaking, comedy writing, screenwriting, documentaries, astronomy, cosmology, string theory, m-theory, animation, philosophy, history, oil painting, conspiracy theories, time travel, ikea, black holes, existentialism, nihilism, quantum physics, google earth, fractals, improv, space travel, nasa, ion propulsion, piano and keyboard, european social democracies, japan & korea, the cold war, propaganda, urban planning, new urbanism, smart growth, architecture, social philosophy, biotechnology, nanotechnology, emporis, storytelling, language, intellectual history, the dialectic, the variable specific impulse magnetoplasma rocket (VASIMR), cruise vessel sailing, northwoods camping, canines & felines, canada, scotland, trabzon, gardening, international jetsetting, the united nations, international law, espionage and clandestine counterintelligence, linguistics, neuroscience, semantics, petra, cappadocia, mass transit

Music:

radiohead, the postal service, air, french kicks, modest mouse, royksopp, belle and sebastian, doves, electric soft parade, the clash, clap your hands say yeah!, the spinto band, keane, ambulance ltd, british sea power, athlete, franz ferdinand, the arcade fire, daft punk, tv on the radio, interpol, phoenix, the guillemots, new order, talking heads, the walkmen, every move a picture, nathan fake, rjd2, ratatat, the notwist, stellastarr, future bible heroes, the ramones, rancid, spoon, ben folds, killers, kaiser chiefs, prokofiev, scott joplin, wilco, pulp, blur, jet, the bravery, die toten hosen, the magnetic fields, flaming lips, athlete, j.s. bach, wire, secret chiefs 3, mark mothersbaugh, dust brothers, dj yoda, 999, black box recorder, grandaddy, supergrass, lemon jelly, johnny cash, the strokes, sex pistols, rammstein, muse, rancid, badly drawn boy, cranebuilders, spiritualized, weezer, fischerspooner, lcd soundsystem, beta band, jurrassic 5, the roots, norman cook, codebreaker, carl cox, paul van dyk, josh wink, dust brothers, phillip glass

Movies:

the big lebowski, stroszek, lola rennt (run lola run), office space, pi, koyaanisqatsi, trainspotting, bottle rocket, mr. smith goes to washington, fear and loathing in las vegas, i heart huckabees, barton fink, der krieger und die kaiserin, goodbye lenin!, m, fight club, punch drunk love, donnie darko, magnolia, the royal tenenbaums, bowling for columbine, werner herzog films, wes anderson films, stanley kubrik films

Television:


I am Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force!!
Which Aqua Teen Hunger Force character are you??

family guy, 12 oz. mouse, sealab 2021, late night with conan o'brien, reno 911, the brak show, aquateen hunger force, history channel, the young ones, euromaxx, discovery-times channel, science channel, the benny hill show, mst3k, harvey birdman, trading spaces, bundesliga soccer, doctor who

Books:

crime and punishment - fyodor dostoevsky, notes from the underground - fyodor dostoevsky, the elegant universe - brian greene, the fabric of the cosmos - brian greene, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggers, the complete works of flannery o'connor, also other books by: hunter s. thompson, kant, hegel, hume, lonely planet guides

Heroes:

carl sagan, hunter s. thompson, conan o'brien, immanuel kant, abraham lincoln, joel and ethan coen, werner herzog, fyodor dostoevsky, seth macfarlane, friedrich nietzsche, albert einstein

My Blog

who...

... are all these white skanks in bikinis trying to add me as their friend on here... and why do they all live in china??
Posted by Nicholas on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:35:00 PST

europa to africa

it's amazing at how it is both incredibly simple and yet incredibly tiresome to get from europe to africa by ship.... this whole trans-continental leap started yesterday, of course, when i left berlin...
Posted by Nicholas on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:37:00 PST

four continents and counting...

it has taken me a few years, but i am about to set foot on a continent to which my feet are entirely foreign for the very first time again. for years, north america and europe were my only spoils of t...
Posted by Nicholas on Wed, 23 May 2007 11:50:00 PST

hairlip assault

okay, let me precede my rant by stating that i am not a mean person by any means and i really feel badly for anyone who is born with a birth defect or disability-- but jumping jesus on a pogo stick, w...
Posted by Nicholas on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:43:00 PST

retard-o-plows

in my best seinfeldian inquisitive voice, i ask rhetorically, "what's the deaaaaal with milwaukee county snowplows?"-- honestly, many of the roads look brilliantly clean 24 hours after our latest (and...
Posted by Nicholas on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:34:00 PST

ford

i don't see what the big deal is... my '93 Ford died a long time ago... nobody wrote any frickin' headline articles when that happened...
Posted by Nicholas on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:05:00 PST

i'm not quite clear...

... on the recent lack of consistency in the american response to north korea's acquisition of nuclear weaponry... thinking back a a few years (i know it isn't easy-- it's been quite a while now alrea...
Posted by Nicholas on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:52:00 PST

snow on my birthday?

i don't think that has ever happened before. ... well, i mean in the part of the world where i was at the time of said birthday. i'm sure it was always snowing somewhere in northern canada or siberia ...
Posted by Nicholas on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:43:00 PST

the syntax of the alphabet

how does one spell the letter "H"?one doesn't... and why not? we certainly spell out numbers, don't we? the number "1" is spelled "o-n-e", the number "2" is "t-w-o", etc. etc.but for some reason, we a...
Posted by Nicholas on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:46:00 PST

If a space probe crashed on the moon and no-one was there to see it, did it really happen?

so i just wrote this to a friend of mine, but i think it's a thought i might as well share with others.  I went outdoors, telescope in-hand, late this past Saturday evening to have a look at t...
Posted by Nicholas on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:03:00 PST