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Mike

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About Me

The ultimate aim of the analytical study of the material world is to understand the soul of existence - Prabhupada

Science is supposed to be the future and things to come. Yet, all its really trying to do is to play catch-up with Nature.

My Interests

Playing Music, Writing Music, Chemistry, Biology, Idealism, Movies, Japanese, Meerkats, RPG's, Reading, and Watching College Basketball (my one guilty pleasure).

I'd like to meet:

Thelonious Monk and Isaac Asimov.

Music:

The Mars Volta, Sparta, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, Battles, Louis Prima, Bjork, Alkaline Trio, Eastern Youth, Bernstein, At The Drive-In, Deltron, The Police, Rachmaninov, Bloodhound Gang, The Velvet Teen, Faith No More, Charles Mingus, Less Than Jake, Tinklepotty, Public Enemy, Billy Talent, John Coltrane, The Gershwins, Mr.Bungle, Bloc Party, Cave-In, Weezer, Strung-Out, Stevie Wonder, Ennio Morricone, They Might Be Giants, The Knightmares, Ben Folds Five, Brand New, Slapstick, Moussourgsky, David Bowie, Cibo Motto, Count Basie Orchestra, Shark Sandwich, Pets, Mealticket, Mu330, Bayside, The Advantage, The Minibosses.

Movies:

Fight Club, Chasing Amy, The Shawshank Redemption, Ghost World, Donnie Darko, The Untouchables, Reservoir Dogs, Happy Gilmore, The Boondock Saints, Ghost In The Shell, Spirited Away, Pi, Office Space,The Royal Tennenbaums, Life Aquatic, Dancer In The Dark, Angus, Gattaca, Training Day, Princess Mononoke, Lost In Translation, Super Troopers, LOTR, Pulp Fiction, Bottle Rocket, Kill Bill, Garden State, Old School, Swingers, The Truman Show, Pirates of The Carribean, Hero (Dustin Hoffman), Howls Moving Castle, Unbreakable.

Television:

The Simpsons, Futurama, Sports Night, Firefly, The Mighty Boosh, House, Psych, Battlestar Galactica, Metalocalypse, Scrubs

Books:

A Separate Peace, Siddhartha, Catcher in the Rye, Cat's Cradle, Scarlet Letter, Lolita, The Lorax, Icewind Dale Trilogy, Dark Elf Trilogy, 1984, Ender's Game, Xenocide, The Stand, I Robot, The Harry Potter Series, The Man In The High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, The Zap Gun, The Wayfarer Redemption Series, LOTR, Beyond Infinity

Heroes:

Dimensional Analysis....Is there anything you can't do?

My Blog

Sulfides and Long Bike Rides...

They both kinda jack you up.
Posted by Mike on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:37:00 PST

"I am Cameo Man."

So I recently watched Iron Man.  I must say, it was a treat. I didn't expect it to be good.  So that's was pretty neat.  I would also like to add that a certain famous person makes an a...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:21:00 PST

Worth a try

You don't need to click on this link.  Its just to create fake email addresses for email harvesting bots.  ...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:00:00 PST

End of an Era

So at 9:43pm, I left the Bannon Creek Manor for the last time.  Its been 5+ years and 6+ people who have occupied that residence.  Countless guests, games, and shennigans (feel free to pisto...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:16:00 PST

NCAA Recap.

For years, I always believed the team with the best guard(s) usually comes out on top in the NCAA Tournament.  But after watching, consistently I might add, big men just run people off the floor....
Posted by Mike on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:30:00 PST

Final Four

So for the first time in history, all four 1 seeds are in the Final Four.  No small accomplishment for any of the teams invovled.  I must admit that I haven’t been following College BB...
Posted by Mike on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:47:00 PST

Award

This past weekend I attended the annual CSUPERB Biotech Symposium in the Bay Area.  I was fortunate enough to be nominated and win the Howell/CSUPERB Award for Outstanding Research in the Field o...
Posted by Mike on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:29:00 PST

Must See Movies.

So two must see movies for the year are "No Country For Old Men" and "Juno."Both movies have terrific acting and intelligently written scripts.  "No Country For Old Men" really displays how inten...
Posted by Mike on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:22:00 PST

The New Beuller!

Michael Cera is the new Matthew Broderick.  You heard it here first.
Posted by Mike on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:33:00 PST

Sparta

I love these guys so much.Collapse (Accoustic) The host of the show comes down to collapse on the ground and the crime scene revisits me this body shut down in Bordeaux and the shores of gold coas...
Posted by Mike on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:58:00 PST