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Nicolai

Everyone's a building burning, with no one to put the fire out. Standing at the window, looking out,

About Me

In brief: Librarian. Outspoken liberal. Professional grump. Laid back. I love good music and bad movies. Want to know more, then ask.

My Interests

playing sports (basketball, baseball, softball), fishing, reading, politics, hanging out at starbucks, watching b-movies, antagonizing people, sarcasm

I'd like to meet:

Someone who isn't a fool. It's harder than you think.

Music:

Arcade Fire, Counting Crows, The Decemberists, Fiona Apple, The Flaming Lips, Garbage, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Portishead, Radiohead, REM, Tool, Ween, Wilco, Thom Yorke

Movies:

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Donnie Darko, Event Horizon, Ghost in the Shell, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Lord of the Rings, Memento, Millennium Actress, Pan's Labyrinth, The Sixth Sense, Syriana, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Thing, 28 Days Later, V for Vendetta,

Television:

The Colbert Report, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show, Knicks, Paranoia Agent, Rangers, Yankees, anything astronomy related, The History Channel, shitty late night movies

Books:

Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, Memnoch the Devil, Entering Space, Reading Judas, The Wheel of Time Series, The Heritage of Shannara Series, America: The Book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, The Martian Chronicles, Interview with the Vampire, Cerebus

Heroes:

Neil De Grasse Tyson, Al Gore, Stephen Colbert

My Blog

Fooking Brilliant

The fireworks start @ ~1:45. ...
Posted by Nicolai on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:40:00 PST

Its A Celebration, Bitches

"I'm going to dispel a few myths, a few rumors. First off, the retarded don't rule the night, they don't rule it, nobody does. They don't run in packs, and while they may not be as strong as apes, don...
Posted by Nicolai on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:15:00 PST

Faux News

Yes folks, Fox News is suggesting that terrorists may have started the California wildfires..... ...
Posted by Nicolai on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:11:00 PST

Were All Going to Die!

In 4 billion years. That is, if we move to Mars before earth bakes 700 million years from now.  The Sun, in its death cycle as a red giant. ...
Posted by Nicolai on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:49:00 PST

Want to Feel Small??

The solar system and several well known stars to scale....Note that the Milky Way Galaxy alone has between 200 billion and 400 billion stars in it, and there are far more galaxies in the universe than...
Posted by Nicolai on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:12:00 PST

How sweet it is

Spring 2006: 3-11 (finished 2nd to last)Fall 2006: 9-15 (missed the playoffs)Spring 2007: 12-4 (eliminated in the 1st round)Summer 2007: 26-3 (1st place, Champions, Brooks Robinson Division)   &...
Posted by Nicolai on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:02:00 PST

Fox News Alert

Damnit they suck! ...
Posted by Nicolai on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST

More Moore

Go to ~1:25 mark... ...
Posted by Nicolai on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:09:00 PST

I Am the Future Blob

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Posted by Nicolai on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:28:00 PST

Martha vs Muppet

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Posted by Nicolai on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:51:00 PST