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I think in part to my tweets of N900 lust and desire, Nokia contacted me to see if I was interested in a demo unit. After validating the email was NOT from Nigeria I quickly responded with a “YES PLZ SEND MEZ FONE!” Why the gadget lust when I have a top-of-the-line iPhone? Easy, I am a geek. While I enjoy the hell out of having nice and easy to use devices, deep down I want to tinker. My original move to Mac was because I didn’t trust myself to have a Linux or BSD machine with me on the road. Every waking moment would be spent tweaking the kernel or compiler options for just a little bit more speed. Bleeding Edge, you betcha. ...

I was going through and creating a Valentines Playlist for dinner tonight. We have friends coming over and I struggled to make this list. It seemed every google search turned up someones very specific tastes. This mix includes a good mix of everything. Like love, it is a little funny, a little rocky, a little slow, and a little serious. Hope you like! Title <th align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Artist</span> </th> All My Love <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">American Music Club</span> </td> The River <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Anathallo</span> </td> I and Love and You <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">The Avett Brothers</span> </td> Camping Next To Water <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Badly Drawn Boy</span> </td> The Boy With the Arab Strap <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Belle & Sebastian</span> </td> It Had To Be You <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Bobby Darin</span> </td> Skinny Love <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Bon Iver</span> </td> You Need A Man Around Here <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Brad Paisley</span> </td> Car <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Built to Spill</span> </td> Lovefool <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">The Cardigans</span> </td> Things Go Wrong <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Chris Isaak</span> </td> Fix You <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Coldplay</span> </td> Lover Lay Down <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Dave Matthews Band</span> </td> Friday I’m In Love <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Dean & Britta</span> </td> Memories Are Made Of This <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Dean Martin</span> </td> I Will Follow You into the Dark <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Death Cab for Cutie</span> </td> Red Right Ankle <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">The Decemberists</span> </td> Valentine <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken</span> </td> Love Me Like A Man <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Diana Krall</span> </td> Between The Bars <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Elliott Smith</span> </td> Everything Reminds Me Of Her <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Elliott Smith</span> </td> It’s Now or Never <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Elvis Presley</span> </td> Malena <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Federico Aubele</span> </td> Business Time <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Flight of the Conchords</span> </td> If You’re Into It <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Flight of the Conchords</span> </td> A Kiss Is Not A Contract <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Flight of the Conchords</span> </td> We’re Both In Love With A Sexy Lady <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Flight of the Conchords</span> </td> You Don’t Have To Be A Prostitute <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Flight of the Conchords</span> </td> Carol Brown <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Flight of the Conchords</span> </td> The Most Beautiful Girl In The Room <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Flight of the Conchords</span> </td> Steppin’ Out With My Baby <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Fred Astaire</span> </td> When Your Mind’s Made Up <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova</span> </td> Time After Time <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Harry Connick, Jr.</span> </td> Such Great Heights <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Iron & Wine</span> </td> Multiply <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Jamie Lidell</span> </td> Sant Feliu De Guixols <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Jeremy Enigk</span> </td> I Wanna Know <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Joe</span> </td> In a Sentimental Mood <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">John Coltrane</span> </td> My One And Only Love <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">John Coltrane / Johnny Hartman</span> </td> Stay With You <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">John Legend</span> </td> Slow Dance <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">John Legend</span> </td> Heartbeats <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Jose Gonzalez</span> </td> Panis Angelicus <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Luciano Pavarotti</span> </td> Ballad for my One True Love <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Mason Jennings</span> </td> Darkness Between The Fireflies <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Mason Jennings</span> </td> Home <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Michael Buble</span> </td> So What <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Miles Davis</span> </td> Crazy <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Patsy Cline</span> </td> So Beautiful <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Pete Murray</span> </td> Such Great Heights <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">The Postal Service</span> </td> Brand New Colony <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">The Postal Service</span> </td> Nude <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Radiohead</span> </td> You’re The One For Me <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Ray Anthony & His Orchestra</span> </td> Rest Of My Life <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Rilo Kiley</span> </td> Portland Is Leaving <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Rocky Votolato</span> </td> Winter Song <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Sara Barielles And Ingrid Michaelson</span> </td> Hoppipolla <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Sigur Ros</span> </td> I Turn My Camera On <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Spoon</span> </td> The Night Starts Here <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Stars</span> </td> Take Me To The Riot <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Stars</span> </td> In Our Bedroom After the War <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Stars</span> </td> The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us! <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Sufjan Stevens</span> </td> I Saw Lightning <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Telekinesis!</span> </td> Stork & Owl <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">TV on the Radio</span> </td> After Hours <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">We Are Scientists</span> </td> Our Way to Fall <td align="left"> <span style="font-family: Geneva;">Yo La Tengo</span> </td>

Being a military brat and dude I really never had the chance to grow facial hair. This past holiday break, while not serving to provide the full 2 weeks as promised by my company, allowed for me to grow hair out. Limited folks showing up for work gave me the opportunity to really perfect that hacker look with jeans, funny geek shirt, and scruffy beard. As with trail-mix, eventually you are left with just cashews and I had to shave for work. What a great opportunity to not only attempt the beard, but even the goatee and mustache! Results below in chronological order and yes I was in the shower. ...

2000-2009 A life in Nick As I listen to all the decade review podcasts and read the looking back websites, I wanted to do the same. My website obviously will only be interesting to those to know me and useful for looking back in 2019 when the internet is piped directly into my brain. My goal is to do this in sections and bulleted form. This makes it quicker and frankly my brain thinks that way: ...

With the synergy (ugh manager talk, sorry) of media and television I often find myself wanting to consume laying down or on the couch. Currently I slap a laptop on the HDMI or something similar and stream hulu for a few minutes. It works, but so does driving with your eyes closed. The geek in me wants to run Linux on my media center so I began looking for a low powered Nvidia Ion based platform. Bestbuy had one: ...