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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: ...

At work I often get asked what UNIX/Linux I use. Truth of the matter is I am an OS harlot :) I run NeXTStep and Rhapsody for fun. When I buy systems I force myself to use them for at least 3 days online to learn them better. Anyways, below is the questionnaire on how I pick a distro/OS Do you want to use learn Linux for work? CentOS or RHEL Do you want to actually learn the innards of Linux? Gentoo or Arch Do you want to use Linux for day-to-day usage? Ubuntu, Debian, or OpenSuSE Do you want to use UNIX for day-to-day usage? Buy a Mac and install macports Do you want to use linux for development of bleeding edge packages? Fedora or Foresight Do you want to learn UNIX, but hear a lot about Linux? FreeBSD is a better SysV learning platform Are you a paranoid security type? OpenBSD Did you buy a lot of old equipment on eBay or Craigslist and can’t stand the vendor OS? NetBSD Are the type of person that has flashing lights and fans on your computer? Do you want matching bling in software? Linux Mint RC Are you building a server for home? Debian Stable Are you building a file server to run NetApp out of town? OpenSolaris ZFS builds Are you building that same file server but Solaris packages make you want to poke your eyes out? Nexenta Are you doing embedded systems for a special project? NetBSD Building a wireless mesh network with captive portals? OpenBSD Or in the end you are as geeky as Nick and change OS like you change clothes Build a Vmware/Xen server and run them all