So who is this Nicole anyway?

Favorite Books:

• Anything by Michael Crichton
• Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Tao Of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
• The Te of Piglet, Benjamin Hoff
• The Art Of War, Sun Tzu
• The Gold Of The Gods {and other God's books} Erich Von Daniken
• The Western Guide to Feng Shui
• TUBE - The Invention Of Television (David Fisher/Marshal Fisher)

  Magazines I get:

• Scientific American Magazine
• Popular Science Magzine
• Popular Mechanics
• Sys Admin Magazine
• TIME
• Linux Journal
• DaemonNews
• GirlFriends Magazine
• EQ
• Mix

Favorite Movies:

• Real Genius
• RadioLand Murders
• Forbidden Planet
• Andromeda Strain
• Demolition Man
• Mickey Blue Eyes
• Lost In Space
• The Matrix
• Blade Runner
• Amadeus
• Sense and Sensibiliy
• GalaxyQuest
• Shakespeare In Love
• Tomb Raider
• Adventures In Babysitting
• The Saint
• This is Spinal Tap
• There's Something About Mary
• The Black Adder Series
• Henry V
• Valet Girls
• Oscar
• Ever After
• Josie and the Pussycats
• Johnny Dangerously
• That Thing You Do
• Any Monty Python Film
• The Star Wars Trilogy
• Crazy People
• UHF
• LA story
• Space Camp
• Muppets From Space!
• Aristocats
• The Pink Panther Collection
• Winnie The Pooh
• Wallace and Gromit
• Serenity

Favorite TV Shows: (past + present)

Shows I miss and or love

• Dangermouse
• Farscape
• Dark Angel
• Babylon 5
• Dr. Who
• Space 1999
• UFO
• Sliders
• X-Files (the "original" ones)
• Who's Line Is It Anyway
• Soap
• Red Dwarf
• Max Headroom
• Futurama
• FireFly
• 24
• Gilmore Girls
• Stargate SG1
• Stargate Atlantis
• Veronica Mars (yea iti's totally dumb.. but its still fun)
• The Daily Show!

Favorite Music:

• Most any 80's Music
• Dissonance
• Think Tank
• Brother Sun - Sister Moon
• ELP - Emerson Lake & Palmer
• YES
• The Tubes
• Psyk0sonik
• Joe Satriani
• Sunscreem
• Keith Emerson with The Nice
• Rick Wakeman
• A-Ha
• Creed
• GodSmack
• Def Leppard
• Level 42
• Dream Theatre
• Rush
• Seal
• David Bowie
• U.K
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Trans-Siberian Orchestra
• Ultravox
• Steely Dan (older stuff)
• Van Halen
• 'Weird Al' Yankovic
• Gary Numan
• Liquid Tension Experiment
• Metallica
• Genesis
• Depeche Mode
• The Brian Setzer Orchestra
• The B-52's
• The Monkees
• Missing Persons
• Wolfsheim
• Yngwie Malmsteen
• The Crystal Method
• Savage Garden
• Schoolhouse Rock
• The Pretenders
• Atomic_Opera
• Pat Benatar
• Blondie
• Queensr˙che
• Split Enz
• Sugar Coma
• Living Colour
• Black Sabbath
• The Prodigy
• Hackers {soundtracks 1+3}
• One A.D. Two A.D. & Three A.D. { Wavform Compilations }
• Beatles
• Crack the Sky
• Duran Duran
• Melanie C
• Jean Luc Ponti
• Saga
• Opus III
• Orbital
• ARIA
• Henry V {soundtrack}
• Mozart
• Bach
• Beetoven

• In Violet
• Birdsaw
• Breast (Oakland)
• Wire Grafitti
• Venus Bleeding
• HoneyShot

Top 10 Albums - Not an easy choice at all!

• Dissonance
• Think Tank - Think Tank
• ELP - Tarkus
• Machines Of Loving Grace - Concentration
• A-HA - Scoundrel Days
• Gary Numan - Exile
• Genesis - Abacab or Seconds Out (tough choice)
• U.K. - U.K.
• Queensryche - Empire
• Jane Child - Jane Child

  Favorite Things to do:

  • Make / Play Music!
  • Learning new things and Solving problems with my computer. Usually with my cat on my lap.
  • Reading
  • Movies!
  • Exploring Alternative Sexuality
  • Working on WebPages and my servers (when I have the time)
  • Giving in to my TV / TIVO addiction
  • I love listening to music. Sometimes really listen to it.. Not while doing something else.
  • Go for a nice walk. In the woods when possible. Also jogging
  • Playing with my 4 cats
  • Tinkering.. I'm just a natural Tinkerer

  Nicole's Favorites:

  • COLOR = depends on object (sorry, I'm just not a very black and white, This or That, sort of person)
  • Robot = Robbie
  • Mascot = FreeBSD Daemon
  • Print Cartoons = User Friendly / Bloom County / Get Fuzzy
  • Dessert = German Chocolate Cake, Ice Cream Cake
  • Food = sushi, chicken, mild indian curries, Pizza

    Geek Favorites
    

  • OS = FreeBSD
  • Editor = Vi
  • Web Server = Apache, Zues
  • MTA = Postfix, Qmail
  • Processor = AMD
  • Network card = Intel
  • HardDrive = IBM - SCSI, Maxtor - IDE

    Audio Geeky
    

  • Amplifiers = Bryston / Krell / Older Harmon Kardon Stuff / Crest
  • Speakers = Allison / Biro / Aerial / Magneplane / EV
  • Cassette Decks = Karmon Kardon / Nakamichi / Teac
  • Headphones = Sennheiser / AKG / GK Audio Isophones
  • Turntables = Phillips / Harmon Kardon-Rabco

  • Music Match Jukebox - Recording MP3's with VBR 100%
  • Winamp. Still the best MP3 Player!
  • I'm loving my new Creative Nomad MP3 Jukebox Unit. 6 gigs of portable MP3's RAH!!

  My Thoughts On:

  • Driving: If your not the lead dog.. the scene is always the same... I Can't drive 55....
  • Build it and they will come... As long as its free and there's free beer.

  Pet Peeves:

  • Inconsiderate smokers who blow smoke in my face and toss their cig butts on the sidewalk, pavement, planters, ect.
  • Parents who smoke around their kids.
  • Supposed pro-lifers. Why don't you start saving lives by outlawing cigarettes?
  • People who drive 50 mph in the fast lane.
  • People who don't do anything, but then bitch about what you do / have done.
  • People who toss trash on the ground. { Many of whom are smokers }
  • The destruction of every little bit of green growing land with happy animals, to put in yet another shopping mall.
  • Those who rant and rave about homosexuality being "moraly wrong". What's so wrong about living life with a loving partner, going to work, paying taxes, and being a respectful citizen?
  • People who pee on public toilet seats and don't clean up after themselves.
  • People who mistreat animals.
  • Parents who threaten children and discount children's feelings. "Why are you crying? You have no reason to cry! I'll give you something to cry about!" Hello?
  • San Francisco Bay Area Traffic.
  • "Dr." Laura.
  • George Bush. (Stop reading comic books and saying "Evildoers")
  • People who want to decide what I can do with My Body!
  • Management people who hire technical people to be the instrument of their advertising based descisions rather than consulting them on what they think or recommend.
  • People who just Have to slow down to see the person pulled over to the side of the road.
  • Profits are down so there will be no raises. However there will be corporate bonuses for the Sr Level
  • Microsoft!
  • People who automatically fear what they don't understand
  Nicole's Key to Understanding
  

  NicoleSpeak	Translation
  It's a lot to learn.	It would help if you paid attention
  It's complicated.	How's This - Fire BAD, Tree Pretty
  You try it now.	How many times do I have to show you?
  It's your turn now.	I'm not going to do it for you.
  Try again.	Please get it right this time..
  It's difficult.	I haven't gotten around to it yet.
  I don't understand.	Your not making sense.
  Do you want my honest opinion?	You probobly can't handle the truth
  Uh oh	Oh Shit
  That's fantastic!	I hate you, you lucky bastard / bitch
  That's incredible!	Why can't I have such good luck!?
  That's terrible.	Sucks to be you!
  I know its hard to understand.	So just take my word for it!
  What?	Stop Mumbling!!
  Why?	You better have a good reason
  Really?	I'm having trouble beliving you on this one...

  Thin-skinned no-humor pansies!
  You tell em an ice breaker or two about women-libbers, gays, environmentalists, several minorities, the homeless, a couple of religions, anorexics, obese people, the handicapped, old-farts, baldness & people who walk real goofy cause they just had a vasectomy and suddenly they get all sensitive!
  Like I offended one of them or something? Duckman

   

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