Welcome to my personal website. Here's a picture of me from ~2018.

Here are some older pictures of me, etc,

Full name: Richard Albert Nichols III (an anagram of "Orchestral Brainchild")

Star and moon sign: Aquarius (sun sign may be Sagittarius, not sure)

Myers-Briggs type: INTJ

Enneagram type: 1 or 5 (enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions)

Spiral Dynamics type: Turquoise somewhat, Yellow mostly, Green strongly, Orange fairly, Blue mostly (wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics)

Aura color: Blue-green with a red overlay (three of the four conditions that can cause a red overlay according to auracolors.com/courses/written-summaries/written-summary-red-overlay/ apply to me, and according to russellrowe.com/aura-colors-system-35.php#part8, "The child can grow up feeling unsafe, unprotected, and that the world is not a friendly place," which I find to be very true) (the claim that my aura is blue-green is not based on any tests or descriptions on any aura color sites, and actually my aura colors vary according to what I'm doing/feeling internally at the time. My aura has alse been a few colors including purple but with little orange; white; black with white breaking through; etc. It's also been both pathetically small and impressively large and powerful, according to my friend who used to be able to see auras. She's also one time told me my aura leaks. :P)

General interests:

WordPress (philosophical): myriachromat.wordpress.com aka philosophy.inhahe.com aka exalumen.blog

WordPress (things too trivial or random to go onto the philosphical wordpress): iyaelsorai.wordpress.com

Movie, etc. reviews: inhahereviews.blogspot.com

Quora: quora.com/profile/Richard-A-Nichols-III - My Favorites

Goodreads (including reviews—check out my review for Chronicles from the Future): goodreads.com/review/list/25239039 - goodreads.com/user/show/25239039-richard

DEVIANT ART

GitHub: github.com/inhahe; since GitHub no longer lists users' repositories, here's a list of my repositories. scribbles3 - grep.py - 2dgrav - bouncers - calc - cdcheck - coloron - gameoflife - hangman - ircbot - julia - mv - phongram - qtpyrc - qttirc - time2frequency - timer - truthtables - walk5g - factor

RetroSpring (social Q&A): retrospring.net/ColorStorm

ask.fm (social Q&A): ask.fm/overdork on archive.org

OKCupid: okcupid.com/profile/AirCastle333

LiveJournal (old): inhahe.livejournal.com

Here's a playlist of my favorite songs, which are stored on this site so they won’t get deleted unlike with the YouTube playlist linked to below, and with a lot more songs, with descriptions of why I like them.

Favorite color(s): Aquamarine (#8BFFEF, #2CF5CD, or maybe #66FFFF) and other blue-greens like cerulean and teal; iridescent purple, green and blue like the "chameleon" car paint; white and pure blue in complex geometric/angular patterns; black with gold embroidery in it; smears of bright orange on unrelated backgrounds; glowing pure white standing out in a painting. My first favorite color was blue; I realize that in second grade while looking at a blue chair in front of me. My least favorite colors are yellow, brown, and anything somewhat desaturated/muted, especially if it's glossy (neither completely reflective nor completely matte) like most cars. I used to dislike orange, but nowadays I find it healing, but in a weirdly static kind of way. For clothing, a long time ago I used to wear green jeans, green shirts, a green bucket hat, and/or green leather shoes (the socks were white ankle-high), but nowadays I wear tie-dye and other colorful patterns, from my hat to my shoes.

Quora - If you could create a sensory experience that captures the essence of your personality what would it look sound smell taste and feel like

I also used to use a dating site caled DoULike, but I don't know how to get a link to my own profile. My "About Me" section says something like this (with a lot of elaboration added): sensitive/self-conscious/*extremely* shy, intense, reflective, kind/nice, a gentle soul/not easily angered or annoyed (one time my ex punched me hard in the chin due to a misunderstanding, and she was surprised I handled it so well/didn't get angry), resourceful (even one of my therapists said this), extremely imaginative (one time someone who was freakinghly perceptive and effective at communication, who had rewritten himself for the purpose of better connecting to people, said that my high degree of imaginativeness doesn't get across in the philosophical chatroom. Another time, when I really opened up regarding my mental reactions to things said in the chat room, he private-messaged me accused me of being "deus abscondas" (God in hiding), and I agreed with him, but that's anothern matter :P), very bright/genius (I know it's easy for one to consider themselves a genius, and many do who are only average, but there have been a number of other people in my life who have considered my a genius. Yes, I know that talking about how smart you are is cringe 🤢), clever (not so much with words, but in an ingenuitive way), profoundly logical (sometimes I know something is illogical before I even consciously know *why* it's illogical, and I always know whether something is ultimately logical or illogical or dependent on interpretation), philosophical/deep-thinking...I'd add to that that that I'm really good at solving paradoxes and figuring how to get the best of two worlds. And here are some reasons I told somebody once (edited) that I'm unusually good at thinking/perspicacious/always right, when he asked me, aren't we all bound by the limitations of our own mind or something: I guess you could say truistically that nobody can overcome the limitations of their own mind, but I think I'm just unusually adept at coming to truths because of a few reasons put together: unusual brightness; unusual intuition; unusual ability to be fiercely logical without being rationalistic or being misled by supposed "logic" that actually contains hidden assumptions; unusual ability to seamlessly integrate emotions, intuition and mysticism with logical thought; the ability to know when I know something and when I don't as opposed to just making insufficiently founded assumptions like most people do, only believing what serves their personality; and the willingness to entertain an enigmatic question or a multitude of possible answers for years until I can finally settle on an understanding...and these aren't things I've developed or the result of overcoming some challenge; I've always been this way, though I think I do refine my views over time and learn more just due to having time to discover and think. Oh, I forgot also I'm unusually imaginative (oh, I mentioned that earlier) and am thus able to see how something *could* be true that others would reflexively dismiss, and I tend to see all possible sides or explanations of an issue, and I hold truth the highest value, above all other concerns that would have me believe things more for personal convenience. Someone refreshinghly bright and cleverly funny once described my views as "panoptic". I'm also a very fast thinker (one time my psychic friend said, "you think so fast it boggles the eye," and one time a friend of mine on the phone was so astounded that I could give a deep and complex answer to a philosophical question without even thinking about it for a second that he pointed it out). Since I'm spending all this time explaining how great I am, here's a post from Retrospring about various deep compliments I've gotten over the years. My favorite part might be "Which reminds me of a really good compliment a girl I once knew gave me, in my MySpace testimonials, but unfortunately I don't remember it very well, I only remember the gist of it in abstract. It was kind of long, it said, "When Richard breathes, he breathes..." somethingerather, tantamount to the air of a completely different world from this one, more pure and magical, like it might as well be populated by elves and full of fairy dust or something, and there's no strife and people don't hate each other, etc. (The last part is more how I interpreted it than what it actually said, but what it actually said was equally good)." Another favorite, from a friend I have who was a very rare and connected person back then, was "You remind me of why we need laws." I asked him for clarification, and he said he meant why we *don't* need laws. And at another time, he said something along the lines of, "Your heart beats so true, I'd like to just lie down beside you sometime..."

And while I'm talking about myself, one particularly important/interesting thing is that, when I was growing up, I always felt like everyone else was extremely weird and that they thought and behaved in this weird "emotional" way (not that I didn't have emotions, myself), and there was sort of this single basket of strangeness that they all fit into, so I thought that if I wanted to make it in the world I'd have to learn how they think. So, I started putting myself in others' heads, and after enough time of that, others seemed a lot more normal to me, and I guess it changed me. And now I can no longer see how I once did how everyone was encased in their very large false egos which were bigger than *they* were

I also used to be hyper-logical when I was young...for example, once, at school I discovered that a pen I had would spray out ink when I swung it, so I started swinging it all over all the walls of the school...my reasoning was that I couldn't possibly get in trouble because it was the pen's fault (or the pen's manufacturer's fault?) that it would do that when I swung it, because I thought it shouldn't do that. I ended up getting caught (the other kids I was with ratted me out) and paddled and sentenced to clean it up. :P (I didn't actually have to clean it, though, because the janitor just sprayed it all off with the hose.)

Articles and one subsection I wrote for Uncyclopedia, now on archive.org:

YouTube favorite songs list: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwbh4C0zA3pScrcSqSVpr1rNF48R3XbK1 (some are probably missing because videos get deleted, get blocked, or go private all the time and it's hard to keep up)

YouTube uploads (mainly old tracker music, a few real songs I couldn't find on YouTube, some graphics I made in the "shorts" section, and one song I made a somewhat cool "remix" of completely by accident): youtube.com/user/inhahe/videos and youtube.com/@inhahe/shorts

Favorite baby names: https://babynames.com/namelist/inhahe

Facebook: facebook.com/ColorStorm

spacehey (retro MySpace clone): spacehey.com/profile?id=2601686

Twitter: twitter.com/iyaelsorai

Favorite quotes

A few jokes I’ve collected, some of which are The Best

Favorite poems

Favorite lyrics:

My main pics directory and select subdirectories, in gallery form

Some handles, nicks, aliases, screen names, usernames, etc. I've used on IRC, AIM, Twitter, BBSs, etc.:
Inhahe, ColorStorm, AirCastle, ikiel, Ayiel, iyael, iyaelorai, iyaelsorai, sikelogic, The, Repne Scasb, eode, eode-apoa, asadasafa, overdork, exalumen, prism_attic, Chris Alice, Arco Iris Gotico, gothic_rainbow, sloppy`alien`abduction, spacedust, sarcasmos, twilighteyed, tenderStorm, O11O1OO1, paramaven, pancreant, myriachromat, metarogue, Merq, lonelydream, lunarrain, ikiel`lumani, i_see_stars, ilyarien, icetears, ColdFire, anoetic, cerulean, Buddhaha, Beyondo, Godlust, LuMaNi, lumani, TheSwordsInTheTone, Wonko_the_Sane, WaveGuide, \psychic_almonds\, FiberSuck, _2adore, adores, abraxas, abtensile, acausal, acuteangl, anomalon, confusicon, antisceptic, DAEDALUS, fakeId, flying_caterpillars, peanutbutterflies, white_crayon, strayhair, stainedglass, revolving_monastary, sad-powered purple prism, wWw NrGC wWw, themissingsocks, rainbowice, post_hoc_reifier, picaflor, nfi, icecastle, cropcircle, caerien, avien, avian, aqua^mage, Andy Warhol's Hair, deep_sea_creature, Qntm_Hckr, tesseract, Titania, omfg, holycow, defence_mechanism, disenchanted, dreaminwake, dreamwalker, free_radical, hi`i`m`rertarded, neveroddoreven, kavorka, ElementaR, aDdlouSe, casionic, legion_of_forks
Here's all of the handles I've ever used: ids_all.123.html

Some musician names I might use if I ever make music:
7 Now, AirCastle, Chris Alice, ColorStorm, DJ Archos, DJ Ayiel, DJ Caerien, DJ Choate, DJ Daedalus, DJ Ikiel, DJ Ayiel, DJ Ilyarien, DJ Inhahe, DJ Iris, DJ Iyael, DJ Kasei, DJ Kris Alice, DJ Lumani, DJ Maji, DJ Sikes, Deck of the Silver Soul (from a dream; better as an album?), eode (from "QIM Tunes"), eode-apoa, German Noise (from a dream), Heart of Spades, LexxKai (probably not legal), Pancreant, Maven, MJ12 (maybe taken), Repne Scasb (possible x86 assembly command), Saint Cutie, Secret Sky Rocket, DJ Slake, Spectra, The West Catapult, Tesla Act, Twenty Twelve
Here's all of the others I've come up with: bandnames2.123.html - bandnamesgood.123.html

Favorite actors, past and present, including those I just have or had crushes on:
Gary Oldman, Johnny Depp, Miranda Cosgrove, Mila Kunis, Selena Gomez, Milla Jovovich, Ben Kingsley, Aubrey Plaza, Alison Pill, Brie Larson, Lili Taylor, Julianna Margolies, Maura Tierney, Analeigh Tipton, Masiela Lusha, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Vanessa Hudgens (just because she's sooo pretty), Pom Klementieff

Some musicians I've had a crush on and/or just really like:
Yolandi Visser, Bjork, Avril Lavigne, Marina Diamandis, Suzanne Vega, Nadia Ali, Justine Suissa, April March

Past and present favorite fictional characters (*sort of* in order of most favorite to least most favorite):

Favorite movie(s):
Joe Versus the Volcano, What Dreams May Come, The Matrix Reloaded, Hook, Powder, Waking Life, City of Angels, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Princess Bride, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Grumpy Old Men, Harry Potter (all), Pirates of the Caribbean (all), The Lord of the Rings (all), The Hangover (all), I Heart Huckabees, Anchorman, The Science of Sleep, Phenomenon, Dumb and Dumber To, Edge of Tomorrow, Pleasantville, Hero, Amelie, Avengers (all), X-Men (all), Terminator 2, The Fifth Element, Guardians of the Galaxy (all), Meet Joe Black, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Dark City (just for the ending), Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, and a lot of Studio Ghibli films.

Some past and present favorite TV shows:
South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Conan, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, SpongeBob SquarePants (only seasons 1-3), iCarly, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC), Friends, Seinfeld, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (the live action reboot) WandaVision, Northern Exposure, Inuyasha, Lorelei, Ally McBeal, Mysteries at the Museum, Mysteries at the Monument, Strange Evidence, What on Earth, Mysteries of the Abandoned, Impossible Machines, Unearthed, Engineering Catastrophes, Strangest Things, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, MythBusters, The Simpsons, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Picard, King of the Hill, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dragon Ball Z, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman, Candid Camera, and Outrageous Acts of Psych. I also liked Cheers and Frasier at one point, and I liked Growing Pains, WKRP in Cincinnati, Different Strokes, Family Ties, Laverne and Shirley, Small Wonder, Punky Brewster, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and M*A*S*H when I was younger, but I find shows like those way too corny nowadays. (I hated Full House with a passion even back then, not sure why.) (Alf, on the other hand, aged really well somehow, that sh*t was real. It's probably no coincidence that purportedly working on that show made all the actors absolutely miserable. The father's character seemed so authentically acted that it's refreshing even in the current century, and I think the actor must have been fully self-actualized or something.) I also used to watch some cartoons when I was young, including Adventures of the Gummi Bears, TaleSpin, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Animaniacs, Garfield and Friends (that was my favorite), Duck Tales, Tom & Jerry, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Hercules, and Merrie Melodies. A few other shows I can remember liking are Picket Fences, Judging Amy, Herman's Head, and espeically Highway to Heaven. I also remember liking Third Rock from the Sun, Wings, Harry and the Hendersons, Coach, Knight Rider, Quantum Leap, MacGyver, Sliders, Stargate SG-1, In the Heat of the Night, and NYPD Blue

Some people I admire, appreciate, or find inspiring:
Neale Donald Walsch, Darin "Stevenson" (Facebook - Organelle.org (click on images to get into the main site) - YouTube - Tumblr - Medium - Medium - Wordpress - Quora - Formspring on Archive.org - Facebook) (this guy has a more truly connected and enlightened view of the nature of life, organisms, mind, etc. and our modern catastrophic pathology of cognition that virtually nobody else can see), Iain McGilchrist (fairly similar to Darin in this respect), Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Richard Feynman, Carl Jung (truly ahead of his time, for example with his notions of synchronicity, the collective unconscious, and archetypes), Terrence McKenna (he was ahead of his time), Bernie Sanders, Al Franken, Frank Zappa, Rachel Clifton (Twitter) (because she's truly inspired and positive, and she fights for everyone), David Hume (for arguing that you can't get an ought from an is, and that causal relationships cannot be proven to be logical necessities; he's my favorite philosopher), my friend Rey de la Torre (before he became a rationalist/skeptic, completely undermining his once profound connection with the Universe), John von Neumann, William James Sidis, SophiaCycles (for explaining well the legitimacy of various mythos) (video essays - Twitter, "River Kenna" (Twitter), "Unicole Unicron" (YouTube - Unicult), Danielle Lynn (YouTube), @SayItValencia (Twitter), @AngelsIntuition (Twitter) (the previous four or five for being real deals of spiritual gurus; they say a lot of true, inspired and wholly positive things), Rabinandrath Tagore, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Frank Zappa, Aleister Crowley, "metayeti" aka "pulse" on Libera IRC, Beethoven (for making Für Elise), Veronica Drake (YouTube), "MrKurtz" on IRC (for being an absolutely dominating character, switching fluidly between and combining effective debate and effective slander), "analihilator" on IRC (for being an extremely sharp anilihator of a physicalist's arguments in a debate once), my friend who goes by "idali" aka "|||||||||" aka "IDALI" on IRC (the most "more real than real" to me person I've ever met), derailedye on (Twitter) (so many of her whimsical tweets were utterly perfect, but in ways only I could see), and four truly sublime, angelic, connected, skilled/talented, impresssive, compassionate, self-actualized (all in different ways) people I've met on various occasions whose names I do not know. Oh, and my past friend Jay who once spent an hour talking to me on Skype about how he discovered that the only real meaning to life is being in service to others and everything else is bullsh*t.
I also wrote a few interesting paragraphs on five or so people I like a lot on Retrospring.

Related: Here's a list of people I've discovered over the years who seem to be of the finest calibre of inspiration, insight, awareness, episteme, and/or potentially revolutionary importance.

Favorite comedian(s):
Louis C. K., Kathy Griffin, John Mulaney, Bill Hicks, maybe George Carlin. Here's a Quora answer about why Louis C. K. is my favorite comedian.

Favorite word(s): salacious. When I was younger, my favorite word was "frenzy" because I had read it in a book in a sexual context, I think regarding an orgy.

Favorite nut(s):
Coconut, macadamia nut, hazelnut, almond, pecan

Favorite dessert(s):
Quatro leches, lava cake, blueberry or peach cobbler, tiramisu

Favorite ice cream(s):
Triple Peanut Butter [Cup/Swirl], Publix brand Chocolate Trinity/Godiva brand Belgium Dark Chocolate (since discontinued), Egg Nog, Cherry with Chocolate Chips/Ribbons/Cups, Mint Pistachio, Peppermint, Coconut, Coffee

Favorite scent(s):
French Vanilla perfume, but an even better scent that's sort of like French Vanilla but it's so good that smelling it actually makes me high, and I only happen to smell it once every few years while I'm out somewhere, and I've never been able to figure out what it is. I also really liked this strong scent I smelled once while walking around my neighborhood that smelled like it was somehow related to fertilizer or something else for or from plants. I also love my cologne Invictus Aqua by Paco Rabanne and my perfume Stormy Heart which is blue-green and has glitter in it that I got from Hot Topic like 20 years ago. Food smells great, too, or at least some food does. I used to absolutely *love* the scent of Subway restaurants (it must have been their vegetables), but nowadays they all just smell like toasted bread. But my favorite scent ever is a scent I smelled once with my entire body while I was psychotic (I never would have even known that was possible). I called the scent "the beginning of the beginning," and it smelled kind of like some pure otherworldly astral blue-green flower might smell. I seemed to smell it when and only when I actually had a positive/hopeful thought about my future.

Favorite sound(s):
laughter, especially children's laughter or soft giggles; any of my favorite songs or favorite parts of songs; Mila Kunis' voice or the singing of Nadia Ali, Justine Suissa, or Suzanne Vega; the trumpet, strings, the flute, the metal drum, or the cello

Favorite animal(s):
human, kitten, house cat, dog, otter, giant panda, fennec fox, quokka, butterfly, capybara, baby chicken or duck, peacock, rainbow pigeon, bluejay, hummingbird, bunny, elephant, koala bear, African giant snail, ladybug, golden beetle, roly-poly, deer, giant African millipede, giant Japanese salamander, arthropleura, lion's mane jellyfish, anaconda, giant golden-crowned flying fox, tarantula, blue whale, Hercules moth, ostrich, emu, dodo, elephant bird, komodo dragon, rgentinosaurus huinculensis, pterodactyl, quetzalcoatlus, giant Amazonian ant, bullet ant, northern giant hornet, wandering albatross, wandering albatross chick, manta ray, giant tortoise, Paedophryne amauensis frog, bioluminescent phytoplankton, firefly, snap beetle (we call them "light bugs" here), waterbear, frosted nudibranch, flying fish, angler fish (just to remind us of how f*cked up life actually is), hickory horned devil caterpillar

Favorite flower(s):
corpse flower, white rose, black rose, peony, sweet pea, periwinkle

Favorite rock(s)/gem(s)/crystal(s)/mineral(s)/element(s)/compound(s):
fluorite, gold, pyrite, labradorite, marble, osmium, mercury, gallium, sapphire, aquamarine, bismuth, howlite, onyx, obsidian, silver, diamond, cubic zirconium, titania, aluminum oxynitride, hydrofluoric acid, thioacetone

Favorite actor(s):
Gary Oldman, Johnny Depp, Miranda Cosgrove, Mila Kunis, Milla Jovovich, Ben Kingsley, Aubrey Plaza, Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt

Favorite musician(s) (a somewhat haphazard collection; some of them I like for Reasons yet don't listen to them often):
Suzanne Vega, Nadia Ali, Justine Suissa, Marina Diamandis, Sade, April March, Johan Gielen, Enya, Avril Lavigne, Yolandi Visser, Karin Dreijer Andersson, Frente, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Elles de Graaf, Sarah McLachlan, Loreena McKennitt, Julee Cruise, Rihanna

My favorite language(s): iyaelsorai.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/my-favorite-languages

My favorite book title(s): iyaelsorai.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/book-titles

Favorite/most kick-ass names of real people:
Marcus Aurelius, Masiela Lusha, Armie Hammer

Random facts about me:

Here's some answers to 100 or so questionnaire questions from Retrospring

Here's a ton of my extremely interesting, intelligent, and enlightening online posts from various forums

A cool WebAssembly (and some HTML/CSS/JavaScript) program I made; the desktop version can be found on my GitHub