Welcome to my personal website

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

Here are some older pictures of me, etc,

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:

philosophy
spirituality/mysticism/New Age/"metaphysics"
the paranormal/parapsychology/psychism/psi (see my essays Psychism and Notes on Science, Scientism, Mysticism, Religion, Logic, Physicalism, Skepticism, Etc.)
the spiritual evolution/advancement/upliftment of humanity / escape from samsara
cognitive activism, Darin's term for correcting a fundamental, systemic, catastrophic problem in the human cognitium (see Darin's and Iain's sections in my inspirational people page, and also my essay Language Is the Problem and laurel thompson's essay Language Is the P roblem)
naturalism, purism and anti-transhumanism ("naturalism" in the sense of valuing the natural over the artificial, not in the sense of physicalism)
the abolishment of wage slavery
physics/the fundamentals of and metaphysics behind quantum mechanics, relativity and particle physics, especially many-worlds interpretation, QBism, and Wolfram's rulial space—see writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful
how things work; I have an overview-level understanding of a broad number of natural and technological phenomena. I may not care to know anything about history or geography, but I'm *very* curious to know—nay, I *demand* to know—how anything and everything works (or everything physical, at least).
anti-scientism (see my section on scientism)
post-rationalism (see my section on rationalism)
writing essays (mostly philosophical, occasionally movie reviews, sometimes great ideas somebody should implement)
debating, especially philosophical debate, on the internet. I always have a good answer for every point the opponent tries to make, and the only reasons a debate ever stops or peters out are (a) the other person is too weird and incoherent to bother with, (b) they start to get hostile (I never do that), or (c) they just get tired of responding, maybe because they realize their position is weak.
programming (though I don't do it very often these days, since I find programming very tedious (except the designing stages, which are fun)) (I mainly code in Python, some C++, and I used to do x86 assembly, which is fun. I've also coded in BASIC/Color Basic/Extended Color Basic, QBASIC/QuickBASIC, JavaScript/EMCAScript, PHP, Pascal, SQL, regex, HTML and CSS, some Casio programmable calculator language, and mIRC scripting.)
spelling and grammar (I'm pretty good at both; I'm good at spelling because I integrate every new word into my sense of aesthetics so that the correct spelling just seems aesthetically right to me.)
popularizing worker-owned businesses (or, possibly alternatively, community-owned businesss. and maybe especially not-for-profit ones (see Project Catalyst on Facebook and my essay Idea #6 – Project Catalyst Organization (ProCat))
environmentalism/deceleration
nuclear disarmament
police accountability
animal rights/veganism/anti–animal experimentation (see my essay Vegans Are Right; You're Wrong.)
the establishment of a single world government (see my essay here)
universal basic income; a universal cap on income and/or capital
democratic socialism (Why We Need Socialism on YouTube; 'Why Socialism?' by Albeirt Einstein)
separating big money from government/campaign reform/illegalizing paid lobbying, all forms of bribery, conflicts of interest, and large campaign contributions, especially by corporations (see my essays About Ads and Why Campaign Finance Reform Is the Most Important Thing We Can Currently Do as a Species)
stringent regulation of corporations (anarcho-capitalists and libertarians are so misguided and potentially destructive that their ideology borders on evil)
instating ranked choice voting and ending jerrymandering, the electoral college, and voter suppression laws
UFOs (see my essay On the Subject of "UFO"s)
antinatalism (see inhahe.com/pics2/memes, etc-antinatalism.html and inhahe.com/antinatalism.123.html)
19th- and early-20th-century life/vibes (there's just something about the "energy" of those times that draws me in)
video games, though I rarely play them—particularly Mario games (the best two are SMB3 and Super Mario 64, Super Mario World and Super Mario Galaxy were also good), racing games (particularly F-Zero X (F-Zero GX is way too hard), MRC: Multi-Racing Championship, SSX Tricky, and all versions of Mario Kart. Also there was a game I played for the PS1 or PS2 once that was really cool because you drive over a rocky terrain and it had realistic physics of the truck bouncing around that had big wheels, but the only problem with it was a really slow framerate), and a couple of fighting games (namely all incarnations of Clay Fighter and Super Smash Bros, and one robot fighting game for the PC from the '90s that I don't remember the name of), and flight simulators (such as the latest MSFS or X-Plane). I've also logged a few hours playing various Sonic the Hedgehog incarnations, starting in the '90s, and I've played a few Zelda games, mainly Ocarina of Time.
music, but who isn't interested in music? I'm very picky when it comes to music, though. Most of it sounds like crap to me, but the stuff that's actually good is sometimes so good that I can't understand how such paragons of perfection could exist in this world where literally nothing else is perfect (see my favorite songs with descriptions of why I like them) (though my favorites list is very eclectic, certain genres I gravitate to are psychill, di.fm/deeptech, di.fm/chilloutdreams, hard trance / di.fm/harddance, goa-psy, EDM, indie electronica, hard bop jazz, bebop jazz, modern vocal jazz, classic Christmas music, and soundtrack music (the kind that sounds like classical only more dynamic/more stimulating and better). Those are the only genres in which I actually like most of the songs I hear. There were also periods in my life where I liked techno (before I had discovered trance), trance, melodic trance, vocal trance, psytrance, baroque, neoclassical dark wave, ethereal darkwave, and classical. My least favorite genres are metal (with the possible exception of atmospheric metal), rap, country, rock, and punk, though there are certain exceptions in rap, metal, country and rock. (all but one of the rock 'n roll songs I like are about rock 'n roll itself, oddly/ironically.) I used to hate industrial too, but I kind of like it now. I also hated jazz when I was younger; I thought it was for people who gave up on life. Then I gave up on life, then I liked jazz. I told a friend this once, and he laughed. :P (one time I felt my soul or my subconscious throw up all the jazz I'd ever listened to, or had been listening to lately. And later this guy in a chatroom who I thought was kinda cool and intuitive in a way was talking about jazz, and I told him my mind likes jazz but my soul doesn't, and he replied, "I know jazz is evil," so I guess I'm actually onto something with thinking jazz is degenerate))
a few movies and TV shows, of course (lists of past and present favorite movies and TV shows are further down on this page)
social media platforms such as the website formerly known as Twitter, Facebook, the social Q&A websites Retrospring (more social than knowledge-based) and Quora (more knowledge-based than social)
collecting crystals, minerals, gems, rocks and stones, and other pretty things (see the two parts of my collection here and here)
collecting various other things (I have 100-200 baseball caps, 100-200 vinyl records, 100-200 collectible Coke cans and bottles, a dozen or two aluminum wallets (just because I couldn't decide on one), a dozen or two pairs of sunglasses, half a dozen or so colorful bucket hats, eight hampers full of colorful and cool pants and shirts, a few $2 bills, some in numeric succession from the mint, and I had a dozen or two awesome and beautiful phone covers for the Galaxy S6 before I sold them because I had upgraded my phone. I also used to have a penny collection (thousands of pennies, including wheat pennies and a steel penny from the war), an antique marble collection, a collection of various exotic lights (I still have traffic lights and a street light that I can plug in), antiques (I still have some, such as some small fans that are 100 years old), hundreds of soda can tabs, a drawer full of legos, etc.)
anti-wokeism/SJWing/word policing/cancel culture/people going way out of their way to find racism, sexism, ableism, gender-related bigotry, etc. in innocuous things (though I am a liberal Democrat, not a conservative or Republican - see my essay on the woke mindset)
the possibility of recording people's dreams to perfect graphic detail with audio (see my essay How to Make a Dream Recording Machine)
I used to be interested in photography, but I'm not anymore (see My Photography and my DEVIANT ART pics).
I'm very interested in making music (I've even spent $700 on Ableton Live Suite and $400 on a MIDI keyboard (the only one I could find that had knobs, sliders, and pressure sensitivity), bought two books on music theory, and gathered 16GB of files and bought 'Foundations in Computer Music' by Curtis Roads, 'Microsound' by Curtis Roads, and a book on wavelets to help me make my own digital audio workstation, since I find all the existing ones painfully unintuitive with the most steep learning curve of any software, but unfortunately I'm not creative enough while I'm awake (or at least not enough to meet my level of demand/self-criticism/perfectionism) to make music. When I'm dreaming or half-asleep, I can come up with really awesome ideas for music, but I can't remember enough of it once I wake up. (A friend of mine, idali, once recommended I microdose on psilocybin to give me creativity, but I've yet to dare trying that.)
culture jamming
girls

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.wordpress.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 - Cool little animation made to look like patterns I used to draw when I was younger, took me many years till I figured out how to program this - written in C++ using SDL - web version available to view at the bottom of this page with no source released
SoundShop - Programmatically make music in Python - supports VST3, AU, signals, etc. - unfinished - largely untested - should be cross-platform
qtpyrc - Very feature-rich IRC client made in Python using PySide6 - has EXE releases - should be cross-platform
StartMe - Modern replacement for Startup Delayer for Windows - made in Python - has EXE releases - starts up Windows startup programs one at a time for more efficiency and also prevents windows from aborting starting up programs on startup when there's user activity
DirtyFork - Brand new BBS written in Python - should be cross-platform - named DirtyFork after a Monty Python sketch
grep.py - Grep written in Python because I couldn't find a version of grep for Windows that supports recursion and also works right
2dgrav - A few simulators of celestial bodies attracted by gravity - one 3D one in Python that supports red-green glasses 3D glasses, some 2D ones in C++, some 2D ones in QuickBasic
bouncers - Just shows dots bouncing around the screen - some written in asm, one written in C++ using SDL
calc - Tiny Python program and .bat file to support solving mathematical expressions on the command line
cdcheck - Checks all files on a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drive and reports which ones had read errors - originally posted on my Useless Python page and somebody said they use it at his work
coloron - mIRC script to set a color to always send text in in a given channel or turn color off for a given channel - settings are persistent
gameoflife - Conway's Game of Life written in Python
hangman - Hangman written in Python that can either always change the word that the user is trying to guess to a word that doesn't have the character they just inputed but matches the already-found letters and all the past guesses, or always change the word to a word that does have the character the user just inputed
ircbot - an IRC bot written in Python - includes pvp chess with selectable set of board piece characters and configurable colors - should probably be updated to support Unicode board characters
julia - Various Python and C++ programs related to rendering the Julia set of fractals (a superset of the Mandelbrot set)
mv - Python program to move directories under Windows - probably unnecessary given the existence of xcopy and robocopy, but not sure if those can continue moving files even if some files fail like this program can
phongram - finds phonetic anagrams (sort of like spoonerisms) of a given input word or phrase - written in Python
qttirc - Unfinished IRC client written in Python, superfluous now with qtpyirc, though I finished more of this one myself than I did qtpyrc before I had AI do the rest of qtpyrc, so it may do some things better
time2frequency - Small Pyton program testing my original idea for for a sliding/running/recursive DFT that I had before I even knew such things existed
timer - Small Python program and .bat file to start a timer on the command line that rings a bell after the specified amount of time has passed
truthtables - Input the names of two logic gates and get the name of the logic gate that results from passing inputs through both of them
walk5g - Utility to walk a directory under windows looking for filenames that match a given regex pattern - written in Python 2
factor - Implementaion of efficient prime factorization of a given number, algorithm invented by me before I found out it already exists
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; think Lois' shirt on Family Guy) 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:
- uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mailbox_baseball
- uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Roto-Rooter
- uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Koala#Cross-eyed_Rainbow_Koala_Bear_of_East_Asia
Spotify favorite songs list: open.spotify.com/playlist/52QeMqTZPHrGsdU2DbUoSg

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

Some of my poetry

Favorite lyrics:
- 'The Windmills of Your Mind' by Alan and Marilyn Bergman
- 'Gorecki' by Lamb
- 'Penitent' by Suzanne Vega
- 'Mind Phone' by April March
- 'True Faith' by New Order (better cover by Liz Kay)
- 'Inner Voice' by Stoneface & Terminal
- 'Soul and the Sun' by Filo and Peri
- 'Time Goes By' by Carrie Skipper
- 'The Logical Song' by Supertramp
- 'The Other Side' by Susana
- 'Turn it On' by Woody Van Eyden & Alex M.o.r.p.h
- 'Our Demons' by The Glitch Mob
- 'Mad World' by Tears for Fears (better cover by Gary Jules)
- 'Luka by Suzanne' Vega
- 'Tom's Diner' by Suzanne Vega
- 'Greensleeves' (traditional English folk song; best version by Loreena McKennitt)
- 'Eugina (I Want to Be Free) (Sargasso Sea)' by Salt Tank
- 'Rabbits on the Roof' by Hundreds
- 'Mind of the Wonderful' by Blank & Jones
- 'Guitar Girl' by Abacay
- 'Beautiful Child' by Madelyne
- 'Walkin' on the Sun' by Smash Mouth
- 'Poison Oak' by Bright Eyes
- 'Cathedrals' by Jump, Little Children
- 'Fine on the Outside' by Priscilla Ann
- 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin
- 'Closer' by Nine Inch Nails
- 'Dance with My Father' by Luthr Vandross
- 'Honey' by Bobby Goldsboro
- 'Unwritten' by Natasha Bedingfield
- 'You Sang to Me' by Marc Anthony
- 'I'll Remember' by Madonna
- 'Mr. Wendal' by Arrested Development
- 'To Have and Not to Hold' by Madonna
- 'Teach Me How to Drown' by Unto Ashes
- Anything by "Weird Al" Yankovic, especially 'Tacky', 'Foil', and 'Word Crimes'
- Anything by Eminem, especially 'Not Afraid' and 'Mom's Spaghetti'
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, f1xedsys, 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):
- Carly Shay from iCarly
- Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat from The Fifth Element
- Jackie Burkhart from That '70s Show
- Freddie Pickerin from Andy Richter Controls the Universe (guest appearance by Conan)
- Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribben
- Mayor Adam West from Family Guy
- Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean
- Ron Burgundy from Anchorman
- Hank Scorpio from The Simpsons
- Lorelei from Gilmore Girls
- Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter
- Agnes Jurati from Star Trek: Picard
- Philip J. Fry from Futurama
- Butters Stotch from South Park
- Tweek from South Park
- Jeffrey Goines from 12 Monkeys
- Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Joe Black from Meet Joe Black
- Nell from The Haunting
- Alex Russo from Wizards of Waverly Place
- Mantis from Guardians of the Galaxy
- Yolandi from Chappie
- SpongeBob SquarePants from SpongeBob SquarePants
- Side Show Bob from The Simpsons
- Beetlejuice from Beetlejuice
- Seven of Nine from Star Trek: Picard
- Phoebe Buffay from Friends
- Galadriel from The Lord of The Rings
- Rio Vidal (aka the green witch) from Agatha All Along
- Kikio from Inuyasha
- Maya Gallo from Just Shoot Me
- Zorg from The Fifth Element
- Counselor Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Bender from Futurama
- Cordelia Chase from Angel
- Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Ike Broflovski from South Park
- Monica Geller from Friends
- Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons
- Ally McBeal from Ally McBeal
- Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld
- Abby Lockhart from ER
- Carol Hathaway from ER
- Diane Chambers from Cheers
- Severus Snape from Harry Potter
- Kai from Lexx
- Nibbler from Futurama
- Linda from Becker
- Cat Valentine from Victorious
- The Professor from Futurama
- Zapp Brannigan from Futurama
- Morbo from Futurama
- Sam Pucket from iCarly
- Edward Scissorhands from Edward Scissorhands
- Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters
- Professor Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter
- Gandalf the Grey from The Lord of the Rings
- Molly from Four Good Days
- Powder from Powder
- Uncle Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender (the 2005-2008 cartoon series)
- Marty McFly from Back to the Future
- Dr. Emmet Brown (aka Doc) from Back to the Future
- Mike Seaver from Growing Pains
- The Architect from The Matrix Reloaded
- The Oracle from The Matrix Reloaded
- Neo from The Matrix Reloaded
- Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy
- Zaphod Beeblebrox from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- Boris the Animal from Men in Black³
- Humma Kavula from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
- Immortan Joe from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (just because he's so impressively disturbing)
- Eddie from Friends
- Morpheus from The Matrix
- Lloyd Christmas from Dumb and Dumber To
- Harry Dunne from Dumb and Dumber To
- Gilly from Game of Thrones
- Amy Wong from Futurama
- Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Diane Chambers from Cheers
- Carol Danvers from Captain Marvel
- Chandler Bing from Friends
- Megan from Two Night Stand
- John Wick from John Wick
- The T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- The Terminator from Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Freakazoid from Freakazoid!
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, Nash Bridges, Seven Days, Dirty Jobs, River Monsters
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 fruit(s):
Mango, honeydew, naval orange, blackberry, watermelon, blueberry, canteloupe, pineapple, peach (only if the peach is the perfect ripeness)

Favorite nut(s):
Coconut, pistachio, 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, orange sherbet (not technically ice cream)

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

Favorite snack(s):
Ghirardelli 72% Cocoa Dark Chocolate, York patties, Brown & Haley Almond Dark Chocolate Roca, Haribu Gummi Bears, Dove Promises Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter, Skittles, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Cadbury Royal Dark chocolate, blueberry yogurt covered pretzels, lime yogurt covered pretzels, Snyder's of Hanover Honey Mustard Onion Pretzel Pieces, Takis Fuego, Doritos Dinamita Chile Limon, Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili

Favorite drink(s):
Orange Cream Coca-Cola, Cherry Lime Sprite, Arby's orange shake, Dunkin Donuts Vanilla Bean Coolatta, Coca-Cola Cinnamon, Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper, Dr Pepper Strawberries & Cream, Cherry Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper, Starbucks Tripleshot, iced matcha latte/bubble tea, iced coffee (especially Wendy's), Bodyarmor Lyte Peach & Mango, Pure Leaf Extra Sweet Tea, Orange Fanta, Simply Orange Pulp Free orange juice, Welch's White Grape Peach juice, Welsch's Black Cherry Concord Grape juice, Walmart apple cider, Welch's Sparkling White Grape, Coca-Cola with Lime, Juice Juice Watermelon, Evolution Defense Up, Dole Pineapple Juice, carbonated fruit juice

Favorite cereal(s):
Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Fruity Pebbles, Blueberry Mini-Wheets, Kellog's Corn Flakes, Rice Crispies, Honey Bunches of Oats, Raisin Bran, expensive healthy cereals with lots of fruit, etc.

Favorite liquor(s):
Ole Smoky Apple Pie Moonshine, White Russian, Mr. Stacks Amaretto, Valmas Pistachio, Valmas Almond Vanilla, Valmas Almond, UV Green Apple, Valmas Strawberry, RumChata Horchata Con Rum, Malibu Caribbean Rum with Coconut Liqueur, Mr. Stacks Pumpkin Spice, 99 Pineapples, Caruva Horchata, Mango Shotta Mango Jalapeno Tequila, Sippin' Cream Butter Pecan, Mr. Stacks Peppermint Schnapps, Ole Smoky Moonshine Orange Shinesicle, Piña colada, Strawberry daiquiri, Strawberry margarita, Veil Caramel, Catch Fire Cinnamon, Veil Watermelon, Mr. Stacks Sweet Melon, Mr. Stacks Butterscotch Schnapps, Mr. Stacks Butterscotch, Liqueur, Kamora Dulce de Leche, Sippin' Cream Mint Chocolate Chip, Kinky Aloha

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:
- I've only ever been confused for one or two brief moments in my life. (One was when I was deep in a fantasy and forgot I was fantasizing and tried to figure out where I was and escape it so fast that I briefly bamboozled myself.)
- I've only had one sip of beer in my life, when I was a kid. I don't remember what it tasted like.
- I don't like wine and don't understand how anyone could. It tastes like what the liquid that collects at the bottom of a trash bag that's been sitting there for a week must taste like. I don't understand how people can like straight coffee either.
- I didn't have sex until I was 28.
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. I don't think that page will work on mobile.