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Zerocross
Prizes at Coney Island, NY
About this site
This is the personal web site of Michael McNicholas of Brooklyn, NY.
If visitors are curious about the origins of the exhibitism and solipsism which I believe motivates the creation of most blogs, I would
suggest reading The Culture of Narcissism- American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations,
by Christopher Lasch. Although written in the 1970's, I think his description of the increasingly inward-focused, isolated and selfish America helps explain the blog phenomena.
What is Zero Cross?
In signal processing, a zero cross is when the voltage in a signal changes from positive to negative or vice-versa.
A very noisy signal will have a lot of zero crosses, so by calculating the number of zero crosses you can get a rough estimate of the clarity of the signal. Also when sampling a signal, you should begin and end your recording at a zero cross to avoid a sharp pop. I studied digital audio signal processing in University and I figured I should do something
with my education. Also, I think Zerocross sounds cool.
Photos
Bern,CH
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Paris, FR
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Italy
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Ghana, West Africa
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Rio, Buzios & Ilya Grande, BR
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Cape Town, RSA
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North Bay, Ontario
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Rio & Sao Paulo, BR
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Rio & Jericoacoara, BR
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Istanbul, TR
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Peru
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Easter island, CL
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In addition to the introductory content below, here are a few links to other pages on this site
Some of my favourite Photos
Some photos of my recent trip to Ghana in West Africa
Some photos of my recent trip to Italy
A list of the DVDs I own
For those not adverse to scrolling, please let me introduce myself:
About Michael
McNicholas
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| Shoes | 12
| | Neck | 16
| | Sleeve | 36
| | Suits | 40 Long
| | Waist | 33
| | Inseam | 34
| | T-shirts | Medium
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| | Height | 6'3
| | Weight | 180 lbs
| | DOB | Feb 19, 1976
| | IQ | 142
| | SAT score | 1430 (730 Math / 700 Verbal)
| | Enneagram Personality Test Type: | Reformer
| | Keirsey Personality Test Type: | Idealist
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| | Born | Pittsburgh, PA
| | Raised | Toronto, Ont
| | Elementary school | St
Bonaventure Toronto, Ont
| | High school | St Michael's College School Toronto, Ont
| | University | McGill University Montreal, PQ
| | Lives now | Brooklyn, NY
| | Age | 29
| | Siblings | 1 sister, Adrienne age 33
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Tips
- If you recieve telephone calls asking you to participate in a survey, you can say you are a professional
market researcher and are barred from participating.
- Read how to avoid bear attacks
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Books I read since the 4th of July, 2005
- Currently reading, The White Africans From Colonisation to Liberation, by Gerald L'Ange
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
- Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, by Barbara W. Tuchman
- Out of Eden : An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, by Alan Burdick
- The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
- Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II, by James Tobin
- Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South, by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman
- The Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of a North Atlantic Salvage Tug, by Farley Mowat
- Magnum: Fifty years at the Front Line of History, by Russell Miller
- In the land of White Death, by Valerian Albanov
- The Control of Nature, by John McPhee
- The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care, by Nina Bernstein
- Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Six Days : How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East, by Jeremy Bowen
- The Art of the Deal, by Donald L. Trump
- Made in Ameria, by Sam Walton
- Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
- The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, by Caroline Alexander
- Jarhead, by Anthony Swofford
- The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Been in the Storm so Long, the Aftermath of Slavery, by Leon F. Litwack
- The Guns of August, by Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Haunted Land : Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, by Tina Rosenberg
Books I read the year before that
- Argall, by William T. Vollmann
- Fathers and Crows, by William T. Vollmann
- Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Survive the Savage Sea, by Dougal Robterson
- The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War, by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
- Rifles, by William T. Vollmann
- Kafka by the Shore, by Haruki Murakami
- The Outlaw Sea : A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime, by William Langewiesche
- Gulag, by Anne Applebaum
- A Problem from Hell, America in the age of Genocide, by Samantha Powers
- War and Peace, by Lev Tolstoy
- Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carrol
- Diary, by Chuck Palahniuk
- Sea of Glory, by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Dispatches, by Michael Herr
- Sons of Mississippi, by Paul Hendrickson
- The 9/11 Commission Report, by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
- Against All Enemies, by Richard A. Clarke
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
- Sahara Unvieled, by William Langewiesche
- Inside the Sky- a Meditation on Flight, by William Langewiesche
- Why Globalization works, by Martin Wolfe
- Shake Hands with the Devil- The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, by Romeo A. Dallaire
- The Life of PI, by Yann Martel
- Rising Up and Rising Down, by William T. Vollman
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Frequently Read Magazines
- The Atlantic Monthly
- Harper's
- The Economist
- The New Yorker
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Vacations
I enjoy travel to developing countries and tend to focus on destinations with
ancient wonders (Peru, Easter Island, Istanbul) or opportunities for cross-cultural experiences (Brazil, Ghana.)
- Easter Island, Chile
- Cuzo, Peru
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Rio de Janiero and Fortaleza, Brazil
- Barcelona, Spain
- Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Rio de Janiero, Buzios and Ilya Grande, Brazil
- Accra, Tamale, Kumasi and Cape Coast, Ghana
- Milan and Venice, Italy
- Paris, France and Bern, Switzerland
- Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, Japan
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Zanzibar
- St Petersburg, Russian Federation
- Malawi
I would very much like to visit Petra in Jordan, Uyuni in Bolivia and southern China in the near future.
Favourite Photos
I have a page of some of my favourite photos Here
Flights I have taken
The map was created using great circle navigation tools which allow you to plot navigational courses which account for the uneven curvature of the earth.
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UNESCO World Heritage sites I have visited
- Historic District of Quebec, Canada
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Canada
- Rapa Nui National Park, Chile
- City of Cuzco, Peru
- Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, Peru
- Historic Areas of Istanbul, Turkey
- Parque Guell, Palacio Guell and Casa Mila in Barcelona, Spain
- Robben Island, South Africa
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA
- Forts and Castles, Volta Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions, Ghana
- Venice and its Lagoon, Italy
- Paris, Banks of the Seine, France
- Historic Site of Lyons, France
- Old City of Berne, Switzerland
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, Japan
- Stone Town of Zanzibar, Tanzania
- Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
- Lake Malawi National Park, Malawi
- Ge here for a complete list of UNESCO sites
Mates
Lori Chodos,
Terence Bernardo,
Mari Solivan,
Natasa Bosnjak,
Jennifer Schlecht,
Mark McQuillan,
Oliver Van Praet,
Timo Kuhn
Work
I am currently consulting part-time for an Internet business in New York City.
Links
Number of people killed in 2002 helping a car stuck in the snow: 12
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