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Qui est ce type, Pete?

I'm in my sort-of-late 30s, while most of my local social circle are in their mid 20s. The more time I spend here, the more it seems clear that you have the kind of life you decide to create around you. I'm working at creating a pretty sweet life.

I have a higher-end nerd job; at other times I’ve lived a life of intrigue and danger ( heh ) but now, not-so-much. I do information architecture and experience design for people with lots of pennies, I also do some work for people with no pennies at all. I am ( slowly but surely ) working towards my doctorate. At the moment, my side thing is spreading the word like fire through digital spaces. If I am able to someday shift this from "side thing" to "main thing", that would be sweet. But I also wouldn't mind doing a few other things.

I'm doing many things in my life out of order, and for the most part do what I want, and what feels right... as opposed to maybe what most other people tell me I should do. So far, this is working out pretty well, though I do stumble now and then.

I live with intensity; "no power in the 'Verse can stop me."

Except me, that is.



Vitals /////////

Age :: Thirty Eight. Eeeeks.
Body :: Six Two
Status :: Taken.
Here for :: Friends / Networking
Orientation :: Sassy, Petite Women
Hometown :: Chicago
Spiritual Center :: Kauai
Ethnicity :: South Side Irish
Occupation :: Resident Smart Guy

Interests /////////

Music
:: 80s, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, REM, Michael Buble, Yo Yo Ma, trance, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, John Mayer, REM.
Books
:: The Lords of Discipline, The World is Flat, Blink, The Tipping Point, My Life, The Game, Art of the Start, Made to Stick
Movies
:: Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School, Shawshank Redemption, Dead Poets Society, Scent of a Woman, Blade Runner, Apocalypse Now, Strange Days, Legends of the Fall, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Domino, Sneakers, Quest for Fire, Lady and the Tramp, The Secretary, Dangerous Liaisons, Phantom of the Opera, Out of Sight
Design
:: Projects never look the way they look in my head

Links /////////

Write monkey, write!
:: A community of writers
My personal blog
:: Heh.
Social Flare, Inc.
:: We do web strategy
Social Flare at TypePad
:: Work blog
My LinkedIn profile
:: Come get some
My Flickr pics
:: Slowly getting the hang of it
My Facebook profile
:: Hmmmmmmm



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Eh?

"Practice safe lunch....use a condiment"

The Junkyard

I'm never content with whatever I'm working on. Aesthetically, anything I tweak is a direct reflection of my personality and tastes. Consider this profile - which I dub derkilicious - an ever changing work in progress. The original color schemes can be found here . The layout has some minor issues with IE, Safari, and Opera. Can I recommend Firefox or Flock ? Use Intercrap Explorer as a last resort.

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My Blog

my blog's moving

It's not that I dislike MySpace's blog... but you have to be a member to comment, and I don't like the idea of being tied to MySpace for something as far-reaching and unfolding as the journal about wh...
Posted by Pete on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:41:00 PST

Just a game

Look at my pic/avatar really quick. Charlie the Unicorn, "on a bridge". He looks frustrated, miffed, pissed. His reality is being shaped by two jagoffs with half a brain between them, and he's getting...
Posted by Pete on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:30:00 PST

matching sheets

If I roll over to the empty side ofsilky smooth matching sheetsand breathe in deeply,I catch a scent of you...It makes me happy,although you're not here, you're so closein a way.but in a way,because y...
Posted by Pete on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:16:00 PST

A veggie tray

So, most times here I try to be insightful, or at least non-boring. But sometimes it's just a matter of rattling on abouot what's going on in my life, currently; where my mind is at the moment... I st...
Posted by Pete on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:14:00 PST

"... the <i>world</i>"

  "Happy peanuts soar   over chocolate covered mountaintops  and waterfalls of caramel...  Prancing nougat in a meadow   sings a song of satisfaction   ......
Posted by Pete on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:46:00 PST

Neil Young, and a crapload of other things

So, a short while ago, I got an emotional kick in the balls. Not a ninja kick, where someone snuck up on me and brought me down with a ritz cracker or some other inventive tool; I was sort of standin...
Posted by Pete on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:14:00 PST

Seriously, I'm not gay. Really.

As I write this, I note that there's no catagory that "interior design" might possibly fall under, in the list of pre-fab MySpace blog topic categories. Yesterday I spent a short amount of time wande...
Posted by Pete on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:43:00 PST

New space

So, got a new place. This is the first real place I've had in about 4 years. In that time I'd lived with family, in high-end tech-contractor type residential hotels, with friends in Hawaii, or with p...
Posted by Pete on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:05:00 PST

some people just need a little help

In case you know someone who -might- be an asshole... but you're not really sure, you can use this keen little tool. The Asshole Rating Self-Exam    ...
Posted by Pete on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:38:00 PST

Impeach him.

It really is that simple."Of course George Bush and Dick Cheney have committed acts that would merit impeachment.  In a proper country, they would be tried as traitors.  You don't lie to a c...
Posted by Pete on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:43:00 PST