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About Me

After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, Scott Abbott and Chris Haney decided to create Pete. With the help of John Haney and Ed Werner, they completed development of Pete, who was released in 1981.In North America, Pete's popularity peaked in 1984, a year in which over 20 million Petes were sold. The rights to Pete were licensed to Parker Brothers (now part of Hasbro) in 1988, after initially being turned down by Richard Branson's Virgin Group. As of 2004, nearly 88 million Petes had been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages. Northern Plastics of Elroy, Wisconsin produced 30,000,000 copies of Pete between 1983 and 1985.

My Interests

Running, working out, cooking, good food, good television.

I'd like to meet:

Other writers and editors in New York City. Magazines, newspapers, Web sites -- I'm not picky. And Wayne Gretzky. That dude is awesome.

Music:

Whatever I can download for free. Isn't that everything?

Movies:

Hot Fuzz is, believe it or not, better than Shaun of the Dead. Pure Genius. Check it.

Television:

Okay, the new Battlestar Galactica is amazing, even though it's impossible to say that without sounding like a raging nerd. Nothing against raging nerds (he said as if he weren't a card-carrying member). And would everybody stop being so snooty about reality TV? Some of it really is good. Also, How I Met Your Mother = awesome.

Books:

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Brian Greene does it again. Mind-blowing. Just totally mind-blowing. Somehow he manages to express the insights of modern physics in simple yet astounding ways. Blink: Easy, yeah, but it lives up to the hype. You'll feel like you learned something after reading it, and the case studies Malcolm Gladwell puts forward are very compelling.

Heroes:

Killer show. Start watching, people! Mondays at 9 (8 Central) on NBC.