This came off my Facebook. These have been doing the rounds with everyone contributing, so I finally did my own when Cannetti caved and did one himself.


Pete's Note:
Unlike every other one of these you read I am not including things like, "I am currently sitting at a desk which is brown!"
Instead I am going to try and make them thoughtful. I apologize if they read long.


1) Probably one of the most random bad things that ever happened to me in my life yet, was I was once attacked by a swarm of bees. Although there is no exact count of how many times I was stung, it is estimated to be in the hundreds. A great many bees that were still lodged in me by their stingers were washed off in a bathtub before I was rushed to the hospital where they still pulled off 36 more.

2) I have only ever dated and kissed one woman, and I married her after 7 years. It will be 10 years since we met in April. We dated from the time we were 16 through college all long distance, seeing each other as often as we could, got engaged on our 5th anniversary, and got married in August of 2006. We have been living together in NYC ever since.

3) I am completely straight edge. I have never in my life drank so much as a beer, smoked a cigarette or used anything but prescribed drugs. I intend for this to last til the day I die, hopefully a ripe old age. I did not even drink the champagne at my own wedding.

4) I am very interested in outer space. The original career path I was seeking to pursue was engineering, and specifically aerospace engineering. I intended to work for NASA or some similar group. I hope to go into space some day.

5) I once saw a movie where a giant monster from another planet comes to Earth and the person who was the "chosen one" who was the only person who could stop the monster, was the world's most average human being. Someone who was exactly in the middle. Not too tall, nor too short, not too fat nor too skinny, not too intelligent nor too stupid etc. Exactly in the middle for all things. I consider myself to be that man, and am awaiting the arrival of said monster.

6) I love technology in all forms and am fascinated by human ingenuity that creates it. Sometimes the sight of human creation can be as beautiful to me as any majestic sight in nature.

7) I don't believe in organized religions as the different people of the world would have you prescribe to. I do believe there are some form of higher beings but that Earthly religions have all gotten the point wrong. The point is not what you believe in or worship, but that you have faith in general. That you treat other people right and try to make the best of your life while you can. If I'm wrong, at least I can say that I was a good person.

8) I have a strong dislike and intolerance for heat. I always prefer colder weather (60-65 degrees F is my favorite). I hate cooking because heat from the oven bothers me extremely. However, I love fire and consider myself a hobbyist pyromaniac. My favorite character in Team Fortress 2 is the pyro.

9) I have a ridiculous thirst for knowledge. I love to know how things work. I am known by many people who know me as a source of tons of useless/useful knowledge on the most random topics you'd never expect me to know about. My memory is at its sharpest when recalling strange details about thing's I've learned over time.

10) I love stories of all kinds, which makes me an avid reader and fan of movies and TV. I always crave new or interesting stories, and often bother my friends to tell me theirs in excruciating detail (right Cannetti?).

11) I am something of a "selective obsessive compulsive". I have some habits or methods of doing things that always have to be done exactly the same way. This sometimes feeds into my thirst for knowledge, especially when I set goals to read or finish things 100% There are many things I set these goals for that I never finish however, as I move onto the next thing before I can. Many times this is not even for reasons like boredom or dislike, but just because I am always ready for the next thing. I also have a funny habit of tapping on things as I walk by them sometimes.

12) I am an avid gamer. I have played video games since I was little and continue til today. I don't consider myself to be a pro gamer, but I am at least intermediate to advanced in most types of games, especially FPS games. On my 360 I currently have a huge to-do/play list because as stated in #11 I often move on to newer games before I finish current ones even if I love playing them. I am hoping to get back to many of them eventually.

13) I love driving cars. I am completely content driving 10 or more hours at a time. I have owned 2 cars, technically 3, but I only drove my first car which was an old 69' Chevy truck for a few minutes before we disassembled it to do work on it to restore it, which we never finished. I am not a car enthusiast per se, but I love seeing different cars and especially driving them. I have on occasion done valet parking jobs which has allowed me to drive some of the coolest cars in my life. I hope to strike it rich and own a few some day. I currently live in NYC where I can't have a car. This sometimes gets me down.

14) I don't necessarily want to be a celebrity, but I would like people to recognize me for my accomplishments past, present and future. I often feel like I am skimming the border of this, just in the background. I hope to become a popular photographer or become "internet famous" for my animated show/comic Unsuper (if I ever get it off the ground). I love the feeling when people enjoy thing's I've created.

15) I have never been the popular kid. In the first half of my life I was picked on a lot. But in the second half of my life, I haven't been the unpopular kid either. I have always just "been there". People for the most part like me, they don't necessarily want to hang out with me, but they don't dislike me. It's a strange place, where I have unfortunately become comfortable. The problem with this is I sometimes don't like the feeling of being the guy in the background.

16) The biggest regret in my life was going to my college, Fairleigh Dickinson University. While there are many things I gained from it including a wide array of knowledge and skills, a larger view of the world and people, and perhaps the best friend of my life, there were many more downsides. Many things that occurred and people that treated me like shit act like scars on my mind that I still think about many days. When I look back on my college years, I don't associate them with happiness on the whole as most other people do, and for that I feel robbed.

17) I am not good at and don't enjoy self-editing. Even though it sometimes makes things not live up to the potential they could, I like to tell stories in great detail, or even write things like this now in that way. I could express myself in shorter form, but that's never been my way. This even affects some of the films I have made throughout time. I also enjoy going to 3 or more hour long movies while everyone else complains.

18) I am not all that gifted when it comes to sports. Regardless, I do enjoy playing many of them. My favorite is Hockey, and I love playing goalie. This was a benefit to everyone I went to high school with as no one wanted to be goalie on days we played hockey in gym class. As a result I became a very good goalie. My fondest memories are playing on the frozen pond with my friends (before global warming put a stop to that in recent years) and not letting a single goal past in the hockey tourney on Whalers day at Pierson, leading my class to win. I also like playing Tennis second best, and baseball third. I hate all televised sports except for Hockey and on championships in all other sports (ie: superbowl, world championships in baseball etc).

19) I have met a number of celebrities living and working in NYC and the Hamptons. My favorite one was John Stewart from the Daily Show whom I sat and talked with for a good 45 minutes one day. He is a genuinely nice human being and as funny in person as he is on the show. My most regretted one was meeting Steven Spielberg and not recognizing it was him until after he left, when I could no longer ask/beg for a job.

20) I have a natural talent and instinct towards nature. Animals of all kinds typically gravitate to me, often leaving people saying, "my ____ never goes up to people like this!" This has also come in handy in the wild when photographing birds/critters as they will actually usually not run away from me.

21) I have a natural compass and sense of direction. I love maps but often don't need them. At any time coming out of any subway in NYC I can usually correctly figure out which way you are facing and where you have to go next within seconds. This has come in handy on many, many occasions.

22) I am a scary judge of character. I can often decide all that I need to know about a person within the first few moments of meeting them. If an impression I have doesn't immediately pan out, it almost always does in the long run. I am fiercely loyal to friends and people who treat me right, and i am as fiercely vengeful towards the opposite. I am quick to forgive someone when I realize they are genuine and regress to forgive people who have seriously wronged me long after many others have forgiven them or at least forgotten.

23) I have a very wry sense of humor for the most part. I often am at my most humorous when slipping in little jokes at the wrong time. I have a great sense of humor overall and love laughing. Being excessively happy is my most favorite feeling and I often make jokes to keep things that way, and to make others feel the same. There is nothing better to me than when someone genuinely laughs at something I've said or done.

24) I often don't know where I am headed in life and tend to just go with the flow. I have been doing a lot of debating recently as to where my life is headed. I think I've finally figured it out. My major goal in life right now and for the future is to start my own business and become successful as a photographer.

25) New York City is a part of me. When I was growing up on the east end of long island, I loved Sag Harbor, but knew there was something more out there for me. At this point in my life, I only feel right living in NYC. Something about waking up in the morning and walking out onto the street only to remember I'm in the city of cities really makes me feel at home. I don't think there is a greater place on Earth, and couldn't be happier starting my family and adult life here. As the great Billy Joel said, "I'm in a New York State of Mind".

Ok, ok, ok. I know. No posts since the last post that said I was going to start posting. I guess I haven't the true blogger spirit within me. Meh.

Anyway, I was just thinking to myself I might try to at least throw some posts up here on relevant topics even if I'm not fully producing the podcast regularly. It'll make me feel a little better about having done all the work to get this site going I guess. Ok?

Off to the races...

Well, well, well. Long time. No post.

I'm actually rather disappointed in myself. In the last little period before the PeteCast's unannounced absence I was trying to figure out the best schedule to make podcasts weekly. Well obviously that didn't work out how I planned.

I think the time has come again to try and re-awaken the sleeping beast that is my nonsense. It's probably not going to be immediate, but hopefully, it will happen.

No one's reading this anyway, so I'm going to stop here. This is a call to action for myself. If you see it, tell me to get going.

Hello everybody,
I thought I'd take a moment to talk about what I'll be talking about. Anyone who knows me knows I have opinions on everything, and they're generally stupid, but fun. Many times have Ia started on sites like livejournal and things, but none of them have met my "medium standards". I've recently gotten very into podcasts. And I started thinking to myself, I have a background and education that would clearly support me doing such a thing. And I also realized there's plenty of things to talk about in this life, so why not let loose?
With that said, and you reading this, you're probably wondering, "OK, so where's the podcasts then?" Well, thanks to a lovely corporation called Alienware, whom I keep tricking myself into buying from, I'm without a proper computer to do recordings for the time being. But rest assured they will start soon.
And what about the contents of said podcast? Well, as I mentioned, I think it'll be ranting on all things relevant to me at least, but which will be relevant to a lot of others as well. After all, I like a lot of stuff that other people do, so there's hopefully going to be something of interest for everyone.  And hopefully I can make a few people laugh or at least cry in the process. So for now, it'll be these text blogs, but starting very soon, the PeteCast will be in full swing.
If you have any ideas or would like to contribute to the show, feel free to use the "Listener Feedback" audio recorder on the right side of the page to leave me a message, or any of the other contact methods I've listed over there as well. I'll be adding more in time including hopefully a phone/voicemail line.
That's all for now, have fun and enjoy.
~Pete