(Increasingly Less)
Boring Home Page for Pete Cottrell
Now, more gentle on your delicate system

Office:

Phone Numbers

• Office Phone 405-2749
• Home Phone

HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!!!

Other Pages

DC Area Cookin - Pictures and recipes from the "cook-in" held January 20th, 1996 by the DC area readers of the rec.food.cooking news group.

Pete's Land O' Food - A (slowly growing) collection of links to pages having to do with food.

Pete's Land O' Links - A (slowly growing) collection of links to pages that I use for work or that I find interesting.

Miscellaneous

Here's some friendly words for you

This update to my lame home page is my grudging acknowledgment of the existence of the Web. As long as it's here, I might as well have some fun.

• I have a bad attitude
• Favorite kitchen gadget - Oxo Good Grips Zester/Stripper
• A friend's favorite kitchen gadget - Sony 13" color TV
• My favorite TLA - In case you don't know, a TLA is a three-letter acronym. For me, it's gotta be BHP. Send me mail if you think you know what it standa for. I may or may not respond, depending on what you do for a living.
  One guess so far is Big Honkin' < anatomy part >, where < anatomy part > could phalanges, peritoneum, or even (gasp!) penis. However, while these are fine guesses, these aren't correct.
  The latest guess is from a friend of a friend, who was pointed at this page because it was allegedly amusing. Her guess was Be honest, please. Another fine guess, but still incorrect.
• Actresses I'm in lust with - Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Greta Scacchi, Heather Locklear, Mia Sara, Mimi Rogers, Madeleine Stowe, Pocahontas
• More Actresses I'm in lust with - Sharon Stone, Alicia Silverstone, Marisa Tomei, Kate Capshaw, Kate Vernon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Marge Simpson, Bea Arthur
• My darkest secret - I was a Monkees fan. Yes, I grew up with them, and I grooved to them. Not only that, but I changed the way I wrote my name, based on how I saw Monkees' bassist Peter Tork write his.

  Peter Tork's signature, from the Headquarters album.

  My signature, from my being a dork.
  
  

• My latest "comfort" food - A local Scottish bakery sells, among other yummy items like pork pies and haggis, things called Fly Cemetaries. Ummm, tasty.
• Lower Life Forms - If all of the candies in the world came under a zoological-type classification, the absolute lowest forms of life would be in the GUMMI phylum. These disgusting concoctions seem to have barely evolved from some primordial glucose soup. I mean, really.
• My current favorite .sig file - courtesy of Ron DuFresne <dufresne@winternet.com>

  	Ron DuFresne
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  
  	OK, so you're a Ph.D.  Just don't touch anything.
  	

• I love to hear women's voices - Most of my favorite CDs of late are by the likes of Shona Laing, Jane Siberry, Lisa Loeb, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, Liz Phair, and Jill Sobule.
• MORE women's voices!!!! - I'm also enjoying listening to Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow. and Leah Andreone.
• I love to hear women's voices - a footnote - Someone
  (Dan Masi <dan_masi@mentorg.com>) actually has read this page and castigated me for not mentioning Tori Amos as a woman's voice I should love to hear. He is of course right and I stand duly chastised. I do like her music and now I guess I'll have to go buy some of her CDs.
• My favorite ski resort - Sugarbush, in Vermont.
• My favorite verse of Maryland, My Maryland - it turns me on.

  I hear the distant thunder-hum,
  Maryland, my Maryland!
  The "old line's" bugle, fife and drum,
  Maryland, my Maryland!
  She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb;
  Huzza! She spurns the Northern scum --
  She breathes! She burns! She'll come! She'll come!
  Maryland, my Maryland!

• How about some more poetry? - Here's a few of my favorite SPAM haikus.

  Pink tender morsel,
  Glistening with salty gel.
  What the hell is it?
  
  Cube of cold pinkness
  Yellow specks of porcine fat.
  Give me a spork please.
  

• One of my favorite words - Verdant
• I scream, you scream - My favorite kinds of ice cream are Cookies n' Clams and Bean n' Banana. Yumm.
• Winter - Worst season of the year, if you ask me. I hate being cold; I'd rather sweat than shiver. The Fall and Winter up through New Year's aren't so bad, but if we could just get rid of January and February, that would be fine with me.
• Winter Sports - I have no use for them. I think it's great if other people want to do it, but as for me, I hate skiing.
• TOP 10 THINGS THAT SOUND DIRTY AT THANKSGIVING BUT AREN'T

       10. It must be broken 'cause when I push on the tip, 
                  nothing squirts out.
        9. If I don't unbuckle my pants, I'm going to burst!
        8. It's Cool Whip time!
        7. She's 5000 pounds fully inflated and it takes 
                  15 men to hold her down.
        6. "And he forces his way into the end zone!"
        5. Talk about a huge breast!
        4. Tying the legs together will keep the inside moist.
        3. I'm in the mood for a little dark meat.
        2. Whew .. that's one terrific spread!
        1. Reach in and grab the giblets.
  	

Number of people who have been entertained by this page -

Please let me know just how boring this page was; please send me mail at pete@cs.umd.edu.