Pete Carapetyan's blog
Poetry can be dreadfully serious stuff. Or so I've been told, wouldn't know, I always avoid that kind of poetry moment.
Not this time! No Serious Readings For Sure!
We're going to have a Poetry Slam at the folks house on March 22 from 3-5 PM, and there may not be a serious moment in the whole affair! Read more »
No paid circus performer here, this was my friend Jason jumping off of a 35' high (?) telephone pole onto a trapeze bar. Just about the entire group made it on this jump. More than a little bit scary. Read more »
Updated Feb 11, 2008 with new photos - all at bottom.
The Zen master asked his student the riddle about "What if a tree fell in the forest and nobody heard it, did it make a sound?"
What if the tree was in an artist's community?
... and it hadn't fallen yet? It was dead, sure. But dead trees sometimes take years to fall. Read more »
There seems to be some kind of theme involving triumph of the human spirit (or its inverse, in the case of Ran and Dead Poet's Society)
- Pleasantville
- Mary Poppins
- Ran
- Sandlot
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Star Wars series (with apologies to all who are rolling their eyes reading this one).
- Dersu Uzala
- Dead Poet's Society
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
- Finding Forrester
Even if you are only going 2 miles an hour, don't run stop signs, especially on a bicycle, and especially in Austin Texas.
This is where I learned my first lesson.
I was at this stop sign a couple months ago, and I rode through it without fully stopping. I shouldn't have done it, but I did. Read more »
Paul Carapetyan is my brother, and today Wed Jan 30th is his 50th birthday. So it's OK that I would blog about him :)
Paul Carapetyan with his children Lucy, David, and Anna Read more »
Today I borrowed Jack from his new owner, it had been over 4 months since I gave him up for adoption, and since it's Sunday and I wasn't supposed to go cycling until my injuries heal, I had time to just hang out with him. Read more »
Somehow I ended up taking NLP coursework to get better results in sales and communications at work. This is an interesting decision - given my distaste for all that psycho-babble touchy feely stuff that seems to dominate every bookstore and coffee shop. NLP seemed safe to me - they pretty much stay away from content, just what you want to do and how to go about it. Read more »
When we took the shuttle from Crested Butte back to Gunnison to catch our flight home, the views were so breathtaking I made a slide show. (Thumbs below as teaser)
From these 100 or so shots, I produced two different flash slide shows, each 3 1/2 minutes.
This one is only a couple of meg so no big deal for your internet connection. Click on the image below to open up in a new window. Read more »
Inspired by Tom Singleton in yesterday's blog, I spent yesterday learning to snowboard.
The rules are simple if not a bit challenging to commit to muscle memory. Much like skiing, just less forgiving. Read more »
