Peter Stoller
 Peter can often be found hosting on America Online in the Macintosh Operating System Forum. He's a knowledgable host whom his coworkers admire for his grammar and snappy wardrobe. |
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| How did you personally get into using the Macintosh family of computers? |
In late 1989, I was putting together a home MIDI studio, and I had already fallen in love with a collaborator's Mac SE, so I bought a Mac. When I had my first serious HD crash, I realized I could either learn to fix the Mac or forever be at the mercy of repair technicians. I chose the former, and I've never been the same since. | |
| Status: | Lapsed evangelist and demi-guru. | |
First Mac:
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SE/30 | |
Current Mac:
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Quadra 800 (G3 on the distant horizon, pending an infusion of capital,) | |
| When did you get your first modem? | Almost as soon as I got my first Mac. | |
| Who did you call first? | Oh, right, like I remember. | |
| Present Occupation: | Songwriter/singer, author, consultant. | |
| Claim to Fame: | Writing for Macworld magazine. | |
| Dream Job: | Powerball lottery winner; Salma Hayek's sex slave. |
| Not So Random Thoughts... | |||
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| Was there ever a time in your life that you had to "Think Differently?" What was the situation and what did you do? | |||
| I'm a musician, so I've always had to think differently. | |||
| How has using the Macintosh computer changed your life? | |||
| If not for the Mac, my music of the last decade would probably have significantly different, and I'd obviously never have beome a professional Mac author and consultant. (You think I'd have gotten into computers via MS-DOS or Windows? Ha!) | |||
| What is the weirdest thing in your office right now? | |||
| Myself. | |||
| My Passions are: | |||
| Music, cuisine, couture, and the feminine mystique. | |||
| If you could have dinner with one person dead or alive who would that person be and what would you ask them? | |||
| No Answer Yet. | |||
| When I grow up I want to be: | |||
| Happy. | |||
| The question never asked: | |||
| Not Answered. |
| Just The Facts, Please... | ||||
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| Biographical Tidbits: | I sing and play keyboards, currently solo. Current project: Writing/recording my debut CD. |
Education: | Berklee College of Music, Institute of Audio Research (NYU), School of Hard Knocks (correspondence course) | |
| Location at Birth: | NYC | Current Location: | Los Angeles | |
| Where you've been in between: |
NYC for over 30 years, save for my time in Boston at Berklee; LA since '93. | Astrological Sign: | Cusp of Aries and Taurus, with the latter apparently holding sway. | |
| Available? | Single and looking | Pet Hate: | tpyos. | |
| Favorite Books: | The Unbearable Lightness of Being; The Authoritative Calvin & Hobbes; any good unabridged dictionary of the English language. | Favorite Music or Band: | Too numerous and varied to list. | |
| Favorite Food: | Linguine al pesto; bagel with cream cheese, sliced lox and vidalia onions; palak aloo; Cha Cha Cha's salmon con salsa negro. | Cat or Dog Person: | Neither. | |
| Favorite Web Site: | Yahoo |
| "I hate writing, but I love having written." (Dorothy Parker) | |
Created Tuesday, September 8, 1998; Edited: 10/3/98, 1/30/99