Peter Corless
- Age: 44
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Libra
- Zodiac Year: Dragon
- Industry: Technology
- Occupation: Consultant
- Location: Mountain View : California : United States
About Me
Presently juggling hats: English/Math Tutor, Non-Profit Founder, and Internet Business Consultant by day, champion of social justice by night. • Founder of a few businesses over my years, now working to get 2 non-profits off the ground (as of November 2008). • Born in the Bronx in 1964. Lived in New York City until college at Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982-1986. In 1989 I moved to the SF Bay Area. Worked for ComputerWare at first, 1989-1991. Went to Apple as a contractor for 1 year, then 1992-2001 I worked at Cisco Systems. Founded and ran Green Knight Publishing until it closed down c. 2005. • Started a new project, Razumijen, in 2006. Noodled around with that and the Somalia War 2006-2007. But then got distracted by Civilization IV and World of Warcraft to understand why, if there is so much war in the real world, why we even simulate it for 'fun' when people are really dying. • Hence now, I am founding the Global Understanding Institute (GUI) for crisis and conflict monitoring, analysis and resolution, and Flowers in the Cracks Artists Alliance. At least, that's my current game plan. Stay tuned!
When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?
No. I grew up by the Atlantic Ocean. Kept my eyes shut to keep out and sand/irritants. The water pressure of a wave crashing down on our kid-heads made us squinch our eyes shut. "Whee! That was fun!" Then we'd wipe the water off our faces and get ready for the new wave. We'd also open our eyes to swim around underwater to find shells on the sea floor.
Interests
- Global Crisis and Conflicts
- Social Activism & Justice
- Peace
- Environmentalism
- Progressive "Post-Red-vs.-Blue" Politics
- Games and Game Design
- Social Sciences
- Art (Photography
- Drawing
- Painting
- Design)
- Music
- Religion (ex: practicing Episcopalian)
- Myth
- Geography and Cartography
- Science Fiction & Fantasy; King Arthur
- the Round Table
- the Holy Grail; British History
- esp. Romano-British
- Sub-Roman
- Anglo-Saxon and Norman England (1066
- Domesday to Magna Carta) to the Hundred Years War
- War of the Roses and through Elizabeth/James I (Shakespearean England); European & World History
- Management: Business and Organizational Development
- Products/Service Management
- Program/Project Management
- Web Content/Community Management; Macintosh
- Firefox
- Apache
- Open Source
Favorite Movies
- 1776
- Casablanca
- Sense and Sensibility
- Wedding Crashers
- Seven Samurai
- Aliens
- Saving Private Ryan
- Almost Famous
- Harold & Maude
- A Beautiful Mind
- Awakenings
- The Fisher King
- original Star Wars (before "improvements)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Gladiator
- The Graduate
- Toy Story
- and of course
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Underdogs: Haiku Tunnel
- Swimming
Favorite Music
- Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Also the 3rd and 7th. Irish (Chieftains) and other cultural/folk music. Los Lonely Boys
- Jack Johnson
- Counting Crows
- Suzanne Vega. Talking Heads
- Thomas Dolby
- Peter Gabriel
- U2. Police
- Clash
- Pink Floyd
- Led Zeppelin. Bob Marley
- Sly and the Family Stone. Beatles
- Rolling Stones
- The Who.
Favorite Books
- • Three Cups of Tea • Parzival
- Wolfram von Eschenbach • Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation (Lacy) • Domesday Survey • Holy Bible • Please Understand Me
- Please Understand Me II • Understanding Stupidity • Lucifer Principle • Dictionary. Thesaurus. Atlas. World Almanac. • Lord of the Rings
- Narnia series
- Watership Down. • Book of Knights (favorite thing I wrote myself)
