steve petersen's friends

friends

I do have lots of friends - but most of them don't have staked-out web presences. The friends that do, I acknowledge here (if only to boost their weblink count). If you are a long-standing friend of mine and would like to be included on this page, contact me.

Here are some personal homepages of friends, in alphabetical order:

• Aya is a good friend from my grad school days, and now a radiologist at Stanford; her minimalist homepage is under construction. (She does have a last name - but her popularity demands she keep it to herself.)
• Jen Bell is an old friend from college who now produces erotic film for women.
• Andy Brownstein is a gradeschool friend, an actor, journalist, and funny funny guy.
• John Ducey and I did theater together in college; his site is a fascinating, detailed glimpse into the life of an LA actor. He blogged his career years before there was a name for it.
• Jessica Garrett is a grad school friend who is now an academic coach. May she find the vegan non-spoiling creamer she seeks!
• Heather McEntarfer, a coworker, would probably be mortified to discover I was linking to her site - which makes it kinda funnier.
• Steve Meyers is one of my oldest friends, from grade school and high school. He was one of the good guys at Enron ...
• Linda Perlstein is also a friend since grade school. She's a former education correspondent for the Washington Post, and now an impressively prolific author.
• Andy Sernovitz is another high school friend now doing exciting things with word-of-mouth marketing, consulting, and his son, Charles Darwin Grisham Sernovitz.
• Aaron Ximm is another old high school friend who keeps me weird and does interesting things with sound. (Yeah, I still keep up with lots of high school friends.)
• Aaron is married to Bronwyn Ximm, who discusses how to be socially aware in your consuming at her blog, Wallet Mouth.

Some of my friends have anonymous or semi-anonymous blogs. As you can tell from much of the content, they are philosopher friends. Again, in alphabetical order:

• Daily akrasia waxes sometimes philosophic, sometimes acerbic, and often both.
• Palantir is often philosophical, in some contrast to his brain-slurping roommate, Grak.
• Bullitt's Bros only goes to philosophy for the joke.

Also, on the topic of friends, I still kind of like Friendster, despite some shortcomings. I was recently talked into a half-hearted MySpace page, and still more recently, into a half-hearted Facebook page, where the homepages are at least far less ugly than those on MySpace. (Most people don't seem to know the original, pejorative meaning of 'facebook', which kind of tickles me.) What site could be the next big social networking splash-then-burn? The suspense is killing me!