pete4winds

First picture is my first and second tattoos. The first one is the one to the right, a Native American medicine wheel. I got it about nine months into my Navy career to commemorate the name I was given in ceremony about a year earlier, FourWinds (as in North, South, East, and West, hence my screenname). The four colors inside the wheel (clockwise from upper left) are black, red, yellow, and white, and represent the much-needed unity of the four races of man as one human race, and the eagle feather hanging down from it represents strength, wisdom, and foresight. The second, the dragon, is obviously the Mortal Kombat dragon. It doesn't necessarily represent the game, but more so the time I spent deployed to the Persian Gulf during Operation Southern Watch and Iraqi No-Fly Zone enforcement. Being in the Navy, I was at sea for much of the time. Playing Mortal Kombat 3 fairly often during that time made being in a combat zone a little more bearable. The two above are across my shoulders, the dragon being across my spine just below my neck. The third tattoo is in the second photo. It came from Sydney Australia on my second deployment, and represents a blending of my love of Egyptian Mythology with the fact that the symbol itself often represents the sun, which is also a powerful deity in my own religion. It's on the outside of my right shoulder. My fourth tattoo is an Inuit thunderbird, a mythological creature believed among many Native tribes to be responsible for thunderstorms and wind, particularly through the beating of its wings. The two heads represents the time in history when Russian explorers traveled through Inuit land. The story of how I got it is this: I took my wife for her first tattoo, and the person doing the work was a good friend of ours, a fellow Native American artist (his art happened to be tattoos). He only worked on a no-cash barter system, so we offered him a collection of pristine feathers from a particular sacred bird of prey. These feathers are very hard to come by, and he felt that one tattoo was not nearly worth what we were giving in return, so he offered to give me a tattoo if I had a design I liked. I looked through his notebook and this particular thunderbird "spoke" to me. It's on the outside of my upper left thigh.

Congrats Robb and Elissa, and welcome to the world Kristen!!!

http://www.wftv.com/news/11143289/detail.html?subid=22105266&qs=1;bp=t I realize theme park jobss don't pay all that well, but let's not get crazy here!

Pretty much the entire script of "The Big Lebowski," but this one stands out: Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don't work, I don't drive a car, I don't f**king ride in a car, I don't pick up the phone, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as sh*t DON'T F**KING ROLL! Also, not a movie quote, but a TV quote: I clicked on a popup and got caught in a pornado! - Dr. Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne) - "Bones" episode "Girl in the Gator."

70's Soft Rock and pretty much anything remotely related to the '80s (movies, music, games, cartoons, TV, maybe not so much '80s fashion anymore)....but SSSHHH, son't tell anyone. I have a reputation to uphold

I studies Aikido briefly about ten years ago while I was living in Japan, but I never took it back up when I returned to the states for a lack of studios in my area. Nowadays I study Capoeira, a Brazilian martial arts dance (also known as The Dance of War).

^ Heh, only in Seekonk!!!

Wasn't this already posted almost a year ago? Why, yes. Yes it was: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24628&highlight=zorb

^^ Cornhole (heeheeheeheehee)...ahem...sorry, carry on.

Some of my favorites. You might recognize a few from various random Photo TRs. Amazing panorama of the Berkshire Mountains, Western MA. Believe it or not, I took this photo from ground level. The USS Joseph P. Kennedy, another museum ship at Battleship Cove. Looking straight up through the smokehole in the top of the old kiln. The ghost of the USS Fall River, named (obviously) for my city. I love the sky in this photo! Battleship Cove at sunset, taken from the Fall River Boardwalk. The river is called Taunton River, the CITY is Fall River. The sun, THROUGH THE TREES! A few dozen feet from the old kiln. The Fall River Heritage State Park building. It could TOTALLY be a loading station! A view of Pringle Hall's entrance - another of the older buildings at the War College. Luce Hall, the second oldest building where I work, the Naval War College. The window of an old pottery kiln in Western MA - the day I sh*t-canned my trailer. One of my earliest photos of Katie-cat, emerging from the baby bouncer. The late, great Digit, enjoying a walk in the field. I miss you, Digit! Battleship Cove and the Braga Bridge, Fall River MA The same Apache, THROUGH THE...well, reeds, but it's a little closer to TREES! Apache helicopter, THROUGH THE...mooring chock?

I thought the same thing, but balloons or no, I thought this was an absolute riot!

You totally blew your shot at cornering this market. Now everyone on TPR (myself included) is ripping your creativity off as we speak! We're gonna be millionaires!

^ Sorta, but not quite. PGL was originally for screenwriters, then season two included directors, but this seems to be primarily for filmmakers.

Pretty basic Motorola V170...it's a Tracfone, and yes, I'm cheap enough for prepaid!

I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but my last concert was Taylor Dayne, as part of Fall River Celebrates America, August 2006 (see my crappy pre-digital-camera PTR here: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27855). Turns out it wasn't a half-bad show, but that was partly because it was included with fair admission. Not a show I'd go out and get tickets for, but hey...decent way to kill 90 minutes relaxing after eating tons of crappy (I mean stellar) fair food.

Harley Workers Get Help On Picket Line from Hersheypark Employees: http://www.wgal.com/news/10981011/detail.html?subid=22100741&qs=1;bp=t I hope this doesn't spell the end of the free chocolate at the end of the Chocolate World tour! Police: Boy Threatens Grandmother Over Food: http://www.local6.com/news/10988385/detail.html?subid=22100428&qs=1;bp=t ACE's future, now!

^ Dear lord I hope so In any case, *MY* inside sources just gave me this little tidbit today about the synthetic quicksand: Seems a few years back Cedar Fair staged a little corporate/industrial espionage and sent agents out to all the Paramount parks to spread this synthetic quicksand. Fast forward a few years to where Paramount is taking losses, ostensibly due to rising costs (so they say?)...who swoops in and buys the properties at a deep discount? Cedar Fair. Why is Cedar Fair the only company to do so? Not because they're the only company financially able to, but because, being the engineers behind the synthetic quicksand, they are the only ones who have a countering agent to stabilize the land. Conspiracy theories rule!!!

^ A quick search of the forum will turn up a number of resizing hints. In fact, the thread below is probably the best one to learn from, because it gives a you number of options. Resizing is very easy to do in any case. You'll find that your fellow TPR members will greatly appreciate it AND will be much more receptive to both viewing and commenting on your TRs: http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17901

^ ^ Actually, what Wes ISN'T telling you is that it's a particular kind of synthetic quicksand, specifically engineered by Cedar Fair. They used the same quicksand under Magnum, and that's why IT is sinking as well.

I'm happy to mention that great minds truly do think alike, because this is already a sticky! http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18645&start=880 Oh, that, and Happy Valentine's Day...

^ All of which would've been GREAT photographic studies

What is this, freakin' Tattooine with its twin suns??? Great TR, by the way...looks like fun.

At this specific moment, I'm wearing Magnum Elite side-zip tactical assault boots (yup, I'm at work), but at home I also have a pair of Ozark Trail hiking boots and a pretty basic pair of Converse sneakers (sadly, no, they're not from the classic Chuck Taylor line)...wait, are they even Converse? I don't even know, come to think of it.

^ More like two months ago (specifically Decebmer 12th, '06).

OK, sure, why not...I'll bite: Age: 33 (will be 34 this coming Feb. 28) Middle Name: Dennis Pet Peeve: Censorship, the "politically correct" movement, and people who don't appreciate what they have. Color of your bathroom: white and pastel yellow Best Movie of ALL time: Star Wars (the ENTIRE series - YES, that includes Phantom Menace) Best Song of ALL time: too many to list, but I guarantee it's something metal... Best TV Shows: UFO Files (the History Channel), Firefly (thank all that is good and sacred for the Box Set), A Haunting (Discovery Channel), Weird Travels (Travel Channel). Favorite Band/Artist: Iron Maiden Favorite Ride at Disney Parks: Rio Del Tiempo (mmmmm...air conditioning) Yummiest Ice Cream: pretty much any orange sherbet, but I have a particular love of Bryer's If you could eat lunch with one person, who would it be: The Phantom Gourmet (New Englanders will know) or Chef Mario Batali - although I could also say Emeril Legasse...he grew up my current hometown Morning Person or Night Person: Night person...duh, I work nights Pets: three at the moment (cats Cabot and Boomer, and parakeet JarJar Beaks - sadly our dog Digit died around Christmas) Favorite Color: anything in the pink to purple range (my daughter's colors), and purple combined with neon green or black Where you would go for fun (not an amusement park) : NASCAR events, or back to some of the countries I visited in the Navy, particularly Thailand Coke or Pepsi: Pepsi (There can be only one) Opinion about Peanut Butter and Jelly: Love it, but prefer peanut butter and marshmallow Best Vacation Spot: San Diego (although it's more of a former home for me - lived there five years) Cook or Go Out: cook (my wife and I are both chefs) Favorite coaster: SROS @ SFNE, followed closely by Great Bear and Raptor Favorite videogame: RCT series and pretty much any NASCAR PC game Favorite boardgame: Life, the Jedi edition, and Monopoly the NASCAR edition Favorite book: no particular book, but my 3 favorite authors are (in no particular order) Tom Clancy, Richard Marcinko, and Dean Koontz Favorite magazine: Star Wars Insider (long time subscriber) Non Coaster Pastimes: paintball, kart racing with my wife, powwows, amateur guerilla filmmaking Wishes: to buy a house much sooner than I currently expect to Films I'm looking forward to : Indiana Jones 4 and the rumored Serenity sequel Favorite inversion: Zero-G Roll Favorite ride (non-rollercoaster) : Scream! @ SFNE Favorite type of car: Chevy SSR or the ultimate fantasy car Bugatti Veyron Favorite food: my wife's cooking...despite my culinary education and 13 years in the food service industry, she, with NO training or professional experience, makes me look like a fool in the kitchen