Welcome to the petebrunelli.com website

Yet another shot at the website rebuild. For all of its fine qualities (free...) I could not make peace with iWeb and the way it made a hideous wreck out of the URL’s on this site. Dear Apple: please wake up and fix the little things that keep your apps from being really useful! Not jamming three extra directory layers onto pages published with your product would be a step in the right direction.

Rant off.

I’ll be adding a bunch of links to offsite content and adding a bunch of on-site content as well. Let’s see if this one can be a step up from the mishmash that I had gwine on down here.

By day, I’m a scientist who works in the field of environmental science. I’m currently dealing with the issues of climate change and energy policy, and a lot of the less glamorous parts of that process. My focus has been largely on data related activities, and attempting to convey the importance of good data to good decision making. Not as easy as it sounds.

The rest of the time I am spending time with my lovely and talented wife Sandy, cooking, playing music, producing music and video, photographing stuff, dealing with the data tsunami that all of that stuff generates... and generally recovering from some kind of work or artistic endeavor.

DOOT! is a band/event/project/object that I have been working on with my good friend Stephen Chillemi since about 2005. We have performed as a duo, as a backing band for Eugene Chadbourne, as a trio with Andre Cholmondeley (notably of the band Project/Object), a trio with keyboard wiz Nate Trier, various quartet gigs with some combination of the above, and produced the Anti Agressive Action Band event at the 19th Zappanale festival in 2008. We are currently laying the groundwork for a performance at Zappanale 20. More on that as it happens, probably over at the DOOT! website.

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Having too much fun, Zappanale18, Bad Doberan, Germany 2007