Inside Gizmodo's Apartment

Like most others readers of Gizmodo, Manhattan Users' Guide wondered what the tech blog editor Peter Rojas had in his house. The waiting is over, as MUG has the inside scoop on the highlights of Peter's apartment, like his flat screen TV and an Aibo he ignores. There's also some good-natured resentment at Peter's coolness, but hey, that's why he's our favorite blogger.

Gothamist always thought that Peter's apartment would look something like a testing room at ideo or an old set of 2001 and honestly, it's not that far off - it just happens to be on the Lower East Side. But most telling, Peter has only the very best skin care products in his bathroom cabinets (we are nothing if not nosy).

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on August 12, 2003 1:22 PM

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Jake of 8bitjoystick.com

You know where were the pictures of the place. A million mega pixels cameras critical mass in the place but no pictures.

Anonymous

jon, baby--take your own advice: get a life.

Jon

"because he's smarter than you- and that means all y'all."

Hmm, one thing is certain, he's definitely smarter than you Jakey old boy (because you are easily impressed I see).

jon's brother

Maybe this Pete could join the Queer Eye as the "Tech Gadget Gay?"

Jen

Eh, it's subjective what you're impressed with, Jon. You're probably not as into Law & Order as we are either.

jake

listen, if being friends with nick denton meant gigantic traffic, half the blogs in the world would be hitting 5000 uniques a day- nick knows everybody. the reason pete is popular is because he's smarter than you- and that means all y'all.

Jon Carter

Interesting, blogging is really just reality TV with a modem and keyboard, yet somehow bloggers aren't hit with the distain that reality tv people are. Rojas has a simple and clean site, but I find it to be no better than i4u.com, or any number of amateur blogs that have been around for ages before gizmodo. So why is Rojas the golden boy? One word, Nick Denton (okay, two words). It seems if you work for or are down with the right cool circles, even pretty unremarkable stuff suddenly makes you kewl. For instance, most of the stuff mentioned in Rojas' apartment is stuff I own, as well as a few of my friends. Unless Rojas is rocking a Segway and playing with Honda's Asimo in his kitchen, we are really not impressed. So in closing, it's 'okay' to have a crush on your fellow reality tv bloggers, but 'reality TV' is trash, right? Can we all agree to wake up, smell the Bush, and do something more meaningful with our lives.

[and no, not like criticizing blogs of blogs on comment boards, smartasses. ;^) ]

digital hamster

What the hell did he mean by pumiced? I looked it up, and it means to clean or polish.. anyway it still doesn't make an sense.. maybe that's why I'm not writing for Gizmodo.

Anonymous

group crush! count me in. yum.

Jen

Peter is super delicious cute. Jake and I both crush him.

jake

when i first met pete, i was convinced he was a hologram, or an animatronic robot. but when he started talking about how he pumiced his own jeans (on the inside only) i knew he had to be human- no robot could think up something like that.