My week, using David Rochester’s method of posting Random Items in No Particular Order:

What is it? Red Dragon Fruit.
1. After owning my new flash for 24 hours it dropped from the light stand onto my tile floor. It still functions, although the optical-slave no longer works.
2. An hour later my new Sony Sport Headphones slipped off my shoulder and into a (clean) toilet. After a night of outdoor drying they still work dandy.
3) I had the opportunity to say, “No, that’s not what my contract says.” There’s something liberating in knowing you no longer having anything to prove.
4. I resolved to take my dinner to work every night. I packaged it up each day, but forgot to take it two of the four nights.
5. I may patent the recipe for Stevo’s Peanut Butter and Banana Smoothie. Said smoothie is quite delicious with Red Dragon Fruit (right) and omitting the PB.
6. I read that doing cardio first thing in the morning is good for you. With no available equipment I ran up and down my building’s 10 flights of stairs three times. I spent two days unable to walk down stairs pain-free. Like coverage of the Iraq conflict, don’t believe everything you read.
7. I turned down a very high-paying job with a Fortune 500 company.
8. The last hour of my work week seemed to take 9 hours to complete.
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Enough about me, what’s been up in the blogosphere these past few weeks?
redRavine has a great interview with singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb . Fan or not, it’s an interesting read.
Stop and Wander’s photographic tribute to the destruction of Marshmallow Peeps is black comedy at its best.
Ron has a great image entitled Plane and Clouds, and is continuing his Boulevard of Broken Dreams Contest (Until May 1). Don’t enter, I have it wrapped up.
Ron’s partner-in-crime, Robin, was exploring the world of black and white images, with stellar results. Her post reality is Must-See blogage.
Christine at Almost Fearless has a great post on her Shrinking World. Does the world get smaller, the more you travel? Nomadic Matt tell us all why Now is the best time to travel. Julie at Collazo Projects says Shame on You: Lisa Ling & National Geographic: Thoughts About El Salvador.
Michael at Expatriate Games has a powerful post on a suicide attempt and the apathy of the witnesses to the event.
Josh at Xinjiang: Far West China has a great post on his new pooch, Rusty, becoming an official Chinese citizen. The photos are a treat (If you have spent time in China, and dealt with bureaucracy and the “Red Stamp” you will appreciate it even more.)
Graham is regaling all with images and tales from his recent trip to Guilin.
From the renegade province of Taiwan (or Political Entity as I have heard it referred to), Carrie of My Several Worlds has a great interview with Lonely Planet Writer Joshua Samuel. Craig Ferguson, image master, presents a timely (and disturbing) photo essay on Tuol Sleng S21, the Khmer Rouge Prison
The weekend is almost upon me. I’m off to Hong Kong in an hour or two to pick up some wireless flash triggers and eat at Burger King. My weekend will be spent trying various lighting setups. I’ve convinced a colleague to pose (actually, she get to read a purloined English copy of Cosmo, and only has to pose when the lights are finally set up.)