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.)
A peanut butter and banana recipe? I’ll trade you my world-famous strawberry/banana deluxe recipe…
Thanks for the mention, and just in case you didn’t read my reply comment on my China List, your entry was supposed to read “Another Favorite Photo Blog”, not “Second Favorite Photo Blog”. Stupid wording…I’ll be losing sleep over it for the next few nights.
Josh´s last blog post..New City Ordinance Makes Our Dog a Chinese Citizen
Josh: Don’t sweat it. Have fun with Rusty, or is it Rosty?
I was going to post something but it flew right out of my mind…
Thanks for the nod Stevo, you might want to doublecheck your entry, I don’t think you completed step two yet, the horror, the horror…
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Ron in L.A.´s last blog post..Clouds and Gull
Thanks, Stevo.
I’ll come back after I return home and explore some of your recommendations.
Robin´s last blog post..The river
Thanks for the link love dude. Keep rockin’.
I never had a dragon fruit before coming to China. Holy crap are they awesome. I fear the day when I return to the States and there are no Dragon Fruits available. That will be a dark day indeed.
PB and Banana and Passion Fruit minus the PB, eh? Sounds fishy. I love Passion Fruit, btw. It would be horrible with PB.
Have fun in Hong Kong. I’m heading to VN in mid-May and will pass through HK, ‘cept I won’t seek out the Burger Kings. Yuck.
ybonesy´s last blog post..That Time Of Year Again — Turklets
p.s., a note of hope for Graham. I can find Passion Fruit at our local Asian world market in Albuquerque. If it’s found in Albuquerque, I bet it’s in most cities in the US.
ybonesy´s last blog post..That Time Of Year Again — Turklets
Ron: Done. And Done.
Robin: Have a great trip.
Graham: A very sad day.
yb: Passion Fruit? Growing up in fruitless Canada I never saw/tasted this until I arrived in China. So that’s what a passion fruit is; you learn something every day. It’s a sad commentary that I do in fact seek out Burger King. In my defense, I do eat an almost exclusively Chinese diet – sometimes you need something very different. If you have some free time in HK let me know.
Stevo´s last blog post..Learning your first useful words in Chinese
1) Isn’t that what warranties are for?
2) Don’t tell David.
3) That’s one of the best things about getting a little older.
4) *snicker*
5) Omitting the PB is always a good idea. That is a cool looking fruit. I’ll have to look for it here.
6) I think the fact that you can run up and down 10 flights of stairs three times speaks for itself!
7) Okay, we need more.
The peeps post was da-bomb!
Shawn´s last blog post..Because Angela Is Temporarily Out of Ideas
Thank you, Stevo, for the MOST ENTERTAINING blog post I read all week. The link love is much-appreciated as well.
Carrie´s last blog post..Photo Moment: A Moment of Clarity
Shawn: It was the da-bomb, wasn’t it.
Carrie: I am happy to entertain! Merci.
Dude, it is so *wrong* to use my posting method in order to tell the whole world that you are using earphones you retrieved from a toilet.
Congrats on the job you turned down, though … there’s something very satisfying about that, isn’t there?
Baron von Rochester`´s last blog post..Random Items in No Particular Order
Baron: I have never been right, being wrong is my only alternative. There is something satisfying about turning down a job. I’ll probably regret it later, but life is full of regrets, isn’t it?
Thanks for the link love– just catching up on my Reader items now.
Julie´s last blog post..Love to Laugh?
Dude, you rock, I laughed out loud twice. That’s a lot for me, I’m a tough audience.
Also, thanks for the nod, it was a touch piece to write.
Expatriate Games´s last blog post..Seen in a Rice Paddy
Julie: My pleasure.
Michael: I’m glad you laughed. I knew that was difficult to write, perhaps more difficult than me reading it. I hope you had a drink or two afterwards.
Stevo´s last blog post..Inspector Stevo and the Case of the missing neck tie