http://blog.adrianbischoff.com all the cool kids... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:00:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm enjoying this piece debunking the air around pro photographers. A quick sample: I often leave my ISO dangerously high. I get more email about why I shot something at ISO 800 than anything else and that tells me (a) I should get my act together and (b) y’all need to ... http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/03/14/confessions-of-a-so-called-pro-photographer/ A friend just forwarded me this email I sent from the day before my 23rd birthday, just as I'm about to leave Boston. It displays my sadness about my favorite MIT dialup[1] server being retired. (All of the MIT servers were named after hacks. I've linked the hacks below.) From: bischoff@MIT Subject: ... http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/03/13/nerd-xing-is-no-more/ I have a new blog. It's called Secret Cape Town. Check it out if you'd like. I'm hoping it'll help me learn even more cool places to go in the city. I also have a twitter channel if you're into such things. http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/03/11/yet-another-new-blog-twitter/ I've been really enjoying going through and reading a number of the pieces on this list of best of journalism 2009. Possibly my favorite is the Michael Lewis piece on the financial collapse of Iceland. http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/03/10/best-of-journalism-2009/ It's been hot here. Hot like I remember from Boston, from Pittsburgh. Drenched with sweat and skin melting off your skeleton hot. But the heat wave broke the last couple days, particularly with the rain today. http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/03/10/rain-breaks-the-heat/ Not really. But the place I lived was torn down and the new house that was built there was sold for that much. http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/03/01/i-lived-in-a-3-65-million-home/ Last night I put ice cream between two Hob Nob milk chocolate digestives. It was incredible. Some days I have no choice but come to the conclusion that I'm the smartest person alive. http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/02/27/ice-cream-hob-nob-sandwich/ I bought a bike this week. It's road bike, a few years old. It runs well. I'm going to modify the set up a bit to make it more into an around-town bike, but I'm liking it so far. (I'm definitely getting rid of the red bar tape.) http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/02/26/fahrrad/ I never mentioned this. It's a start. http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/02/23/oh-yeah/ It's appropriate to say "I'm just looking around" in response to "Can I help you?" in just about any store, except hardware stores. You should always be looking for something in a hardware store unless you want funny looks. If you don't have something in mind, I suggest "picture hooks." http://blog.adrianbischoff.com/2010/02/22/just-looking-around/