The other day, my friends Paul Rohde and Peter Boysen decided to have an impromptu photo shoot to play with some of Paul’s new lighting gear. My girlfriend Alyson put up with us taking photographs and took a few herself.

Here are the results:

Some of my friends decided to be really awesome, so they all chipped in to buy me a sweet new lens for Christmas. I have been saving to get this lens for a while now, and Paul Rohde had the idea to get it for me, with the help of some of my friends (Peter Boysen, Andy Hamilton, Amy Kopitzke, Alyson Norgaard, Dan Elo, Dave Priebe, Priscilla Priebe, Ingrid Ogren, and Chad Wardwell).

So I am a bit excited. Here are some pictures with the new lens. Thanks guys!

My friend, Paul Rohde, had his birthday on Monday. So I spent the evening with him and his family at their house. It’s also one of the first times I have hung out with Paul in a while, because he has been at a school in Utah since July. Needless to say, when you get two photographers together, it’s not long before they start taking pictures.

Thusly: I have pictures of Paul.

I probably will not have anything more to post until Christmas… thus you guys will have to wait a few days pictures. So I guess I’ll be generous, and give you all a seasonal felicitation.

Merry Christmas

Microsoft Outlook 2007 decided to dump all my RSS feeds…which does not thrill me…
No worries…Apple’s “Mail” app, which comes with their latest operating system Leopard, can do the same thing now…and it works phenomenally with Microsoft Exchange.

Say goodbye to yet another Microsoft Product. I look forrward to the day when I won’t work for a company that uses Microsoft Exchange.

So now that I have all my feeds setup in Mail 3.0, I thought I’d share them with you all…

• http://amandacongdon.com/blog/ – Amanda Congdon’s blog
  • Amanda Congdon is the President of Oxmour Entertainment. She is a videoblogger, writer, actress and producer. You can watch and participate in her videoblogs on StarringAmandaCongdon.com and Wednesdays on ABCNews.com.
• http://www.apple.com/hotnews – Apple Hot News
• http://images.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/pr.rss – Apple Press Release
• http://vjarmy.com/ – Dan Dickinson: The Primary Vivid Weblog
  • Dan Dickinson is a 27 year old living in Astoria, Queens, New York City. He works in the odd intersection of collaborative tech and education. Writing about emerging technologies, New York City, gaming culture, and awkward anecdotes, his blog is updated only semi-frequently but always overzealously.
• http://daringfireball.net/ – John Gruber’s Blog
  • The web site of John Gruber, a Mac enthusiast, technology pundit, and writer. Daring Fireball hosts Gruber’s opinions in the form of a blog, and also some of Gruber’s software.
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/dilbert – Daily Dilbert Comic
• http://www.DonSalyards.com - My Econ Profesor’s blog…He hired me to build it for him…so I keep my eye on it.
• http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ – Wired Magazine’s Gadget Lab blog
• http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/ – Musings on life, love, and the pursuit of good refried beans
  • This blog is a record of Lisa’s quest, and other food-related musings that befit a homesick Texan
• http://icanhascheezburger.com/ – lolcats tagged for your convenience(and also your lol*’s)
  • I Can Has Cheezburger is a site that gathers, organizes, tags, and captions what we hope is the most funny and slightly weird pictures of lolcats and lol* (other animals) from the Internet.
• http://indexed.blogspot.com/ – Jessica Hagy’s Blog
  • “This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.”
• http://www.jordanogren.com – Yup…you can actually subscribe to my blog.
• http://blog.wired.com/music/ – Wired Magazine’s Listening Post blog.
• http://guide.apple.com/rss/newarrivals.rss – Apple’s New product feed.
• http://www.nosheteria.com/ – Adrienne Handler’s food blog.
  • “I’m a food writer, food stylist, and personal chef. Originally from the California Bay Area, I am now charging my way through the culinary jungle of Manhattan. Although I do have other interests, I’m a remotely well-rounded individual, this site is about my life with food.”
• http://googlemac.blogspot.com/ – The Official Google Mac Blog
• http://www.paulrohde.com – Paul Rohde, a fellow photographer and web designer.
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/pearlsbeforeswine/ – Daily Pearls Before Swine comic.
• http://www.PeterBoysen.com – Peter Boysen, One sweet photographer (amongst his many talents)
• http://slashdot.org/ – News for nerds, stuff that matters
• http://www.the-back-porch.com/ – What would Jesus do on a saturday night?
• http://whyiesucks.blogspot.com/ – cause it does…
• http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/ – Cult of the Mac

So there you have it…time to feed on the feast of rss before you.