/BEGIN RANT Dear Diary, Moving is a freaking pain in the ass. It’s less of a pain when five Mexican guys show up at your door, willing to professionally wrap and box every single item in your entire apartment (thanks Rigo, Julio, Gino, Freddy, and Angel). But it’s still a pain in the ass. That’s …
Category Archive: General
Oct
08
Jun
09
Crysis 2
So I was looking for a good FPS to transport me into a fantasy realm where I am powerful and use my superpowers (and many many guns) to kill bad guys, and I saw the TV ads for Crysis 2 and thought “perfect”. However, when I started playing I learned that you quickly die in …
Feb
22
New “Professional” Blog
So, I was motivated to make a new “professionally oriented” blog to try and increase the online presence of my “personal brand” and to leverage my core competencies to fully capitalize on the ecosystem value chain. I foolishly let “brianbishop.me” expire and some asshole domain squatting company immediately snapped it up, so I’m running this …
Aug
21
Beliefs
I had a conversation last night with a good friend of mine about beliefs. For those of you who don’t know, I classify myself as a tolerant atheist, not a fundamentalist atheist. I realized during this discussion that over time my views have softened a bit. My friend Jeff Tripodi actually called me “Brian ‘Cold …
May
29
Dubai (Part 1)
Dubai photoset on Flickr I’ve been fortunate in my life to have lived in a few great cities (London, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul) and travel to many many more. Travel is one of the experiences I value the most for its amazing ability to transform people: by embedding yourself into other cultures, by experiencing other …
Jan
23
Widgets
This is an attempt to test out the new functionality on the AuthorMapper that lets you embed a map on your own site. Powered by AuthorMapper.com Journals: Acta Mathematica Powered by AuthorMapper.com
Dec
10
News Flash – Brian is a Poor Blogger
[/caption] News Flash! LONDON, December 10, 2008. Careful statistical analysis of blog posting patterns on Mochasteak.com revealed what many had suspected: Brian is a lazy blogger. After reaching previous highs of 20-25 posts per month, recent months have been averaging a paltry 1-3 posts. Brian Bishop, owner and sole contributor to Mochasteak.com, was quoted as …
Oct
12
NYC Subway Musicians
Buskers in the New York City subway system are a double-edged sword. Some of them are great, entertaining, can carry a tune, have a decent voice, etc. Others are just winos and bums screeching or panting out a song between stops. More often than not I think people pay them to STOP singing. But what …
Sep
21
Who’s the Man
I am of course. Well, with a little help from my friend Mark Lorenc, who has been graciously hosting my site for free for the past four years. As all good things do, the free hosting had to come to an end when Mark had to move from New Jersey to Tennessee. Mark backed up …
Sep
02
YouTube Faves
So recently I found myself highlighted in a video that someone put on YouTube of a Rock Band party they were having. I was playing guitar on a few tracks, pretty much shredding it. Yeah. I rocked. I’m also pretty good with a bo-staff. (No, I’m not going to post the link to the video. …