Split, Rila Monastery, Bulgaria

Since I’ve already demonstrated my love for randomness, more about Ferris Bueller…

Split, Rila Monastery, Bulgaria

From a Bill Simmons ESPN.com reader mailbag column:

Q: In light of John Hughes death (one of my favorites of all time) I ask you this obvious question about “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”: How is it possible to fit so much into roughly an eight hour span?
– Mike, Columbia, Mo.

SG: Glad you brought this up. … Shouldn’t three Chicago kids re-enact Ferris’ entire day and see if they could pull it off in less than eight hours? Bring a couple of Flip cameras, tape everything, see if you can do it and stick the results on YouTube. John Hughes would be proud.

Brilliant. I’m amazed this hasn’t already been done.

And if it has, please point me onward…

Posted August 30th, 2009 in Adventure, Photography. Tags: bill simmons, bulgaria, ferris bueller, john hughes, photo, rila, rila monastery.

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http://elbelbelb2000.blogtog.com/ Eugene

That's awesome that you posted a quote from a BS column/mailbag. Bill Simmons is one of my favourite sports reporters out there :). I also like Dan Wetzel over at Yahoo!. I think my favourite columnist, however, is Jeff Passan. He has an incredible vocabulary, writes eloquently, and has interesting and poignant stories to tell. Which other sports reporters do you follow?

I'm curious: what sports do you follow in general? What are your favourite teams?
http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing/ Taylor Davidson

Baseball…
example 1: http://www.unstructuredventures.com/uv/2009/04/…
example 2: http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing/2009/08/0…

Bill Simmons is fantastic. Did you catch his email exchanges with Gladwell? Awesome.

And I'm an east coast / Southern guy at heart, so it's Orioles and Braves :) I'm guessing you're a Braves fan?
http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing/ Taylor Davidson

I'm also a fan of Gregg Easterbrook, who does not focus on sports, but I love his NFL columns on ESPN.com: http://search.espn.go.com/gregg-easterbrook/
http://elbelbelb2000.blogtog.com/ Eugene

Awesome!! I am glad to find out you're a baseball geek. I read Moneyball this summer, and I loved it.

And you got it, I'm a Braves fan! Though the way they've been playing the last few seasons has gotten me somewhat sad :(.

Just curious about something: how do you decide to write an article or a blog post on taylordavidson.com vs. unstructuredventures.com? It seems like there is some the intermingling of the personal and professional, right?
http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing/ Taylor Davidson

It's all personal, it's all professional; the split between the two is increasingly archaic, in my mind.

This is why I originally split into two blogs: http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing/2008/07/1…

This is why I decided to combine them: http://www.unstructuredventures.com/uv/2009/05/…
http://elbelbelb2000.blogtog.com/ Eugene

Ah, very cool. I just checked the link, and I realized that The Progress Paradox is sitting on my bookshelf. It's on my to-read list. Have you read it?
http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing/ Taylor Davidson

not yet, but like most recent books I like, I've extracted the main points and followed the conversations around them :)

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