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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Designing for Big Data, by Jeffrey Veen
First of all, a note to all event holders – please take the care and time to record all of your speakers with slides like this. Web 2 Expo did a fantastic job putting these videos together and the world would be a better place if all of these tech conferences that are sprouting up [...]
Google Image search, updated.
Google is constantly updating their products. Most of these updates come via their “Labs” where they test out crazy and sometimes even crazier ideas for possible features and updates to their products.
Google Image Search somewhat recently added the ability to search by color. Which I think is fantastic! Here is a search for moth, constrained [...]
Random 60: Back up your computer, right now.
Random 60: Back up your computer, right now. | Favorite on Viddler.
Chris recently had a complete hard drive failure. Fortunately for him most of his data, since he is a Web site developer, was “on the Web” somewhere. Everything else he had backed up on an external hard drive.
Consider this a friendly reminder from Random [...]
Posted in Videos Tagged back-up, chris-fehnel, computers, dickson-city, outdoor, panera-bread, pennsylvania, r60, technology 7 Comments
Weigh in: April 27, 2009
If I were to graph my week of activity it’d look something like the silhouette of a camel standing in the sunset. The beginning of the week started out great with a really great basketball session on Monday and Wednesday and we finished off the week strong with some basketball on Sunday evening. In between [...]
Posted in Diet Tagged basketball, couch, Diet, dieting, eating, exercise, food, pat dryburgh, the-diet, weigh-in Leave a comment
Panera reflection
Working from Panera Bread today with Chris. I like the reflection of the lamp in my Macbook.
Posted in Mobile photos Tagged chris-fehnel, lamp, macbook, macbook pro, panera-bread, reflection 2 Comments
Omlettes for breakfast
Mmm, bacon. Seriously, if you don’t like cast iron – we may not get along. I won’t hate you or anything, I just won’t invite you to parties, want to hang out with you and discuss topics that are important to you, or generally take your opinion on anything seriously.
Junto posters by P’unk Avenue.
I have yet to find the time to make the trek to Philadelphia for Junto, “a club of mutual improvement”, but I have been paying attention to the visual works of P’unk Ave – the design studio run by my friend Geoff DiMasi and his excellent team – for the club. Namely, the posters.
I’ve gone [...]
Posted in Notes Tagged geoff-dimasi, junto, pennsylvania, philadelphia, punkave, rick banister 3 Comments
Random 60: What can save newspapers?
Random 60: What can save newspapers? | Favorite on Viddler.
Can anything save newspapers? Today I’m joined by Rob and Bernie, two of my coworkers, and we all have simple ideas that may help save the newspapers for us. For Rob he thought he needed to see more talk about technology in his local newspaper. Bernie [...]
Posted in Videos Tagged bernie selvey, bethlehem, newspapers, pennsylvania, r60, rob-sandie, viddler hq 13 Comments
The Lady and the Pooks
Moments after this photo Pookers stole the Twizzler for himself.
Jennifer DiDonato interviews Pete Thomas
Eliza and I are big fans of The Biggest Loser, a reality show about people trying to losing weight, and so when I saw that Jennifer DiDonato (Viddler member whom I interviewed on The Viddler Spotlight many months ago) interviewed the Season Two “at home” winner Pete Thomas I knew I just had to share [...]
Posted in Links Tagged dieting, food, jennifer didonato, pete thomas, television, the biggest loser, the-diet, tv 1 Comment
I may become a fruit hunter
Speaking of fruits… In my travels through the wonderful world of Viddler videos I came across this video interview with Adam Leith Gollner, the author of The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession.
I may just have to become a fruit hunter. Sometimes I find it difficult to push the limits of [...]
Posted in Links Tagged adam leith gollner, books, food, fruit, the fruit hungers, viddler, watchmojo Leave a comment
Eliza Devroe’s photos from the Scranton Photo Walk
And that makes three. My lovely and talented wife Eliza posted her photos (and I forgot to link to them) in early April. She’s got some excellent shots of Scranton and the trains at Steamtown.
In case you missed them, here are mine and Sameer Barkawi’s photos from the Scranton Photo Walk.
Posted in Links Tagged eliza-devroe, pennsylvania, Photo Walk, photographs, scranton Leave a comment
Mid-night Dogwood
I just had to take a photo of this tree. I think it is a dogwood (if I’m wrong please correct me).
This Dogwood is in full bloom and is on Jefferson Avenue in Scranton, PA. I wish I had seen it during the day.
Game time
My Sixers sweatshirt watches the game from the bleechers.
I’m playing really well tonight too. Must be the Playoffs.
Posted in Mobile photos Tagged 76ers, basketball, bleechers, red, sixers, sweatshirt Leave a comment
Weigh in: April 20, 2009
A bad start to the week and a strong finish resulted in me not losing a single pound this week on the diet. I didn’t hide this fact either. On Tuesday I let my competition know that his chance was now.
I hope he took it.
This week I’m going to try very hard to make [...]
A little more mobile friendly
Since I’m posting mobile photos and notes to this site rather than a third-party service I figured I’d make those pages a little more condusive to viewing on a mobile platform. Also, to make my life a little easier, I’ve also set up a few little scripts to do things like Twitter a link to [...]
Squiggle
The term I use to describe my artistic distortion series when I see the lights in them is ’squiggle’.
Posted in Mobile photos Tagged artistic distortion, dickson-city, idle hour, lights, pennsylvania Leave a comment
Spring buds
Taken: April 17, 2009 in Mayfield, Pennsylvania.
The buds on the trees are pop, pop, popping into these really great explosions of tree life. Reds and greens of all shades, future leaves that will create the food that the tree requires to produce this year’s growth, next year’s seeds, and the energy it will need to [...]
Concept art sketches of Carl from Pixar’s Up