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Experiment with Photosynth

Colin Devroe — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:08:35 +0000

Neat app from Microsoft. Photosynth.

Lighthouse in Gloucester

Colin Devroe — Fri, 27 May 2011 12:59:28 +0000

A nice sight after 12 hours of fishing.

Sailing School

Colin Devroe — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:47:52 +0000

A sailing school vessel thirty miles off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Chewbacca on a Segway in Boston

Colin Devroe — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:12:26 +0000

Today I realized a fatal flaw in my blog’s archive. There wasn’t a single post tagged ‘chewbacca’. Consider that flaw fixed.

Photo credit: Eliza Devroe.

Cod fishing in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Colin Devroe — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:51:58 +0000

Earlier this year my friends and I took a short trip to Gloucester, Massachusetts to do some cod fishing on the Atlantic. I took some random video clips during the trip and have finally stitched them together.

(Watch in HD by clicking on HD on the player.)

We all had a great time and ended up coming home with about 40lbs. of cod fish filet each (there were 6 of us). I’m sure I can speak for the entire group and recommend Ann Rowe Charters (our photo is on their site too) to anyone that wants to have a great day at sea.

Out to sea

Colin Devroe — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:33:19 +0000

(Taken with a SeaLife SL320/SL32.)

Wood hull

Colin Devroe — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:48:58 +0000

(Taken with a SeaLife SL320/SL32.)

“Just beginning to use wheels”

Colin Devroe — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:45:34 +0000

Another fantastic entry in the journal of Henry David Thoreau (which I’ve mentioned a few times before) this time dealing with being able to use “cars”, or wheeled wagons, in late-March in Concord, Massachusetts.

Here is the snippet from Mr. Thoreau’s March 26, 1856 entry:

“They are just beginning to use wheels in Concord, but only in the middle of the town, where the snow is at length worn and melted down to bare ground in the middle of the road, from two to ten feet wide. Sleighs are far the most common, even here. In Cambridge there is no sleighing. For the most part, the middle of the road from Porterâ€™s to the College is bare and even dusty for twenty to thirty feet in width. The College Yard is one half bare. So, if they have had more snow than we, as some say, it has melted much faster.”

He finished his entry with the fact that he couldn’t travel “in the cars” to Concord. There were no cars in his day so by this I can only imagine he means a horse-pulled wagon with wheels rather than sleigh runners.

If I was his neighbor in 1856 he could have borrowed my 4-wheel drive Jeep.