Random 60: Back up your computer, right now.
[viddler id-4349764f h-280 w-420] 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…
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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…
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…
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…
Random 60: What can save newspapers?
[viddler id-5ef97dad h-280 w-420] 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…
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…
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…
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…
Sameer Barkawi’s photos from the Scranton Photo Walk
Last night Sameer Barkawi finally published a few of the photos he shot during our Scranton Photo Walk last month. He's got a few gems in this set. Oh, and in case…
The Lady and the Pooks
Moments after this photo Pookers stole the Twizzler for himself.
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,…
Game time
My Sixers sweatshirt watches the game from the bleechers. I'm playing really well tonight too. Must be the Playoffs.
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…
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…
Squiggle
The term I use to describe my artistic distortion series when I see the lights in them is 'squiggle'.
Submit your handwritten haiku
Howard Hall, whom I've mentioned before and whom also leaves really great comments here on First initial, last name, is asking for some handwritten haiku for his fantastic haiku blog (non-breaking space)….
Tweetie for Mac – a new Twitter client
Yes, another Twitter client (I'm cdevroe by the way). However, this one comes from atebits – the company that brought us the highest ranked Twitter client for the iPhone, also named Tweetie….
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…
Kossman Pizza
Brian is making his famous pizza. Looking forward to it.
Red gate
A red gate at Aylesworth Park in Jermyn, PA. I never knew this park was here.
Roosevelt School
Long since abandoned. Fixer upper?
9ball frustration
Chris is frustrated at his miss on the 9 ball.
Bringing it all home again with a little bit of a g33k twist
I've done it before and I'm doing it again – I'm bringing all of my media back to this site (now called First initial, last name by the way). I'm going to…
Random 60: Stop complaining!
[viddler id-2e3a01e h-280 w-420] Random 60: Stop complaining! Favorite on Viddler. In the world of social media everyone has a voice. If you only have 1 follower on Twitter (I'm cdevroe, btw)…
Viddler on the deck
Finally a stretch of days near 70F! If only I could see my screen I could work out here more often.
Yesterday’s sunset
Sunsets can always inspire. Though they are very hard to capture with even the best equipment.
Freestyle football skills
[viddler id-1a226617 h-357 w-420] This video comes from Viddler member FootEmotion.com a fantastic site for those passionate about football (not the American-version). I see these videos pop up from time-to-time on my…
The Egyptian hieroglyphs from LOST episode \”Some Like It Hoth\”
Since I've seen more than a few people reference the fact that Jack Shephard was erasing some Egyptian hieroglyphs and information from the chalk board in last night's episode of LOST, which…
A bookmark for Eliza
In the same vein as the Thank You card I made for my brother and his family comes this – a bookmark that I made back in January for Eliza. Since I'm…
A large, black, grey, and yellow-dotted salamander
Date taken: April 1, 2004 Clifford, Pennsylvania. Five years ago today: I'm a little late posting this one but five years and about two weeks ago today I found this salamander -…