Flying away
(click to zoom) Taken: May 7, 2009 in Mayfield, Pennsylvania while on a walk with Eliza. Photographing these bees was a neat experience because I would get as far into the tree…
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Mating Cabbage White Butterflies (Pieris rapae)
While walking with Eliza a few weeks ago we saw these two butterflies, which I've now found out to be Cabbage White Butterflies thanks to Cody R. Hough on BugGuide, mating. They…
Testing WolframAlpha
It seems that since the launch of WolframAlpha people are generally testing it rather than using it. Although, I'm willing to bet, there are people out there that are using this amazing…
Weigh in: May 19, 2009
I didn't weigh in last week. On Monday I was sick and the rest of the week sort of just ran away from me. This week I was really excited to weigh…
IE to last until 2021?
Ben Parr of Mashable.com reports that, according to current trends, IE will be going the way of the Dodo in 2021. Or, at least, it won't be the leading browser. This, in…
Tumblr Dashboard permalinks…
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] After playing around with Tumblr for months (I'm cdevroe over there), I finally noticed that the little "page curls" that happen on-hover on posts on my Dashboard from those…
Yankee tickets are expensive
File this under the "no duh" category – however, Jason Kottke recently linked to an article on the New York Post Web site describing how it'd be cheaper to fly from New…
Where The Wild Things Are – blog
Turns out Spike Jonze, the guy directing Where The Wild Things Are, has been keeping a bit of a blog about the making of the film.
District 9
Until today I hadn't heard of District 9, a movie produced by Peter Jackson and directed by first-time director Neill Blomkamp, but now I'm seeing it pop up all over the place….
Random 60: Watch those calories!
[viddler id-81f46650 h-280 w-420] Random 60: Watch those calories! Favorite on Viddler. Whether you are dieting or not it is always good practice to make sure you watch what you're taking in….
Beak, a fantastic Twitter client from Mike Rundle
John Gruber made an excellent point in his piece called "Twitter clients are a UI design playground". The excellent point I'm talking about is made apparent within the very title of the…
Justin Blanton reviews Tweetie
He really turns the app on its back and gives it a thorough look. He managed to find a few gems, in the first version of the application, that I never even…
Sleeping Pickles
Right in front of the TV.
Sleeping Pookers
22 hours of sleep is obviously not enough. 🙂
Dell’s 22-inch HD monitor selling for only $140, wait $159, wait, nevermind
This morning I saw Steven Frank's link to a Dell 22-inch monitor that was selling for, at the time, $140. By the time I clicked on the link it was selling for…
Twitter replaces TinyURL with Bit.ly, will they buy it?
According to Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb Twitter has "crowned Bit.ly the King of all Short Links" and replaced TinyURL as the default URL shortening service that Twitter uses. (I'm cdevroe, btw) Scaling…
Court
This is where we play basketball on Mondays. Much nicer court, IMO, than the other two regular courts that we play at.
Weigh in: May 4, 2009
You've all been waiting with baited breath, I know – but at long last, here it is – my weigh in for this, our sixth week back on the diet. It has…
Concept art sketches of Carl from Pixar’s Up
Although the sketches only tell part of the story I really like to see this sort of process where the artist slowly brings the character to life. Each sketch is a character…
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…
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….
Panera reflection
Working from Panera Bread today with Chris. I like the reflection of the lamp in my Macbook.
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…
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…