Notes from No Reservations – Chicago
For this episode of No Reservations I thought I'd jot down some notes while I watched the episode. So here they are, in order as they happened while I watched the show,…
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Snow covered lamp
Date taken: February 3, 2004 Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Five years ago today: This photo was taken just outside our home in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. We then lived in a house on Wyoming Avenue that…
Huddle up, reprise
PITTSBURGH, PA – November 2007 World Champions once again. The above is a reprise of a photo I took in November 2007 while at the worst Monday Night Football game ever -…
Oprah shots
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Though I can count, on one hand, the number of times I've been to Chicago – I know that I don't particularly care for the city. It may have to…
Independent Lens – THE ATOM SMASHERS on PBS
Last night, somewhere between the hours of 2:00am and 4:00am (yes, I was awake, lying in bed, watching TV) I watched an incredibly good documentary on PBS called THE ATOM SMASHERS which…
How to: Encode high quality video for Viddler
Although someone had suggested the best video settings for uploading a screencast to Viddler we have managed to put together a document explaining how to encode the best quality video for Viddler….
Missed opportunity: The snow covered pines on top of Mt. Pocono
My drive home from Viddler HQ in Bethlehem, PA takes me over the northeastern-most tip of the Pocono Mountains – an area called Pocono Summit. During my drive home last Thursday I…
Finding style
I'm not that much of an artist. But, I don't believe I need to be in order to enjoy drawing, painting, or crafting. Sure, I'd love to be naturally talented and be…
NPR’s Fresh Air from WHYY with Terry Gross
I'm not sure how I managed to forget Fresh Air, my favorite audio podcast over the last few years, in my Best of 2008 list – but I'm mentioning it now -…
Roger Ebert, now a blogger
Roger Ebert is hitting a stride on his blog. He began blogging not too long ago. Well, in the world of blogging it wasn't that long ago. It isn't like he hasn't…
Vida do console
THE AZORES Being on an island is somewhat of a unique experience. Most of the places I've traveled have all had a cultural impact that slowly spiraled out from its epicenter. On…
XKCD – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
How in the world haven't I been subscribed to XKCD? Thanks to SuggestRSS (more on this service soon) now I am. The above is one of my favorite recent comics. The subtle…
Six shirts I want to buy at Threadless
The design community over at Threadless has been on a tear lately. Threadless has always been a great resource for well-designed tshirts that, and this is the important part to me, not…
Interesting discussions here on cdevroe.com
Blog posts seem to just scroll by like a never ending treadmill of information. It is one of the reasons that I show related posts on the page and in the RSS…
No leather jacket needed.
WASHINGTON, DC. Stereotypes are made to be broken. That is the saying, isn't it? Maybe it isn't, but it should be. I try to live my life in a way that ignores…
Sampling Twitter
DeWitt Clinton, heckuva name, recently sampled some Twitter data to determine the number of active users on Twitter. The sampling is rather exhaustive (at least for this guy with ADD ((I don't…
A Thank You card with meaning
Searching for the perfect card can be an arduous task. Just walking into a Hallmark, or venturing into the card-section of any store, seems daunting. There are so many cards! You stand…
International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest 2008
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I have no idea what the criterion for such a contestis but the results are absolutely stunning. The winner, Cheng Slu Wai from Hong Kong (pictured above), is without…
Millions for miniatures
[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] This comes courtesy of Jason Kottke, so if you subscribe to his site – you've already seen this. For those of you that haven't- meet Willard Wigan, an artist…
Re-reading The Lord of the Rings: Part one – The Fellowship of the Ring
It has been years since I've read The Lord of the Rings trilogy and so I've decided, even though I think I'm a little crazy, to re-read the series. I've just finished…
Unico
Venice, Italy. Considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world it is also one of the more geographically unique. Made up of over 100 islands at the northern tip of…
iWork and iLife ’09 UI overview
Speaking of changes to iWork '09, Sebastiaan de With pours over a large number of changes, updates, and other little tidbits of the new iWork and iLife '09 application suites. Some of the…
Subtle Keynote icon changes in iWork ’09
There are 3 subtle changes that have been made to the Keynote icon in iWork '09. I thought for the sake of, oh I don't know, fun? that I'd point them out…
Bourdain’s Mexico blog post and photo journal, now online
Just prior to each episode Anthony Bourdain and his No Reservations crew publish a blog post and a photo journal. The Season 5 premier is no different. One thing I didn't realize…
Polaroid, only MOSTLY dead.
After a short break during the holiday season my weekly posts on Waking Ideas resume with an interview of my friend Dan Rubin regarding his recent foray into shooting with Polaroid film….
Down south.
Is cultural influence reciprocal? As 2009 begins many reflect on what has happened this past year. I've read many reflections, updates from last year's resolutions, countless thoughts on World events, and some…
BlackRapid R-Strap review by Justin Blanton
If you know Justin Blanton you probably know two things about him: 1) He works way too hard. 2) He has a critical eye. Neither to a fault. In fact, I believe…
Photos from Lincolnton, North Carolina
Eliza and I enjoyed a relaxing week at my brother's house in Lincolnton, North Carolina. Here are a few photos from our visit there. To view more photos, see the entire set…
Sameer Barkawi reviews The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
It is no secret that I want to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Due to traveling to and from my brother's house in North Carolina – circumstances, unusual or otherwise…
Video: Ganymede sets on Jupiter in HD
Unfortunately this video was not made embeddable by the folks at the HubbleSite Web site, so I've ripped it and put it up on Viddler. If there is an objection to this…