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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 you missed them, here are mine.

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Moments after this photo Pookers stole the Twizzler for himself.

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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 […]

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My Sixers sweatshirt watches the game from the bleechers. I’m playing really well tonight too. Must be the Playoffs.

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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.

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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 […]

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The term I use to describe my artistic distortion series when I see the lights in them is ‘squiggle’.

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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). It couldn’t be more easy to participate: "I’d love to be able to post a few guest haiku of the handwritten variety. Anyone […]

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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. Tweetie for Mac, which I’ve been using all morning, allows for multiple accounts, posting from the browser, auto URL shortening, and much more. […]

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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 […]

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Brian is making his famous pizza. Looking forward to it.

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A red gate at Aylesworth Park in Jermyn, PA. I never knew this park was here.

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Long since abandoned. Fixer upper?

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Chris is frustrated at his miss on the 9 ball.

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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 be making small adjustments, enhancements, and do some all-out-late-night hacking in order to get this site up to snuff to handle notes, links, […]

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[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) or the only friends you have on Facebook (I’m on there too) are your relatives – it doesn’t matter – you have a […]

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Finally a stretch of days near 70F! If only I could see my screen I could work out here more often.

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Sunsets can always inspire. Though they are very hard to capture with even the best equipment.

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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 was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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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 was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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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 was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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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 was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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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 was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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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 was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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[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 radar and I always want to share them. The leg grabs are of particular awesomeness. There are a ton more too.

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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 was brilliantly entitled "Some Like It Hoth", I figured I would post some screenshots from that moment. Something I hadn’t really noticed, which […]

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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 just now getting the chance to post about this bookmark I thought I’d take some time to share the process I went through […]

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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 – who was quite large – sitting on the steps outside of our apartment in Clifford, PA.

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Jacob Burke, like me, is taking a Brightkite break. His reasons are very close to my own. He writes: "There are things about the site that had me hooked for quite a while. But, I am starting to notice that it gets annoying to update my status on Brightkite and then go and check Twitter […]

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[viddler id-c7f9af6a h-280 w-420] Random 60: How many different kinds of fruit have you ever had? Favorite on Viddler. Did you catch that? Right in the middle of today’s Random 60 I decided to switch this episode from "favorite fruit" to something much more interesting – how many different kinds of fruit have you had?. […]

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From the "why hasn’t someone done something like this until now" category comes Crowd Favorite’s latest venture; The WordPress HelpCenter. Alex King, who has been hacking on WordPress even longer than I have, has more details about the launch of this service. Great idea, I hope it works out well for them.

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If you haven’t heard of the DiggBar, and the hoopla it has created over the last week or so, allow me to fill you in. The DiggBar is a new feature of Digg.com, a social news Web site, that puts a tool bar of sorts on top of any page on the Web. This bar […]

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[viddler id-4fea0a7c h-280 w-420] Random 60: How would you use The Force? Favorite on Viddler. My friend Chris Coleman and I, from Panera Bread, discuss what we’d do if we had The Force. Chris, who I must thank for allowing me to use his shiny Kodak Zi6 to record today’s Random 60, says that he’d […]

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Well, I’ve got good news and bad news. Which would you like to hear first? Ok, I’ll give you the bad news first. The bad news is that I didn’t have a great weekend insofar as the amount of food I ate. I didn’t eat anything bad. Just a little too much. (What can I […]

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[viddler id-42f6c806 h-280 w-420] Random 60: Getting songs stuck in your head Favorite on Viddler. Today’s random 60 topic was suggested by Sam. Thanks Sam. Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? How did it get there? Maybe you listened to the radio, or a friend is addicted to a song and […]

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[viddler id-52419522 h-280 w-420] Random 60: Game systems Favorite on Viddler. As it stands I have, setup and working, an original Nintendo, Xbox 360 (which I use for Connect360), and a Nintendo Wii. The Wii is slowly replacing the original Nintendo completely while the 360 ends up being my media center more than my gaming […]

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Every now and then someone will bring up Flickr’s size in conversation. When that happens I usually find that people generally think Flickr is much larger than it really is. The brand recognition that Flickr has with its own user-base is impressive. If you are a Flickr user (like me) you are generally a fan […]

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Kyle Slattery, friend and coworker who is studying in Germany this semester, recently wrote "How to take better photos" which is a small compilation of tips that he’s gathered over his few years of taking photographs. Blog posts like this are everywhere. Page through my Photography tag and you’ll see a ton of tips and […]

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[viddler id-c20ff788 h-280 w-420] Random 60: Tons of notebooks! Favorite on Viddler. Ruled, unruled, graph, small, large, single subject, multiple subject, drawing, sketching, and loose leaf. I seem to have notebooks for just about everything and, I actually tend to use them! It never really dawned on me how many notebooks I actually had in […]

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I’ve decided to take a short Brightkite break. I have a laundry lost of things that I would love to see Brightkite do (search my site for Brightkite) and it has been a while since they’ve done any updates. Presumably because they’ve been in the middle of a business deal (which is understandable). I have […]

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I’d be remiss not to mention that Carbondale, Pennsylvania is having a Wine & Music Festival on June 20, 2009. Mayor Justin Taylor, who is pretty active on Facebook, created a Facebook group for the event. (Not sure why he didn’t chose to create an event on Facebook, rather than a group, but at least […]

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[viddler id-93f0ad3 h-357 w-420] Random 60: Laptop or Desktop? Favorite on Viddler. Laptops are more powerful today than the computer used to launch the Space Shuttle in the 1960s. That is a fact. Look it up. That said, some people prefer desktops with much larger storage devices, displays, amounts of RAM, etc. I’ve been using […]

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So the Internet is (was on April 3rd) ablaze with the talk of how bad URL shorteners are ever since Joshua Schachter, the guy that built and sold del.icio.us, jotted down his thoughts on them. These facts are nothing new and, I’ll bet, do not allude those that built these services. But, they see a […]

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While browsing through some of Viddler’s archives today I ran across this drawing demo by Lynne Margulies (lynnemargulies on Viddler). It is in three parts (maybe Lynne isn’t aware of Viddler’s 500Mb per-video limit). What I enjoyed most about these videos was the angle, the not-overly-produced presentation, and my ability to watch it over, pause […]

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Somewhat related to this week’s weigh in, where I mentioned habits, I found two good resources for striving to rid yourself of old habits and creating new ones. Installing a new habit and breaking an old one – an essay by Dr. Stephanie A. Burns 18 tricks to make new habits stick – A simple […]

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Naoto Fukasawa, a name I dare not pronounce around little children, is an industrial designer from Japan who decided to redesign some juice boxes to make them look and feel like their contents. I think they look delicious. Via Ainsley Drew filling in for Jason Kottke.

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As I’m finishing my re-reading of The Two Towers, and will be revisiting this grand city made in the side of a mountain in a few pages, I can’t help but link to a complete replica of Minas Tirith made of matchsticks. Via Boing Boing. Update: Turns out they’ve finished it.

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[viddler id-d136482e h-357 w-420] Random 60: Calendars Favorite on Viddler. I don’t know about you but I love calendars. If I didn’t self-impose a limit of two my wall would be filled with calendars of all types. Right now I have a stunning Hawai’i calendar hanging up (thanks to Eliza). It has photos from different […]

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I’m happy to report that I did much better during this second week of the diet than I did during the second week of the diet back in June 2006 (Wow, has it been that long already?) when I gained 3 pounds. This week I’m down another four pounds and I currently weigh 199 pounds. […]

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