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I have always enjoyed Michael Crichton’s writing style. He tends to write in blocks of thoughts and actions, uses new lines to emphasize something that the character feels is important, and jams just enough raw data into his books to make them real, but not enough to turn off most readers. Airframe was written very […]

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While in Salter Path, North Carolina on vacation we saw this grasshopper, which was already dead, being carried away by countless ants.  You can’t tell from this photo alone but there was a line of thousands upon thousands of ants leading from the grasshopper back to the ant hill. The speed at which the ants […]

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[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] Charlie Haden is one of the most respected jazz bassists and jazz composers today. He grew up part of a musical family through the 30s, 40s, and 50s. He sang until he was 15 years old when he was struck with polio which affected his vocal chords.  This is when he picked […]

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I have a goal to get to London next year, so this list will come in handy when that happens. For that reason, and because I think everyone visiting London should take a look at this, I’m sharing it here. Simon Willison put this Google Map together and I think it is a fantastic list […]

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The other day I featured one of Shane’s claymation videos on the Viddler blog.  Then, his video ended up on the Viddler front page.  Today, Shane shows his love by doing a new animation with Wall-E spelling Viddler! I thought this was far too great not to mention it here.

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And, cubism.

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Getting some things done at Panera Bread with my homey Chris.

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After watching Heroes last night (since we went on vacation we had two episodes to catch up on) I thought about the actor who plays Sylar, Zachary Quinto, who is also going to be playing young Spock in the upcoming Star Trek film by J.J. Abrams and Co. Turns out the official site has some […]

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Even though I read State of Fear a few months ago, I thought I’d jot down my overall thoughts of the book. As you might notice, I read nearly all of Crichton’s works, so even though the subject matter for this book isn’t particularly interesting to me, I read it because Crichton wrote it. I’m […]

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Date taken: September 30, 2008 Eliza wanted to test out her new waterproof camera. Andrew and I helped her out. All photos credit: Eliza Devroe.

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There are tons of crabs on the beach here on Indian Beach in Salter Path, NC.

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Lady Chancery trolls by our "secret" cove where Andrew and I did some snorkeling. Today we had planned to head out either Sand Dollar Island or Shackleford Banks to do some snorkeling, shell finding, or seeing if we could locate some wild horses. Instead we ended up snorkeling off of Radio Island. When we arrived […]

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Weather has been good so far. Nearly empty beach. Perfect.

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Upon my return from the New Media Expo in Las Vegas I said that I regretted not mentioning that I was going to the event beforehand. So I thought I’d look at the next few months of activities and jot them down here. In October Eliza and I will be heading to Oahu, Hawaii for […]

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Eliza trapped him in the office due to bad behaviour. He made the best of it by watching birds out the window.

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Albert Yee, a friend whom I’ve never met, recently shot this photo in Philadelphia and since sharing it on Flickr it has gotten what I think is well-worthy praise. You can head over to Flickr to read the comments and see that several people have favorited the photo.  Yee doesn’t take too much credit for […]

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Wild Pig, Florida – ricksege Finally some real news! A 63-year old woman learns a lesson that many learn by feeding a stray cat; never feed a wild animal. However, Caroline Hayes didn’t feed a helpless stray cat that became a nuisance thereafter.  She fed a 176 pound wild pig. Neighbors, who have observed the pig […]

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Date taken: August 30, 2005 A winery that offers tastings, gifts, and snacks in a very large barn. I believe this was on Cayuga Lake in New York. I’ll check my records and update.

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Wow. Jay Maisel, a photographer, bought this building 42 years ago for $102,000.  It is now estimated to be worth nearly $30 million. Talk about a return on investment. Real estate experts, interviewed by NY Mag, had said they thought the building was abandoned. Far from it.  Turns out Jay, his wife, and his daughter are […]

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Date taken: June 2003 Left: American Falls. Right: Canadian Falls (Horseshoe Falls). An amazing amount of water falling over an ever-eroding cliff.

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Just about one year ago I posted a photo of this bird without too much explanation besides that I had taken the photo in the Tampa Bay in Florida in August of 2001. But there is a little more to this story. What reminded me of this story was our life poster that is hanging […]

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In March 2002 Eliza and I went for a drive to North Carolina to help my parents move into their new home there. Of course at the time, I wrote about it and shared the photos too, but I wanted to share this story about being at the top of the lighthouse. The Currituck Beach […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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Remember my iPhone macro lens? If not, here is how I made it and here is a video demonstration of it in action. My solution to the iPhone’s lacking built-in lens did what I wanted it to do, but it wasn’t a very elegant solution. The team at Griffin Technology, the company that churns out […]

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Andy Baio, who runs one of my favorite weblogs Waxy.org, had released Code Rush, a documentary about the early days of Mozilla, on his site in its entirety (using Viddler, of course).  Recently though, he received a "take down" notice from the film’s Director David Winton. Andy acted quickly but then asked David to have […]

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And of course, a little wine.

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A building in Carbondale, PA that has been in disrepair for a few years. Sad.

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Writing on my personal site feels so much different than writing on TUG.n, a site I’ve all but abandoned due to other priorities.  But every now and then I get the opportunity to put something together that I feel is best suited on that site, and so I’m happy to say that today I was […]

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I figured I might as well look the part.  Have you talked like a pirate today? This post is made possible by Skitch… one of my most favorite Macintosh applications.

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This photo, by my wife Eliza, was simply too good not to post.

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Just a few nights ago I was watching a History Channel show dedicated to the pursuit of Bigfoot.  Today I find something that I find completely fascinating; someone stabilized the infamous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film. Source: Stabilized bigfoot film. (animated GIF) Via: Boing Boing. Something that just has to be noted is that this is post 1138 to my blog. That […]

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Today Brightkite, the location-based social network, has updated their page layout to, once again, bring search back to the top of the page.  This time, however, they’ve added two new types of search to their original places search; people and posts. I’m very pleased to see this addition to Brightkite so early-on in their development […]

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"Use on mobile phones and sites you use to keep up to date and others in the loop." And I thought the llama suggestion was going to be tough to write?  What the heck does this suggestion actually mean?  It isn’t like I was able to ask who suggested it, because it was suggested anonymously. […]

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On Sunday I asked on Twitter; "Anyone else use Gmail IMAP in Mail.app with over 25,000 items? Does Mail.app seem to crawl for you too?". The responses were a mixed bag. Some told me to ditch Mail.app, some said that they’d rather use POP3 instead of IMAP, and others with far less email messages than I […]

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I joined Twitter in November 2006. Since then I’ve had a number of experiences using this service. Good days and bad days. On my diet, off my diet. Work and recreation. Entertainment and information. Social and satirical. Research and development. Mobile and, well, not-so-mobile. Recently I passed the 10,000 status update mark, which at first […]

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My love of insects on this blog continues. But we’re going to take a break from moths today. One of my friends needed some help moving a refrigerator and while doing so we found this Cross Orbweaver spider (Araneus diadematus) hanging in a web off the front of a house.  The photos included in this post don’t […]

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On the very last day of the New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada this year I had decided that I wanted to produce a podcast. The idea was simple.  Interview as many NME attendees as we could, each episode being only 2 minutes in length, asking each person the same three questions.  But I […]

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I suppose that parking on the grass may not be the best idea anyway.

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