Things to do in Boston when you're bored

[Mark R]

Thx for the tips guys.

The science museum was pretty cool. The lightning exhibit was awesome. The SCSI exhibit (complete with 6 foot high model of an ISA SCSI card) was amusing.

Wandered around fairly aimlessly for a day. Just to get a feel for the place.
Interesting observations:
Epic fail as some parts of downtown don't seem to have discovered electric lighting yet - the gas street lamps are pretty cool though. Don't see many of those these days.
Epic win, as someone seems to have invented boats with wheels.

This convention is pretty draining, and very long (7:30-6:30 each day), so I haven't done as much sightseeing as I'd planned. Still, when the choice came between Codzilla, and Fourier diffusion spectra and kurtosis - there was no contest, the diffusion won.

Anyway, here are a couple of pics:

 

[Mark R]

Update 2:
My feet hurt from too much walking.

Agree on the food in North End - lots of good places, wasn't too impressed with the bars though. Was probably looking in the wrong place though. Sail Loft was OK, but way too busy - couldn't move.

Mike's pastries - nice cakes and stuff. Glad I only found that on the last day. Bova's Bakery - good selection of Italian breads and cakes, perhaps not quite to my taste though.

Would have gone whale watching, but missed the boat because my mates texted me the wrong time, and the green line sucks ass. Didn't miss much though - apparently they saw part of a whale tail. LOL

Quincy market - had to be done. Plenty of good food, and a nice place to eat it. Way too touristy though.

Would have done more, but the convention was way busier than I anticipated and I was way too tired and jet lagged.

Anyway, a few new pics:

 

[Key West]

Very nice pics!

I'm a photographer myself, what is your gear setup? Looks like these are HDR, right?

Also what did you use for stitching?

 

[Mark R]

I'm a photographer myself, what is your gear setup? Looks like these are HDR, right?

Also what did you use for stitching?

Rebel XT + Kit lens
Also have Canon 85mm f1.8 USM (but not used for these pics) and Sigma 120-400 f4-5.6 (not lugging that beast around on a work trip)

No HDR. The Harvard one, I do have bracketed exposures - but haven't had much luck merging them. There are lots of weird artefacts (highlights go black, etc.) - probably because there is too much movement, being hand-held and all.

Stitching was done with Hugin and autopano-sift-c.

 

[kalrith]

Run a marathon?

 

[Gibson486]

lol....all the good bars are NOT in Boston.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

http://www.emmaspizza.com/

Highly recommend starting with the Famous Fling Salad(enough for two).

I concur. Emma's is a solid choice.