I received an email from WRGB newscaster Liz Bishop a few weeks ago. Apparently Liz found one of my old blog posts and wanted to talk to me. No, not this one. It’s actually THIS one. It’s an article I originally wrote for Rugby magazine in 1993, and reblogged it in 2011. It’s about the…
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The Future View-Masterยฎ Projects
Several years ago, I used my film cameras to create dual photos for a custom-produced View-Masterยฎ reel. It was – for all intents and purposes – okay. But you know me. I don’t work well with “Okay.” So in 2023, I’ve decided that this will be the year that Chuck builds some custom View-Masterยฎ reels.…
Read MoreAn ice cream scoop for $1.08 (discounted from $2)
I ran some errands Sunday morning, and on my way home, I saw a sign for an estate sale in Watervliet. My Grandma Betty, who never passed an estate sale without at least looking inside, would never have let me pass this one up. And heck, it was only three blocks off my trip, so…
Read MoreWould someone please explain 1899 to me?
Yesterday, after getting an oil change and a tire rotation for my car, I came home and fired up the Netflix. And among all the shows Netflix could recommend to me, it proposed a drama called 1899. Well, I already sat through 1883 on the Paramount+ network, so why not another period drama? Hooo boy…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 4 2022
Good morning, blog readers, hope everybody’s got happy plans for this weekend. And if your plans include reading today’s blog and checking out the new entries from my friends on the blogroll, then you’re doing things right. Have a great weekend, everybody!
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for December 2, 2022
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s show features a “Sample Example” of a 1950’s Italian song that became a millennial hip-hop hit, and the return of the…
Read MoreCandlepin bowling and a 1980’s computer program.
During my freshman year at Hamilton College, I spent most of my free time at the college’s computer center (well, aside from class time and radio station time). The Hamilton College Computer Center in 1982 consisted of several standalone desktop terminals known as TERAK computers. Software existed on 8″ floppy discs that held about 12…
Read More1970’s Saturday morning cartoons that have not … aged … well.
I’ve blogged about Saturday morning cartoons before. Many times, actually. If you had the opportunity on a Saturday morning to get up early, fix yourself a bowl of Sugar Smacks and plop your 7-year-old tuchus in front of the television for 5 1/2 hours until your folks got out of bed and told you to…
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Canadian Pacific Holiday Train Chase, 2022 Edition – DAY 3: The Surprise at Port Henry
This was the final day of my train chase. I had a fantastic time on Day 1 in Quebec; I made the most of a rainy situation on Day 2 in Albany. Now comes the hard one. A Day 3 chase from Saratoga Springs to as far north as I could comfortably travel. With surprises…
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Canadian Pacific Holiday Train Chase, 2022 Edition – DAY 2: Albany in the Rain
The plan was to capture the Holiday Train as it passed the old Delaware and Hudson structure (the SUNY Administration building). It’s a popular shot for local train-chasing photographers, and I thought I had the perfect spot. Well, I did. What I didn’t have was perfect weather. Let me put it this way. It was…
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