Today’s headline is the first lyric of singer-songwriter Cris Williamson’s song Waterfall, from her legendary album The Changer and the Changed. Fifty years later, it still holds up today. And it’s kind of an inspiration for today’s blog, as I get back into making my cameras work for me. I need to make sure all…
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A Tesla’s miles are shorter than most car’s miles.
Correct me if I’m wrong on this. If I drive ten miles from Point A to Point B, the odometer on my car should advance … ten miles. Correct? Good. Now try driving that same ten miles in a Tesla. And now your odometer says … 25 miles driven?? That’s the argument behind this California…
Read MoreNext week, Republicans will charge non-smokers twice as much for avoiding the cigarette tax.
I say this because the Republicans in the House of Representatives ram-rodded their Trump-named “Big, Beautiful Bill” to the Senate. Among the hundreds of horseshit plans in the bill – which include extended and increased tax breaks for the wealthy, the gutting of safety net programs, etc. – is the plan to gut government and…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, May 24, 2025
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. I hope you have a great Memorial Day weekend, wherever you are, and that you’re able to honor those who protected our great nation in all wars, foreign and domestic. So how about we get involved in this week’s blog recap and see what our fellow bloggers and writers…
Read MoreJunior Enters a New Race
The harness horse known as Pay Me To Knight, also known around his stables as Junior, has won me a fair chunk of change over the years. He’s a decorated trotter at Saratoga Harness, and I’ve been known to put $20 on his nose every time I know he’s on the track. Hey, you’ve got…
Read MoreThanks for stating the obvious, Google…
Let’s get something straight. My blog is 100% written by me. Chuck Miller. A living, breathing, flesh and blood human. I am not a synthezoid, I am not a Replicant, I am not from Rossum’s Universal Robots, no no no no no. Whatever I write in this blog comes out of my brain, travels through…
Read MoreMy Pentacon Six TL shoots its first rolls of infrared film
I already have one dedicated infrared camera – my black Nikon Df was converted to a full-spectrum infrared shooter some time ago, and it works like a charm. And I’ve also had some reasonable success with my new-to-me Pentacon Six TL medium-format film camera, it’s handled slide film and print film and B&W film like…
Read MoreIt’s a cell phone with a physical keyboard? You mean, like a … BlackBerry?
Long-time readers of my blog will attest that I had a strong loyalty to the cell phone brand BlackBerry. Even when everybody else drifted off to iPhone and Android land, I stayed with my handheld phone with the physical keyboard for as long as I possibly could. And when new BlackBerry models came out, I…
Read MoreDonald Trump Jr and the rest of the MAGA melonheads whip up another crackpot notion
Let’s start this off with a prayer. A prayer for the health and well-being of former President Joe Biden and for his family and friends. It was announced yesterday that President Biden has aggressive pancreatic cancer, and that it has spread to his bones. There are some treatments available for this form of cancer, and…
Read MoreHappy Upstate New York Day!!
You didn’t know that May 18th is Upstate New York Day? How could you have missed it? Were you not looking at the calendar? Did Siri not remind you? Wow… Yeah, May 18th is Upstate New York Day. It’s not celebrated in Utica or Syracuse or anywhere west of there; and don’t look for it…
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