As you may have heard, I’m in the middle of making another latch hook rug. Last fall, I took a photo of the Woodstock, Vermont Middle Covered Bridge, and converted it into a latch hook rug pattern with the help of the online leftsource.com site. And this time, instead of purchasing the yarns bit by…
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Idiot in Latham ruined national bowling tournament 23 years ago.
There are idiot fans all over professional sports. You’ve seen them, you’ve heard them, you’ve wondered how long it would take for someone to grab the offender by the collar and dog-walk them out of the venue. You know the idiot. It’s the jerk who has to yell “GET IN THE HOLE!” in the middle…
Read MoreAn Evergreen Snowflake
There’s a big snowstorm on its way. My home area is looking at anywhere from three to six inches of snow. Which means that when I walk outside, my neighborhood will look like an igloo dealership. In situations like this, I could either do like everybody else – get the shovel, try to find the…
Read MoreThe new test shots from my new Pentacon Six TL shooter.
Well, this was fun. I basically Frankenstein’ed a new-to-me Pentacon Six TL medium format camera by grabbing parts from various eBay auctions, along with reusing the lens from my previous did-not-like-to-work-on-any-day-ending-in-a-Y Pentacon Six. The chassis for the Six TL came from Ontario; the new waist-level prism was from Washington State, and the 80mm f/2.8 Carl…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, January 18 2025
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. Are we ready for a long three-day weekend where we honor two great Americans (Muhammad Ali and Martin Luther King Jr.) before we have to kowtow to a third one? Just checking ahead. 😀 Well, no matter who’s in the Oval Office today or whenever, as long as I…
Read MoreA Belated Holiday Present from Calgary
Last month, one of my CPKC Holiday Train photos won an online CPKC Instagram contest, which meant that after I finished celebrating this blessed event, I would receive a “prize pack” from CPKC’s headquarters. Last Wednesday, when I came home for the evening, there was a note on my door. UPS tried to deliver a…
Read MoreInstagram Hacked! Send Chocolate Chip Cookies and Pliers!
Yes, I know that’s a nonsensical headline. I get it. But what’s funny is … the robots don’t get it. And it’s yet another reason why I’m feeling less and less enthusiastic about the Meta platforms. Yesterday, I posted this blog, where I discussed joining the new Pixelfed image-hosting social media platform. My blog automatically…
Read MoreIt’s chuckthewriter@pixelfed.social and don’t you forget it.
I’m still on the fence with Instagram. At one point I had an Instagram account, and somehow it got hacked. I cleaned up all the hacking, and a year or so later, the account was shut down for some unspecified claim of nebulous origin (I suspect some MAGA chud had a problem with me and…
Read MoreOh, it’s HISTORY Science Theater 3000. Got it.
I tell you, every time I go to YouTube, their algorithms try to pitch me on anything and everything. I could link a YouTube clip to my blog on item “X”, and the next time I visit YouTube, I’ll see 15 recommended videos about item “X”. And their recommendations can be quite maddening. Almost like…
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Soaring on a Manhattan Morning
“Manhattanhenge” is a combination of astronomy and architecture. Because New York City’s streets have a nearly perfect east-west pathway, there are several times during the year when the sun sets RIGHT in the pathway of traffic, or rises RIGHT in the pathway of traffic. To capture a “Manhattanhenge” photo is an accomplishment in and of…
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