Best of our TU Community Blogs, January 2, 2014: Ten for Thursday

Up and at ’em, rise and shine, here’s yet another installment of the ever-popular review of the Times Union’s best posts by its community blogging team. So which blog posts should you read today if you get the chance? Check these ones out.  They include: Teri Conroy’s “Farmlife” blog, “Humor Heals the Heart – The…

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Chuck’s best blog posts of 2013

This is the fifth year in my Times Union tenure that I’ve created this December 31st year-end wrapup of my best blogs and blogging moments.  It’s like my Thursday “Best of our Times Union Community Bloggers” posts, but this time it’s a recap from my blog.  Don’t worry, the Thursday blog wrapup will occur at…

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Week 9 of the 2013-14 “Catch the Mania” Tournament at the Ruck

We’ve made it past the halfway point in this trivia tournament. And it’s freakin’ cold at the Ruck. How cold is it? It’s this cold. BRRRR My teammates, Matt, Donna and Dylan, are under plenty of coats and hats – and blankets – just to ge through the game tonight.  See, when we get to…

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When you block someone on Facebook

For some, it’s an action equivalent to blasphemy.  For others, it’s a necessary means to survival and sanity. And no matter who you do it to, you’re automatically branded as – well – a reactionary, a psychotic, a micromanager.  Like it’s your fault that this has escalated to this point in time, and that you’ve…

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Another test of the GAF Aerial film

So I loaded another roll of GAF Aerial film in one of my vintage cameras, and went out shooting last Sunday. Did I get a decent shot with film so old, it could have taken pictures of the Bicentennial? Click in today’s blog and you can see if all went well.

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Best of Our TU Community Blogs, December 26 2013: Ten for Thursday

So I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas this year.  And as one last gift to you… I want you to enjoy the works of ten of my fellow Times Union community bloggers.  Hey, if you’re still shaking off that egg nog high, and if you finally figured out that it was Uncle Stanley who…

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“Hurry Up, Tinsel!”

It’s Christmas Eve at the North Pole.  And at the launching pad where Santa Claus has his flying sleigh parked, the elves in charge of maintaining Santa’s holiday delivery chariot are going over every last-minute detail with Santa himself. “Bangle, have you fine-tuned that sleigh runner?  Last year there was a nasty vibration on my…

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