It was a halftime trivia break at Brown’s, and I took a few moments and sent a text to my Street Academy trivia team buddies Jeremy and Alexis, who are now getting suntanned in Florida (they flew Continental, and as far as they told me there wasn’t a single problem with their flight).ย I then…
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Southwest Airlines Flight 1699 – Follow-up
It’s Monday morning and I’m still seething from my disastrous weekend flight-that-failed trip.ย Thankfully some of my friends kept in touch with me through text messages and phone calls, whether I was either trapped in Hartford or trapped in Baltimore.ย See, this is what good friends do. On the way back from Hartford, while driving…
Read MoreRehearsal footage of an upcoming British wedding posted on YouTube
So there’s supposedly some big wedding going on in England in a couple of weeks. I think it involves some guy with a lot of “old money” – I think his last name is either Windsor or Saxe-Coburg and Gotha or some derivative of same. And he’s marrying some girl whose parents set up their…
Read MoreSouthwest Airlines Flight 1699 – the Flight From HELL
I had everything planned out.ย This was going to be a perfect trip.ย I would go to the PBL Championship finals in Lawton, Oklahoma; and on an off-day I would travel to Oklahoma City and do some sightseeing. The PBL had my ticket ready; I would fly out of Bradley International Airport in Hartford (okay,…
Read MoreCaption Time – er – les temps de caption…
I came across this interesting graphic on a walkway in Quebec City. Photo by Chuck Miller.ย Artwork by – well, I have no idea by whom.ย Caption by you.ย Have at it.
Read MoreAnd this is why I never operate the “Kiss Cam”
You see this all the time at sporting events. At a break in the action, the camera will invariably pan to the crowd and find some happy couples sitting together, and then guess what – it’s “Kiss Cam” time!! That’s right, you and your significant other get to pucker up in front of everybody in…
Read MoreSounds in the sleepless evening
It’s about 2:30 in the morning, and I’ve been awake for at least an hour.ย I don’t know what initially woke me from dreamland; maybe it was a bad dream or the after-effects of last night’s dinner. I slowly open my eyes.ย I’m still wearing my wristwatch; I press the illuminated button.ย 2:35.ย I release…
Read MoreThe Agfachrome 64 experiment: Does AP-41โ(C-41/E-6)=โ ?
Wow… Thanks to that blog post title, I just made five people’s brains explode like the opening scene of Scanners!ย And twenty other people just ran to find their old grade school algebra texts! Anyways… In the photographic world of cross-processing (XPRO), photographers create surreal and astounding photographs by dipping their undeveloped film into alternate…
Read MoreWeek 7 of the 2011 Elbo Room $1,000 Spring Tournament
Unfortunately, due to a previous commitment, I wasn’t able to get to the Elbo Room for trivia last night, and Jeremy and Alexis couldn’t make it either.ย So thankfully General James gave me the updates on who picked up the points, so we can go from there. So here’s the standings after seven weeks. The…
Read MoreAnother “Split Film” photo – Feeling hungry?
I haven’t done my “split film” photo trick in a while – cramming two rolls of 35mm film into one camera and then shooting away.ย But last week, I prepared the Holga for another run of split film photos. Since I had to take a drive into Canada, I taped up the Holga with two…
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