Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
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 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode, originally broadcast on August 14, 2020, features popular songs in extremely rare foreign-language versions. This is way cool. Trust me…
Read MoreYou have to be tremendously vigilant on social media. I say that because there are numerous scammers and thieves and criminals who will try to compromise your social media account for their own sinister purposes. Let me post two examples of this scam. Yesterday, this appeared on one of my friends’ Facebook pages. Now you…
Read MoreIt’s Monday morning, I’m at the day job, and I receive a call on my cell phone. The caller ID says DePaula Chevrolet. Oh, this is going to be good. Background. For many years, I trusted DePaula Chevrolet with the maintenance of my first four GM cars. They maintained my 1991 Pontiac 6000, and when…
Read MoreLast year, I installed a Solarcan pinhole camera in my girlfriend’s back yard. See? Blog post to prove it. But if you’re not feeling like reading an old blog post, I’ll give you the TL/DR. A Solarcan is a specially-prepared camera. It’s a beer can that contains a sheet of photographic paper inside. A tiny…
Read MoreI’m preparing for an upcoming photo project, and as much as I appreciate all my Nikon glass, I need something that’s ultrawide and totally within my budget. I mean, if I had $3,500 to drop on a 58mm f/1.2 Noct lens, I’d do it. But I have this thing called a budget, and I gotta…
Read MoreNow that I’m returning to some semblance of normalcy, I want to revisit my attempts to get ultra-wide panoramic shots out of my Rolleiflex Automat MX medium format camera. I was not satisfied with my previous attempt, even though it did turn into a halfway decent blog post. That being said, I really want to…
Read MoreGood morning, my amazing blog readers, it’s the middle of June and it looks like there will be beautiful sunny weather in the Capital Region this weekend. Which works out nicely for me. But before I go out for some sunshine and fun-shine, I want to take care of something important. And by “important,” I…
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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 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode, originally broadcast on December 4, 2020, is a special overview of the history of Hanna-Barbera Records, a rock label created…
Read MoreIt’s not that I need three hammers. I really don’t. But my problem was that when I couldn’t find a hammer for a project, I’d go to the hardware store, buy one, come back, use it, put it away – and realize, oh, there’s the hammer I originally owned, now I have a second (or…
Read MoreA few weeks ago, when I ordered some boutique food online (by “boutique” I mean some Pennsylvania Dutch meats and cheeses), I needed to purchase one more item for free shipping. Well, I already ordered some of the company’s breakfast sausages, and there was an offer for what looked like a weirdly-shaped cast iron pan.…
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