Last Saturday, the Town and Village of Green Island was plunged into darkness as a power outage struck the area. And while the neighboring towns of Cohoes and Waterford had their power restored reasonably soon, it wasn’t until nearly 4:00 in the morning when Green Islanders received their repaired electricity. GIPA had a planned Town Board…
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The Macro Shots of the Rebellion
I have a small collection of Civil War tokens and storefronts. Nothing major – a few of the local “Straight’s Elephantine Shoe Store” tokens that feature a booted elephant on the obverse; some Benjamin & Herrick Fruit Dealer tokens, including a few “cracked die” examples; and some patriotic “Shoot Him on the Spot” tokens – including…
Read MoreIs a dash camera in my future?
I’ve been thinking of this a lot lately. Especially more so after my 2016 car accident where my beloved Chevrolet Cobalt SS (“The Blackbird”) was destroyed on a North Carolina highway when some schlub from an RV dropped bicycles from the back of the RV, which fell on my car, while at the same time a…
Read MoreThe Green Island power outage
It’s 4:00 a.m., and I’m writing this blog post from a Red Roof in Colonie. Yesterday morning, I planned on taking care of some chores prior to an upcoming surgery scheduled for Thursday. By the afternoon, I was scrambling for a motel room on the basis of an ongoing and protracted blackout in the Town and…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, January 13 2024
Hi everybody, welcome to another Saturday morning where I step aside from the blog and showcase the blogs and photos and posts of the great people on my blogroll. Hope you all enjoy. Have a great weekend, everybody!
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for January 12, 2024
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 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreThe time I seriously gaffed on WHCL
I know, I know. It happened 40 years ago, but I still think about it from time to time. And it would have been a great segue … if I had only stopped at two recordings. Let me explain. It’s January 1983, and I’m putting together my broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show on WHCL. Unlike today,…
Read MoreJewatholic
I’ve only heard the term “Jewatholic” used by one other person – “Stuttering John” Menendez. Stuttering John was one of Howard Stern’s sidekicks, and at one time his big deal was to go up to famous people and, in the guise of a television reporter asking for interview questions, ask the most offensive and unexpected…
Read MoreMy first macro snowflake attempts of 2024
Sunday morning. I’m looking out the window. Fluffy snowflakes falling in the neighborhood. Okay. Let’s get some snowflake macro shots. I’ve been trying to capture the perfect snowflake macro shot for ages. It usually involves focus-stacking several images together and hoping I can bring the image in crisply. And I have to be careful. Snowflakes are delicate. You can’t move them…
Read MoreThere’s always someone who will shit on your triumph
Last week, I blogged about a 13-year-old kid who became the first person in 34 years to actually defeat the Nintendo Entertainment System’s version of Tetris. They played so long, in fact, that the game couldn’t keep up with them, and the game glitched out. Now that’s a hell of an achievement. And as the story about…
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