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Cards on the table.  I was a Boy Scout for about two years, Troop 95 in Colonie.  I didn’t get past Tenderfoot, but I did earn at least one merit badge (Music) and two belt-buckle achievement awards, and spent several weekend campouts at Stratton Mountain.   Scouting wasn’t for me, although it did offer me a…

I am extremely scrupulous when it comes to my security on the Internet.  I’ve been a vicitim of identity theft on more than one occasion, and that makes me hyper-vigilant if anything seems out of place with my social media accounts or my credit card accounts. If I even suspect – for a second –…

There is a scene in the movie Animal House, where during the toga party John Belushi walks down a flight of stairs.  He passes a folk singer, who is casually strumming his guitar and singing to some co-eds.  Belushi takes the guitar, smashes it to a million splinters, and hands back what’s left of the…

Note: in order to achieve the full experience of this picture, you need to stare at the photo – and let your eyes relax. Eventually two images will become one. Don’t cross your eyes; let them relax. Hey, if I’m going to do one of these “Caption This” pictures, I sure as shooting ain’t going…

Way back in the summer of 2003, a man was working on adding a window to a door frame.  He had instructions on how to put the window in the door frame, and how to make sure that the window would open and close without any trouble.  All he had to do was tighten a…

Some of the greatest prime time dramas revolved around families of influence and affluence.  If I were to mention the family surnames, you could hear the theme music pulsing in your head.  The Ewings.  Yep, you can hear that “Dallas” theme now, can’t you?  How about the Carringtons.  Ah, there’s the fluglehorn intro from “Dynasty.” …

Anagrams are fun. Anagrams are when you take some text and rearrange the letters to get an entirely different text. Anagrams are also fun if you can mix the letters up from one person’s name, and discover that the rearranged letters can form a phrase or sentence that might mean something wry or contradictory to…

I got a letter the other day from the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society.  They’re having an upcoming art auction to benefit the shelter, and asked if I could contribute a piece or two from my collection.  The letter was even personally signed by Greg Haymes, the co-creator of the Nippertown website that’s part…