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While I have no trouble keeping my film and digital cameras in decent, working order, I’ve had worse luck with my camcorder equipment.  I acquired a Flip video recorder about four months ago, and one day I went to use it – and it was dead.  Not “dead” as in “I need more batteries” –…

We’ve all played Monopoly.  We’ve all won at Monopoly, and we’ve all lost at Monopoly.  We have our favorite tokens – yes, mine is the race car – and we have the properties that nobody wants to land on.  You think landing on Park Place or Boardwalk can wipe you out?  Try landing on Pacific…

Let me make things perfectly clear.  If you’ve ever done something for me – something unexpected and unrequested and kind and considerate, something that just completely made my lousy day just a little bit brighter – then you are my friend. Which is why, when I received the invitation from Kari Vanalstine to visit the…

I’ve taken the turn off I-90 to Exit 5, the Everett Road exit, many times.  And among the various hotels and car dealerships that dot the landscape between I-90 and Central Avenue, one can see the YNN news studios. Of course, if you lived in Albany long enough, you don’t recall those as the YNN…

It’s 1981, and tennis player John McEnroe is in the middle of a tennis match with Tim Gullickson at Wimbledon. During the game, the umpire called a ball out, when McEnroe claimed that it hit the line, thereby designating the ball in play. The tirade sounded something like this. So after that little tirade, comedian…

Background. About a couple of weeks ago, I got this custom-made car badge in the mail, a badge from “Chuck Miller Ford” of Clear Lake City, Texas – just outside of Houston.  I taped it to the back of a Ford Explorer, took a picture, and treated it like a “Caption Time” photo. Granted, most…

This is a very interesting concept, and I’m not sure whether or not this could ever work if someone wanted to implement it in the Capital District. According to this report in the Los Angeles Times, the city of San Francisco is considering banning the sale of all pets within city limits.  That’s right –…

I first saw Jeff Conaway on the big screen. It was 1978, and I saw Grease at Cine 1-2-3-4-5-6 in Northway Mall.  I already knew some of the songs from the movie – well, the songs that were written FOR the movie, like “You’re The One That I Want” and “Hopelessly Devoted To You,” which…

When my Street Academy trivia buddies Jeremy McNamara and Alexis Curry aren’t helping me win at bar trivia, they’re playing Ultimate.  Okay, you know it as Ultimate Frisbee, but since “Frisbee” is a trademarked term, they just refer to the game as Ultimate.  And they’re quite good at it – I’ve watched several of their…