October 2008. I didn’t even know there was a brew pub in Troy named Brown’s, or that they offered team trivia on Wednesday nights. But after my Wednesday night trivia fun was curtailed by the bar owner (he was upset that I was winning every night, and that as one person I technically wasn’t a…
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My Betting Sheet for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Laugh if you want, but five of these twelve performing acts will be in the Class of 2010 in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Your potential inductees are, in alphabetical order: ABBA The Chantels Jimmy Cliff Genesis The Hollies KISS LL Cool J Darlene Love Laura Nyro Red Hot Chili Peppers The Stooges…
Read MoreRemembering Albany’s Professional Soccer Teams
I was thinking about this a while back. When I was a teenager, around 1979 or so, Albany had no real professional sports franchises of its own. Yeah, we had the Albany Metro Mallers football team, but that was a “semi-professional” squad. There was the Albany Twilight League amateur baseball season, but how charged up…
Read MoreRoad Trip: Photographing the Premier Basketball League Combine
It’s what, 8pm and I’m here at the Thruway rest stop at Sloatsburg – the first rest area after you get off of I-287 from New Jersey. It was a long road trip and I needed to take a break, a chance to upload some photos to my flickr site and decompress for a bit.…
Read MoreAny Verizon phone I get… better not have VZ Navigator on it
Back a few years ago, before GPS units were in every car, I relied on either MapQuest or Yahoo! Maps to plot my travel from Albany to another city. I also owned a vintage BlackBerry – it was a 6750 phone, but it didn’t have a GPS or turn-by-turn navigation program in it. Those two…
Read MoreHelping out the Papergirl
While perusing one of my favorite “wrap up all the news and culture in the Capital District” websites, All Over Albany, I saw a report about a special art project that is currently taking place in the Capital District. And it involves the region’s designated Papergirl. No, not the person who drives by my house…
Read MoreHow the Boston Celtics’ Rick Fox became part of my honeymoon
This is definitely going to be the blog post that gets my sorry self in trouble with my wife. But it’s a great story to tell. I married Vicki in 1994, and we had a fantastic honeymoon week in Toronto and in Niagara Falls. We stayed for a few nights at SkyDome’s hotel complex, and…
Read More“And leading is a team whose name we aren’t allowed to mention!”
It’s August 2006, and I’m getting ready for another Tuesday night of team trivia at Hooters in Crossgates Mall. This was going to be a good time – I had invited a friend, Dennis, over to join me at trivia. Normally I only play as a one-man “Street Academy” team, but it was not unusual…
Read MoreSee John Wilkes Booth performing in an Albany theater!
With all the excitement about President Obama coming to Troy to speak at Hudson Valley Community College Monday, I looked over the list of various presidents who have visited the Capital Region, in one way or another. When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1861, he traveled by train from Illinois to Washington, D.C. –…
Read MoreThe Tandy 102 – the original netbook
Ain’t it amazing – you can go to any computer store or cell phone provider and purchase a “netbook” – a tiny, utilitarian computer with flash memory and enough power to write a small novel or watch a YouTube clip. Your alternative was to bring a laptop. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my…
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