I didn’t have to be a fan of Stephen Colbert to know that last week’s news about his last night TV show was about as suspect as a game of three-card monte. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is one of the top programs on late night television, yet last week CBS announced the show…
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“Tell the race track Johnny Wadd is here.”
Let me explain that blog post headline. My recent acquisition of a Meyer Optik Görlitz Orestegor 500mm f/5.6 telephoto lens has proven successful when paired with my Pentacon Six TL camera. And thanks to my girlfriend (the best girlfriend in the whole wide world), I now have an adapter that will make that Meyer Optik…
Read MoreThe Rescue
It’s lunchtime, and all I’m thinking about is getting a sandwich and returning to the day job. Fifteen minutes later, I had an entirely different set of thoughts. Let me explain. As I’m leaving my day job to head outside, I happened to notice a woman standing next to the electronic parking kiosk. Those kiosks…
Read MoreThe impulse purchase
Let’s see. I’ve got less than a week before my 40th college reunion. And I still want to get some great photos – both at the reunion and afterwards. So I took my Nikon F2S camera (“Nikon Athena”) and attached my newly-acquired Helios 44-2 Russian lens with the Petzval modification to it. In goes a…
Read MoreThanks for stating the obvious, Google…
Let’s get something straight. My blog is 100% written by me. Chuck Miller. A living, breathing, flesh and blood human. I am not a synthezoid, I am not a Replicant, I am not from Rossum’s Universal Robots, no no no no no. Whatever I write in this blog comes out of my brain, travels through…
Read MoreHappy Upstate New York Day!!
You didn’t know that May 18th is Upstate New York Day? How could you have missed it? Were you not looking at the calendar? Did Siri not remind you? Wow… Yeah, May 18th is Upstate New York Day. It’s not celebrated in Utica or Syracuse or anywhere west of there; and don’t look for it…
Read MoreSherman Tanks have no use for Elon Musk
I’m currently resting my hand after a surgical procedure yesterday, so this blog post will be short. But I couldn’t resist showing this YouTube clip of a 98-year-old World War II veteran and how he expressed his feelings about Elon Musk. And by “expressed his feelings,” I’m talking about using a vintage World War II…
Read MoreNina Conti likes to play with her monkey
Ventriloquism is fun. The ability to throw your voice into an inanimate object, and then convince an audience that the object has its own personality and essence separate from your own, while trying NOT to move your lips throughout the whole performance – that’s tough. And there are a few legendary and famous ventriloquists who…
Read MoreAPRIL FOOL’S DAY – The New York Yankees enter 20-year, $3 billion sponsorship deal with Elon Musk, Tesla, X
According to a report today in EPSN SportsNews, the New York Yankees have agreed to terms with one of the largest sponsorship deals in sports history, as the richest man in the word, Elon Musk, will pay $3 billion to sponsor the Yankees for 20 years. The deal will provide the Yankees with a new…
Read MoreFor Right Choice Shearing, Shearing is Caring
I came across this YouTube channel a few days ago, and man I’m hooked. Watching Katie and Darian, the proprietors of a Texas-based animal shearing operation, it like a mental soothing against all the craziness in the world today. In fact, rather than have me explain their channel, I’m going to show you their intro…
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