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I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the social media site reddit.  I was on the site for a while, gave up on it, and then decided to go back to it on my own terms. Recently I signed up for Reddit’s “Secret Santa 2012” event, in which nearly 60,000 Redditors worldwide play the “Secret Santa”…

So I’ve been single for almost two years now. Hard to believe, right? I know! 🙂 And I’ve gone through the different dating opportunities.  Yep, when you’re in your late 40’s and you’re trying to find someone to spend the rest of your life with, you need to make sure everything is put together properly.…

Let’s be honest.  There’s too many holidays at the end of December.  There’s religious ones, there’s secular ones, there’s holidays that were inspired by TV shows, there’s holidays that are barely remembered.  You don’t know what to wish anybody any more.  Happy Holidays?  Seasons’ Greetings? Pop a cold one?  Chrismukkah?  Festivus?  Life Day? So all…

You want an example of history and iconography in the Capital District?  Something that our little corner of New York State can call our own? Then check this little picture out. That’s right. It’s the Friendly Home Parties catalog.  Just in time for Christmas, 1973. Friendly Home Parties, which actually had its distribution center on…

We’ve all seen them.  They’ve been passed around from e-mail to e-mail, posted on Facebook walls, tweeted and pinned and G-plus’d and whatnot.  You know them.  Internet memes.  Ironic, witty, pithy comments juxtaposed with photographs of various thisandthats. So just for a goof, and to give everybody a good laugh, I wondered what would happen…

Many years ago, when I was covering minor league hockey for the monthly print publication Hockey Ink!, I was told an anecdote about a front-liner in the American Hockey League who had a special “incentive plan” to improve his goal-scoring.  Every time he scored at least one goal or two assists in a game, he…

Some time ago, one of the Times Union-employed bloggers posted a donation link for a charity.  There were opportunities to donate $25, $50, whatever amount one wished to donate. Normally, I’m very choosy about which charity I donate to – but this time, I felt that the charity deserved some of my funds.  So I…

Yeah, the earthquake caused plenty of damage around the Town and Village… Oh well… luckily, the damage wasn’t so bad that I have to replace the bottle.  Hee.