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Ah, another adventure with the telescammers.  And this one is a dilly. First off, the spammer calls me with one ring and a hangup.  So now I have to waste my cell phone minutes to figure out why I’m getting a Washington State area code phone call.  Is it my kid Kris calling me from…

So you know I’ve been dealing with telephone solicitors and spamcallers and scammers of late.  And while I’m still having some fun recording them and mocking them (I’ve gotten a few vacation scams and credit card reduction scams of late, both of which want my credit card before they can offer me those great deals),…

I warned them.  I really, really did warn them.  They didn’t listen.  Their mistake.  Seriously, it was their mistake.  You can’t fix stupid. Background. I’ve blogged in the past about the overwhelming harassment from telemarketers, robocallers, spamcalls and cold callers.  It got so bad, in fact, that I eventually ordered a telephone recording system and…

Yes, I just said that headline in my best, squeaky Veruca Salt spoiled-brat voice. Here’s why. Saima Ahmad, a 20-year-old London legal student, loves KitKat chocolate bars.  One day, she purchased a pack of the crunchy, chocolate treats and snacked on one of the bars. There was no crunch. She bit into another bar. No…

Every so often, my stat-metrics program will alert me that one of my vintage blog posts got linked somewhere and people are commenting on that old blog post. Last night, I discovered that one of my photography experiments – specifically, my shooting with vintage Agfachrome – Okay, that’s nice, I tried Agfachrome, it didn’t pan…

I’ve had mixed feelings agout the takeover of the old Hess stations in our area by Speedway.  On the positive, many of the stations have undergone nice upgrades; and that moon crater that doubled as a parking area at my local Speedway has finally undergone a repaving. Speedway also offers a loyalty card, and depending…

I’ve shopped at B&H Photo Video for nearly two decades.  It’s the photography and electronics superstore in New York City; the camera equivalent of Nordstrom / Disney World.  My last two Nikon digital cameras came from B&H, as did several of my lenses and most of my film. Which makes the latest news from this…

I still remember the first time I played trivia at Brown’s Brewing.  It was a Wednesday night, and the place was packed tighter than a sardine can.  The host of the trivia game was a young man named Ryan West.  And his rapport with the trivia teams was amazing. Ryan had the game well-organized.  There…