My Hamilton College alumni magazine arrived in the mail a few days ago. While I eventually read the quarterly glossy publication from front to back, I always check the following things first: I check the weddings and births, to see if there are any future Hamiltonians that are 18 years away from matriculation. I check…
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An HDR try for Whitehurst Printing & Binding
A few days ago, I tried to photograph the Whitehurst Printing & Binding ghost sign near Troy’s waterfront. It was a cloudy day, and I’m still experimenting with this vintage GAF aerographic film. The picture came out dark, and I had to use flickr’s highlight adjustment tools to get something more aesthetically pleasing. And this…
Read More“Deadliest Catch” and the government shutdown
I love watching Deadliest Catch. It’s probably one of my favorite reality TV shows, in that the viewers are part of this “slice of life” show where careers are made and broken and remade with every haul of Alaskan crab off the sides of gigantic crab boats. Yes, I shed a tear when Phil Harris,…
Read More“That’s not Grape-Nuts, it’s cat vomit!!”
Ah, those wacky morning news reports. Scot Haney has been one of Connecticut’s most popular television media personalities. He’s worked as a meteorologist and reporter for television station WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut for the past fifteen years, and has won several awards and accolades during his time with the station. Haney also owns three cats…
Read MoreBK Racing allows Travis Kvapil to drive Saturday? Why??
This should have been a checkered-flag decision. Instead, it crashed into the wall. As I noted in my last blog post, NASCAR driver Travis Kvapil was arrested on charges of spousal abuse. He spent the night in jail and posted bond the next day. This afternoon, BK Racing – the group that owns the #93…
Read MoreTravis Kvapil is an idiot
I can understand if you’ve never heard of Travis Kvapil. That’s fine. He’s a low-level driver in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series, he drives the Burger King #93 Toyota for a low-level race team, and about the only time you ever hear his name on the race track is when he crashes into the wall, blows…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, October 10, 2013: Ten for Thursday
So what have been some of the most noteworthy and interesting blogs to read from our community bloggers this week? Wouldn’t you like to know? Of course you would. That’s why you click on this blog post every Thursday. So without further delay, here are ten blog posts with something for you to enjoy. They…
Read MorePhotographing the Whitehurst Printing and Binding Co. ghost sign
Whitehurst Printing and Binding Co., a photo by chuckthewriter on Flickr. Last Sunday, I spent the afternoon in Troy photographing as many ghost signs as I could. Apparently there’s several of them along the waterfront, and I never previously noticed them. Caught this one with my Agfa Chief camera and GAF Aerographic film. I’m still…
Read MoreRemembering The Children’s Digest…
A couple of years ago, I went to Crossgates Mall and saw The Adventures of Tintin. I look at it as my Christmas present from me to me. Great, great film, and the action scenes in it were breathtaking – including, about two-thirds of the way through the film, a 7-minute action scene without a…
Read MoreTime Warner Cable’s new lineup o’ torture
They’ve sent mesages to me in my mailbox. They’ve robo-called me. And all the time, I thought they were just kidding, that they were just threatening, that this was an April Fool’s Day joke that was a victim of poor scheduling. Then I woke up this morning, and turned on the television. Hmm. Maybe I’ll…
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