Yes, I did write a “Ten for Thursday” for today.ย It’s time to honor the best of our Times Union community blogging crew… and since there’s only been a sporadic appearance of our blogs on the TU’s print “Observation Deck” section, it looks as if I will still gladly carry the torch to promote my…
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The Normanskill Bulldozer – or combine, or hay baler…
Robert Frost was correct.ย Sometimes taking the road less traveled can make all the difference. Case in point.ย A week or so ago, I was walking along the Normanskill Creek between Albany and Delmar, it was a peaceful walk where I could perform simple reflection on my life.ย Then, after that, I walked along the…
Read More“Ooooh, you broke it! I’m gonna tell on you…”
Here’s the problem when you work with experimental photography.ย Sometimes the cameras can’t handle what you’re trying to do. Case in point. I’ve been working on this slitscan photography project for the past year.ย And I think I have it all dialed in and tuned perfectly.ย I’ve adjusted the slit inside the camera to a…
Read MoreThe Results of Summer Bowl IV
It’s time to give the coveted Silver Shaker award back.ย My Street Academy trivia team has held the Summer Bowl chalice, the symbol of supremacy in summertime team trivia in the Capital District, for the past year. Now we have to defend this championship against 29 other trivia squads. Trust me.ย Street Academy will ALWAYS…
Read MoreRandom Acts of Respect
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with the social media site Reddit.ย Sometimes it’s the greatest place in the world; other times it’s like the bad old days of monitor courage and USEnet sewage. One of the better places on Reddit of late has been the category (or “subreddit”) called Random Acts of Pizza.ย Here’s how…
Read MoreGet your groove on, Oliver Hardy!
Let’s start the dance. I’ve seen these creative little film clips on YouTube for a while. They feature vintage old movie clips, as synchronized with modern music. I crafted a blog post on this in the past, so here’s another one. You’ve probably seen this one.ย It’s a clip of Laurel and Hardy from the…
Read MoreCollarworld: The Incident at Fred’s Chasm
“Any word?” “No,” whinnied Cassius Marcellus, the drafthorse who plowed the fields at Indigo Acres, the agrarian section of the afterlife pet waystation known as Collarworld.ย “I’ve asked around, nobody’s seen her.” “Her” was Butterscotch, a calico cat who battled a crisis of conscience ever since she arrived in the afterworld pet realm.ย In the…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Bloggers, July 18, 2013: Ten for Thursday
It’s been an interesting week at the TU blog portal.ย Apparently somewhere in the blog base, there were sparks in the software, flashing the message, something’s out there… comments lost in the summer sky, 99 luftballoons go by… Anyway, apparently all the blog comments – good comments and spam – ended up in the spam…
Read MoreCaption Time: Two birds in the hand…
Got this picture the other day while walking past the old Branch Office Restaurant in downtown Albany.ย The restaurant is gone, but there’s still a branch-shaped sign with an “office” engraved on it.ย On the wooden sign is a wooden blue jay.ย And on the wooden blue jay… well, it’s another bird. So if a…
Read MoreSummer Bowl IV is next week!
It’s the midsummer classic; the Summer Bowl, the trivia championship that’s held as the Saratoga flat track opens for business. This year, the invite-only tournament will take place at On Tap, the restaurant inside Latham’s Holiday Inn Express, this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. ย Teams will be challenged on twenty different trivia questions of history, pop…
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