Yeah, this is a weird, weird winter. It’s five degrees above zero this morning, and as I look out the window – I don’t see a single snowflake. It’s like we’re getting set up for what could be the mother of all Nor’easters. So… Last Saturday, when I had to travel to Rochester for a…
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The perfect website for getting rid of your ex’s “gifts.”
Oh man, I wish I had known of this website last year, when I was getting rid of stuff I no longer needed or wanted. Let’s say you received a gift from that special someone. And while you and that special someone were still “special,” things were fine. You didn’t mind that you never used…
Read MoreNo, this isn’t the Polar Express… but it could be the Midnight Meat Train…
Yesterday I grabbed several different cameras – my Nikon D700 digital, my Nikon F100 35mm shooter, my Rolleiflex Automat MX 120 shooter, and my Agfa Chief 616 shooter – for a day of photography through the North Country. And while my film shots are currently getting dunked and dipped at McGreevy Pro Lab, at least…
Read MoreIs that former Times Union blogger J. Eric Smith on the TV Monday night? It could be…
Just wanted to pass this along. J. Eric Smith used to blog for the Times Union from approximately 2006 to 2010. He later left the TU blog portal and formed his own independent blog community portal, Indie Albany. And although Indie Albany is doing quite well for itself, J Eric is not part of the…
Read MoreTen Moments of 2011
I went back through my archives – all the highs and lows, the brickbats and the bouquets, for the year 2011. I’ve made some mistakes in 2011; but I’ve overcome my mistakes. I’ve started relationships and I’ve ended relationships – in fact, in some cases I’ve started and ended relationships in the same year. Of…
Read MoreI guess Verizon DID hear us now… that $2 surcharge for paying your bill online JUST GOT REMOVED!
Well, this has to rank up there with the quickest “we blew it” moments of all time. Barely one day after Verizon Wireless announced they would be charging a $2 surcharge to customers who paid their bills online – and used their credit cards to do so – the telecommunications behemoth has announced that they…
Read MoreHappy Christmas from Verizon – we’re charging you an extra $2 to pay your phone bill, can you hear us now?
Ah, Verizon Wireless. Why do you hate me so? Why, when I go to a Verizon Wireless store, your sour-faced door-greeters invariably try to steer me either toward the most expensive smartphones on display, or to an electronic kiosk where I am required to type in my name and cell phone number before I can…
Read MoreWeek 16 of the $2,000 2011 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Well, well, well. Last week we had a returning team from tournaments past in Stern Fans; this week we had a returning trivia team to the Elbo Room Tournament in the squad that was originally called Just the Tips – and now they’re Team Bush. Wasn’t expecting them, but hey any team that can show…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Ten Great Songs by the Electric Light Orchestra
I always believed that if the Beatles took their Sgt. Pepper album and made a second one – and a third one – and a fourth one – in that same musical vein, they would morph into the Electric Light Orchestra. And realistically, how cool was it that a rock band calling themselves an “Orchestra”…
Read MoreRemembering “In The News”
A week or so ago, I wrote a blog post about a series of micro-programs that ran during ABC’s Saturday morning broadcasts. The “Schoolhouse Rock” series helped teach young minds multiplication, civics, grammar and other rudimentary concepts. Meanwhile, over on CBS, that network had its own television micro-series aimed at kids – and it ran…
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