Ah, the announcement that everybody’s favorite Material Girl, Ms. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Penn Ritchie, will be providing the halftime entertainment at Super Bowl 46 in February 2012 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Of course, thanks to a bit of detective work (and knowing a few friends over in Indy that used to be…
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UAlbany Professor discovers that 92% of all pop songs are about sex. Well, duh.
In the journal Evolutionary Psychology, UAlbany psychology professor Dawn R. Hobbs published a survey that determines that of nearly 175 songs that hit the Billboard Top 10 on the pop, R&B and country charts in 2009, more than 90% of them contained “reproductive messages.” That’s right, they’re talking about having sex. For her research, Hobbs…
Read MoreTrivia Night with the Hibernians
Every two or three months or so, the Albany chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians hosts a Saturday night trivia game. It’s a buy-in game; $5 per team is the buy-in; and the top three teams win some money. So on Saturday evening, a friend I went to the Hibernians Hall, had dinner –…
Read MoreThe last days of my Sony VAIO laptop
It survived numerous basketball trips from one end of the Northeast to the other. It survived at least two vicious computer virus attacks. And it survived four years of a Vista operating system. But now my Sony VAIO laptop is on its last beeps. I remember getting the VAIO in November of 2007; its acquisition…
Read MoreThe “Best New Artist” Grammy Award… who won, who didn’t, and who should have!
The urban legend is that the Grammy Award for “Best New Artist” could be considered the kiss of death for an artist’s career. Although many successful artists have earned the trophy, and have gone on to bigger and better things – for example, The Beatles, Christina Aguilera, the Carpenters and Crosby Stills & Nash have…
Read MoreAdd my voice to those of support. It does get better. I promise.
I initially didn’t want to make this video. I wasn’t sure how it would be received. But after seeing the increased cyber-bullying and taunting and belittling going on today, both nationally and locally, I could remain silent no more. And the kicker was reading this morning about Mitchell Wilson, a boy with muscular dystrophy who…
Read MoreWeek 4 of the 2011 $2,000 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
So are we up to date now on the scores? Yes. After awarding Get That Poison Out three more points for having an alternate correct answer from last week’s game, the scores have been updated and are correct. Let’s hope that everything’s back to normal for the next game. Apparently the new thing at the…
Read More“A photographer is only as good as the equipment he uses.” Wow, did Nikon really say that?
A couple of disclosures here. When it comes to cameras, I am a Nikon man, first and foremost. Yes, I have nine different film and digital cameras in my holdings, but two of them are Nikon product – my digital D700 and my film F100. Nikon has been my primary camera of choice, ever since…
Read MoreBlogger meets blogger: Chuck Miller meets the Professor’s Wife!
The best part about being in the TU Blog Community is that, sooner or later, you end up meeting your fellow local bloggers in various locations and get-togethers. I’ve developed some great friendships with members of the TU blog community, and sometimes when a blogger needs some support – fundraiser, charity donation, Chuck needs some…
Read MoreThe Force isn’t very strong with this one…
This just in. If you’re going to throw a Star Wars reference into an interview with a college football coach, you just MIGHT want to make sure that they actually have seen some of the films. Case in point – Will Muschamp, the University of Florida head football coach. Muschamp was an assistant coach under…
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