I don’t know why, even with my powerful Nikon D700 digital SLR camera, that I would even consider using this 35mm film beast. The “beast” I’m talking about is a Kiev-19 Russian-made SLR film camera. I bought the Kiev-19 camera for one reason and one reason only – it was cheap, and it had a…
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Week 3 of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
This week at Elbo Room, several legacy teams returned to the Delaware Avenue bar and grille for their chance to win free food and beer, as well as the $1,500 grand prize. These were teams that hadn’t been at Elbo Room since the last tournament, and all of a sudden I saw Stern Fans, The…
Read MoreThe Funny or Die Presidential Reunion
This is great. In a special five-minute film clip from the humor site Funny or Die, President Barack Obama gets visited by various past United States Presidents, as he wrestles with trying to create a consumer protection board, so that we aren’t continually clobbered by usurious credit card charges and the like. Oh, and did…
Read MoreThe blog conference get-together
Yesterday evening, I attended a special Capital Region blog community get-together. Sponsored by the Times-Union, it featured dozens of bloggers and online commentators throughout the Capital Region and beyond. While the event was predominantly focused on the meaning of blogging as part of the “new conversation,” I looked at it more as a chance to…
Read MoreThe re-re-return of Max Headroom
One of my favorite TV shows of all time was the early cyberpunk science-fiction series Max Headroom. For those of you with faded memories of the 1980’s, you might recall an iconic image of a computer-generated sunglasses-wearing head, spouting off non-sequiturs and funny observations. That was Max Headroom. From 1987 to 1988, ABC aired a…
Read MoreThe return of the Boats and Garden Hoses
When I played trivia at Brown’s years ago, there were several dominant trivia teams. One of the more memorable trivia teams was a squad who took their name from an iconic scene in the Will Ferrell movie “Step Brothers,” where Ferrell and John C. McGinley make a music video called “Boats n’ Hoes.” I’d link…
Read MorePlagiarize, Plagiarize, let no one else’s work evade your eyes…
Just so you know, that opening line was from a famous Tom Lehrer song, “Lobachevsky” – a song about mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. I am never forget the day… Anyways, I cite the source above because of this. Zachery Kouwe, a reporter for the New York Times, was caught quoting from sources without proper acknowledgment…
Read MoreThe Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry are Trying to Kill Me
Last night I was in Rockville, Maryland, for a Premier Basketball League game between the Lawton-Fort Sill (Okla.) Cavalry and the Maryland GreenHawks. Very competitive game, both teams had the lead at one point or another before the Cavs pulled ahead and won 105-99. The game also had a decent Albany Patroons alumni factor, as…
Read MoreThe Mystery of the Antique Camera Film
February 21. I’m in Manchester, New Hampshire, killing time before a late afternoon Premier Basketball League game between the Manchester Millrats and the Capitanes de Puerto Rico (which Puerto Rico won in very convincing fashion). Looking for something to keep me entertained for an hour or so before the game began, I came across the…
Read MoreWeek 2 of the Elbo Room 2010 Trivia Tournament
Looks like things are picking up for the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament. Tres Hombres, a “legacy” team who have played at various other Elbo Room tournaments, braved the rainy weather to arrive at the restaurant for the game. And after one week, Mayhem – who rebranded themselves as Wehrmacht last week – are now calling…
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