“Okay, Mr. Miller, we’re going to numb your gums with this gel first, and then we’ll add the Novocaine.” At that point, I clicked the button on my iPod and the dental hygienist’s voice was replaced by the lead singer of Muse. The first person who says to me, “Chuck, how could you tell the…
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Remembering Uncle Sam 3-Coin Register Banks
Almost every toy coin bank produced has had a “cheat” built into it. A false bottom, a rubber stopper, a sliding panel, all of which allowed you to scoop out the few coins you put in earlier that day so that you would have some change to go to the candy store. And even if…
Read MoreCongratulations to Stephanie Ferreria
It’s nice to see when someone from the Capital District can get on a game show like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” or “Jeopardy!” and take home some money. With that in mind, congratulations to Stephanie Ferreria, an Albany State student who took $10,000 from the producers of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”…
Read MorePhoto Essay: The Ghost Signs of the Capital District
No, I’m not talking about the marquees of haunted buildings. Once I describe them, you’re going to say, “Oh yeah… those things.” A couple of weeks ago, Jessica Pasko of the website alloveralbany.com devoted a post to all the retro signs of the Capital District – you know, the Westgate Shopping Center sign, the “Ladies…
Read MoreMemories of Trivia Bowl III: 2007
After my first failed attempt in 2006 to win the championship chalice of competitive team trivia, I vowed that I would do whatever it took to win. Although I played team trivia as a solo act, the one-man wrecking crew of “Street Academy,” on occasion I would bring friends in and have teammates. So by…
Read MoreA new trick lowlifes can use to compromise your credit cards
On the 17th of January, 2010, I saw the ecampus.com charge on my credit card online statement. I couldn’t think of what I might have bought from ecampus.com, and in fact I was wondering if ecampus.com was part of some other company that I might have purchased from, with ecampus.com being the primary company. I…
Read MoreWeek 17 of the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Oh man, if last night was the money round for the Elbo Room Trivia championship, I should have just gone home. A year off on one answer, a decade off on another, I couldn’t hit anything correct. And when the 20th and final question rolled around, although I had a semi-respectable 70 points on the…
Read MoreBeginning a new health project for me
This is actually one of those New Year’s Resolutions that I never put down as one of my official New Year’s Resolutions – but it moved to the top of the list because of something that happened last Friday. I was eating some peanuts, when all of a sudden I felt something in my mouth…
Read MoreRemembering Wacky Packages
Flashback to the summer of 1973. I was at my grandmother’s house in West Roxbury, Massachusetts for the summer, and several of the neighborhood kids got together to trade baseball cards, and I was more than willing to swap any Carl Yastrzemski cards I had for whatever Tony Oliva or Vida Blue cards they had.…
Read MoreMemories of Trivia Bowl II: 2006
As we get closer to February 6, and the day when the best trivia teams in the Capital District face off in Trivia Bowl VI, I thought I’d share some memories of past Trivia Bowls. I wasn’t involved in the competitive bar team trivia scene until the summer of 2005, so I missed out on…
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