As we get into the homestretch of the $2,000 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament, teams are still trying to pick up points here and there, in order to ensure that their squads make it into the top eight teams for the final round, and the chance to pick up the big money at the end. Which…
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Photographing in St. Agnes Cemetery
About a month ago, I was reading Metroland and saw a notice for an open photography contest. The contest was hosted by St. Agnes Cemetery in Albany, and the photo subject had to involve something within the cemetery itself. But by the time I saw the contest bulletin, the deadline was only a week away.…
Read MoreThe Tragedy of Frosty the Snowman
Figured I’d share this little holiday moment with everyone. It’s essentially my attempt to relate the worst holiday experience I ever had. Compared to the true story below, Rob Madeo’s Worst Christmas Ever blog post is about as depressing as a Hallmark card. Spin back in the WABAC machine with me to Christmas 1969. At…
Read MoreAlbums I Want to Be Buried With: Wendy Carlos, “Switched-On Bach”
And thus begins a new series of blog articles. Some background. From 1975 until approximately 2006, I was heavily involved in music and record collecting. My collection grew to approximately 6,000 45’s and 3,000 albums, plus a ton of CD’s, cassettes, 8-tracks, 78’s, Edison Diamond Discs and the like. But over time, I realized that…
Read MoreRon Guidry is Pitching Tonight at Heritage Park!!
In a five-year span, covering the last two seasons of the Albany-Colonie Yankees (1993, 1994) and the first three seasons of the Albany-Colonie Diamond Dogs (1995, 1996, 1997), I wrote several articles for those teams’ game yearbooks. I received some cash for my efforts, as well as opening-day tickets at Heritage Park. One of those…
Read MoreSwapping out the hard drive on my wife’s laptop computer
Status report on my wife’s laptop computer. The six-year-old HP laptop now has a full gig of memory (up from 512mb), thanks to Computer Renaissance in Latham and Computer Answers on Central Avenue in Albany. And last Monday, one of my trivia teammates, Jeremy McNamara, brought me one of his old 80-gig 2.5-inch IDE hard…
Read MoreMore on the bottle redemption boondoggle
So Friday morning, I stop at my local McDonald’s and order some breakfast, when lo and behold, what caught my eye – Two signs regarding the rights and responsibilities of redemption of bottles in New York State. The first sign was listed as a redemption bill of rights, as in you have the right to…
Read MoreWeek 10 of the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
So there was this concert downtown… some legendary metal band of some sort … and it affected trivia at Elbo Room. Some of the teams chose to see Metallica instead of playing trivia, including teams like Mayhem. General James, the host of trivia at Elbo Room, was also enjoying the Metallica concert, so the game…
Read MorePhotographing the Poestenkill Gorge Falls
Last year, when I attended the Octoberfest festivities in Troy, I purchased a book as a benefit for the Rensselaer-Taconic Land Conservancy. The book, “Natural Areas of Rensselaer County, New York – Second Edition,” featured several different walkways and hiking paths, as well as vintage photography of many of the original trails and buildings and…
Read MorePlaying Trivia at Professor M Barley’s and at Rev Hall
There were lots of things on my workplate last night, and by the time I finished taking care of all of them, I discovered that I had missed my opening questions at my usual Tuesday night trivia hangout, Pizzeria UNO. So I checked the trivianightslive.com website to see if there was another game out there…
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