A few months ago, I had a computer crash that crippled my custom-built computer tower- and in the resulting crash, one of my hard drives froze up. Thousands of photographs and music were trapped on that hard drive as well. I tried a few different techniques to resurrect the data, including swapping out the motherboards,…
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The return of Speedy Gonzales?
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Part of me wants to cheer that a long-forgotten Warner Bros. cartoon character will finally get their turn in the movie spotlight. And part of me realizes that there’s a reason this character has disappeared for decades. Background. The website Nerdist has reported that Warner Bros. may…
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Above the clouds
Last Sunday, I could barely leave my house without walking into a thick, foggy weather pattern. Maybe Green Island teleported to downtown London while I slept. Well, this ought to be fun. Let’s go take some pictures in the fog. I grabbed my Leica M3 camera “Leica Green,” loaded it with a roll of high-contrast…
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What’s Japanese for “You’re so stupid”?
While working on my “salty mug” photo experiments – pouring a mixture of boiling water and Kosher salt into unglazed mugs, and watching the salt extrude through the clay cup walls – I came across an exquisite unglazed teacup. Oh man, this would look so awesome to have the salt ooze through the carved characters…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, December 10, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Man oh man, is the snow ever going to arrive? Jeez, the last time I was this concerned about snow arriving this winter, it was because I saw a spoiler for Season 6 of Game of Thrones… That’s fine, feel free to groan at that joke. But what I don’t want you to groan about…
Read MoreChristmas cards for Sa’fyre Terry
Can I ask all of you a favor this holiday season? Just a simple favor. And it would make a little Schenectady girl’s Christmas magical. Background. In May of 2013, a horrific fire in Schenectady’s Hamilton Hill neighborhood killed Michael Terry and three of his children. A fourth child, Terry’s daughter Sa’fyre, barely survived the…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The New Christmas Time
During the holiday season, I usually swap out a couple of my preset SiriusXM radio channels to their dedicated Christmas music channels. One button this year is set for SiriusXM’s Holly station (13), while another is tuned to SiriusXM’s “Holiday Traditions” station (18). And this year, I noticed something different on the Holly station. There…
Read MoreThe Hamilton College “Movement” and my thoughts on same
College students often are part of the chronicles of change. They march. They protest. They remove social errors and bring forward their own belief in a better world. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js In my time at Hamilton College, we students helped to bring around a change for the college. At the time, Hamilton was one of many colleges…
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Dream Window #17: An Adirondack Reflection
I still love finding salvageable Queen Anne windows and Tudor windows and ultra-long transom windows, and I still love turning them into something artistically amazing. And when I saw a church window available as part of a five-pane set on eBay, I could not resist. Four of the five windows at auction went through some…
Read MoreStevie Wonder’s “Hotter Than July” is an Album I Want to Be Buried With
The other night, I had a pleasant surprise. Up popped a commercial for some Apple product or whatever, and I saw – good Lord, it’s Stevie Wonder! Wow. Stevie Wonder still sounds great. And since his first hit, “Fingertips (Part 2)” was #1 on the pop charts the moment I popped ONTO the hospital chart,…
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