Facebook has a very annoying and disturbing little algorithm. You log in, and among all the comments in your news feed it asks if you want to post a certain memory or moment from the past. Usually it’s something involving a vacation you experienced, or a concert you enjoyed, or that moment when you first…
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Paris
I will never understand the minds of madmen. I will never comprehend why anybody would randomly kill people or take hostages to kill them or force demands. And for what? I will never find a way to make sense of all this. Suicide bombers. Assault rifles on patrons at a concert hall. Explosions outside a…
Read MoreI see your Billy Joel and raise you a Blotto.
Colorado College is setting up a musicology conference in October 2016, with subjects and topics based on the music and career of Billy Joel. I’m not kidding. Click here and see if I’m kidding. Okay, now that you’ve seen that… here’s part of the symposium’s proposal. “In the spirit of Joel’s music, this public musicology…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, November 12, 2015: Ten for Thursday
Okay. Time to wake up. Rise and shine. Revilee, Revilee… There’s a lot of fantastic blog posts today, so let’s get right to it. This week’s blog posts of interest include: Fran Rossi Szpylczyn’s “There Will Be Bread” blog, “Suggestions for Advent.” (Read this first.) (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRAN!!!) Gina Peca’s blog, “They are not just…
Read MoreCould “Mystery Science Theater 3000” return to TV? Pretty please?
This is true. About two decades ago, Saturday evenings at my home were dedicated to Comedy Central’s most popular program at the time; a television show that goofed on the worst motion pictures of all time. It was almost as if you and your friends were the only ones in the theater, and the films…
Read MoreCollarworld: The Visitor at Indigo Acres
Indigo Acres, the farmland area of the afterlife pet waystation known as Collarworld, was bustling with activity. Cows and pigs and chickens grazed on the corn and hay and grain produced on the farm, while Cassius Marcellus, the strongest drafthorse in the realm, guided all the work. Very few animals remembered when Cassius Marcellus entered…
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The Char-Mar Ceramics Christmas Tree
I saw them just as I was headed toward the movie theater at Colonie Center. One of the holiday merchants, who set up a small pop-up store along the Colonie Center concourse walkway, had a small forest of them on display. Beautiful vintage ceramic light-up Christmas trees. You’ve seen them. A big ceramic green tree,…
Read MoreThe results from BUILT 2015
Five years ago I submitted a print of The AGFA Bridge Over Ansco Lake and it ended up in a bidding war at BUILT, the charitable auction / fundraiser to help preserve Albany’s architecture. In the past five years, I’ve submitted three Dream Windows to BUILT, and they’ve all found new homes. Several of my…
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Walmart Math: 16g @ $7.97 = 64g?
Follow along with me on this. A couple of weeks ago, I had to purchase some USB flash drives for a project. Figured I’d pick them up at Walmart, since Walmart sells flash drives. Heck, Walmart sells everything. I needed flash drives with lots of storage, not the cheap ones that only store about one…
Read MoreThe Lazarus Syndrome and an old hard drive
In the mid-1970’s, “The Lazarus Syndrome” was a made-for-TV movie (and later, a single-season medical drama) based on the premise that some doctors were gifted enough to cure nearly everything – including death. So now I have to hope that death has not claimed one of my computer hard drives. Background. A few months ago,…
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