It’s Friday night and I’m looking forward to date night – dinner and a movie. This will be fun. The plan was to stop at Panera Bread on the way, pick up dinner for two, and then get together. Now since I wanted date night to start as soon as possible, and I wasn’t keen…
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Is a BlackBerry Venice phone worth my upgrade?
Okay, cards on the table. I have been a loyal BlackBerry phone user for as long as I can remember. So much so, in fact, that I purchased my current phone, the BlackBerry Q10, the day it came onto the market (and purchased it at full retail price, so as to guarantee I would not…
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Results from the 2015 New York State Fair
Three pictures entered at the State Fair in Syracuse… how did they do? Smiles or disappointment? And will I need a Defibrillator afterwards?
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Bye-bye Trading Port / Freihofer’s ghost sign…
Five years ago, I photographed various “ghost signs” – vintage advertisements that were painted on the brickface of buildings – throughout the Capital District. One such sign was on the corner of Washington Avenue and Colvin Avenue, and it was right next to the Mobil station. Okay, this was a nice find. This may have…
Read MoreCelebrating Eileen Kawola
Today is Eileen Kawola’s birthday. But that’s not the main reason why I’m writing today’s blog. Later next month, Eileen Kawola is going to receive a very special award. And once again, it’s another triumph for my old high school, Street Academy / Harriet Gibbons High School. Background. When I arrived at Street Academy in…
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Best of our TU Community Blogs, August 27, 2015: Ten for Thursday
You might think that all I do on Thursday morning is find ten blog posts by ten community bloggers, post them on this page, and then go on my merry way. Well, yeah, I do that, but that’s not all that I do. Example. Last Monday, I had the great pleasure of participating in a…
Read MoreMidnight Oil’s “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1” is an Album I Want To Be Buried With
It’s the spring of 1983, and I’m finishing up my sophomore year at Hamilton College. The running joke at Hamilton was that if you wanted to find Chuck Miller anywhere on campus, look first at the campus radio station, then at the college computer center, and then after that if you haven’t found him, he…
Read MoreCollarworld: The day for Bate
“Is it really my master? Has my family come for me?” Bate yipped, jumping around and wagging his tail. “That’s what I understand,” said Vincent, the tabbycat and most respected pet in Collarworld, the afterlife waystation where pets wait until they are reunited with their masters. “The hamsters came by yesterday and told me that…
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Searching for the bowling signs
I knew they existed. I just didn’t know where to find them in this day and age. But find them I did. And I’m glad for it. Background. I’ve blogged in the past about how everybody in my family excelled in bowling. Everybody, that is, except me. But one thing I was fascinated with in…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: More 3-minute emotional symphonies
There are happy songs, there are angry songs – and then there are the songs that bring your emotions to the boil. The ones that are the equivalent of a half-gallon of ice cream and a TV tuned to Investigation Discovery. On today’s K-Chuck Radio, let’s go through a few of those emotional classics. Bring…
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