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It’s Tuesday morning, and I’m out the door to head downtown. There’s a bit of frost in the air, and some of the cars along my road have some tiny snowflakes on them. Oh, I know what that means. It’s snowflake photography season. That time of year when I try to get that super-spectacular macro…

So the original plan was to add a dedicated 35mm shooter to my camera arsenal. My last dedicated 35mm shooter, my Leica M3 (“Leica Green”) is now in the hands of someone else, who has used it for world travel photography. But that now means that I need to replace that camera with something comparable.…

The problems started on Monday. For some reason, I was not able to pick up Verizon’s cell network on my BlackBerry KEYone cell phone. Using a landline, I contacted Verizon, who told me that there was an issue with a cell phone tower in my area, and that everything should resolve momentarily. By Wednesday, the…

Background. I have a camera that can shoot with 70mm film, also known as 616 roll film. It’s my AGFA Clipper Special f/6.3, a 15-shot square-image camera that was manufactured in 1939, and which came into my possession when I purchased it for $15 at a Massachusetts yard sale. Since then, the camera has produced…

Credit card companies are evil. They pitch to you that they actually care about you, that they want to help you out, that they want to treat you like you’re someone important. Horseshit. Credit card companies only care about one thing. How much they can squeeze from you in fees and overages and everything else.…

Yesterday morning, I was in Schenectady and needed breakfast. A quick pit stop at Mike’s Hot Dogs – you can’t miss the neon sign on Erie Boulevard – and I was chomping on scrambled eggs and homefries. It was then that I looked up at the window panes along the diner, and I noticed that…

Someone once told me that Majrorie Taylor Greene could defeat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a debate over the Green New Deal. Yeah, I’m not seeing that happen. Because right now, Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA), inbetween her world stupidity tour with Venmo expert Matt Gaetz, has suddenly decided she wants to get Dr. Anthony Fauci fired from…

It seemed like, for the past few weeks, the fates have stymied my plans. Eventually, I told the fates to go kick rocks. I shall explain. I’ve had an idea to get a three-dimensional photo of riding a roller coaster. But in doing so, I risked many factors. First off, I would need a very…

Since last week’s interview with blogger Daniel Nester of the Pine Hills Review was such a success, here’s my next interview. This is with blogger Silvia Lilly, who pens the DelSo blog and contributes to the CivMix blog, both of which are available on my blogroll. Yeah, I’m definitely liking this feature. And I have…

So this story came across my desk, and I wanted to share it with you. It seems that in a town outside of Melbourne, Australia, someone found a lost sheep. Not a big deal, right? Well, that sheep had over 75 pounds of wool on its body, and needed a serious shearing. Let me explain.…