Chuck, are you telling me you’ve never seen Frozen? Everybody’s seen it. My kids have seen it. They’ve seen it seventy zillion times. They make me watch it every single time. I know every single song and I can’t just let it go, let it go-o-o-o-o… Yep. And as of last night, I was one…
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Best of our TU Community Blogs, December 25, 2014: Ten for Thursday
Okay. It’s what, 3 in the morning, you’ve finished trimming the tree, wrapping the gifts, eating the cookies that the kids left out for Santa Claus, and maybe you’ll catch a few minutes of sleep before the little bundles of joy run down the stairs and start ripping open those packages. And you’re sitting here…
Read More“Flash Mobs” – the new holiday tradition!
Has it become the newest tradition for the holidays? I think it has. It’s the 21st century version of singing carols throughout the neighborhood. Get a bunch of your friends, plan a secret rendezvous at a shopping mall or public park, and then all of a sudden – it’s a group performance. A flash mob. …
Read MoreThe random act of pumping gas
I haven’t had the greatest of weeks of late. It was Sunday night and I was on my way home after working on a very long and arduous project. I need some snacks. Time to stop at the nearby Hess station and pick up some pick-me-ups. I figured I’d pump some gas first. Pulled up…
Read MoreChuck’s best photos of 2014
I had a decent year with my cameras, and although 2014 wasn’t as big an “award wining year” as 2013, I still felt that I captured plenty of dazzling images. Some of them won awards, some of them sold during charity season, some of them caused controversy, and some of them helped soothe a damaged…
Read MoreI need childhood moments of joy…
I can’t turn on the television without seeing more tragedy in the world. I can’t listen to the radio without hearing about a senseless murder or a horrifying suicide. It’s times like this – where I just wish I was six years old and could escape all this misery and pain by watching the simple…
Read MoreThe Tears of Angels
I’m looking up at the sky. How many stars can I see in the night? Dozens? Hundreds? A thousand upon a thousand? And if every star in the sky were the dim tears of an angel’s cries… the thought that another young soul would lose their only chance to live a full and complete life,…
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Raskolnikov: My new ФT-2 panoramic camera
I’ve wanted a decent panoramic camera for ages. Unfortunately, my searches have only found cameras that were either too expensive (a “gently-used” 360°-panoramic Globuscope costs about $1,500), or were just a piece of unmitigated junk (yes, Lomography Sprocket Rocket with its worthless plastic “hipster” lens, I’m talking to you). The few panoramic shots I’ve successfully…
Read MoreBest of our TU Community Blogs, December 18, 2014: Ten for Thursday
We’ve got some really excellent community blogs here, and I want you to enjoy reading them. And let me tell you, I enjoy not only reading them, but also posting them every Thursday. So get yourself a cup of coffee and a bagel with a schmeer, and enjoy these ten blogs by ten Times Union…
Read MoreRobot leers at exercising woman… and they’re selling…
One of the main rules of television commercial advertising is to make your commercial memorable… and to make sure your viewers know what you are selling. Well, a company named Wink definitely achieved the former… With one of the most suggestive commercials I’ve ever seen on network television. The commercial starts with a woman practicing…
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