I added a new blog to the blogroll today, the writings of Paris Buttfield-Addison, a writer and professor from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia who is heavily involved in game development and technology. I saw one of his blog posts in my Mastodon feed, and was impressed enough to share his texts to my blogroll for all…
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What’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 6 2025
Good morning, blog readers, it’s time for another Saturday recap of the thoughts and blogs and photos of my personal blogroll. We’ve got some returning blogs, as well as some fresh content from our favorites. So let’s get right at it. Have a great weekend, everybody!
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 29 2025
Well, I tell you what. I made it through Black Friday without too much damage, and I hope you did as well. So let’s see … now upcoming is Small Business Saturday, Sleep Late Sunday, Buy on Amazon Monday, Donate to a Charity Tuesday … do I have all that right? But really, Saturday is…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 22 2025
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. Hope you’re having a great start to your weekend. I’ve updated the blogroll to bring back someone who just added a new blog post for the first time a while, so please welcome Heather Fazio back to the blogroll with open arms. In fact, let’s get started with the…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 15 2025
Good morning, everybody. Hope your mid-November weekend plans are pleasant and that you’ve got everything under control. And by “under control,” I mean that you’re not doing anything out of the ordinary until you take a moment and enjoy this week’s blogroll recap. There’s plenty of good stuff here, so let’s get started right now.…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 8 2025
Good morning early birds, time to get those worms. Or at least that’s what my Alexa app tells me each day. So there’s that. How about we get straight into the blogroll recap and see what our fellow writers and bloggers and photographers and podcasters are doing this week? Have a great weekend, everybody!
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 1 2025
Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. A quick note before we go through the blogroll recap this week; make sure that before you go to bed tonight, you set your clocks back one hour. So if it’s 3:00, you set it for 2:00. And in America, we set 2025 back to what, 1931 or something?…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, October 25 2025
It’s the last weekend of October, and next week we move leave Daylight Saving Time. I think they schedule the time change after Halloween so that all the little door-to-door costumed candy-beggars have enough daylight to get a full haul of fun sized Snickers and M&M’s. Trust me, kids. Stop by my house, and you’re…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, October 18 2025
Just for curiosity, I looked up how many times I’ve created an entry for this blog category. Counting its original iteration as a “Best of our TU Community Bloggers” recap when the Times Union stopped supporting its community bloggers (the first of many times they did that), I’ve penned over 500 of these recaps, including…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, October 11 2025
I hope you have a great Indigenous Peoples Weekend, with celebrations and plans to honor and accept those of the First Nations and other recognized tribes and collectives. Oh, and it’s also Italian-American weekend, so let us all celebrate the rich history of the Italian thread of our multinational culture. Oh, and for my Canadian…
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