In 2024, CPKC (the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Railroads) will celebrate their merger with a three-nation trip across North America. The trip will involve CPKC’s heritage locomotive 2816, “The Empress.” This is a big deal. Steam locomotives don’t normally cross through the North America like this. They’re most often reserved for tourist…
Read MoreA turkey sandwich for Nicole Bass
Nicole Bass was a professional bodybuilder and part-time professional wrestler. She had an incredibly sculpted body that came from years of dedication and training. Unfortunately, her time in professional wrestling was marred by people accusing her of being a man. The comments were hurtful and repulsive. And this was at a time when pro wrestling…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 22, 2023
Good morning, blog readers. Hope you’re enjoying decent weather and have plenty of weekend plans. But as you know, the first big weekend plans on your schedule should be reading today’s blog and seeing what my fellow photographers and writers and thinkers have come up with. So let’s get right at it. Have a great…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for July 21, 2023
The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM. The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. My AI-generated co-host WrHCL will be the primary voice for tonight’s episode, as WrHCL does a special deep-dive episode into the music,…
Read MoreSAG-AFTRA and the WGA have been battling AI for 20 years now.
The other day, a Facebook friend posted a question about whether anybody should really care about the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. I mean, as far as my friend was concerned, it was just millionaires arguing over millions, while our cable bills and streaming services increase their subscription fees. Well, that’s kind of a straw man…
Read MoreFor Lauren Boebert, GOP = Guns Over People
I am truly disgusted by Lauren Boebert, the Colorado representative to Congress. She’s a racist, she’s a bigot, she’s a homophobe, and she’s a gun zealot. And that was totally obvious yesterday. In all the disgusting ways possible. See, yesterday, some people handed Boebert a little cloisonné pin, with the hopes that Boebert would understand…
Read MoreUncaging Nicolas is the ultimate Nicolas Cage tabletop role playing game!
I’ll admit it. I’m not a table-top roleplaying game expert. I know of Dungeons and Dragons and Warhammer and a few other tabletop adventures, and I know that creative individuals can whip up a tabletop game with some simple rules and lots of ingenuity. Enter Jes The Human. Jes has created their own tabletop role…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: An Artisan Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Okay, let’s start with the ingredients. This should be simple. Yesterday, my plan was to purchase all these ingredients at the newly-opened Albany Farmer’s Market. Unfortunately, the “Farmer’s Market” did not contain anything that even remotely looked like a true farmer’s market. There were no booths that sold fresh farm cheese, or freshly baked breads.…
Read MoreA Saratoga Stereoscopic Saturday
So here’s the goal. I need seven perfect stereoscopic images of a day at the Saratoga Race Course. It’s a beautiful Saturday, and all I need is my cameras, a tripod, and the mental ability to make it through the 90-degree day. Yeah. I can do this. First things first. Just getting into Saratoga this…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 15 2023
Hello again, time for this week’s recap and review of the goings-on from my personal blogroll. There’s some fantastic blog posts and photos you should really see, and every Saturday I take a break from my blogging to share them with you. Enjoy. Have a great weekend, everybody!
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