By missing the first week of the Capital District’s Trivia Unification Tournament – where dozens of local bars and taverns host trivia competitions, and the top teams play a one-day, winner takes-all championship – I’m already behind the 8-ball. Urgh. But a second-place showing last week at least garnered me points for the event. Now…
Read MoreNBL Canada Season 7 Starts Saturday!
Seven years ago, I joined up with a brand new professional basketball league. I provided stats and other duties for this nascent hoops circuit, and I haven’t looked back since. And that’s a good thing. This Saturday, the National Basketball League of Canada commences its seventh season with a league-high ten teams – four in…
Read MoreDixie cups, Solo cups, lots of fun with cups
Remember when you were a kid, and you were playing around with your drinking glass or sippy cup… and your mom would invariably chastise you, suggesting that you might spill your drink or drop your glass and break it, and what trouble you would experience should that happen… Well, today, people are playing with their…
Read MoreA walnut bowl and a bruised knuckle
As part of my efforts to learn something new in my life, I took a course yesterday in beginning wood turning. You know, where you place a big chunk of wood on a lathe and chisel it until it becomes candlesticks or a vase or some artistic doodad. Figured I’d give it a try. And…
Read MoreIt’s a soda … made of celery?
I couldn’t find the beverage, and my flight to Washington State was leaving tomorrow. Damn it. Let me explain. In preparation for my trip to visit my son Kris, I put together a bit of a Capital District CARE package, i.e., foods and treats you can’t get in the Pacific Northwest. Included in the CARE…
Read More7 and 7 on Saturday, November 11, 2017
Holy crap, it’s cold outside. Welcome to winter, Capital District. But I have the best tactic for braving the cold. And that is the ability to read blog posts by many of my blogging friends, both the community bloggers from the Times Union and those from my personal blogroll. So get yourself a cup of…
Read MoreIf you can vote … vote for Albany Phoenix
Here’s the deal. The new Albany arena football team needs a name, and four name choices have sprouted up. They’re here at this link. You can pick from the Albany Fire, the Albany Machine, the Albany Phoenix or the Albany Empire. Of the four names on the list … only one makes total sense. Here’s…
Read MoreWeek 2 of the Trivia Unification Tournament
All right, it’s time for the second week of the Capital District’s Trivia Unification Tournament, in which all the area’s bar and tavern trivia companies pick their top teams for a single-game winner-take-all championship. Wait … did I say second week? Yeah, I did. Seems I didn’t realize the qualification tournament started last week. Oops.
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: in a Cast Iron Skillet
I ruined one of my frying pans a week or so ago. Burnt food, and I couldn’t scrape the leavings out. Grr. Tossed away a decent skillet. So I needed a new 10-inch skillet. Time to go shopping… And eventually, I took a chance on buying a cast iron skillet. This from a man who…
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So how did my Washington State film cameras do?
In addition to bringing my Nikon Df camera (as well as my BlackBerry PRIV camera phone) with me on my Washington State trip, I brought three film cameras with me as well – my Leica M3 35mm shooter (“Leica Green”), my Krasnogorsk ФT-2 super-ultra-wide panoramic shooter (“Raskolnikov”), and, just for the heck of it, my…
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