We have an amazing crop of blogs this week, and they really deserve your attention. As per our Saturday formula, I’ll list seven blogs from my community blogging friends at the Times Union, and then seven blogs from my blogroll. And if you have any suggestions about blogs or bloggers that I should include in…
Read MoreComputer Answers really does have the answers!
Ten years ago, I cobbled together a desktop computer tower. Rather than go to the local CompUSA and buy a tower off the shelf, I ordered all the component parts and jiggered them together. The tower survived a couple of hard drive crashes – one in 2010, another in 2015 – as well as an…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Awesome and rare 70’s dance classics
On this edition of K-Chuck Radio, I’m going to dive into the wild and wonderful world of dance music from the 1970’s. Back when discos stopped calling themselves discotheques. These tracks were monster hits in the clubs and discos, but sadly they’ve drifted off to rarities status. Except for here, where I dust them off…
Read MoreLet’s all play Donald Trump Twitter Bingo!
You know it’s coming. That moment when you’re watching the news, or your checking your Facebook feeds, and you hear about the new outlandish, shocking, what-the-hell-was-he-thinking tweet from President Donald Trump. And you know, once you hear what the President has said that morning, whether it’s one single tweet or a six-message tweetstorm, that there…
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☀+☽ = 👍 ?
Last year, someone gifted me a solar lens filter, with the challenge of photographing the upcoming total eclipse on August 21, 2017. I take challenges seriously. Believe me, I do. Heck, it took me two years of planning to capture the “blood moon eclipse” two years ago – everything from scouting possible shooting locations to…
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“And here comes Mugshots Bro from out of nowhere!!”
It’s Sunday afternoon, and I want to test out a lens I haven’t used in a while – my super-telephoto Soviet cadiatrophic lens, the MC MTO-11, an 1100mm f/16 piece of glass that can pick up images half a mile away. My plan – stand at one end of the half-mile oval at Saratoga Harness…
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The Coca-Cola Hope Chest: Part 2
Two weeks ago, I showed off the lid of what I hoped would be a new art project – creating a hope chest or storage box from old wooden Coca-Cola soda carrier crates. Now comes the rest of the fun.
Read More7 and 7 on Saturday, July 8, 2017
Hey everybody, it’s time for a Saturday wrapup of blog posts from my friends and colleagues that I believe deserve your attention. First we start with seven blogs from my old haunt, community and independent bloggers from the Times Union – and then seven blogs from my blogroll that I think deserve your attention. Ready? …
Read MoreSpider-Man: Homecoming and that … er … um … smell…
Let’s get a few things straight. I enjoyed the Spider-Man trilogy with Tobey Maguire as the webslinger. I kinda was okay with the Amazing Spider-Man double feature with Andrew Garfield in the suit. They both had their strengths and they both had their weaknesses, to be sure. And last night, I watched the reboot of…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Rock Hits in Early Stereo
The early years of rock and roll music were full of monaural output. Most kids had monaural single-speaker phonographs, so there wasn’t much of a need to produce a stereophonic version of a Top 40 hit. Heck, even producer Phil Spector completely eschewed stereo output, believing that his records sounded much better in mono. Mind…
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