Yes, I know that’s a nonsensical headline. I get it. But what’s funny is … the robots don’t get it. And it’s yet another reason why I’m feeling less and less enthusiastic about the Meta platforms. Yesterday, I posted this blog, where I discussed joining the new Pixelfed image-hosting social media platform. My blog automatically…
Read MoreIt’s chuckthewriter@pixelfed.social and don’t you forget it.
I’m still on the fence with Instagram. At one point I had an Instagram account, and somehow it got hacked. I cleaned up all the hacking, and a year or so later, the account was shut down for some unspecified claim of nebulous origin (I suspect some MAGA chud had a problem with me and…
Read MoreOh, it’s HISTORY Science Theater 3000. Got it.
I tell you, every time I go to YouTube, their algorithms try to pitch me on anything and everything. I could link a YouTube clip to my blog on item “X”, and the next time I visit YouTube, I’ll see 15 recommended videos about item “X”. And their recommendations can be quite maddening. Almost like…
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Soaring on a Manhattan Morning
“Manhattanhenge” is a combination of astronomy and architecture. Because New York City’s streets have a nearly perfect east-west pathway, there are several times during the year when the sun sets RIGHT in the pathway of traffic, or rises RIGHT in the pathway of traffic. To capture a “Manhattanhenge” photo is an accomplishment in and of…
Read MoreWSNY and S&H Green Stamps.
A blog reader recently contacted me about one of my old blog posts, a piece I wrote about my time in the 1980’s working for Schenectady radio station WWWD (“3WD”). Specifically – this blog post. And even though that blog was written (checks date) nearly sixteen years ago, it still gets a few visits now…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, January 11 2025
Good morning everybody. I’ve got a few projects to take care of this weekend, and I’m sure you do as well. And hopefully by Sunday night, all our projects will have reached completion. That being said, let’s go through the blogroll and see what the great writers and bloggers and photographs have created in the…
Read MorePizzagate gunman is now dead. I shed no tears.
You wouldn’t know the name Edgar Maddison Welch from a random flip through a telephone book. But nearly a decade ago, Edgar Maddison Welch committed a crime that showed the dangers of online conspiracy theories. Yep, Edgar Maddison Welch was the Pizzagate gunman. Let me explain. In the run-up to the 2016 Presidential race, someone…
Read MoreI was scared straight by Scared Straight!
Imagine this. It’s 1979, and there’s a documentary on local broadcast television. It features juvenile delinquents who enter a New Jersey prison and spend the next three hours learning the stories and experiences of the inmates. All the details. All the grisly, gory, seedy, scary, frightening, terrifying details. And we saw it all, unexpurgated and…
Read MoreThe speed-reading joke
I’m going to say I was in sixth grade at the time, which meant I was at Veeder Elementary School in South Colonie (School #7 of “The Twelve”), when one of my classmates brought in a couple of phonograph records for us to listen to during a break period. Those phonograph records were Cheech &…
Read MoreHe’s a “Real American” in the worst possible way.
I’m not going to lie. Hulk Hogan always rubbed me the wrong way. In professional wrestling, he was the good guy, or “babyface” that you hoped would get beaten to a pulp by the bad guy, or “heel.” And when he turned heel later on in his career, his persona just completely sucked the life…
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