You can fall down the YouTube rabbit hole in an instant, and once you’re there … hoo boy you can find some amazing things. Such as this classic 1968 jam by Sly and the Family Stone. You know it, you love it, here it is. Well, when the record company demanded a follow-up to this…
Read MoreThe Force is strong with this one.
Over the years, I’ve developed a love-hate relationship with Twitter n/k/a X. It’s not as polarizing as my love-hate relationship with Reddit, or my love-haven’t-really-found-anything-to-hate-about-it-yet relationship with Mastodon. But that being said … there are moments on X when, for one reason or another, I get transported away from my jaded, cynical soon-to-be-61-year-old-self, and turn…
Read MoreIf you want to vote for Chuck, you can vote for Chuck here.
I have always stressed the importance of voting. Voting is the single most effective tool we have in choosing our government and our leaders. And it’s not just politics. In the past, I’ve voted for pineapples on pizza (totally acceptable), Miracle Whip as the best salad dressing (I’ll die on that hill), and The Last…
Read MoreDo scammers attract scambots? Of COURSE they do!
Last week, I blogged about a new social media scam, one where a scammer posts on one person’s page, tags twelve other people, and blurts about a cryptic message about “I can’t believe he’s gone, gonna miss him so much,” with a link that, if clicked, will take the victim to some nefarious website where…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, June 22 2024
Good morning, my fantastic blog readers. Glad to see you today. And by “glad,” I also mean that I’m glad to go through this week’s blog roll recap and see what my fellow writers and bloggers and photographers and thinkers are up to. So let’s get started. Have a great weekend, everybody!
Read More
(Best of) The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for June 21, 2024
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 8:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode, originally broadcast on August 14, 2020, features popular songs in extremely rare foreign-language versions. This is way cool. Trust me…
Read MoreHe isn’t gone, and you don’t miss him, you filthy scammer.
You have to be tremendously vigilant on social media. I say that because there are numerous scammers and thieves and criminals who will try to compromise your social media account for their own sinister purposes. Let me post two examples of this scam. Yesterday, this appeared on one of my friends’ Facebook pages. Now you…
Read MoreDePaula Chevrolet forgot why I won’t use DePaula Chevrolet any more
It’s Monday morning, I’m at the day job, and I receive a call on my cell phone. The caller ID says DePaula Chevrolet. Oh, this is going to be good. Background. For many years, I trusted DePaula Chevrolet with the maintenance of my first four GM cars. They maintained my 1991 Pontiac 6000, and when…
Read MoreI asked you to check back with me on June 15, 2024 … let’s see what happened.
Last year, I installed a Solarcan pinhole camera in my girlfriend’s back yard. See? Blog post to prove it. But if you’re not feeling like reading an old blog post, I’ll give you the TL/DR. A Solarcan is a specially-prepared camera. It’s a beer can that contains a sheet of photographic paper inside. A tiny…
Read More“I’ll take 20 millimeters, please.”
I’m preparing for an upcoming photo project, and as much as I appreciate all my Nikon glass, I need something that’s ultrawide and totally within my budget. I mean, if I had $3,500 to drop on a 58mm f/1.2 Noct lens, I’d do it. But I have this thing called a budget, and I gotta…
Read More
Chuck The Writer 
You must be logged in to post a comment.