This is a post from my old blogspot.com weblog, but I thought it would be nice to share it with a larger Times Union.com readership. One of my greatest high school achievements (hell, one of the greatest achievements I’ve ever pulled off) was when my high school, Street Academy, defeated three consecutive schools on WRGB’s…
Read MoreTRON Legacy’s new movie trailer
I have been waiting since 1982 to see a sequel to this film.ย And now… I only have to wait until the end of the year. First, a little background.ย In 1982, I had just finished my freshman year at Hamilton College, and I decided to stay on campus during the summer and partake of…
Read MoreSiena’s First National Basketball Championship
You know, it’s great to see the Capital Region represented each year in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.ย It’s great to see the Siena Saints (and, on occasion, the UAlbany Great Danes) participate in postseason action.ย It’s produced so many memories for college hoops fans – the year Siena shocked the world and upset Stanford;…
Read MoreThe Kodachrome has arrived…
A bit of background.ย The other day, I mentioned that I was taking my Russian Kiev-19 35mm film camera out of the proverbial mothballs and giving it a test run for a photo project. Last Saturday, the ammunition for my photo project came in the mail.ย Three packages of 200 speed Kodak Kodachrome KL film.ย …
Read MoreDunkfest in Vermont
The Premier Basketball League’s Vermont Frost Heaves play in two Green Mountain State venues, the Barre Municipal Auditorium (which I colloquially call “small”) and the Burlington Memorial Auditorium (that one I call “smaller”).ย The Burlington Auditorium is so old, that I think James Naismith had his team play “away” games there. Last Saturday, the Auditorium…
Read MoreSay “Cheese” … or with this camera, say “ััั”
I don’t know why, even with my powerful Nikon D700 digital SLR camera, that I would even consider using this 35mm film beast. The “beast” I’m talking about is a Kiev-19 Russian-made SLR film camera. I bought the Kiev-19 camera for one reason and one reason only – it was cheap, and it had a…
Read MoreWeek 3 of the 2010 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
This week at Elbo Room, several legacy teams returned to the Delaware Avenue bar and grille for their chance to win free food and beer, as well as the $1,500 grand prize.ย These were teams that hadn’t been at Elbo Room since the last tournament, and all of a sudden I saw Stern Fans, The…
Read MoreThe Funny or Die Presidential Reunion
This is great.ย In a special five-minute film clip from the humor site Funny or Die, President Barack Obama gets visited by various past United States Presidents, as he wrestles with trying to create a consumer protection board, so that we aren’t continually clobbered by usurious credit card charges and the like. Oh, and did…
Read MoreThe blog conference get-together
Yesterday evening, I attended a special Capital Region blog community get-together.ย Sponsored by the Times-Union, it featured dozens of bloggers and online commentators throughout the Capital Region and beyond. While the event was predominantly focused on the meaning of blogging as part of the “new conversation,” I looked at it more as a chance to…
Read MoreThe re-re-return of Max Headroom
One of my favorite TV shows of all time was the early cyberpunk science-fiction series Max Headroom.ย For those of you with faded memories of the 1980’s, you might recall an iconic image of a computer-generated sunglasses-wearing head, spouting off non-sequiturs and funny observations.ย That was Max Headroom. From 1987 to 1988, ABC aired a…
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