After my first failed attempt in 2006 to win the championship chalice of competitive team trivia, I vowed that I would do whatever it took to win.ย Although I played team trivia as a solo act, the one-man wrecking crew of “Street Academy,” on occasion I would bring friends in and have teammates.ย So by…
Read MoreA new trick lowlifes can use to compromise your credit cards
On the 17th of January, 2010, I saw the ecampus.com charge on my credit card online statement.ย I couldn’t think of what I might have bought from ecampus.com, and in fact I was wondering if ecampus.com was part of some other company that I might have purchased from, with ecampus.com being the primary company.ย I…
Read MoreWeek 17 of the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
Oh man, if last night was the money round for the Elbo Room Trivia championship, I should have just gone home. A year off on one answer, a decade off on another, I couldn’t hit anything correct. And when the 20th and final question rolled around, although I had a semi-respectable 70 points on the…
Read MoreBeginning a new health project for me
This is actually one of those New Year’s Resolutions that I never put down as one of my official New Year’s Resolutions – but it moved to the top of the listย because of something that happened last Friday.ย I was eating some peanuts, when all of a sudden I felt something in my mouth…
Read MoreRemembering Wacky Packages
Flashback to the summer of 1973. I was at my grandmother’s house in West Roxbury, Massachusetts for the summer, and several of the neighborhood kids got together to trade baseball cards, and I was more than willing to swap any Carl Yastrzemski cards I had for whatever Tony Oliva or Vida Blue cards they had.…
Read MoreMemories of Trivia Bowl II: 2006
As we get closer to February 6, and the day when the best trivia teams in the Capital District face off in Trivia Bowl VI, I thought I’d share some memories of past Trivia Bowls.ย I wasn’t involved in the competitive bar team trivia scene until the summer of 2005, so I missed out on…
Read MoreRemembering “Black Through the Years”
On this holiday in which we pay tribute to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., today I pay tribute to a very special high school play. See, the year before I arrived at Street Academy, the students in that school’s history classes wrote a series of vignettes on the history of African-American…
Read MoreThe Buffalo Stampede never gave up
I’m not a fan of losing streaks.ย They’re demoralizing, they’re painful, and they make the recipient of a losing streak the butt of jokes and the pity of everybody else in the league. You may not have heard of the Buffalo Stampede.ย They play in the Premier Basketball League, the nine-team minor league circuit for…
Read MoreDon’t Mix Your Coolants. Don’t. Just Don’t.
Taking care of a 1991 Pontiac 6000 with (as of today) 149,000 miles on it can be a daunting task.ย There are issues that can be minor annoyances – I have to replace the weatherstripping on the front passenger door – and issues that can be major concerns, and that’s what brings me to today’s…
Read MoreWeek 16 of the Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
We’re coming down the home stretch.ย There’s still a chance for teams to make the finals – in fact, before tonight began it was possible for a team to walk into Elbo Room for the first time – right off the street, don’tcha know – and win both weeks and get into the tournament. And…
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