I’m developing plenty of comfort with this infrared-modified Nikon Df camera, and when I need it to capture a sweet black-and-white infrared image, it works admirably. But I want this camera to also capture infrared color images. I want that brilliant mix of magenta and turquoise that comes with a perfectly-set pack of Aerochrome 120…
Read MoreMugshots Bro: 2012-2024
You’re not supposed to develop attachments to racehorses in the same way as one develops an attachment to a baseball player or to some other athlete. But over time, I’ve developed rooting interests in various horses at various times. And it’s always for the weirdest reasons. During one season at the Saratoga flat track, I…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, May 18 2024
It’s Capital Region day today – celebrate the holiday by doing something local and charitable. Hell, I remember blogging about this day TWELVE YEARS AGO, so that’s something in and of itself. But if you would rather read more recent blogs … and not ones written over a decade ago … I got cha covered…
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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for May 17, 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 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. You can also listen to the Nightowl Radio Show, or any show on WHCL-FM, by telling your Amazon Echo, “Alexa, play WHCL-FM.”…
Read MoreBachelor Cooking: Chicken Spiedie Riggies
Okay … it sounds like I just mashed up two Central New York regional delicacies. And yeah … I kinda did. Because I had a bottle of this stuff … And I had a jar of this stuff. So I did the whole “you got chocolate in my peanut butter, well you got peanut butter…
Read MoreI don’t want a gravy warmer, Rivers Casino.
Rivers Casino in Schenectady is offering a special promotion in May – play on Tuesdays and earn enough points to receive one of four cast-iron cookware sets. The listings include a cast-iron skillet, a cast-iron grill pan, and two cast-iron oven pans. Okay. This sounds like it would work for me. But here’s the complication.…
Read More“You start watching this TV show with your skull full of MUSH!!”
Sometimes a television show will sneak up on you … and as you watch it, you immediately get hooked into the program and all its intricacies. And that happened to me in 1978, when The Paper Chase debuted on CBS. The series was set on the 1973 motion picture of the same name, and John…
Read MoreThe $20 Junior Challenge, May 11 2024
I hadn’t posted this in a while. Mostly because the blue roan harness trotter Pay Me To Knight (known around the barn as “Junior”) hasn’t exactly been up to snuff. But even though I haven’t posted lately about my challenge … I still follow the rule of this year-long endeavor. $20 on his nose to…
Read MoreI did NOT have Sunspot AR3664 on my photographic Bingo card. Until now.
Okay, I’ll admit it. I’ve been a bit of an astrophotographic nerd of late. Three solar eclipses, two lunar eclipses, a couple of Milky Way captures, some star trails, and a meteor shower. But how about capturing one of the biggest sunspots ever? Yep. Did that last Friday. Apparently the sun is going through its…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, May 11 2024
I should let you know that my blogroll is very fluid. I’ll add links for new bloggers, and I’ll remove links from bloggers who don’t blog any more (or their page comes back as a “404: Not Found” when I search for them). That’s why you don’t see the Lazygal or the James Edward Skye…
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