Category Archives: blogs

A new blog that is not so new

I’m start­ing a new, hamster-focused blog for pic­tures, news, and sto­ries about me and the hams. If that sort of thing inter­ests you, point your com­put­ing device to http://www.lifeinhamsterdam.com/.
This is a rebirth of sorts of the con­tent from my late, lamented blog that went with rodentbreak.com.  WIth that site, the domain name expired ear­lier this

Maybe I should just move.

It is unbe­liev­ably weird to see a story that we broke at Con­sumerist on Mon­day as a “details at eleven” teaser on the local news before “Lost,” com­plete with exte­rior shot of the restau­rant where it happened.

Virtual clips

I finally have a decently-formatted vir­tual clips page online. I’m link­ing to my author pages at the var­i­ous sites I write (or used to write) for, and direct links to some of my favorite work. For Con­sumerist and AOA, I list every­thing, since I don’t have enough pieces for either to bother pick­ing out favorites. 

Don’t change your shoes

This com­ing week is National Vol­un­teer Week. Haven’t heard of it? Nei­ther had I, until just now, but I like the idea. 
I’ve read reports in var­i­ous news out­lets that newly un-, under-, and self-employed peo­ple are vol­un­teer­ing in record num­bers. I’m ashamed to admit that I am not one of them. I haven’t done much vol­un­teer­ing

Bad pizza, free publicity; free pizza, bad publicity

On Tues­day, I made my first Con­sumerist post, which is some­how now push­ing 300,000 pageviews.
Today, I made my sec­ond All Over Albany post, which doesn’t have quite as much traf­fic, but my pho­tos were still met with con­tro­versy.
I’m tired of being e-famous. I think I’m going to shut up for the rest of the week.
Wait, no,

Absolutely!

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A link and a quote, shared with no comment. Emphasis mine.

TU likely to charge Web users
None of this is a sur­prise, of course, and is part of the broader free-fall of the news­pa­per busi­ness, includ­ing at the bank­rupt Jour­nal Reg­is­ter Co. (owner of papers in Troy and Saratoga) and the Sch­enec­tady Gazette (which has had wave after wave of lay­offs, and like the TU recently raised prices for

The guy from Lost was haggling over $1″

It’s strangely com­fort­ing to know that Jorge Gar­cia from “Lost” seems to love coupons as much as I do.

Well, I am, but that’s not why

I think I’ve learned how much pho­to­graphic bacon it takes to make me feel phys­i­cally ill.
This much.

You can, however, time travel to 1987

The fol­low­ing is my visual trib­ute to this blog post.