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Mammatus Clouds, Webster, NY It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country....
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Sailboat in Sodus Bay, NY My friend Ken seems lately to be a one man advertising machine for New York. No problem there, I guess. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, even when it’s rooted...
View ArticleSponsored by the Number “11″
Buttermilk Creek, Ithaca, NY If you happen to be superstitious – and who among us isn’t, to some degree – then today might be your “lucky day”. It is, of course, 11-11-11. One of those dates on the...
View ArticleSo Who’s #1?
Scarlett's, Savannah, GA For some reason, as I grow older, I find myself more and more disinterested in sports. I still watch some stuff on TV and I do read the sports pages in the paper, but I rarely...
View ArticleParaskevidekatriaphobia
Now that’s a word I’d never seen before. At least not until today. But there it was, on the front page of USA Today, saying that this would be a bad year for paraskevidekatriaphobics. Rattle that...
View ArticleLost Connections
Old dirt road, near Springdale, UT Once upon a time, I knew all about “popular” stuff. If someone asked me if I’d heard the latest song from a given artist, I’d almost always say yes. Or if I’d seen...
View ArticleSeeing Red
Red on red, New Orleans, La I know I’ve expressed this sentiment before, but sometimes you just have to be impressed by ignorance. Mind-boggling, stupid, in your face ignorance. But then, we’re...
View ArticleThe Perfect Storm
As the heat returns to western NY over the next week or so, I offer up some not – so – cool facts: For the United States, 2012 has so far been the warmest on record (going back to 1895). More than...
View ArticleWizards and Trolls
Not too long ago, in the days when I had to work for a living, I was sometimes asked to teach the “wizardry” of applied statistics. An assignment that was fine with me simply because it was fun. It...
View ArticleNaked in Roswell
Why is it that when aliens (allegedly) visit us here on our little blue planet they’re always in their birthday suits? Or pictured that way, anyway. If I remember correctly, ET had no clothes on...
View ArticleStuck on “3″
While converting this image of the old Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, NM, to black and white (very moody, don’t you think?), I was suddenly struck by how many patterns of “3″ I could find. They’re...
View Article49 and counting………
So here we are. One year away from 50 years of marriage. On this day, 49 years ago, Barbara and I were married in Spencerport, NY on a cold January evening, in the midst of the Vietnam War buildup,...
View ArticleA Bad Case of Gas
Now that the holiday season has come to an end and most people have gone back to work or school, there seems to be plenty of opportunity to return to more mundane ways of passing the time. You know,...
View ArticleOn Being #1
Overlook, Glen Iris Inn, Letchworth SP USA Today recently published one of their “Readers Choice Awards” in which they listed the top 10 state parks in the entire United States. I always find these...
View ArticleOn Being #1
Overlook, Glen Iris Inn, Letchworth SP USA Today recently published one of their “Readers Choice Awards” in which they listed the top 10 state parks in the entire United States. I always find these...
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