Egyptology
Things I learned about Egyptian culture while watching several hours of informative movies on Turner Classic Movies the other night:...
Jarheads throwing bottles again
Luckily, I lost my faith in humanity long ago, or this constant rash of barely evolved creatures throwing things at...
Things that take up my time
Figuring out Noah Webster’s tenuous connection to Albany. (He actually spent more time in Lansingburgh, by all accounts.) Filling out...
Mad Alchemy
Image by carljohnson via Flickr It’s so cool when you try something and it’s just as good as you had...
Definitely.
Saw a sign posted on the RPI campus, promoting a food-related club, that said “Sweet corn is better than sex.”...
Seriously, what is wrong with people?
Image by carljohnson via Flickr I’ve tried to take the stoic approach. I’ve tried to ignore people and go on...
More newsies
Incredible photos by Lewis Wickes Hine, photographer and reformer, ca. 1910. (Incredible music by Seasick Steve.)
Time will come today
Image by carljohnson via Flickr After reading Daniel Walker Howe’s brilliant history of the transformation of the U.S. in the...
Boating down the Hudson, 1938
For those of us who never got to experience the glory days of the Hudson River Day Line (or the...