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Hosting provider change is now complete, but I’m [obviously] playing with the theme. If you find any issues, please comment here.

Hosting provider change is now complete, but I’m [obviously] playing with the theme. If you find any issues, please comment here.

“Blech!” is how I felt about the results of my first photo-taking walk with my new camera last weekend. Figuring the sun and snow would be pretty, I slapped on my polarizing filter, switched the camera off auto mode, and went to it. The results were all horribly underexposed. I guess I need another lesson…
This is just sick.
Thesis: “In his new book, political analyst Ron Brownstein calls this a crisis of ‘hyperpartisanship,’ a crisis which has ‘unnecessarily inflamed our differences and impeded progress against our most pressing challenges.’ Nothing reflects the result of hyperpartisanship more than the current immigration debate…” Supporting arguments: “Here in our nation’s capital, I wanted to talk briefly…
Congressman Brian Higgins today repeated his call for the Skyway to be torn down and replaced, and every news outlet ran with it like it was major news. It’s been four years since I’ve written on the topic, but the claims that Higgins made today seemed to me to be more over the top than…
There’s a changing of the guard at an iconic Rochester restaurant. This week, Nick Tahou’s II (the Lyell Ave location) was rechristened “Steve T. Hots and Potatoes”. The change reflects a branching off in the Tahou’s family tree between the two locations. Nick Tahou’s father, Alexander, opened the original location on West Main Street in…
In my last post on the Aquarama/Marine Star, I had lifted two still photos of the ship being scrapped from a YouTube video. Peter Hartung, creator of the video, was kind enough to send me the hi-res versions. All photos are courtesy of Mr. Selim San, Izmir (Turkey). Click on the thumbnail to see the…