Off the Top of My Head

My niece Meghan, the eldest of the Rooney grandchildren, came to visit this weekend. Meghan is the daughter of my brother Tim, who lives nea...

I recently switched from running to walking. It has been a great transition for me but different. I have run for 5 years and even did a ma...

If you love free stuff like me, then mark your calendar. To commemorate the opening of the 100th Dunkin’ Donuts store in the Capital Region...

UPDATE #2: WooHoo! You can find one of the clips here ! UPDATE: D'oh! Fox ordered YouTube to take the clips down. Bummer. Trust me, it...

I finally saw “X-Men: The Last Stand” tonight. Yeah, I know, the movie came out in May. I don’t get out as often as I used to. Anyway, it w...

We haven’t been to a SPAC concert in ages, but we went last night to see Huey Lewis & the News and Chicago. Chicago was alright. They’re...

After jumping through some hoops, I finally got some vacation pictures to show up on Blogger. So please revisit my earlier post . Here’s on...

Blogger might not be letting me upload pictures, but fortunately YouTube is working fine...

The intrepid Rooney family has returned from the Adirondack wilderness. We spent several days camping at the Limekiln Lake state campground ...

We're heading out for our vacation this morning. For the next several days we'll be camping in the Adirondacks with no TV, no e-mai...

Time for another rant against Fox and their coverage of Major League Baseball (all of the birthday business kept me from blogging about thi...

The birthday party was a huge success, despite the weather. The forecast called for rain, heavy at times, starting right around the time our...

There are so many great things to do in the summer that just aren't there other times of the year. On Friday we had out friends Lori and...

I haven’t seen “Superman Returns” yet. I don’t know when I’ll get to, but I’m really looking forward to it. I just got done watching on A...

Happy Independence Day one and all. You can read a copy of the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives site . Seems very appro...

I was playing around in Photoshop, trying to figure out how to make Nolan's lightsaber "glow." Here are my first attempts...

Today was the day for Camp Mu Ji Gae —a Korean culture camp that’s held in Albany each summer primarily for kids adopted from Korea. This is...

“That’s not Cybermen.” “Oh my God.” Holy crap! I just got done watching “Army of Ghosts,” part one of the two-part “Doctor Who” season fin...

So Kris wonders what SNL character I am. I’d like to be somebody cool like Elwood Blues or Wayne Campbell (although I’m probably closer to...

Many people in our neck of the woods are fascinated by the Porco murder trial that's going on right now. But I stumbled across this ar...