The new governor, and the possible uses of chaos in Albany and on Wall Street.

The NYT notes that Dith Pran, the Cambodian photojournalist whose story was told in The Killing Fields, has died. Although he was most famous as perhaps the only victim of the Cambodian genocide with a name and story that Americans knew, he was actually a very talented photographer in times of both war and […]

A very interesting story in today’s New York Times about the earliest recorded sound, which dates from 1860 and is only now made playable via computer technology. (Its creator had never intended it to be played back, only to be analyzed.)
It seems to me that we have the technology today to measure and […]

The former sock-making capital of the world; bad times for music; and news of note from Chevy Court.

Coffee, cold cuts and pani’s.

Lost in the deluge of dismal news over the past couple weeks is the sudden announcement that not only is the Canal Corp. reinstating tolls on the Erie Canal system, but daily operating hours are being rather savagely curtailed. I suppose it was inevitable with the economic downturn, but I think more people are […]

About Albany girls and New York women.

An unexpected development.

Will Paterson be willing or able to adopt the Spitzer administration’s methodical approach to Upstate revival? Should he?

My winter aconite has come around.