Dad’s ’79 Corvette

I found this photograph last weekend going through some things.  This is hardly the most valuable car Dad let get away, but this is the one he says he regrets selling the most.  This is a 1979 Corvette L-82, black with white interior.  It had most of what you could put on one except front … Read more

Madison Square death watch

I started off this morning a bit more than 1,400 steps in the hole, mostly because I took yesterday afternoon off.  So the Friday of my 8,000-steps-per-workday week had to contain 9,400 steps.  Headed back to Madison Square at lunch, mostly because it was a mindless way to get them. Malls are still some of … Read more

Immortalizing my homemade VHS collection

I briefly mentioned last week that I was finally digitizing my VHS collection, with the aid of this little thingamajig and associated unpolished-but-effective software. Said collection consists of two dozen or so painstakingly recorded cassettes.  I made them between 1987 and 1992, mostly in my bedroom at my dad’s house, holding the remote and doing … Read more

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