tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55933902012-02-16T03:40:44.447-05:00Thoughts, anecdotes, amusing stories, and all sorts of interesting things, brought to you by Paige (that’s me). Void where prohibited. Warning: Sometimes I display an unhealthy obsession watching USA Softball’s Cat Osterman. Check out <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/15947776@N06/sets/">my photos on Flickr</a>.Paigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338031822632699399noreply@blogger.comBlogger1522125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593390.post-83081748913244028062011-09-12T13:06:00.000-04:002011-09-12T13:06:08.222-04:00

Yesterday, I went out for a walk with my camera in Summerville (north of Rochester, on the east side of the Genesee River), to take some pictures of old houses, scenery, and some railroad archaeology. Summerville (which is part of the town of Irondequoit) has two abandoned railroad bridges over St. Paul Boulevard. The northernmost carried the former New York Central Railroad “Hojack” line west

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My trip to Chicago in June, 2011 was a smashing success! There were so many highlights, I don't even know where to begin. So, let me just describe my trip chronologically, but beware this is long, and there's a lot to cover, including railroads, pro softball, old neighborhoods and a trip to Wrigley Field. I'm exhausted, my feet are sore, and there are over 500 pictures and videos in my camera. (

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC_6821, originally uploaded by esacflatlndr (Jeff Eichen) and used with permission Listening to the 60s Channel on XMRadio, I have heard a lot of great old music, including several songs from Dion DiMucci. I knew a lot of

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Joseph Ellicott Complex, SUNY Buffalo, originally uploaded by statPaige.This is my most viewed photograph on Flickr. It has been viewed over 3,000 times! I used to live here in the Joseph Ellicott Complex when I was in

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Wow. I haven't blogged in a whole year. A lot has happened, but the big news is that I need surgery for spinal stenosis. After the surgery I will be out of work for probably 6–8 weeks. The rest of the year has gone very well for me. I still work at Kodak (yay!), I took very nice trips to Baltimore, MD and Toledo, OH. The trip to Baltimore was to see my daughter Alyssa run in her very first

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I have never used a GPS before, and this unit is probably lacking some features that higher priced GPS units might have. Nevertheless, I found a lot of useful features in the Nextar X3–11, and enjoyed using it yesterday.I do a lot of photography ... lately, my interest has been to visit the small towns of Western NY, and photograph the beautiful old buildings, and other scenes as well. In the

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Lou Gehrig’s Final Letters:The paper is fragile, the ink faded by time, but the words Lou Gehrig wrote 70 years ago, after being diagnosed with ALS, reveal a man with inner strength and a clear sense of purpose in his determination to find a cure for the disease.His words are now enclosed in protective plastic sleeves in a blue binder to be preserved for as long as possible. But that doesn't make

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This year’s Women’s College World Series has left me emotionally drained. We have seen, in a 48 hour period, a walk-off grand slam, a walk-off bases loaded walk, great diving catches, blazing speed, a record number of home runs, brilliant coaching decisions, poor plays, umpiring controversies, constant smiling from Kristin Schnake, tears and dogpiles. And we saw Jazlyn Lunceford.After 11 hours of

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see more Fail Blog

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A group of twenty-somethings attached flares to helium balloons, and then launched them from a vacant field, videotaping the whole thing. The result: widespread hype about the “Morristown UFO”, and local and national media covered the story. Despite the fact that there was video showing what these twenty-somethings were doing, many so-called experts decided that the UFOs were real. According to

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Previously inhabitable islands in the Pacific are no longer inhabitable. (Via)An entire glacier in Bolivia has melted away, years ahead of the pace scientists were predicting. (Via)

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From New Scientist:Astronomers have spotted the most distant object yet confirmed in the universe – a self-destructing star that exploded 13.1 billion light years from Earth. It detonated just 640 million years after the big bang, around the end of the cosmic “dark ages”, when the first stars and galaxies were lighting up space.

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A few weeks ago, I bought a new CharGriller Super Pro grill. This grill is the absolute best charcoal grill ever! It smokes meats (something I haven’t done much of) and it grills like you wouldn't believe.The first time I cooked on it, I made the famous Beer Can Chicken recipe. As I was not used to getting the heat to the right temperature, it took twice as long as necessary and didn't crisp up

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My recent trip to Chicago included a stop to see DePaul and Northwestern play softball. Although I have been a Northwestern fan for four years now, I have also been a Cat Osterman fan for even longer. Cat is now coach at DePaul, so the game was a double thrill for me.I posted a comment (scroll down) on Cat Osterman’s blog Cat’s Corner today. I said:Hi, Cat. I have been following your career since

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Isn’t it amazing that whenever voting machines problems are documented, the errors always favor the Rethuglicans on the ballot?

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“I might have to rely on a vice president that I select” for expertise on economic issues.

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Even though he would like you now to believe otherwise ...

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By now, you know that the USA Softball team lost to Japan in the gold medal game 3–1. In single elimination play, it doesn’t really matter that the USA was clearly the best team. It didn’t matter that they had the best slugger in the world (Crystl Bustos), or the best offense in the world, or the best pitcher in the world (Cat Osterman). One or two bad pitches, one or two bad at-bats, and you don

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In the Athens Olympics, the USA Softball team outscored its opponents 55–1. This summer, we were told that the world has been catching up to the USA.You’d never know it from USA Softball’s first four games, where the United States has outscored its opponents 29–1. It’s pitching staff, supposedly young and not terribly experienced in International games, has allowed only two hits. The ace of the

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Check out the highlights!

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USA Softball, the favorites to win an Olympic gold medal in softball, dominated their opening match of the Beijing Olympics by trouncing Venezuela 11–0. Jennie Finch and Monica Abbott pitched a combined no-hitter.The highlight of the night for me was Caitlin Lowe’s inside the park homerun. She hit the ball over the left-fielder who was playing very shallow. As soon as the ball landed, knowing

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Twenty five years ago, one of the most memorable and controversial baseball games happened at Yankee Stadium. Tim Kurkjian, from ESPN The Magazine, explains.I watched the game live. I knew what the umpires were doing as they laid the bat down next to home plate to measure how far up the bat the pine tar was. I was a third-year baseball umpire at the time, and suddenly, those umpires on television

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