Climate Resilience
I’d like to see this effort coupled with some meaningful steps to slow climate change. Maybe it could be paid for by […]
Read moreAuthor: SamUpstate
A suburban dad enjoying and celebrating life in New York's Capital District.
Working to improve the world by supporting public education and strong, walkable communities.
Software Engineer (by day).
Improving the Harriman Campus
It would be hard to catalog all the damage governors and other state-level officials of New York State have done to the […]
Read moreButternut Squash Pasta
My wife picked up a few bags of butternut squash pumpkin-shaped pasta from Trader Joe’s this past October. I finally got around […]
Read moreToday’s Bake
I baked another of Paul Hollywood’s Basic Wholemeal Bread loaves. I changed my kneading technique this time, focusing on stretching the dough […]
Read moreWhy No Links?
A huge pet-peeve of mine when reading news online is the near complete absence of links. Legacy media doesn’t write for the […]
Read morePersonal Health Data and Consent
The Times Union published an article on Thursday about a bill passed by the New York State Legislature intended to increase protection […]
Read moreToday’s bake
Another attempt at Paul Hollywood’s Basic Wholemeal Bread. I think it came out quite a bit better, though I could have scored […]
Read more9 & 155: What a Mess
The Albany Business Review published an article yesterday about the sale of the Freshmarket Commons, a crowded strip mall squeezed into a […]
Read moreOne way to hide the evidence?
Don’t collect it in the first place. The Times Union reported Thursday that the Census Bureau is now no longer permitted to […]
Read moreLooking forward to this…
There’s an article in today’s Times Union about an up and coming Tapas and Wine bar opening this spring in downtown Troy. […]
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