This year a lot of Streit’s Passover product was emblazoned with their 100 year centennial, a New York State family business that started in 1925, still going strong, and still a family business in 2025!
Anyone in business (or who … Read the rest
...The first Seder of Passover 2025/5785 is on Saturday Night. The next time we’ll have this setup of a Shabbos Erev Pesach will be Passover 2045 – in twenty years time!
This recalls a classic short story by O’Henry titled … Read the rest
Not to get political, but most people on both sides of the aisle would consider President’s Trump’s boldly declared “Liberation Day” when declaring tariffs on most countries around the world as anything but liberating. It tanked the stock markets both … Read the rest
This week online there was a flood of AI conversion of images to a Studio Ghibli format. People are fascinated by this instantaneous artform at incredible ease.
One such image posted this week on Twitter/X caught my eye. Someone (it … Read the rest
This 2025, UAlbany’s Great Dane “Damien” reached first place in the SUNY Mascot Madness bracket after a frenzy of online voting finally pushed UAlbany ahead. We got into it when UAlbany was a finalist and I know that many of … Read the rest
I saw this “Tricky Weekend Setup” image from a local weatherman Steve Caporizzo explaining the challenge of pinpointing Albany’s forecast this last weekend in March. It so happens that we are situated along the mid-state line where the cold front … Read the rest