If you're smarter than we are, and bajillions of people are, you might be able to figure out what we're about to tell you. But we can't. It comes from WABC-TV in New York. A woman named Joanne Keating was a victim of Hurricane Sandy, which eliminated her home less than a week before she… Continue reading Hurricane Victim a Hurricane Victim?
An extended leave of absence ends…
Yeah, this has become like so many other apparently-abandoned blogs online. Unfortunately, most of the time, updates that I want to put online are those that require little time, and FB is easier for me to keep in contact with my friends about. A couple of new posts will be going up shortly, however. And,… Continue reading An extended leave of absence ends…
And The Ships' Names Will Be…
Windstar announced this week the name of its fourth ship, the first of three the luxury line purchased from Seabourn and scheduled to begin its new life one year from now. It currently sails as Seabourn Pride (right) and next year will become Star Pride (below). Now this is just a wild guess…but when the… Continue reading And The Ships' Names Will Be…
Finding Photos with Face Recognition
One of the staples that comes with cruising is having your picture taken, and having your picture taken, and having your…a photographic Ground Hog Day. Then you go to the photo gallery to see if any of them make you look better than you think you look and, if any do, there's an addition to… Continue reading Finding Photos with Face Recognition
Batter Up for the Celebrity Sox
I love cruising. I love baseball. When Celebrity announced yesterday that it's now the "official cruise line of the Boston Red Sox", for me there was only one thing I didn't like about it. Wrong Sox. When I was a still a second-grader, my parents took me to Chicago (Palatine, Ill. actually) and introduced me… Continue reading Batter Up for the Celebrity Sox