Creative Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:03:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Eastern Caribbean, 2026 https://www.scottbradford.us/2026/03/24/eastern-caribbean-2026/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:03:17 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=91878 Back in January, Melissa and I went on a seven-day cruise to the eastern Caribbean. First we spent a few days in San Juan, Puerto Rico, then we boarded the Norwegian Epic for a journey to the British Virgin Islands, Antigua, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten and Saint Martin, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It […]

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]]> Musical Santa 2025 https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/12/16/musical-santa-2025/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:35:54 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=91572 Written and Produced by:Scott Bradford Starring:Charles “Chucky” Santa III Fair-use excerpts:Child’s Play (1988)The Exorcist (1973)The Shining (1980)The Tick, S2E10 (1995) Sound effects:Adobe sound libraryPixabay sound library Charles Santa appears courtesy of The American

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]]> Daylight Saving Report, 2025 https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/11/05/daylight-saving-report-2025/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:43:33 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=91477 In a 1784 letter to the editor of the Journal de Paris, Benjamin Franklin, then the U.S. Minister to France, satirically suggested that Parisians could improve their productivity and save money on candle wax by synchronizing their lives more closely to the sun during the summer months. According to Franklin’s calculations, if Paris woke up […]

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]]> South America & Antarctica, 2025 https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/10/14/south-america-antarctica-2025/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:23:10 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=90843 Back in January, Melissa and I visited South America and Antarctica. It was an amazing once-in-a-lifetime trip centered around a fourteen-day cruise on the Norwegian Star. This post includes a lot of photos . . . including more penguins than you probably ever wanted to see. There was a pretty big “snafu” right at the start of the […]

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]]> Japan and Alaska, 2024 https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/09/15/japan-and-alaska-2024/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:02:05 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=89946 No, that’s not a typo in the title. Melissa and I went to Japan and Alaska all the way back in April 2024, but I just got around to sorting and processing my photos now. Sorry. It is what it is. I assume these places haven’t changed too much in the meantime! Our trip took […]

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]]> Gamera Gymnastics (Extended Version) https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/05/26/gamera-gymnastics-extended-version/ Mon, 26 May 2025 14:36:50 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=89398 Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) is a cinematic masterpiece. Don’t pay any attention to the Godzilla partisans; Gamera is the king of the kaiju, and always will be. This is an alternate, extended cut of Gamera’s gymnastics scene. Fair use/parody. Don’t sue. Don’t make false copyright claims. Don’t be a jerk. You can watch Gamera vs. […]

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]]> JCPenney, Polar, Samyang, Oh My https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/03/02/jcpenney-polar-samyang-oh-my/ Sun, 02 Mar 2025 23:56:16 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=88495 Photography is one of my main hobbies. Of course I take most of my pictures with my phone now—just like everybody else—but when I want to do some serious shooting, I use cameras and lenses in the Sony E-mount mirrorless system. One of the nice things about mirrorless cameras is that they have a much […]

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]]> New IAD Runway Dedicated https://www.scottbradford.us/2025/01/26/new-iad-runway-dedicated/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 02:03:54 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=88699 On January 19, 2024, Southern Airways Express flight 246 departed Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) bound for Lancaster Airport (LNS) in Pennsylvania. The aircraft operating the flight was a small, single-engine Cessna 208B commuter plane. It carried five passengers and two crew. Shortly after takeoff from Dulles’s runway 30, the engine started losing power. The […]

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]]> Star Trek: The A-Team – Opening Credits https://www.scottbradford.us/2024/11/28/star-trek-the-a-team-opening-credits/ Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:35:29 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=88458 Our favorite outlaws are at it again!

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]]> Solar Cause and Effect https://www.scottbradford.us/2024/10/12/solar-cause-and-effect/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 04:40:43 +0000 https://www.scottbradford.us/?p=88115 Cause: Effect: More Effect: Details On October 8, 2024, the Sun sent a fairly large coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. It came from a solar flare associated with the sunspot visible toward the top-right of the “Cause” photo above. I took that photo days later, after the sunspot had rotated out of alignment with […]

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