Welcome to my humble website, I'm Pokey. I take a lot of photos and sometimes write articles about various topics including history, architecture, old tech, the paranormal, and more.
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Back in November, I treated myself and purchased a "real digital camera" This is an Olympus E-PL3, a 12.3 megapixel micro-four-thirds camera from 2011, and I'm very happy with it. It's a great, compact little piece, and I've been taking it out and about whenever…
Continue reading...Big Lots- the overstock retailer that decided it didn't want to be an overstock retailer anymore- is a very unremarkable store. As regional competitors like Ollie's Bargain Outlet thrive and independent stores hawking Amazon returns explode across the nation, Big Lots has largely seemed ashamed…
Continue reading...While strolling through a downtown or other urban center, you're naturally looking up, towards the thousands of dollars of flashy signage fighting for your attention. The ground is for welcome mats, trash, and cracks in the pavement, and most people direct their eyes elsewhere. However,…
Continue reading...Welcome to the next installment of Monthly Junk, a series which really really needs a better, less crass sounding name. But with the looming election, my mind isn't cracked up for any stress-inducing tasks like name generation, so Monthly Junk it remains. We got a big one this month-…
Continue reading...Jacksonville's Regency Square Mall answers an important question in the modern retail leasing landscape: just how long can you puppet around the husk of a once successful center, as the walls literally fall down around you? Jacksonville, having long embraced suburban sprawl, is awash with…
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