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Geographer and one-time aviation and transportation planner. DC now after stops in CDMX, NYC, Shanghai, Jerusalem, Dubai, and Montreal, but always and forever a proud New Jerseyan.

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1991-build. Flew with Thai until 2006, then to UPS. Overnight package is high-cycles/low-hours. Its daily schedule is something like:
0400-0600: Louisville-Outstation
2300-0100: Outstation-Louisville
Doesn't spend a lot of time in the air.

20.11.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I worked for an organization that ran its critical application on a Digital mainframe all the way back in... 2010. (I left then, but I think the program continued for a few more years.)

20.11.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

40 rides to break even in Israel, and there's no transit at all in most places from 2 hours before sunset on Friday to 2 hours after sunset on Saturday.

19.11.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I knew Pedro Martinez was popular in Boston, but I didn't imagine this as a second career.

18.11.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know 2 people from here!

18.11.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You should be driving with your lights on anyway.

16.11.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Best solution for the mobile lounges: build a couple of ramps in Ocean City that lead down into the Atlantic. Have a big festive parade all along Route 50. At the end of the parade, thousands of people cheer as the lounges roll into the sea never to be seen again.

16.11.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh hey, Penn's long snapper is the kid of JP Darche, the McGill grad who was a long snapper in the NFL and is now the Chiefs team doctor.

16.11.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ew.

(at north columbus high high school. College football otherwise is great)

16.11.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love this so much.

14.11.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is... awesome?

12.11.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You made all the stops?

People kept ringing the bell!

12.11.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most college towns could.

11.11.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mega Burger, featuring... not burgers. This is, by the way, a pretty central area in a second-tier Kyrgyz city (it's actually closer to Almaty than Bishkek, though there is a 16,000' mountain range in the way)

10.11.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Poor Tom Malinowski. Grew up in Princeton, moved to Rocky Hill to run in the 7th, then moved to Hunterdon, lost that seat, and now is supposedly moving to Maplewood to compete in the 11th. Rocky Hill is now in the 12th, and he could walk into this seat if only he lived in the dang district!

10.11.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Have they field-tested this in the Northeast? If every employee within 4 feet of me starts asking about my day, I'm going to run screaming out of that place.

08.11.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love the bonkers weather days that show up at season change.

06.11.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was a geography undergrad before Google Maps/Earth and 7 years later was a planning grad student when it was available (and a practicing planner after that), and you can't understate how much it revolutionized any field with a real-world spatial component.

06.11.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Funnily enough, I have strong connections to both the top Mamdani neighborhoods and the top Cuomo neighborhoods. I also have a strong connection to a Sliwa neighborhood that's just under this list.

06.11.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was served this ad on a different social network. Only problem is that this plane is departing from Ben Gurion.

06.11.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hilarious/sad segment on Israeli news of Israelis holding up the same product in supermarkets in a bunch of countries (Spain, Greece, Germany, Bulgaria, US, et al), saying the price and then showing how much more expensive the same basket is in Israel (almost double!).

05.11.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had a snack-related tweet of mine turned into an illustration in the New York Times Magazine and I am still inordinately proud of that.

03.11.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Baseball season ends yesterday, Port St. Lucie comes up today. I think it's a sign. #LGM.

(Also, I know someone from here)

03.11.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The last 3 good bars in Jerusalem are closing and it's making the news about how to save nightlife in the city.

02.11.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hershey spends the shelf space to have stores stock variety packs which are very popular among Halloween buyers. Mars does to a lesser extent, and Nestle almost not at all.

02.11.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep; when I describe the core skillset of planners, data-driven storytelling is one of the pillars.

01.11.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have seen more upright basses on the New York City subway than I have everywhere else in the rest of my life combined.

31.10.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mets fans remember it was Mookie, everyone remembers it was Buckner.

30.10.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where does Virginia fit into this? 2000-2010, Arlington and Alexandria stayed relatively flat while Loudoun and PW each nearly doubled.

29.10.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Israel's satire show of record spends an hour lampooning every current party leader and half the Cabinet and then closes with freed hostage Alon Ohel playing the piano while the entire cast sings Mitachat HaShamayim. An eretz nehederet, indeed.

29.10.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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