Hand planes are amazing.
Ever have that dream where you’re in a jetliner that’s flying down a street?
West Long Branch strip mall
Shrewsbury River reflections
“Unix is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.”
- Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C, the computer programming language that underlies Windows, the Unix OS and much of the other software running on computers around the world.
1941-2011
Once again, the Amtrak-owned infrastructure fails and thousands are delayed during rush hour. An Acela, stopped in its tracks, as seen from my likewise halted NJT bi-level.
We’ve all seen them, passenger cars loaded with the trash that accumulates over miles of highway commuter travel, long road trips or just the daily stop for coffee on the way to the train station. Makes you wonder whether slobs are good drivers or bad; or whether there’s any correlation at all. Experience tells you that most car interiors are kept on the neater side of the line.
Then you encounter a spectacle like this one. This motor vehicle was jam-packed with garbage, the rubbish commonly referred to as “household trash.” Judging from just a quick look, it appeared to have been piled up bit by bit, too — one newspaper, one hamburger wrapper, one dropped French fry, one Big Gulp, one Dunkin’ Donut box at a time. I wish I had stayed long enough to see the driver emerge from the snack shop.
Freedom Tower reaches 90 stories
Randi
From a commuter train, the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee at sunrise over Long Branch
Thunderbirds at Atlantic City, NJ
Warren Grove is a rural community in Ocean County, NJ. Its location in the heart of the Pine Barrens makes it one of the most secluded and remote corners of the state. It contains thousands of dense forest acres with dwarf pine trees that grow no taller than a person’s head. The Warren Grove Gunnery Range, a military bomb practice range, is used by fighter jets including A-10’s and F-16’s from East Coast Air National Guard units for practice bombing and strafing.
On May 15, 2007, a fighter pilot mistakenly released flares while on a training mission over the range. At the time, the ground below was extremely dry. The flares hitting the ground touched off a fire that burned 18,000 acres (73 km2) of the Pinelands, injured two people, destroyed four homes and damaged 53 other homes.
On November 4, 2004, at around 9pm, an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet from the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard based at Andrews Force Base in Maryland on a training mission was in a climb at 8,000 feet. The pilot fired the jet’s M61 Vulcan cannon, discharging 25 rounds of 20mm ammunition. The live ordinance fell to the ground and eight of the rounds struck a grade school roof in nearby Little Egg Harbor. The rest hit the school’s parking lot and the side of the building. A janitor, who saw holes in the ceiling and had heard something on the roof, contacted the police.
In January 2002, another aircraft practicing at Warren Grove crashed near the Garden State Parkway spewing flames and molten metal across the busy road. In June 2001, a 1,600 acres (6 km2) forest fire is caused when an Air National Guard plane dropped a 25-pound practice bomb at the range. In April 1999, nearly 12,000 acres (49 km²) of forest, wetlands, cedar swamp and cranberry bogs burned after a A-10 Warthog from the 111th Fighter Wing stationed at Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, plane dropped a practice bomb more than a mile from its target.
Belmar Bride
