The MTA released photos of the digging underground to connect the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Station. This is a huge project that improve a ton of folks’ commutes.
The pictures are amazing. Check out the slideshow.
Author: fish1964
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Lake Superior is Bigger than Switzerland
And other fascinating maps you never really needed…
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A or A?
Tim Bray is a software developer. Among other things he was one of the prominent authors of the XML specification. He has a blog that is nicely sparse. Posts are as often about software development as about photography.
He took a gig a Google in 2010, so there’s some pro-Google bias to his blog, but not much.
His latest post is a look at his thoughts when people ask him if they should go Apple or Android. The basic conclusion is, “eh, matters less and less”.
Oh, and he’s very into Ingress.
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Drilling on Mars
We are so blasé. Seriously, that title should require a qualifier, “not really”. Except we are really doing this.
Honestly, it’s a bit ridiculous. We dropped a one ton rover on an exact location on Mars. This rover is moving around the planet, sending real time images back to us. The damn thing is tweeting. Oh, ho hum, we have something on Mars. What about Kim Kardashians’s baby?
Holy crap, do you realize how hard this was to do?
Anyway, for those bored with the above, please don’t notice that we will be analyzing rocks drills on Mars. Rocks on Mars, how boring…
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Culture Does, Policy Says
Pretty obvious stuff from 37 Signals, but if it were that obvious why would we have Dilbert?…
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Go IU
You have to be a long time reader of this blog to know I’m an Indiana University alum (School of Music for those scoring at home). Indiana has always been a basketball school, but we’ve gone through a long dry spell.
I’m old, so I was there for Bob Knight’s last national championship. I was at the final game (in the worst nose bleed seats possible) when Keith Smart hit the shot to beat Syracuse in ‘87.
But the past few years there hasn’t been much to cheer about. Last year the hope began, and suddenly this year Indiana is the real deal again.
Tonight’s win against Michigan State was huge. We haven’t won at Michigan State in ages. The team is fun to watch, and coach Crean has done a fantastic job pulling the program back to national prominence.
And I can be a college basketball fan again. Life is good.
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Wow
Do not play Frisbee golf against this guy…
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Spring
Well not in New York, but there is no better picture for a Yankee fan than Mariano Rivera smiling at spring training.
While Mo isn’t talking about his retirement plans, we have to assume this is the last year we will get to watch him pitch. He’s been my favorite Yankee since 1996 (pre-closer). He’s always been classy and so incredibly consistent. When he blows a save, he talks to the media, blames no one and comes back the next day.
Everyone is closely watching his comeback from ACL surgery. From today’s New York Daily News:
So there he was, playing some long toss with bullpen coach Mike Harkey, throwing back and forth from 30 yards, then 40, 50, backing up until he was 80-90 yards away. Rivera was covering the distance easily with high-arching throws, and then, just for the fun of it, he sent a few baseball writers scattering by overthrowing Harkey by another 10 yards.
Intentionally, no doubt.
“No,” a grinning Rivera said later, “that one got away from me.”
Here’s to one more season with Mo. Hopefully a season of shattered opposing player’s bats…
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Extreme Mountain Unicycling
No, the title is not a joke. Crazy and amazing all at the same time.
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Senator John McKeynes
The hilarious quote from this post is:
…we need to add to our working definition of a Keynesian. It used to be ”a Republican in a recession.” Now it’s also “a Republican facing defense cuts.”
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