Tomorrow, around 10:30am, NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier with the full scale prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise mounted on top will fly around New York and New Jersey at a low altitude before landing at JFK. Eventually it’ll be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
(Source: nycaviation.com)
The steel on One World Trade Center has reached the 100th floor.
This picture I took last week makes the small airplane look almost attached to the crane on the left.
The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
Don Johnson won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in one night, single-handedly decimating the monthly revenue of Atlantic City’s Tropicana casino. Not long before that, he’d taken the Borgata for $5 million and Caesars for $4 million. Here’s how he did it.
via theatlantic.com
The tl;dr is that if you’re a high roller, the casinos will make deals with you to lower their odds and give you discounts on your losses. The Tropicana let him play with a 20 percent discount after if his losses hit $500,000, let him play with a hand-shuffled six-deck shoe, the right to split and double down on up to four hands at once, and a “soft 17.” All together this made the house’s odds 50/50.
No wonder I never make any money playing $1 Blackjack.
Washington, D.C. to NYC as seen from the International Space Station.
It’s pretty amazing how how you can see the major metro areas at night. Here’s a version with cities outlined.
New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC) Senior Engineer Brad Miller has been named to the Board of Directors of the State Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Miller was the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Project Team Manager during the construction of the NJMC Center for Environmental and Scientific Education (Science Center), which in 2009 became the first public building in New Jersey to achieve LEED Platinum Certification.
A Hoboken resident, Miller is vice chairman of the Committee for a Green Hoboken and sits on the Board of Directors of the Fund for a Better Waterfront and the Hoboken Quality of Life Coalition. He is also a member of the Hoboken Green Team.
via nj.com
Boo to you Pegasus Flight. I called to confirm my flight tomorrow (which was rescheduled because they canceled my last one) and they had no idea what I was talking about.
Check out my featured video on TripFilms.com: Hoboken, NJ | Travel Guide Video
Overturned Jeep’s Bumper Sticker: ‘If You Can Read This, Flip Me Over’
Very appropriate.
Via brick.patch.com
New Jersey F1 race confirmed
‘Grand Prix of America’ to run along banks of Hudson River will be second US race, arrives 2013
The new 3.2m street circuit will run through West New York and Weehawken, with the Manhattan skyline and the banks of the Hudson River serving as a background.
via topgear.com
Mayor Bloomberg is pushing forward with a proposal to extend the No. 7 train to New Jersey and get the project locked in before he leaves City Hall in two years, The Post has learned.
A photo I took out my dorm room window the beginning of my Freshman year of college.
My friend Manny took this photo of Caroline and me last year from his apartment in Hoboken.
I later proposed to Caroline while on that ship in the harbor.
— Frank McCall, Cape May County, NJ Emergency Management Coordinator
(Source: shorenewstoday.com)
holy shit thats crazy.
Cow parts
I always wanted a wall of TV’s, now somebody is paying me to make one! Just a few more TV’s to fill in the gaps!
Sometimes even the Amish get jobs working in IT.
A picture of my beard was re-blogged by this page:
http://www.amishorhipster.com/
Awesome!
Really quite funny and original tumblr.
35 Years Ago Today…
Star Wars (A New Hope) was released in theaters for the first time.
It went on to become the highest-grossing film of all...
