Saint Augustine, Florida. The Castillo (which is run by National Parks) is cool, and the entire rest of the place is the absolute worst tourist trappy garbage.

If I had a nickel for every time the Mets ended the regular season tied with the Reds while I was in Israel, I'd have 10 cents, which is worth about 30 agorot, but also it's weird that it's happened twice now. #LGM

I worked at Dubai Airport for a bit, and I loved being out in the concourse during a connection bank. Planes would arrive from every continent, and entire world would spill out, shuffle themselves around, and then go. Thousands of people, a hundred languages, a million stories. It was exhilarating.

Upstream red team.

This is kind of a funny headline, but seriously, every single main north-south artery in the central part of the city has work right now for the light rail, and not only is road traffic clogged, but the bus lines are all mixed up too. (Same in Tel Aviv, btw) www.timesofisrael.com/centuries-of...

Have they tried 1.) a better product, 2.) a better website, and 3.) a better hub?

It's Doordash, but only for Ethiopian food. (business idea copyright me, today)

I'd love to know how Mexico's massive semi-formal economy gets counted in these stats. There's way more than 3% working off-and-on at some village-level Abarrote.

Geneva is an interesting market. Minimal tourism demand because it's so expensive (and Americans ski the Alps less than they could). If you have the UN contract, you're golden, but if not, tant pis. GVA generates pharma traffic (pax + high value cargo), but the US side for that is in NJ, not NYC.

The Rosh HaShana siren going off at the same time as the 6:00 church bells is very funny. All we needed was an Adhan (which you don't hear in this part of town) to cap off the Yerushalmi trifecta.

Incredible trucker hat tan lines for SDSU coach Sean Lewis

WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! #McGillOnceMcGillTwice

Bit of a stretch calling this Coyoacan. And nowhere near Texcoco!

time to break this one out again

1.) The Price is Right 2.) Mission Impossible 3.) The $25/100,000 Pyramid 4.) Odd Couple 5.) Fresh Prince (Honorable mention because of how hard the singer sells it: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Are candied apples still a Simchat Torah tradition in synagogues?

Won't talk about the bleakest flight, but bleakest airport experience - Had a 9-hour layover in Hong Kong in September 2021. What the Chinese hadn't yet crushed out of the city, Covid took care of the rest. Totally empty megahub, two restaurants open, everybody avoiding each other. A sad silence.

19, including possibly my first ever from Line 4 (because she's Israeli). If the Joost is the Europapa Joost that got kicked out of Eurovision under dubious circumstances, then 20.

Not only do I love this scene for what it is in terms of spatial problem solving, but ever since I have acutely noted concrete highway slabs and the difference to asphalt paving. (Oh and David Strathairn is so good in this)

The best street sign design I've ever seen was in Hermosa Beach.

Cricket has done this for at least 10 years now, it's enlightening for the sport, cuts down on the "oh they're trying to screw us," and doesn't hurt the flow of the broadcast as badly.

What was the account that first popularized calling these doinks? (And if Al Michaels is saying it, then it's definitely the official term now.)

Wanted to look up something from a New York City property record, so I googled for the Borough Block and Lot lookup. By using its abbreviation. Whoops.

Bad: put way too much cardamom in my botz. Good: my living room smells amazing.

Static appearing by himself in an ad for (davka) Partner :(

Little Tigers stick up for each other!

How can anyone not love college football?

This is a 4-hour drive that's not too difficult (less if you're going to/from a place north of New Haven), and on the Maine side, unless all you're going to do is walk around downtown Portland, it's really tough without a car.

MTA get your grubby hands off our Penn Station bar.

What are the origins that aren't served connecting over Chicago on the US side, and what destinations do you get out of Amman that aren't available on Qatar via Doha? Is it a Latin America play for Christian tourism?

Day #113: Montreal Expos/Nabisco Shreddies (1998)

The reason I hate north columbus senior high school is (mostly) justified. The reason I hate Florida is understandable but not really. The reason I hate Texas is petty at best.

So I was looking for something about why British comedian Harry Hill wears that giant collar and Google coughed up the [left], and then when I searched for the quote from Goodfellas that it supposedly references (and doesn't exist), I got [right]. Completely useless.

As we recall the 20 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and while far less horrific than the human devastation, New Orleans’ 24 red streetcars serving the Canal & Riverfront lines were substantially damaged by the storm, all built & rebuilt in-house by NORTA staff. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbn...

It is extremely difficult for me to acknowledge anything good that comes from the college of north columbus, but this is objectively hilarious. (obligatory #GoBlue)

Football!

Had no idea there were Casa 212s in Alaska.

I actually know someone from here!

Henri Cartier-Bresson leans back, takes a drag from a Gauloise, and whispers "oui." (it's not this picture)

2001, Phils-Cubs at the Vet. After a rain delay; open seating for who's left. Friend and I wind up right behind the on-deck circle, heckling Sosa. As he heads out "hey Samuel, don't strike out." Sosa hits a ball that lands in Connecticut. He comes home, does that salute thing, and points right at us

CBC, sending a chill through the heart of every Canadian:

Every time a 1995 Dodger comes up, I'm not going to not post the neighborhood. maps.app.goo.gl/RfvcpKpB6rVW...

Oh wow. I was in Santiago in July, and while there was definitely a chill in the air (50-55 day/40-45 night), it didn't feel like it was a place where it would snap into being cold enough to snow.

Mel "The Blown Save" Rojas. As soon as he came in, you knew the game was over, and not in a good way. Fun fact, when the Mets got rid of him, they traded him for Bobby Bonilla. Not All-Star Bobby Bonilla with the Bobby Bonilla Day contract, but the 1999 Bobby Bonilla.

Had 1 good year at age 37 and the Mets turned him into Noah Syndergaard and Travis d'Arnaud. The Mets then screwed up both of those guys, but that was good GMing and bad managing.

I saw exactly 1 (one) Waymo in DC, and my lone takeaway was that all those protrusions are going to be very dangerous for pedestrians.

These were very bad. The flavor was OK, kind of a non-descript weird, but the aftertaste was fishy and awful.

There was a Subway in Mount Pleasant? Do I so aggressively not care about Subway that I never registered its existence?

The Norman Rockwell Museum is vastly underknown and underrated. I went there kind of as a throw-in on a wander through Western Mass (I was much more excited to see if the dump in Stockbridge was indeed marked closed on Thanksgiving) and absolutely loved it.

The single best assignment I ever received in any academic setting was in an Intro Sociology class. The entire prompt was "Ride [subway line] from end to end. Tell me what you see."