I've wondered about this. The same game show (same set, cues, everything) is licensed to many countries, including The Floor. The Israeli version has a complex high-production value set for a country of 10 million people. Why don't, say, all the Endemol shows shoot in one worldwide studio?

The audience here that understands Israeli sketch shows is probably zero, but it felt like Zehu Zeh crossed a serious line, and I'm curious if there will be any blowback tomorrow.

The very first time I had Dairy Queen was here.

The NCAA could have done the funniest thing possible by matching up Drake and Lamar in the first round.

I went home with a waitress / The way I always do How was I to know / She was with the Russians too I was gambling in Havana / I took a little risk Send lawyers, guns, and money / Dad, get me out of this

I know 2 people from here!

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.

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.

I love this so much.

This is... awesome?

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

I was served this ad on a different social network. Only problem is that this plane is departing from Ben Gurion.

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!).

Baseball season ends yesterday, Port St. Lucie comes up today. I think it's a sign. #LGM. (Also, I know someone from here)

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

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

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

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.

Damn, just how forgotten was Lando Norris?

Is Connections finally obliquely giving credit to where the idea came from?

Anecdotally, I hear a LOT more French in Jerusalem than I did 4 years ago and even quite a bit in Tel Aviv (I haven't been back to Netanya yet.)

Note to Chabad Lubavitchers: "You look Jewish" is a terrible line to get my attention. It's even worse when you use that line in *Dizengoff Center*

I know someone from here! This area is mostly lettuce farms.

One more tally for my "you can do anything in an orange vest" theory.

When 2-4 Rutgers hosts a 3-3 Minnesota team.

Ariane, Super Ariane, Ariane 64, ArianeCube?

In 2022 in Mexico City, there was a noticeable earthquake about an hour after the annual September 19th earthquake drill www.eluniversal.com.mx/metropoli/su...

Glad I finally rode this stupid thing last summer. What an operational and fiscal disaster.

Andrew Wyeth could have used an iPhone. Aaron Copeland watched the Berlin Wall come down.

Moishe Oofnik mentioned on the Israeli version of The Chase!

After seeing a longer version of it on the Israeli news today, I just realized that one of the more well-known videos of the October 7 attacks is from an exact place, an exact block, where I was a year and a half before.

I watched the 1st inning of Game 7 of the 2001 World Series at the bus station here. Many hours later when I finally reached Montreal, I asked the cab driver "Qui gagne le baseball?"

Has a picture of Tops, which is the only thing in East Newark (which is west of most of Newark and in an entirely different county)

Went to high school with his kids.

Well, here's a new one for Reshet Gimel.

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