jongala

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Two Mitsubishi 3000GTs in a gas station parking lot, one red, one blue. Unusual. Both for sale.
Steve McQueen in LeMans
The iconic blue/black cover to Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins
A half eaten bag of “Mexican Chicken Tomato Flavor” Lays that I got at the special deli
Lilac blooms in front of some green bushes and a hazy spring sky
Brooks Otterlake tweet from 2022: "Oh that’s cool you wrote a Bildungsroman... I’ve already come of age so it’s not of much use to me but I’ll be sure to recommend it to any children I know."
A young man sitting in a 12' Rigid Inflatable Boat recently purchased used from a rental company with the Worlds Greatest Registration Number "VI 5000 TB" visible on the side.
The huge front half of an aircraft carrier, seen from a bridge connecting it to land. I’m about to walk onto it.
A replica Apollo 8 capsule in a museum display on the hangar deck of an aircraft carrier. A big yellow hook hangs from the ceiling above.
One of two rows of the new USPS vans in a small municipal lot, last month when it was still snowy
A Paris street in the morning and a sliver of the tops of the buildings is brightly lit
Rockwell painting of an AT&T lineman repairing a line
Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell in the Norman Rockwell museum, this morning
A dog with its head cocked quizzically to one side.
The cover to the Junior Parker album “Love ain’t nothin’ but a business goin’ on” A woman leans against a long gold car in front of project housing.
A popular 2014 tweet from Asa Tait, which reads 'Fun fact: When my kid watches "Terminator" I will have to explain the concept of a phonebook, but not an autonomous robot killing machine."
Six square paintings of birds in geometric barn quilt style, lots of 45 degree angles. Natural colors. Made by Travis Beckham.
The sidewalk on 43rd St. On the wall of a building is a grid of six square stainless steel hatch doors with lever handles, like in a morgue.
The beautiful American Standard logo on top of a urinal, in handwritten script style. Marked 3.8 liters per flush (lpf) / 1.0 gallons per flush (gpf)
A down jacket with lots of patches of orange and reflective repair tape
An old Realistic brand audio handset, with a once-common hardware design that included a broad grid of holes, but most of them are blind holes that are really just shallow dents. A circle of full holes that leads to the internal speaker is obviously visible.
The side of a box truck with a big green logo that says “Tri State Dismantling Corp” with a big triangle TSD logo, all in badly flaking vinyl
The side of a dark blue van, with a homespun logo for NGC, “Nice General Cleaning Corp” on it
White game pieces from Settlers of Catan which I drew on with ultra fine point sharpie to look like little barns and stuff.
A vivid purple and orange sunset over lower manhattan and New York harbor. The top of One Penn Plaza is illuminated in red white and blue stripes. Reflections of office lighting are visible
"Professor Leveson started a new area of research, software safety, which is concerned with the problems of building software for real-time systems where failures can result in loss of life or property. One advantage of this topic is that nobody questions its goals, except for a few misanthropes (who don't matter anyway). She and her students produced a formal requirements specification for TCAS II, a real collision-avoidance system required on all commercial aircraft in U.S. airspace. One of the lessons she has learned from this project is never to do anything like it again. The FAA was pleased with it though and adopted it as their official specification. She and her students are now analyzing safety in NextGen (the planned upgrades to the air transportation system). She claims that you should not read anything into the fact that she has been taking the train a lot lately."
“For 1984, Chevrolet rebranded its Citation line, renaming it the Citation II.[3] Intended to draw attention away from previous safety recalls and quality issues,”
A placemat with scalloped edges and three color printing that says "Discover Texas / America's Funtier" with a map and illustrations
A dry laid stone wall in westchester county , NY in late afternoon light
A man holds an orange step ladder steady. Another man stands on the (unsafe) tippy top of the ladder and has disappeared through a hole in the ceiling around his waist. The hole is exactly the size of his waist. But it’s fine.
A silver mountain bike in front of a garage door. There is a large red four-stroke honda engine mounted above the rear wheel, and some kind of big hoop attached to the wheel to transmit drive. Also has 90s style bar-ends on the handlebars.
A hammered metal caddy with two spaces for packs of razor blades and a razor handle in the middle
An old cardboard box with “Mouse Traps and Flat Razor Scrapers” written on it in black marker
A stairwell blocked off with plastic sheeting with a Danger sign on it, and a huge vertical red zipper acting as a door
Janice from the muppet show who bears a striking resemblance to the 1971 Michelotti Laser
A pack of wall anchors with the tell tale bright green “Surprise!” Price tag (99¢) from the classic old east village home goods store
An old and busted box van with cool lettering that says “Money Making” with lots of dollar signs around it and a sassy cartoon face painted on the hood
The interior of a small, old fashioned lunch counter with Formica counter and vinyl topped stools. There are only a couple of tables in the small space and about 7 or 8 stools. An older couple sits at the counter eating burgers and chicken. The sole employee working a flat top is just out of frame
Three 8th gen Honda civic sedans in dark gray parked next to one another in a parking lot. One of them is mine.
A hand painted poster for the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, 2002, showing a big happy pink shrimp wearing sunglasses and playing the accordion in front of a splashing green sea with an oil drilling platform
A calm bay in the Saint Lawrence river is visible through a gap in some trees and brush on a sunny day
A small Boston whaler boat with light blue paint inside and a medium brown wood center console with split window screen set at a jaunty forward rake
A deli cup with a bunch of lemon and lime zest sitting in sugar, which has drawn out the oils from the zest and is very damp, fragrant, and flavorful. It’s a delicious citrus blend that people are calling “the taste of summertime”
A photo of a middle-aged guy sitting at a desk with two laptops, with the caption "Writing and editing articles for Wikipedia is a hobby for some people."
Two lobes of prickly pear, each just an inch or two across, on top of a stone wall surrounded by patches of moss.
A bottle of Trinidad Charlie’s Pumpkin Sauce which is different but very similar to the Hot Pepper Sauce and looks pretty much the same.
An old truck is enveloped by a small tree or shrub, sitting in tall grass behind a fence in a beautiful sunny scene
Gardeners transplant rows of potted flowers into a flower bed in Bryant park
A rainbow over Harlem as seen from a moving metro north train
a window sign that reads "It's So Over" in classic script and dimensional type
Two men stand by the bulb of the bow of a huge cargo ship that ran aground just a few feet from a house in Norway. One of the men is leaning casually against the bow.
A watercolor of sailboats in front of billowing cumulus clouds, with a navigation buoy in the foreground.
A pretty big coast guard ship moving up the Hudson River, seen from a midtown skyscraper
Seven avocado pits in seven little glass cups on a tray. Three of them have short shoots a few inches long that are starting to leaf.
A red and gray autozam az-1 sprinkled with raindrops in a parking lot. The photo does not fully convey how small it is compared to other cars (very)
A small garter snake coiled up in the palm of my hand
a brain scan with a deep internal structure illuminated
The cover of Motel of the Mysteries by the GOAT David Macaulay, about future archeologists digging up a cheap roadside motel from under a giant layer of trash that buried the lost society known as "Usa"