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bobbycaputo:

Aerial Photographs Capture the Aftermath of This Week’s Brutal Snow Storm in Buffalo, NY Photographed by Buffalo News’ Chief Photographer Derek Gee

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#home of the brave #snow #sweet gods #(to those of you who remember I live not *all* that far from here: don’t worry about me) #(we’ve got…maybe eight inches?) #(our storms *looked* pretty impressive (and by November standards they were) but it’s *nothing* like this)

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whereiskp:

California Street, 6:50am

(San Francisco, October 2014)

So, is this some weird perspective shot, or a scene from Inception? Because there’s no way you could climb (let alone drive) up a hill of the angle that appears to be without using the grass as handholds, and they’ve paved over the grass.

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#pretty things #home of the brave #…???

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libutron:

natureisthegreatestartist:

The Twisted Land by Greg Boratyn

(White Pocket, Arizona, US)

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#pretty things #geology #a picture to accompany me while I write my geology course project #about how some rocks I got from a stream in a local park reflect the geology of Ontario #(I haven’t actually studied the map in enough detail yet to determine if they *do* in fact reflect the geology of Ontario) #(god I hope they do) #(that would be awkward if they don’t) #(would probably mean I mis-identified something *again*)

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roachpatrol:

archiemcphee:

Grilled cheese sandwiches are awesome, but grilled cheese from heaven delivered via parachute? That’s super awesome! And that’s exactly what has just started happening in New York City thanks to an Australian pop-up restaurant called Jafflechutes. We aren’t kidding, grilled cheese sandwiches really are falling from the sky and we wish we were in NYC right now.

“Jaffle” is an Australian term for grilled or toasted sandwiches. In 2013 three guys in Melbourne who really love jaffles (Adam, David and Huw) successfully crowdfunded their concept for delivering tasty jaffles via parachute – Jafflechute! One year later they decided to tempt Americans with the same offer, grilled cheese sandwiches delivered from on high. Their second fundraising campaign was a success and the jaffles are now descending to meet their destiny in the hands (and bellies) of hungry New Yorkers.

The setup is simple: The Jafflechutes crew posts when they’ll be working. Payment is submitted via PayPal and a delivery/drop time selected. At the appointed time the customer stands on an ‘X’ marked on the sidewalk outside the designated location and awaits the arrival of their very own jaffle. Provided the wind isn’t too strong, a yummy grilled cheese sandwich that’s been carefully wrapped up with a tiny parachute attached is then dropped from a window overhead.

But don’t worry if the wind is up. If your jaffle happens to get stuck in a tree, Jafflechutes says you won’t have to chase after it, they’ll make you another.

Click here to watch Jafflechutes in action.

Visit the Jafflechutes website to learn more. You can also follow them on Twitter and Instagram.

[via The Telegraph, USA Today, Gawker and Jafflechutes]

THIS IS THE BEST BUSINESS MODEL I HAVE EVER SEEN

Tempting! But where does one actually pay?

I think they only open for business occasionally, and take down the Paypal link when they’re not doing sales? That seems like the most plausible explanation for why I can’t find it anywhere.

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#food #neat #reply via reblog

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completed-nihilism-blog:

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#Y2K #I very vaguely remember Y2K #(I was six) #but the main thing I think when I see this picture is #’there is *absolutely no* ambiguity in that date’ #’I wish *I* had dates with absolutely no ambiguity’ #’I can hardly wait for 2032′ #(‘is it bad that consistent date-writing is one of the things I miss most about America?’) #look dates are very important to me okay #tangents #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia

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thelandofmaps:

Map of New Jersey Stereotypes [924 x 1600]
CLICK HERE FOR MORE MAPS!
thelandofmaps.tumblr.com

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#home of the brave #New Jersey #I went to Google Maps trying to figure out if this map had placed my childhood home in #’happy white families’ (which was true but fails to mention that about half of them were *also* Jews) #or ‘huge homes and country clubs’ (which wasn’t true) #but then I saw that Google Maps depicts Marlton and Cinnaminson as being about equally far away from Cherry Hill #with Maple Shade kind of in the middle #except that Marlton was a 20 minute drive and Cinnaminson was about a 70-80 minute drive #(with Maple Shade so close by and so melded with Cherry Hill that we frequently went in and out without really noticing) #so now I’m confused #damn you geography #tag rambles