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Two Horses Asses

October 10, 2011 – 11:05 am

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. This gauge was used because that’s how they built them in England and English expatriates designed the US railroads. They English build them like that, because the first rail lines were built by the same people […]

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Stripping for the TSA

February 26, 2011 – 3:41 pm

My occasions for continental flights within the United States. Most of my travels in America is by ground or sea. The ferry from the Manhattan terminal carries passengers to Staten Island. The Harlem and Hudson trains get me up to Duchess county and the LIRR plodders out to the Hamptons. The Fung Wah bus from […]

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Jaws 2010

February 13, 2010 – 1:15 pm

This photo was froward from Alison in North Palm Beach. This was at the beach right by my house. The Channel 5 helicopter spent half the day bothering everyone at the north end to get these shots. I was so pissed off I called their news room and told them to go to Singer Island […]

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TS Fay BJ

August 19, 2008 – 4:07 pm

Fay is passing over Palm Beach with 40-60 mph winds. The girls in the Kit-Kat Club asked me about what were our storm preparations. “I’ll sit it out in here.” The club was dark, the beer was cold, girls at the Kit-Kat Club were equally oblivious to the tropical storm. The only disaster of concern […]

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No Way Fay

August 17, 2008 – 3:03 pm

“It was beauty that killed the beast.” KING KONG The beauty for King Kong was Fay Wray and US meteorologists have named the 6th storm of the 2008 season in her honor. Fay has left Haiti heading north. Destination the Florida Keys. Palm Beach is expected to receive big wind heavy rains. This house has […]

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