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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 05/10/2026

I love the utter lack of subtlety in the marketing at Pope John Paul Airport

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 03/10/2026

Europeans do mainline rail level boarding challenge (impossible)

Train is next to platform at the same level but with a wide horizontal gap. Gap filler pops out far too low to be useful.

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 03/10/2026

Radiation above Earth's atmosphere (i.e. prior to being affected by water vapor) also being strongest about in the visible range is a very nice total coincidence! seos-project.eu/earthspectra...

solar radiation spectrograms for above and below the atmosphere.

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/10/2026

When Emperor Maximilian invented «Latinidad», this is what he meant

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/10/2026

Oh wow, a Central European casement super-window with a screen! Best of both worlds! ...oh wow, huge af spider on the wrong side of the screen

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/10/2026

Uh oh! www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15... Example I happened to be reading

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 30/09/2026

Look how they indoctrinate (laudatory) the youth in Krakow

Infographic of railway gauges at Park Kolejowy in Krakow

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 14/09/2026

Having a road and not a street here is totally pointless, but if you ignore that for a second I think this is actually nice. NYCHA when there's no damn parking is actually pleasant. Towers and Park ain't all bad.

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 14/09/2026

Very silly when they redid this sidewalk after removing the lane they didn't extend to connect to the island

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 13/09/2026

Saw this "Milligan Place" which rather blew my mind very recently

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 23/08/2026

True fact: "Country Road" is a good song about a place I expect to see some nice TOD in coming years

Clopper Road in Gaithersburg, MD. The actual eponymous "Country Road".

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/08/2026

Tub half on for dynamic pressure test (beware of hiss)

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/08/2026

New apartment dynamic: 20 PSI

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 02/08/2026

New apartment static: 40 PSI!

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 31/07/2026

Old apartment tub flow with shower-tub half and half, matching the above

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 31/07/2026

10 PSI dynamic with ~half shower half tub

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 31/07/2026

Old apartment: 16 PSI static 💀🚿🌵

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 30/07/2026

Before I leave my old apartment, I am going to figure out just how bad the water pressure was, and tell you all. Also how bad the new one is 😭

Water pressure gauge with attachments, one of which fits a shower

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 30/07/2026

@carlosmucha.bsky.social, who I wish made it here, did this first

Carlos Mucha writes:

It seems cosmically unfair but Truman’s slogan If you want to live like a Republican vote Democratic, has a corollary. Once you live like a Republican you’ll vote Republican. For Dem WHs, low unemployment (1952, 1968, 2000, 2016) means GOP social issues attract swing voters.

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 28/07/2026

We should know the answer, and then we should kill a few birds with one stone...

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 17/07/2026

I'm very interested if Phase 2 will have some Gantt charts (like this one from NJT in form, but hopefully with way different content).

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 18/06/2026

images.ft.com/v3/image/raw... somebody Photoshop on a turban

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 12/06/2026

I made a last minute grocery run for this yesterday 😍

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 09/06/2026

Petition to move ConnDoT right here

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 07/06/2026

I think this is here dust bowl is full of new or under construction apartments now?

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 07/06/2026

My cat got excited by the gusts of wind through the crack in the bathroom window

Cute baby (actually full grown) looking at frosted glass window cracked ajar

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 17/05/2026

12 minute headways on a Sunday morning is pretty good. (Once again yay Minnesota, I really should not project coastal incompetence onto you), but wonder how frequent it needs to be in those ice-cold winters to maximize ridership.

Google maps screen shot of E line bus headways

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 11/05/2026

Less on topic, but the tiny www.paulgraham.com/twitter.html cracked me up ghoulishly The not making money part stayed the same, but not any of the rest

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 04/05/2026

I don't know the exact track geometry. Even if the worst is West of Hayes, if the Heathrow Express was gotten rid of, would it affect which trains got which tracks between Paddington and Hayes?

Google maps screenshot of Paddington Station, showing the Elizabeth line emerge from its tunnel

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 22/04/2026

Yes, but also, what the hell?

Only half the narrow face building has a real facade, and what sort of parking garage is this anyways?

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 21/04/2026

You can't let that get in the way of doing the right thing, though

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 20/04/2026

In Woke 2, every John Brown acolyte must make hajj to Harper's Ferry

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 14/04/2026

The trees were so small then, when the park was new

Mural in the Jury room of Riverside Park looking north from around 79th Street (with some more distant landmarks like Riverside Church and Grant's Tomb moved to the south)

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 09/04/2026

Little-known fact that this is the goat

Cheap vertical mouse, black with silver buttons

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 01/04/2026

I legitimately think this is the greatest visual example of the Materialist–Idealist dialectic that I have ever seen

A smart car with a lifted suspension and extra large wheels.

It is labeled "Maspeth Lock & Safe"

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 22/03/2026

Highly memeable found object

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 18/03/2026

I hate to say it, but it's not a cakewalk to tease apart COVID fall and gradual recovery and electrification windfall. Sucks that this is when the one major electrification project in the US happened.

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 16/03/2026

Do you endorse this Gantt chart from one of those studies? It's both pretty rediculous, but also didn't put all the blame on boarding. If we took it's boarding time estimates but cleaned up the other stuff, we can still do way better.

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 28/02/2026

It should be not allowed to have a Subway Sandwich Shop in a Train Station because the signage is confusing. I should get on the subway after I get off my train, and instead they are selling sandwiches. Not good.

A subway sandwich shop in the New Haven train station

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 15/02/2026

When the private sector understands the point of off-peek service but the state doesn't

Tons of jitneys across the GWB to Fort Lee, only the occasional NJT

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 13/02/2026

I just took this screenshot. This is the benchmark! (And longer distance too.)

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 05/02/2026

www.betonbearbeitung-eckerle.de/spezialanwen... this is for cars but this is nuts! Really putting the "cut" in "curb cut".

Giant spinning saw cutting existing curb horizontally to make it shorter for cars to drive over.

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John Ericson @johnericson.me · 25/01/2026

Semi indoor and indoor snow today

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