JoeSchumacher

I really liked the photo, too. Plus my building is in there somewhere....

Jake is going to be so surprised when he regains consciousness!...

maatthias, chuzzlewit and MT have the answer. Think of hot air balloons. The reason they work is the hot air within the balloon is less dense than the cooler air surrounding it, allowing the balloo...

I worded that poorly. There is 150+ years of daily data for Central Park, I just don't have it. The point I was making was that you can't read too much into a graph where a couple of outliers infl...

At my local newsstand there were only one or two copies of the Times, News, WSJ and spanish newspapers but a whole stack of Posts....

I got a robocall last night from my congressman, Charlie Rangel. He invited me to the Rangel-Obama victory rally Tuesday night at the State Office Building at 125th and 7th. There will be a giant vi...

Whoa, Chris Ware is the PA Director? Maybe he can get the Super-Man to work on the site....

Jen, you are better off not knowing why. Trust me....

Aww shucks, thanks everyone! gmpicket takes some amazing photographs. Most on pinhole cameras that she constructs....

Pretty good, actually. The current forecast has Hanna moving well inland by Saturday morning before taking a northeastward track toward us that afternoon....

The cooling system that is killing the fish is in place because dumping heated water into the river killed just as many fish decades ago. Concern over the harm that the Indian Point nuclear plants di...

A tornado in Manhattan would look like any other tornado. They do not need a flat space....

Weird, since they had no problems with people taking pictures of the car in Niagara Falls....

I thought the top picture looked photoshopped too, and I'm the photographer! Other than upping the contrast a bit I didn't alter a thing. ...

Can he be charged with "lame copycat stunt"?...