Fifth Avenue Forum

We use houses. I memorize a house / features and that's my flag for the week. Otherwise, I get on the road and walk back on the road. We don't go any place I could get that lost in.

Yeah, that's not at all what I meant.

Also, don't forget your flags.

My Sister & their best friends created their own crest and everything to fly at the beach. I thought it was silly my first time out until I tried to find them after a few drinks.

Sir Lancelot over here

So when you go to the beach..do you just sit there all day? I feel like that is what my wife is going to want to do when we go to Ocean City this weekend. I guess I could just load up some podcasts and try to relax, but I feel I'm going to be bored out of my mind haha.

we do sit there a lot but I enjoy the sound of the waves. sometimes I'll read a book, sometimes I'll people watch, take a walk down the beach, read a book, nap, swim. typically we only spend about 4 hours per day on the beach.

Where is a tidal wave when you need it.

A...blue wave? Turned out to be stillwater.

ugh, so yeah. Driving from Belfast to Killarney today and while the highways are great, there are some really sketchy roads

It doesn’t help that I’m renting a jeep (wrangler) and this is the first jeep I’ve ever driven. It handles like Robert Bortuzzo. My Bronco better not be like this

@Beveridge: Bring your swimsuit with you this weekend if Sesame is a go. It’s hotter than Satan’s anus out here. I’m not even going to step foot outside until this is over.

@Beveridge: Bring your swimsuit with you this weekend if Sesame is a go. It’s hotter than Satan’s anus out here. I’m not even going to step foot outside until this is over.

It's a go. Should be interesting...

I'll have you know Satan is a girl, and her anus is quite cool to the touch.

ugh, so yeah. Driving from Belfast to Killarney today and while the highways are great, there are some really sketchy roads

It doesn’t help that I’m renting a jeep (wrangler) and this is the first jeep I’ve ever driven. It handles like Robert Bortuzzo. My Bronco better not be like this

lol I've got some bad news friendo, any vehicle shaped like a square/rectangle is going to be boxy to drive.

Any NYC restaurant recommendations? Staying in lower Manhattan this weekend

John’s on Bleeker for pizza

Ignoring that this will never be built, tested, and certified by 2029, this is neat. I mean, it’s likely terrible for the environment, both in noise pollution and fuel consumption, but whatever. Oh and let’s not forget the regulations over land that will need to change. New York to London in 3 hr 30m. Again, it won’t happen by 2029 if at all, but concepts are fun.

oh man. I can’t recommend the Skellig Michael tour enough if you’re in Ireland. Specifically go between April and July because there was a metric f*ckton of puffins (apparently they leave at the end of July)


It was awesome though. The island itself was great but the puffins add another layer of cool. If you didn’t know, it’s where they filmed the Luke Skywalker/Rey training scenes from The Force Awakens. One of the best things I’ve ever done (up there with seeing bears face to face in Alaska)

Yeah, we didn't have time to get out to the Skelligs but had a great view of them from the southern part of the Dingle peninsula (when we walked out towards the Blaskets). Just an impossibly gorgeous country.

Are you getting down to Kerry/Gap of Dunloe area? Beautiful.

Re: Boom Supersonic.

To me, paying $5,000 or more per seat to knock three hours off a transatlantic flight doesn't make good financial sense. I might be more willing to pay that sort of money if it meant that NY or Chicago to Tokyo, Seoul, or Hong Kong were, say, 7-9 hours nonstop rather than 15-17, but so far as I know the Boom Overture won't have nearly that sort of range. I don't think it even has the range for San Francisco to Tokyo without making a fuel stop some place like Hawaii or Alaska.

The problem with Boom that I'm aware of isn't the aircraft itself, it's finding suitable engines. Virtually all modern aircraft engines are high-bypass turbofans, and the larger the fan and the higher the bypass ratio, the more efficiency for subsonic flight. That's why the engines on new aircraft keep getting bigger and bigger. But big fans and high bypass ratios don't work for supersonic flight. They're supposedly working with Rolls-Royce on engines, but they still haven't said exactly what they will be or how much they might cost.

Further, after the MAX debacle, the FAA has totally cracked down hard on aircraft certification. Boeing has been test flying the 777X for over two years now, and it will probably be another year or two before it makes it through certification, and that's for an aircraft that is an evolution of an existing design—not a completely new aircraft. For a clean-sheet supersonic airliner, they could probably start the certification process tomorrow and not be finished and certified by 2029.

It's hot in nyc

@mikey to confirm

That’s the entire NE right now. Fuming in my area, too.

Somewhere, @Beveridge is asking Elmo to spray him down with a hose.

Somewhere, @Beveridge is asking Elmo to spray him down with a hose.

Won't be there until tomorrow, on the road right now, but yes. Maybe I can use the hose they use on Snuffy.

@mikey to confirm

If you standstill for too long, your flops melt to the pavement, my friend...

Any NYC restaurant recommendations? Staying in lower Manhattan this weekend

can confirm John's on Bleeker for pizza.
Big Gay Ice Cream for a frosty treat. the Salty Pimp is awesome!
Joe's Shanghai for chinese soup dumplings (please eat them correctly)
JG Mellon's for an outrageous burger
Junior's for cheesecake