Jay Mann

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Managing Editor at The SandPaper

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Taking Account of the Weekend It Was Up There With the Biggest

1 week ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

There’s not a ton of ways to accurately tabulate how many humans put themselves upon LBI during a holiday weekend, but I can confidently say this Memorial Day weekend saw a high-viz tonload of humanity. The exact number of arriving and departing vehicles is more countable since the Causeway project strategically placed permanent cameras and traffic counters hither and yon. The problem is the devices can’t tally how many souls are seated within each vehicle, at least not hereabouts.
Summer’s Dog Days Invite Registering of American Favorites; Why Seedy Weddings Are Uncalled For

2 weeks ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

Memorial Day: a prime steppingstone toward summer. More importantly, it’s a time to remember those who gave everything so we’d be able to enjoy holiday weekends. This year, I offer a special remembrance to Hawaiian Joseph William Gaa Jr. of Kealakekua, Hawaii. He was a fellow student at Mauna Olu College, Maui, in the late 1960s. Despite having a college deferment from the military, Joe felt an overwhelming obligation to fight for America in the Vietnam War.
Talk of the Walk: Circle Traffic Flow Falling Into Place

3 weeks ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

Last weekend was as ideal as LBI and nature can offer. To greet the weatherly wonderfulness, I opted to travel to the mysterious north, speaking of Barnegat Light – beyond which one falls off the edge of the Earth. My sojourn focused on the state park, knowing it would be very telling on both the fishing and piping plover fronts. Going there on my motorized bike, I was surprised to find things in the park were far from hopping, even on the visitorship side of things.
Merciless Gnats Arising: Hatch of No-See-Ums Will Bug Bayside Flukers; Long-Gone Days of Jersey’s Channel Bass

1 month ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

You likely heard a second arrest has been made in the Jones Road wildfire. It made all the national news broadcasts, with one station claiming the wildfire was still burning – as if N.J. allows massive wildfires to just eventually burn themselves out. The second person arrested is underage, 17-something. Authorities won’t reveal his name, though it will likely come out in the legal wash.
That Wild and Wooly Wildfire Might Make the Top 10 List

1 month ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

The Jones Road wildfire was as flameful an inferno as our Pinelands have ever experienced. The Greenwood Forest flames were California grade. As it now stands, the 15,300 burnt acres move it toward the top 10 of all-time NJ wildfires. However, that measuring system uses acres and not flame size, or the Jones Road fire would put heat on the top spot, with towering old-growth trees being fully engulfed by fire, some exploding from internal pressures within the trunks.
Nightmare Before Easter: The Time Coconut Eggs Destroyed My Vacation

1 month ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

First, a sad but fond farewell to our rock star Pope Francis. Here’s hoping his grassroots holiness and dedication to equality carry over to his successor – announced when white smoke next arises from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel. THOSE DANG BULLIES!: What a fine Easter weekend that was, doubly so for me since it’s my favorite holiday. Yes, more so than Christmas. That’s not to downgrade the traditional December biggie.
Tog Bait of Choice: Sand Crabs Shining

1 month ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

Sand crabs are possibly the most iconic of all beach critters, after factoring in the childhood rite of passage gained by digging them for the first time – and all too often bucketing a bunch to take home. Big mistake, kid. I know, still recalling the trauma and smell after a few days of keeping them as pets. Why I thought they might like eating little pieces of hot dog is beyond me.
Tariff Trickledown Could Loom Large for Anglers, Diners

2 months ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

Spring is having one helluva time freeing itself from the cobwebs of winter. While meteorological narratives indicate April can run as hot and cold as any other month out there, one might anticipate that under the influence of global warming it would seem the ideal month to exert warmerness unless – dare it be said? – there is more out there than the climate change experts have expected.
The Soothing Buzz of Mechanical Bees Droning Over Crops

2 months ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

When it comes to developing robotic bugs, the beautiful minds at MIT can sometimes come off as a bit batty, if not downright flitty. A team of the institute’s most gifted geeks has been enthusiastically perfecting a mechanical replacement for honeybees, the world’s prime pollinators, now reduced to near nothingness in America, leaving farmers in want of pollinators.
How the Dark Web Might Unloose Ruin on State’s Tree Frogs

2 months ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

I recently did an informative delve-about within the Dark Web, which I’ll use to also cover the Deep Web. As mere web mortals, we deal almost exclusively with the upper 10% of the available WWW, which is little more than the outer skin of the internet. Technically, our dominant domain is called the surface web, within which we happily access unfettered knowledge offered through search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. The remaining 90% of the web is deep and dark.