Jay Mann

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Tariff Trickledown Could Loom Large for Anglers, Diners

2 weeks 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

3 weeks 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

4 weeks 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.
The Oddest Airport Bust: A Bulge in Man’s Pants Leads to Concealed Pet

1 month ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

My mind remains boggled over news stories regarding surely one of the weirdest smuggling busts ever seen at any airport, anywhere. It played out at Newark Liberty International Airport, where security agents nabbed a man who tried secreting away a decent sized red-eared slider turtle, wrapping it in a small towel and stowing it in the most private portion of his pants. The crawly contraband was first detected by highly advanced electronic surveillance devices.
In an Extreme Crunch, Dining on Bunker Bait Might Not Be So Bad

1 month ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

A quick but deserved and timely rant. This biannual time switch thing has gotta go, one way or the other. It’s either sunny side up or over easy, spoken like a former breakfast cook (Noller’s in Beach Haven and Ray’s Diner in Ship Bottom). If need be, let the people choose – or, less democratically, get a decisive decision from that EO-ist fellow with the funky hair and off-color tans.
Crustacean Spirits: Making Green Crabs Fit for Connoisseurs

1 month ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

GREEN CRABS ON THE ROCKS: To help control New England’s invasion by European green crabs, the House of Tamworth distillery in New Hampshire is testing whiskey waters never before explored. Pubs throughout New England have begun offering Crab Trapper Green Crab Flavored Whiskey. The name says it all. It’s a genuine four-year bourbon that utilizes 90 pounds of green crabs per batch. The company developed the literally “crabby” liquor with some help from an institute of higher learning.
Maybe a Warning: Bay Does a Limbo, Hits All-Time Low

1 month ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

Anyone remember the Limbo craze? How low can you go? It helped foster modern chiropractic medicine. I bring up record lowness as a lead-in to what many knowledgeable coastal folks saw as the lowest bayside blow-out tides ever seen hereabouts. A heap of those low tide witnesses harbor many a blowout tide under their belts, thus their anecdotal reports hold more water. Assuredly, things got limbo low. The wow-worthy water lowness arose (arose?) from a brutal bout of honking offshore winds.
Lures as Geniuses: Intellectual Plugs Ready to Launch; Command of Executive Orders Is a Must

2 months ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

A shoutout to the wind for proving it’s always a prime player in our coastal weather game. Sunday evening saw local gusts over 70 mph. I took an unofficial 72 mph reading. By Monday, a solid showing of steady 50-mph straight winds and subfreezing temps made it feel just about as raw as we get, evoking ye olde “Blow, blow, thou winter wind …” and something about “man’s ingratitude.” Whatever.
And EO Times Begin: Donald Does the Gulf, Orders Americanizing

2 months ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

“What’s in a name?”On the surface, those wouldn’t seem like fighting words … unless being aggressively bandied about by a White Housed world leader inclined to readily stir the international pot. As you might have guessed, I’m referencing the superficially sophomoric name battle between America’s head honcho, el Donaldo, and Mexico’s head honcha, Claudia Sheinbaum. Within one day in office, our man at 1600 executively ordered the Gulf of Mexico immediately be renamed Gulf of America.
Dismissing the Drones Can’t Bring Full Closure

2 months ago | thesandpaper.net | Jay Mann

The midwinter thaw didn’t arrive a minute too soon for me and the lifelong thin skin I sport. The upon-us month should be spot-on temperature-wise. Mercifully, no all-day freezes. In fact, look for some freaky warm stints toward the month’s end. I’ve always had a soft spot for this short-changed month, being routinely short on change myself. Despite being unique in day count, February is sorta lacking on the minutiae side of things.