- I understand that I have a serious peeve about entitlement, but there's one way that it affects me on a nearly-daily basis: The doors on the subway train are wide enough for two people to exit at the same time. (Usually.) If the people on the platform that are waiting to get on - when they bother to wait, which is a different peeve - but they ( Read more... )

... featured Deval Patrick giving a presentation at Ruggles to the winners of the MBTA Developer's Challenge:


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1. while coming home today, i ran down to the Ruggles Orange Line platform to try to catch a train. i skipped all the way down to the last car (my preferred because of where it drops me at Downtown Crossing) to try to board there, passing up at least one or two open doors on the way. the doorway i was trying to use was half-broken, meaning that ( ( Read more... )

i had the worst commute home ever today ( Read more... )

thank you to everyone (and i do mean everyone) who sent me a link to the No Pants Boston Subway Ride this weekend. no further emails are necessary :)

mittere, you didn't dye your hair stark blonde recently, did you?

riding the red line today, i sat next someone who could have been your twin sister, except her hair was blonde and down past her shoulders. but the pink rain booties were very cute :)

noise-cancelling headphones give a +20 on my saving throw vs. subway preachers.

Spotted at Downtown Crossing between the Orange and Red lines: a short Asian kid carrying 3(!) katana running down the platform, all hunched over like the stereotypical ninja. His jacket was flowing in the "wind" behind him, too; I wanted to look around for the movie cameras, but I was trying to catch the same train he was.
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today will be the first day this week that i haven't gotten off the T at Davis instead of Porter.

of course, i haven't left school yet, so you never know what might happen between here and there...

the charles river was incredibly still this morning when the red line went across it. i saw some guy rowing out from the esplanade area, and he was the only one making any sort of ripples in the water. eerie, and beautiful reflection of the skyline ( Read more... )