boston freedom trail map

a map of the freedom trail in boston...
Sites:

1. Boston Common
2. State House
3. Park Street Church
4. Granary Burying Ground
5. King’s Chapel and Burying Ground
6. First Public School Site
7. Old Corner Bookstore
8. Old South Meeting House

9. Old State House
10. Boston Massacre Site
11. Faneuil Hall
12. Paul Revere House
13. Old North Church
14. Copp’s Hill Burying Ground
15. Uss Constitution
16. Bunker Hill Monument

oh google images...

i've gotten quite popular on google images since i left. MBTA map and wilson's snowflakes, and disturbingly... the C4 picture. 

alas... google ad sense, here i come. 

See You in 2009

I think Hiatus is the word. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen.

8 months later, and not as funny....

Ah... the New York Times went to Pittsburgh...
36 Hours

They copied this piece of writing genus:
36 Hours


We did overlap with eating at Sobas. My entry was better.

Iowa Floods.

I hope everyone in Iowa is staying as dry and sane as possible. It's impossible to imagine the floods of '93 that I saw as a young boy, and double that.

On a lighter note... I saw the Governor of Iowa, Chet Culver on TV. Holy shit, thats not a Governor, that is a fucking linebacker. He looks like he could swat Michael Chertoff away with a flick of his wrist.

Self-deprecating humor is the new black (see george bush likeability, 2000 election):

1. I have a PhD, work at Harvard and MIT, have lived in Massachusetts for 19 months, and I still am spelling Massachusetts correctly about 50% of the time.

2. . I heard a great Michael Jackson song on the radio one night, then I went and found it on iTunes, it was really a Donny Osmond song (One Bad Apple).

3. I was looking at a map of the Boston subway and commuter rail system, and was reading names of places like “Chesham” and “Queensbury” and thought to myself… “I love how all the towns in New England have such English sounding names.”
Then I realized I was looking at a map of London's subway system.

Boston:



London:

In my defense a lot of the names overlapped, like Hyde Park, Broadway, Sudbury, and Acton just to name a few. Although London has a “Cockfosters” which I haven’t seen in New England yet. Although I could likely find a Cock drinking Fosters.


Hey buddy, it’s made by Miller.

Agreement for installing iTunes

"Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall 3Com be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labor disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labor or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of third parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning."


WTF? Couldn't everything fall under that?

iTunes User: "Shit... iTunes freezes and crashed my computer?"
Archangel Gabriel: "Sorry.. God's will at work. He really disapproves of the Nine Inch Nails that you're playing."
iTunes User: "Because of their songs about hate and pain?"
Archangel Gabriel: "No, because it's a little known fact that Trent Reznor moonlights as a scientist doing morally debatable DNA research... New Vatican rules sorry."

and when you combine it with the fact they start the disclaimer with "resulting directly or indirectly from...acts of God" (which is almost a beginning of a deist/theist debate) you can pretty much chalk every single thing going wrong with your computer to an act of God.

Or a spaghetti monster.