Yesterday morning as we mourned the passing of a major contributor to the culture of Boston and the T, I woke up to a rather irritated torrent of commuters, all of whom where having issues with their monthly passes because ...Read More

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With the recent submission of 278 pre-applications for the high speed rail grants from 40 states, one question remains to be answered: who should manage all of these high speed rail lines when they're built? Building and upgrading infrastructure is the ...Read More

While the Obama administration and everyone else (Streetsblog, Infrastructurist, Blueprint America, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, and so on) talk up high speed rail and James Howard Kunstler brings us back down to earth, everyone seems to be eager to ...Read More

So, today I finally got around to actually calling my mom about the two things that have been bothering me the past few days: my graduation present from my parents and the strange charge from AT&T on my debit card. Unexpected ...Read More

This isn't incrediby recent news, and I'm fairly certain I learned about it a while ago, but apparently PATH, operated and owed by the Port Authority, contracted Kawasaki to build 340 new rail cars to be designated the PA5s. The ...Read More

Well, the title pretty much sums it. Lots of shit's happened and I hate how my brain buzzes loudest when I'm trying to sleep. I almost made it when I was watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos on Hulu three hours ago, ...Read More

I've tried to stick to a bi-monthly update schedule, but alas, I failed on the Ides of March. I could blame that on someone and make that post all about that person, but if I did, I'd probably not be ...Read More

Today, I felt compelled to rid the Internet of older traces of my alias, or at least do my best to do so. I hid all of my older LiveJournal entries (though they're all unprotected here) and in doing so, ...Read More

[caption id="attachment_172" align="alignnone" width="460" caption="Hodgeman's character explains the situation with Anders' brain"][/caption] So, it turns out that John Hodgeman, who also plays the lovable PC and is the butt of every Get A Mac Apple advert, guest starred on last Friday's ...Read More