'cambridge' Archive
no message
28 June 2008, 7:25 am
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An odd thing: the next time I turned my camera on after taking this photo, it also displayed a “no media” message (it had space for maybe 1 or 2 more exposures at the time). I thought it would be funny to juxtapose the two, so the next time I had another camera handy, I […]
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bike lane markers around town
22 May 2008, 7:34 pm
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Somerville has been freshening up the bike lane markers. First they indicate where they should go:
Then they stencil the marker right on top:
Sometimes this makes it look like the iconic cyclist is wearing a cliché asian peasant hat
The narrow headed Somervillian riders make some of their skullish Cantabridgian counterparts look rather macabre in comparison:
Especially since […]
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Posted in somerville, cambridge, photos, personal, bicycle safety
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banana hugs
9 May 2008, 6:49 am
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On the same light pole that once featured Anna [heart] Andrew Bird.
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Posted in cambridge, street art, photos
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radio, radio
14 April 2008, 8:11 am
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I’ll be spinning tunes on WMBR tomorrow.
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Posted in music, without shame, cambridge
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2 “thank you”s to strangers
5 December 2007, 7:50 am
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To someone in Cambridge:
Monday morning, you noticed that I’d locked up my bike on the street and left it with the taillight blinking madly. (You don’t know this, but the recitation of my parking mantra, “lights, locks, helmet, bottle” didn’t help me coz I don’t usually use the taillight in the morning, but the weather […]
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Posted in somerville, cambridge, personal
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there’s a hole in the sky
3 December 2007, 7:40 pm
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About 12:30 I thought I’d take a picture of the season’s first snow:
Things carried on pretty much in this vein for a while, until about 90 minutes later I suddenly noticed a gap in the low clouds through which I could see blue sky and a puffy cumulus cloud.
Never seen anything quite like that before.
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Posted in weather, cambridge, photos
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aging; tangents
13 July 2007, 7:31 am
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Although it scarcely seems possible, I’m older now than I was before. Actually, I’m older now than when I typed that, but I recently passed one of those points where society asserts that you’ve made a quantum state change from n-old to n+1 old.
I commemorated the occasion, in part, by checking the weather in Montréal, […]
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Posted in food, marketing, cambridge, usability, personal
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I can hear you even through earplugs. Plus, follow-ups.
27 January 2007, 1:20 pm
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On the T on my way home last night there were two young women in enormous parkas. One was doing something that was a little too subtle to really qualify as a pole dance per se. The other was wearing headphones and vocalizing very loudly, monotonally, and repetitively with a raunchy song on repeat.*
It sounded […]
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Posted in somerville, cambridge, personal
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