Awesome Boston + Googlemaps Mashup
One of the best Boston mashups I’ve seen in a while. Although there are many others, if you’re interested.
Let’s Live Somewhere Safe
These articles (Link 1, Link 2) don’t make me happy. I think I need to live some place that is not a hot spot for crime… just for a change of pace.
Go Ravi Go!
OK, I knew Ravi was a tad nutty in an innovative and transportative kind of way What I didn’t know what that he was hardcore or that he was still friends with Stefan. It’s a small and terribly fun world! Other Oberlin alumni, making history!
Just follow the signs. It’s easy to get around Boston.
On Friday, it took over an hour to get from downtown to the airport because all of I-93 was closed. What?! The number of times we turned became ridiculous. It was all worth it because Peterson’s show was excellent (although I wasn’t all that impressed with the Northeastern audience), and the South Street Diner was a great late-night meal.
North & South Stations
From the Not For Tourists Guide to Boston:
There is a one-mile gap between the two Amtrak stations. The North Station stop is on the Orange and Green lines of the MBTA subway, and the South Station stop is on the Red Line. Yes, it is crazy that the stations aren’t on the same line and don’t directly connect to each other. No, they’re not going to do anything to correct the problem in the near future. Yes, they could have rolled it into the Big Dig project, since they were digging under the city anyway. No, we don’t know why they didn’t. And yes, it does seem odd that they spent billions to improve automobile transportation while ignoring public transportation. As is stands, travelers going from New York to Maine have to get off the train at South Station and either take a cab, take two subway trains, or walk to get to get to North Station to continue their journey.
