by David | Oct 19, 2008 | photo, transportation
Mysterious marks on a red line seat cushion. A new form of tagging? A Rosetta Seat? Bad upholstery adhesive?
by David | Oct 7, 2008 | design, photo, transportation, urbanism
The Northern Avenue bridge was illuminaled in orange and blue but I didn’t get even halfway across when a security guy called out that we had to clear the bridge because it was going to open. Open? I had no idea it could. Turns out it’s the spinny kind...
by David | Sep 17, 2008 | culture, media, photo, transportation, urbanism
It’s rare that I know something about social media that C.C. Chapman doesn’t, but earlier this evening I left the third WBUR social media get-together and saw this tweet. So, for C.C. and others, let me set the context. WBUR’s social media guy, Ken...
by David | Sep 3, 2008 | economics, transportation, urbanism
It happened again, some punk stole $2 from me in the subway. Well, not exactly. What happened was, somebody squeezed through the fare gate behind me without paying. I hate it when that happens because it makes me feel somehow complicit in the fare-beating, or even...
by David | Jul 29, 2008 | design, transportation
I write a lot for work and some for pleasure, and I enjoy a good game of Scrabble (more on the death of scrabulous another time) so I’m sure it comes as no surprise that I like a good anagram. One of my favorite sites is the Internet Anagram Server at...
by David | Jul 22, 2008 | photo, transportation
I chanced to look up, and there it was, gently swaying with the train’s motion. I wonder if it’s littering to leave cleaning supplies on the subway?