by David | Apr 5, 2013 | culture, design, transportation, urbanism
Some days you can watch The Wiz of Oz while waiting. Dark side of the T. H/T to @wdipilato for pointing this out and glossing it for me.
by David | Apr 4, 2013 | eating, urbanism
Food truck season’s back. Grilled cheese with bacon and soup: perfect comfort food. More trucky goodness: Boston Food Truck Infographic and Boston Food Truck Schedule. Keep on truckin’!
by David | Apr 4, 2013 | culture, transportation, urbanism
You people wouldn’t last a minute in Tokyo. Step in means STEP IN.
by David | Apr 3, 2013 | photo, reading & writing
Minimal design and perfect material. Alvin Brass Bullet.
by David | Apr 2, 2013 | photo, transportation
Cold morning sunlight Gives no warmth but burns the eye Early Boston spring
by David | Apr 1, 2013 | culture, eating
You know I like a good sandwich and a good story. I was at Cafe Rustico in the Bullfinch Triangle pondering the menu and I noticed that all the sandwiches were pretty much named for their contents – pollo, rucola, meatball – but one was named for a...
by David | Mar 28, 2013 | urbanism
I thought I was so edgy, I checked in at the Starbucks on 181st street in Washington Heights and noted that I was at the northernmost Starbucks in the borough of Manhattan. How wrong I was, by two coffee shops and an interesting carto-historical technicality. Like...
by David | Mar 18, 2013 | culture, working
You know you’ve been working on a blog post too long when it gets published in The New Yorker written by somebody else. Marissa Mayer of Yahoo has gotten some flak for calling all her working at home employees back into the office, or else. Surowiecki writes in...
by David | Mar 16, 2013 | urbanism
So Thursday was Pi Day. You know, because 3/14 looks like π which is 3.14 and more. We’ve been over much of this before. But this Pi Day I decided that I should visit Boston’s Pi Alley at 1:59pm because that would be 3/14 1:59. Yeah, slow news day, I...
by David | Mar 13, 2013 | design, urbanism
Who doesn’t love pocket parks? You’ve probably had enough of me going on about Cronin Park near Cambridge’s Central Square, so you’ll be relieved for a moment that I’m turning my attention to a proposed pocket park in Bartlett Place off...
by David | Mar 12, 2013 | design, technology
Google, describing the new and mildly controversial high-end Chromebook Pixel, says this of its screen: “The 12.85” screen has the highest pixel density of any laptop, and a 3:2 photographic format designed for the web puts every one of those pixels to good...
by David | Mar 11, 2013 | design, science!, technology
Via Apartment Therapy and CNN Travel, news of a shower that aims to vanquish jetlag via light therapy. Why didn’t they think of this sooner? Just add some sunlight bright LEDs to a shower, what’s so hard? Sign me up, I say! I’m a big fan of light...
