by David | Nov 13, 2012 | economics, technology, transportation, urbanism
Thanks to the alert folks at Universahub, I found out yesterday that you can buy Mass Bay Commuter Rail tickets with a mobile app on your iPhone or Android thingus, at least for the North side lines for now. Naturally, I had to try it. After all, I’ve got...
by David | Nov 12, 2012 | reading & writing
You may think that domestic cats are nocturnal, but you’d not really be right. In fact, you’d be wrong, they are crepuscular, which means they are most active whenever you are trying to work or sleep during the twilight hours around sunset and sunrise. The...
by David | Nov 8, 2012 | eating, urbanism
Earlier this Autumn, my local source for artisanal home-made house-made tofu near Powerhouse Circle, East Asia, was replaced by a strange newcomer called Doowee (Doo Wee?) and Rice. I mourned the loss of East Asia’s homey no frills atmo and amazing layered tofu...
by David | Oct 21, 2012 | reading & writing, science!, technology
I’ve been a huge fan of E ink for ten years now. I visited the company’s Cambridge office back when I was in business school and was very impressed with the technology. So when the original Kindle hit the market a couple of years ago, I was very...
by David | Oct 17, 2012 | eating
I recently discovered the site of George Emerson’s Pickle Factory in Somerville’s Powerhouse Park. Other than the engraved rock and cast metal pickle jars (bottles?) I have no information about it, but I have a feeling it could be the next Cronin Park. In...
by David | Sep 2, 2012 | urbanism
Has it really been three years since I repaired a Scrabble set? Such slacking, I’m appalled at myself. The other day I met up with trademarkable JeffCuter(TM) at Diesel Cafe and later had a nice game of Scrabble with the estimable J, who beat me by three points...
by David | Aug 23, 2012 | eating, urbanism
After relatively brief and painless trip to the Somerville department of Traffic and Parking – would you believe a parking ticket from 1996? – I dropped in at the recently opened and oddly capitalized iYO cafe in Davis Square. At iYO you can make your own...
by David | Jul 23, 2012 | culture, design, economics
File under quietly brilliant. I needed to move some books, a lot of books, so I started to look around for some boxes. Professor M suggested twine. Check it out: a simple double loop of twine is a flexible, reusable, and perhaps most important, easy to store book...
by David | Jun 25, 2012 | photo
I was looking for something, a photo, in fact, but I found something else, a different photo. It’s a Polaroid SX-70 print, that classic almost square instant format that comes out with a whirr and develops with (or without, actually) a shake. Depending on your...
by David | Jun 18, 2012 | economics, transportation, urbanism
Today was Bunker Hill Day, and therefore Boston parking meters were “off,” meaning not that you could park all day for nothing, but rather that you could park for two hours at a time for nothing. Parking was free but still time-limited. I’m betting...
by David | Jun 12, 2012 | science!, travel
I’m back from a trip almost halfway around the world in terms of longitude, but a pretty short hop in latitude. A weather diversion on the way over brought me to Oklahoma City airport, what would have been my second time ever setting foot on Oklahoma soil, but...
by David | Jun 5, 2012 | eating
Moksa, Cambridge’s newish “Pan-Asian Izakaya” is a welcome freshening of the Mass Ave Asian food scene. As the Izayaka label suggests, Moksa takes the drinks seriously – they have cocktails for each sign of the Chinese zodiac and each of the...
