by David | Jun 3, 2009 | transportation, travel, Uncategorized, urbanism
Sure, it’s fun to backseat drive the beleaguered public transit systems of this country – and there’s no shortage of news of their beleaguerment – but here are some things that every transit rider can do that can help keep things running...
by David | Jun 2, 2009 | economics, media, technology
I’m not sure what’s more narcissistic: binging oneself, checking your follower status, or reading your own blog’s back catalog. That’s a topic for another post, but while committing a minor sin of onnetism I discovered a post from last...
by David | Jun 1, 2009 | eating, urbanism
The signs are all here – warmer weather, student exodus, sudden rainstorms, construction crews ripping up the asphalt leaving neon-painted personhole covers jutting from the roads – it’s just about summer. As if further evidence was needed, I had...
by David | May 30, 2009 | eating, economics
The Davis Square Farmers Market opened up again this past Wednesday, making humpday even better. It’s in the parking lot behind the plaza between Starbucks and Chipotle. As it was early in the season, there wasn’t a lot of ready-to-eat fruits and veggies,...
by David | May 28, 2009 | design
As if there’s not enough stuff to want already, I was recent tipped off by Apartment Therapy to the wonder of soft maps. The example at hand is from Haptic Labs in Brookyn. They make a variety of things, but it’s the quilts and pillows featuring...
by David | May 27, 2009 | design, eating, economics
Recently, I lamented the waste of a non-refillable salt mill I had bought. I was pretty close to shelling out for a nice reusable mill, when I happened on this little number in, of all places, the frozen dessert aisle of Trader Joe’s. It didn’t say it was...
by David | May 26, 2009 | eating
It’s been a while since our last savory scone update. That’s what I was thinking when I popped in at The Biscuit (FKA Toscanini Bakery) not far from Inman Square. And sure enough, right there in the case was a batch of spinach parmesean scones. Maybe...
by David | May 21, 2009 | eating, urbanism
I do like to graze. It seems a shame to take a meandering walk home without first giving the local eateries along the way a look, or a bite. So I took a seat at the bar at Garden at the Cellar, Will Gilson’s localvore joint in the dwindling furniture district...
by David | May 21, 2009 | media, transportation, urbanism
I’m not really sure even where to start.
by David | May 20, 2009 | reading & writing, working
People like to beat up on CEOs. I figure it’s part of the job, but recently in a short span of time, I came across one article saying that CEOs don’t matter that much at all, and another suggesting that they should be boring. The Atlantic trotted out some...
by David | May 19, 2009 | culture, design, urbanism
I was searching for the location of a company on Google Maps and happened to notice a link in the sidebar for a map called Boston Street Lab: Underutilized Space. That’s just my kind of thing, so naturally, I clicked on it. It turns out that there’s an...
by David | May 15, 2009 | economics, technology, working
I was mucking out my spam folder (where lots of not-quite-garbage bulk or automated email ends up) and accidentally opened this message which I ordinarily would have deleted on the basis of the subject line alone: Interesting. Some outfit that thinks I’m a...
