Any actual sense is an unintentional lapse.
I got an action alert from TransitMatters urging supporters to lobby Massachusetts governor Maura Healey to provide dedicated capital funding to the MBTA, in response to the agency s anemic five-year rolling capital plan (the CIP ), which is currently out for Continue reading
This past week was MIT Commencement, which always messes up traffic and parking around campus. I had gotten up early on Wednesday by mistake, and I decided that rather than fight with either of those things, I would take the Continue reading
In 2016, the ISU World Figure Skating Championships were held at the TD Garden in Boston. I didn t learn about it until shortly before the event so late that most events were sold out, and I couldn t get particularly Continue reading
TL;DR: Photo galleries Men s skeleton, heat 1 Women s skeleton, heat 1 Men s skeleton, heat 4 Women s skeleton, heat 4 Women s monobob, heat 1 Women s monobob, heat 4 I m not sure when I started following bobsled and (more significantly) skeleton. Historically Continue reading
Last week I returned home from the 2024 World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, with a bunch of things bubbling in my head that I m trying to write down as quickly as I can lest I forget what I wanted Continue reading
Over the past couple of weeks, I ve spent about 60 hours researching the administrative history of offshore wind development off the coast of Massachusetts. While most of this information is available from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, understanding how Continue reading
Attention conservation notice: 5,500 words about a conference you didn t attend in a city where you probably don t live by a person who is manifestly unqualified to opine on either. As I m sitting down to write this, it hasn t been Continue reading
It cannot have escaped anyone s notice that the volume of posts on this blog has dropped like a rock in the last few years, and in particular the recipe posts (which I think were the reason most people followed me Continue reading
Last July, I went to Winnipeg for NASFiC, and it s taken me six weeks to finally get around to writing something about it. I have three pages of notes written on my hotel s notepaper, so let s see if I can Continue reading
And now for something totally different. I ve been using GnuCash to do my personal bookkeeping for a couple of decades now, and I always have issues with how to properly account for investments. This year, due to low savings yields Continue reading