Recent content by brazile

To be fair, representative Town Meeting generally works a bit better than that.

Ha ha, that sentence is probably parseable only if you are familiar with a) ultimate frisbee, and b) "grand master" or ("great grand master" more like) ultimate frisbee at that. Old folks "running" around remembering being 30, but constantly being reminded that they are not. Not that I would...

FWIW, my understanding is that "Arlington" means "Town of the kin of Arl", Arl being an Anglo-Saxon name for presumably the local clan chief. Similar for other "-ington" names. The town, as you say, renamed itself in a spate of patriotism after the Civil War and in the runup to the Centennial...

It's a great park, but hoo boy is it windy up on top of that capped fill. Makes geezer ultimate pretty wearing sometimes!

Left, IMO.

Can't speak for Milton. I believe Arlington does.

Seems more PoMo Greek Revival than Deco to me, but what do I know?

I ride the Reformatory Branch on a road bike all the time without difficulty, and I encourage anyone curious to try it; unless it's just rained a lot (and even sometimes then) it's perfectly doable. Larger tires help, but I think they're better on all roads than the old 700Cx23 days anyway. I...

It was active in my commuting lifetime, pretty sure into the 2000s at least. Almost nobody ever stopped there, although a number of people intending to signal the stop at Lake St pushed the button early, casing the driver to pull into it, then grouse a bit about having to pull back into the Rt 2...

The clue is in the building with the cupola.

And even the "before" photo above shows a pretty-clearly remodeled building from the 20s or 30s. Filled in the old multi-pane windows and who knows what lurks behind that sheet metal cap...

I wouldn't have guessed that, but in retrospect it makes some sense. Both because of how much more capacity there is for bicycles, and because the route is straight shot into both Kendall Square and Boston from the northwest suburbs (that I used to commute to work in both places for 20 years)...

While an enthusiastic governor would make a real difference, seems like we're aiming at the wrong spot. Given the feudal system that is the Great and General Court, I think until we get a speaker who thinks transportation is important (and more important than appeasing...well, I'll just try to...

Walked a bit down my street, I see. View's better on a clearer day.

Well, not exactly that building, or at least, not just that building, which I think was put up in 1980. The ARPANET work was begun in the early- to mid-70s (arguably earlier in some forms), and at the time, BBN occupied buildings further up Moulton St. Also took over some buildings (a former can...