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4/10/24

Douglas St.

They were able to scramble cruisers to stop traffic. The police audio is something else: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/26/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-maryland/

Both heartbreaking and terrifying. Thinking of all the people who were on the bridge when it happened - a reminder of how quickly life can turn due to things out of your control, something I'm all too familiar with at this point. Sounds like, amazingly, they've gotten two people alive out of the...

Noah Smith on Japan: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/secrets-of-japanese-urbanism-part

Wouldn't the Hynes be over the tracks?

I'm sure this has been posted here before, but I have a work trip in the New Haven area, and I encountered this today, which may be the single most cheeky bit of architecture I've ever seen: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MvWLNGVGqDhD9WpM6

I'm usually more of the preservationist type for these things, but man, that hotel (it's a Wyndham now, I guess?) has got to go. Drives me nuts that One Post Office Square had to be reclad, but this Topeka-Thinks-Its-Vegas looking thing sticks around like a cockroach. Sorry to go off topic...

I'm glad that it appears to be more of a restoration than a redesign. That has always been one of my favorite outdoor spaces in the metro area.

My parents would read that to my late son when they watched him. Excellent book.

Looks like you did Hawaii the "right" way by picking one island and sticking to it. We island hopped for our honeymoon (4 days on Waikiki as a base with daytrips to the big island and Maui and then 3 days in Kauai) and I got pretty burned out with all the tours. There were some other extenuating...

I've always wondered what the history of that odd office-park-lite section of Newport Ave. is. It's so incongruous to it's surroundings. Very little of the adjacent marshland got developed, did environmental law prevent that?

I see what they've done with those sculptures/benches, they're cool, but man are the trypophobics going to hate them.

The Rolex 24 was quite an experience, especially from a healing standpoint. The AO Racing Porsche, known as "Rexy", sported my son's name as a memorial after the team saw my tweet with Anthony wearing a Rexy shirt. Finished 2nd in class (GTD Pro)! Rexy also has an LMP2 teammate who's a...

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I was talking about this with someone the other day and they didn't remember it! I was in 8th or 9th grade when it was open, and I remember going in there and getting overwhelmed, then just walking back out to go to the regular food court. A bit too ahead of its time, I think.

Through an incredible circumstance (a team honoring my late son on their race car) I ended up at Daytona for the Rolex 24 over the weekend. I had been to Daytona last March but not for a race and only for a couple of hours, the 24 gave me a few days to spend at the facility and I came away...

One more from the MOS visit in the new year. Walking up over the bridge in Cambridge to get to the Esplanade. My wife Liz not appreciating the bitter cold, my son Anthony excited to be on an adventure. Anthony passed away suddenly less than 2 weeks later on January 12th at the age of 5. We're...

I was born down on A St. Well, actually O and 8th Raised up on B St. Off East 8th, actually Southie is my home town! Though I've been living in Grafton since I got married almost a decade ago. Things I like: How open the city feels with the Artery gone, how nice the Esplanade is, how much...

Is that from the Neponset Landing building by the bridge?