🔷 Open Thread

[datadyne007]

Yeah, but they've got a ferris wheel so they are world class.

You can never escape the Fernsehtrum either! It's always looming over you.

 

[bostonbred]

dIe IST wElTkAtagorIe!!! Und SO.

 

[statler]

Fools, April, etc...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg&feature=player_embedded#!

 

[briv]

^Boston in Google Maps, Quest Mode:

 

[datadyne007]

Loved the 8-bit Hancock!

 

[datadyne007]

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/41172/new-south-china-mall/

"A Billionaire’s Dream Deferred: China’s Empty Monument to Consumerism"
- New South China Mall

 

[datadyne007]

LA Transit dream - "You can actually take the train somewhere instead of kind-of-near somewhere."

This just popped up on my Facebook feed. Source is unknown.

 

[Ron Newman]

That map does extreme violence to the actual Los Angeles geography. I looked at it wondering why there was no line to Santa Monica beach, only to find that it has the line running *south* from UCLA to there.

 

[Lurker]

For Ron:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyz5d3entBw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGYngjxJP1I&feature=player_embedded

 

[BostonUrbEx]

Red Velvet Pancakes. IHOP. April only. Go. NOW.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Oh god damn!

 

[Lrfox]

Red Velvet Pancakes. IHOP. April only. Go. NOW.

 

[statler]

Red Velvet Pancakes. IHOP. April only. Go. NOW.

 

[datadyne007]

Ugh, IHOP is where I'm going the morning after I get back from Germany (thankfully that is Apr 28 - still time for the red velvet!). I miss it so much. Pancakes (and breakfast sandwiches) pretty much only exist in McDonalds here. The night I get back, I'm having the biggest and tastiest American dinner at the Cheesecake Factory.

God bless the USA.

 

[Lurker]

http://foodbeast.com/content/2012/0...g-a-new-bacon-sundae-because-this-is-america/

The link says it all.

 

[Lurker]

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-population-control-holocaust

Not recommended reading for those with a weak constitution.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Or people with ADHD.

 

[Lrfox]

Red Velvet Pancakes. IHOP. April only. Go. NOW.

Went to IHOP at 2:30am last night simply because of the red velvet pancakes. I wasn't disappointed. I don't regret that decision.

 

[Shepard]

Is it me, or is Marathon Monday virtually the only day in Massachusetts where open container regulations and other blue law repressions go out the window?

In Brookline, at least, bottles cans and solo cups were very conspicuous among the spectating crowd. Didn't seem like any law enforcement officials cared. At least one Washington Square bar was serving into solo cups for unofficial take-out service. As if for one day you get to taste what it's like to live in a free society.

Anyone else make this observation?

PS. Shockingly, the world didn't end

 

[datadyne007]

Definitely going to miss enjoying a beer with friends on the U-Bahn on the way back from class.

Btw, imagine sleeping in City Hall for a night.. that's what it's like sleeping in a monk's cell in Corbu's La Tourette. Freezing cold.