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WOOF!

(Flying over isn't so bad. Motor boat is good too...good bluefishing right off Race Point)
 
So I just woke up, feeling all hungover and hazy. Flip on Channel 4 for some reason, and I hear something about "First Night coverage blah blah blah blay blah blah blay blap...and Boston's Own Gentleman Hall!!!"

That is pretty cool! The Gentleman Hall part I mean, And the "Boston's own" part makes it sound like Scott Boras is your agent and you are signing with the Yankees next week!

On the way to the top, man. As a bass player, on behalf of all of us who couldn't even manage to be "the street corner's own", CONGRATULATIONS!
 
The hi-speed ferry (strike, ferries) between Boston and Provincetown work great so there's really no need for another mode of transportation, in my opinion.
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Every hour, on the hour, in just 90 mins, with booze. Pretty hard to beat.
 
JohnAKeith said:
The hi-speed ferry (strike, ferries) between Boston and Provincetown work great so there's really no need for another mode of transportation, in my opinion.

Now if they'd just offer a dog-free ride ...
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Yep. And for a commuter rail trip a +1 stop extension of the Plymouth Line to downtown Plymouth where it should've gone all along puts the train station directly across Water St. from the ferry terminal. Beef up the Ptown-Plymouth ferry schedule and maybe give it a speedier boat to cross the shortest point in the Bay in the shortest time possible and that'll meet or beat driving or bus to the nearest on-Cape commuter rail station and maybe meet/beat the Boston ferry.

Yarmouth Jct./Hyannis is about as long a trip as is tolerable on a commuter rail train so the extra miles to Chatham or down Cape just doesn't wash. And Route 6 stops being all that bad after Exit 6. There's a good reason full-blast commuter rail schedules lasted until 1958 to Hyannis and Woods Hole while all other passenger train service east of there was kaput by '37-38. I don't even think Chatham with its would-be airport stop is that attractive a rail prospect should that un-landbanked line's reactivation ever survive the NIMBY assault. It doesn't offer anything Hyannis Transportation Center doesn't, and the Chatham-Hyannis bus transfers would be pretty good.


I think all they need to do for the eastern Cape is widen Route 6 from a Super Two to a regulation 4-lane expressway from Exit 9 to Exit 11 to better handle all Chatham traffic and eliminate the really bad safety problems on that stretch of road. Then running robust bus service from the Hyannis Transportation Center and accentuating the Ptown ferries takes care of the rest. The only sorely missing train connection left to exploit is Woods Hole. That line is at least landbanked straight from end of tracks @ Otis to the Woods Hole ferry terminal parking lot, and is well-buffered enough to go rail-with-trail the whole way. It would just take a sea change in NIMBY attitudes and a bad case of envy of Bourne's, Sandwich's, Barnstable's, and Hyannis's commuter rail service to get them self-advocating for it with enough gusto to catch the state's attention.
 
tobyjug said:
So I just woke up, feeling all hungover and hazy. Flip on Channel 4 for some reason, and I hear something about "First Night coverage blah blah blah blay blah blah blay blap...and Boston's Own Gentleman Hall!!!"

That is pretty cool! The Gentleman Hall part I mean, And the "Boston's own" part makes it sound like Scott Boras is your agent and you are signing with the Yankees next week!

On the way to the top, man. As a bass player, on behalf of all of us who couldn't even manage to be "the street corner's own", CONGRATULATIONS!
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Haha thanks man. Yeah a friend posted a picture of a still shot of us on TV as part of the First Night commercial...I guess it's getting around? (I wouldn't know because I never watch TV).

But I may as well make the announcement official that my band Gentlemen Hall will be playing in Copley Square for First Night. We'll be the ones playing as the new year turns so it'll be a damn good time. And as usual, if you come out make sure to find me...just ask around for the architecture nerd and then we can stay warm off my copious reserve of whiskey haha.
 
Does anybody know where I can get an Aeron chair repaired in or around Boston?
 
I thought I was reading the onion. The shadows are what are going to prevent people from tanning in December? REALLY!?!?!

Not to mention that there is barely a difference between the before and after shots. This shadow thing is absurd.
 
davem said:
I thought I was reading the onion. The shadows are what are going to prevent people from tanning in December? REALLY!?!?!

Not to mention that there is barely a difference between the before and after shots. This shadow thing is absurd.
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The new shadows shine on only a few parts of the numbered Central Park landmarks (part of the Pond and the Zoo) on their precious little map.
 
pROse it NeW Jar!!! seeink dRY STOOGLings festival mit der GLUEwine und sekt.
UM mITTERnacHt ole ONKle brings pretty LADYS to pArTY fur dASS FEUERWERKLINS
sELLebRAcing the jahREsend.

THIS TO BE UNGLAUBLICH JAHRE!!!!!!
 
bostonbred said:
pROse it NeW Jar!!! seeink dRY STOOGLings festival mit der GLUEwine und sekt.
UM mITTERnacHt ole ONKle brings pretty LADYS to pArTY fur dASS FEUERWERKLINS
sELLebRAcing the jahREsend.

THIS TO BE UNGLAUBLICH JAHRE!!!!!!
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Prosit Neujahr!

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I understand how this happened but still, how did this happen???

Oh, so which is it - do I stay in my apartment or do I go downstairs???

Deadly Hell’s Kitchen Blaze Traced to Electrical Wire, Fire Dept. Says
By Annie Correal, New York Times

The fire that left one man dead and other residents displaced from a high-rise building in Midtown Manhattan over the weekend was traced to an electrical power strip, the Fire Department said on Monday.

Multiple appliances had been connected to the power strip, said James Esposito, the department’s chief of operations.

The fire occurred on the 20th floor of a luxury building on West 43rd Street in Hell’s Kitchen, and killed a 27-year-old man, Daniel McClung. It also injured a man said to have been Mr. McClung’s husband, who Chief Esposito said remained in serious condition.

The men lived on the 38th floor and had tried to flee through a stairwell, which had filled with smoke, the chief said. They were found in the stairwell on the 31st floor.

“If they had just stayed put, they would have been O.K.,” Chief Esposito said. “You’re safer in your apartment.”

He said that when there was a fire in an apartment in a residential building constructed to prevent the spread of fire, it was safer to stay in another apartment than to head into corridors or stairwells, which could quickly fill with lethal smoke.

When the resident of a 20th-floor unit returned from shopping on Sunday and found the fire, the resident fled, leaving the door ajar. That allowed smoke to spread.

More than 100 firefighters and more than a dozen emergency vehicles responded to the blaze, in a 42-story building at 500 West 43rd Street called the Strand. The fire, which began around 11 a.m., was put out by 1 p.m.
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^ From all the stories I've read about this, the residents (and even the guy whose apartment was on fire?!) didn't know about this fire until they "smelled smoke." This raises serious questions about the building's fire alarm system. You shouldn't have to smell smoke to know there is a fire. Also, stairwells should not fill with smoke as quickly as they did in a high-rise, as the stairwell should have been smoke proofed given that the building had occupiable floors 75' above street level. Egress stairs need to be at least a 2-hr fire rated enclosure. I suspect that the stairwells were not properly fire-rated enclosures, nor did they have self-closing doors. The only way that I can see smoke getting into that stairwell as much as it did is from someone leaving the door open.

The IBC explicitly states:
IBC said:
1022.9 - Smokeproof enclosures and pressurized stairways.
In buildings required to comply with Section 403 or 405, each of the exit enclosures serving a story with a floor surface located more than 75 feet (22 860 mm) above the lowest level of fire department vehicle access or more than 30 feet (9144 mm) below the finished floor of a level of exit discharge serving such stories shall be a smokeproof enclosure or pressurized stairway in accordance with Section 909.20.

1022.9.1 - Termination and extension. A smokeproof enclosure or pressurized stairway shall terminate at an exit discharge or a public way. The smokeproof enclosure or pressurized stairway shall be permitted to be extended by an exit passageway in accordance with Section 1022.2. The exit passageway shall be without openings other than the fire door assembly required by Section 1022.2 and those necessary for egress from the exit passageway. The exit passageway shall be separated from the remainder of the building by 2-hour fire barriers constructed in accordance with Section 707 or horizontal assemblies constructed in accordance with Section 712, or both.
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I hope legal action comes against the developer, architects, engineers, contractors, and other parties as result of this. It will not bring back the man who tragically lost his life trying to evacuate, but it will serve as a reminder and warning about how serious our profession actually is. This is not how buildings are supposed to perform in emergencies.
 
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