🔷 Open Thread

[Jouhou]

According to CNN, the doctor initially agreed to leave until he found out that the next flight wasn't until the next day.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/travel/united-customer-dragged-off-overbooked-flight/index.html

Btw, the CEO's third statement sounds incredibly disingenuous. He wasn't outraged, angered, disappointed, or disturbed....until he saw the company's stock fall today.

Unsurprising, but it got us the response we should have gotten before.

 

[bolehboleh]

I just wanted to put this here. It might be helpful advice when dealing with certain trolls on this site:

But let’s say he can acquire massive amounts of negative publicity by pissing off people in the media? Well now all of a sudden someone is absorbing the cost of this inefficient form of marketing for him. If a CNN story reaches 100,000 people, that’s 90,000 people all patting themselves on the back for how smart and decent they are. They’re just missing the fact that the 10,000 new people that just heard about Milo for the first time. The same goes for when you angrily share on Facebook some godawful thing one of these people has said. The vast majority of your friends rush to agree, but your younger cousin has a dark switch in his brain go on for the first time.

http://observer.com/2017/02/i-helpe...aybook-you-should-stop-playing-right-into-it/

 

[odurandina]

civilization winding down....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0Svvdrx_E

 

[odurandina]

Pats 2017 Schedule

Thursday, Sep. 7 Kansas City Chiefs 8:30pm NBC Boston / NBC

Sunday, Sep. 17 at New Orleans Saints 1:00pm WBZ / CBS

Sunday, Sep. 24 Houston Texans 1:00pm WBZ / CBS

Sunday, Oct. 1 Carolina Panthers 1:00pm WFXT / FOX

Thursday, Oct. 5 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers 8:25pm WBZ / CBS / NFLN / Amazon

Sunday, Oct. 15 at New York Jets 1:00pm* WBZ / CBS

Sunday, Oct. 22 Atlanta Falcons 8:30pm* NBC Boston / NBC*

Sunday, Oct. 29 Los Angeles Chargers 1:00pm* WBZ / CBS

Sunday, Nov. 5 BYE

Sunday, Nov. 12 at Denver Broncos 8:30pm* NBC Boston / NBC*

Sunday, Nov. 19 at Oakland Raiders (Mexico City) 4:25pm WBZ / CBS

Sunday, Nov. 26 Miami Dolphins 1:00pm* WBZ / CBS*

Sunday, Dec. 3 at Buffalo Bills 1:00pm* WBZ / CBS*

Monday, Dec. 11 at Miami Dolphins 8:30pm WCVB / ESPN

Sunday, Dec. 17 at Pittsburgh Steelers 4:25pm* WBZ / CBS*

Sunday, Dec. 24 Buffalo Bills 1:00pm WBZ / CBS

Sunday, Dec. 31 New York Jets 1:00pm WBZ / CBS

 

[odurandina]

Where were you all in the third week of April 1977, the year we had that totally awesome heat wave that lasted for 4 days with temps reaching into the low 90s..... then 2 weeks later, on the May 9-10th, 1977 the Mother's Day Noreaster hit... it brought 13 inches of snow to Metrowest and Worcester, and 20 inches to Fitchburg and Leominster!!

https://www.boston.com/weather/weat...-bad-as-in-13-inches-of-snow-in-worcester-bad

 

[stefal]

(originally posted in the "New Residence Hall at New England Conservatory" thread)

Good designers do these things well. The people at ABA are good designers. Now, if people could see the value in hiring good designers our city would hold together much more solidly.

cca

This prompted me to look around the internet for good designers and architecture firms. I've found a few firms I like, but I figured I'd ask a board full of architects and architecture enthusiasts for their favorite design & architecture firms around Boston (or internationally), big or small... just looking for some inspiration/researching.

 

[odurandina]

in honor of the 100th anniversary of JFK's birth....

i thought i'd post this sad moment in history, preserved in the archives of WGBH. Those in attendance didn't have to experience the dwindling moments of a world they'd soon discover they'd never have. For those people, the news was delivered in a single dose – with the BSO reacting to honor their fallen President in solidarity......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUdJleG5Yc

 

[Shepard]

Thanks for posting that. You can almost tell when someone has whispered into the announcer's ear... he suddenly becomes a lot more subdued and immediately drops the faux-British inflection.

 

[statler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNZ_PwfnUks

 

[dwash59]

I know there will be argument about whether this is JP or not, but here are the pnf & figures for 3353 Washington.

pnf - http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/getattachment/0e171e39-76d4-47ba-98ad-3547167e4993

figures only -http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthority.org/getattachment/45681961-597b-4dd4-8095-be6201f43a2e

Neighbors are suing over this development. I'm posting in Open Thread because I've seen a lot of backchannel stuff among some believing the result of this will set a precedent for developments across Boston. If they're successful, we may see suits popping up for a lot more projects.

http://www.bulletinnewspapers.com/2...-together-to-sue-3353-washington-st-developer

 

[odurandina]

They won't be successful. Or the courts will have effectively given over Boston's authority to approve development over to a handful of hyper activist loons.

If anyone wasn't sure, 3353 Washington is well within the confines of Jamaica Plain.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/R...f33df75879c823!8m2!3d42.3151978!4d-71.0913748

 

[odurandina]

i realize most of you have seen this video; for anyone who hasn't.....

Q; how many dominoes is required to topple over the new World Trade Center

A??; my guess is the number equal to the number stated in the following video clip would probably do it.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JCm5FY-dEY

 

[odurandina]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bFZhOa1Mtw

 

[dwash59]

Related to harbor access, Intercontinental forced to remove bar due to not granting public access to the harbor.

http://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2017/07/state-regulators-order-intercontinental.html

 

[stefal]

I was rather skeptical this would actually come to fruition, especially so fast. Elon Musk was given "verbal approval" to run an underground hyperloop system from NYC-Phili-Baltimore-DC. It would be completely tunneled by his new side project, The Boring Company (pun intended), which aims at increasing tunnel boring efficiency to about .03 mph. [operating at 24 hrs/day @ 0.03mph, it'd take a little under 1 year with 1 TBM. Very optimistic, even by Musk's Standards, especially when considering the company is also "just a few interns."]

Given it is verbal approval from the "government", and they still do not have a working scaled model of a hyperloop vacuum-sealed-track and transport pod, I still have a lot of skepticism this will all work out smoothly and on time.

It's funny Boston hasn't been included in any of the hyperloop plans. [EDIT: Just learned of Boston-Providence, along with others. Probably conceptual at this point.]

 

[bakgwailo]

The verbal government approval is pretty laughable - and seems like no government agencies contact yet have any idea what he is talking about:

http://jalopnik.com/heres-a-running...ublic-agencies-o-1797094244?rev=1500573440051

I still think this is pretty much vaporware at best.

 

[West]

Given it is verbal approval from the "government", and they still do not have a working scaled model of a hyperloop vacuum-sealed-track and transport pod, I still have a lot of skepticism this will all work out smoothly and on time.

This is the funniest fucking thing I've read in weeks, and being that these tweets are in competition with the President's tweets, that's saying something.

Further fuel for hilarity here, as mayors' offices and other various officials say they have never even received first contact from Musk's people:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.cb2192ab1e4e

This is brilliant comedy from Mr. Musk. Now sit back and watch yet more comic relief, as investors throw money at him on the basis of these tweets.

We are living in truly weird times.

 

[CSTH]

Yeah if 'The Boring Company' isn't peak silicon valley, then i give up....

 

[JohnAKeith]

Somerset. The Shelbyville of the hyperloop.

http://www.govtech.com/fs/transport...achusetts-South-Coast-Hyperloop-Location.html

(PS. Everyone add "hyperloop" to your online dictionary.)

 

[George_Apley]

Glad I'm not the only one who pictures this whenever the whole Hyperloop talk swirls up

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