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Lrfox said:
Awful. Like an idiot, I watched the video on Barstool. Pretty horrific. Although I'm fairly certain the guy was dead within a few seconds. After reading up on it, it turns out the guy was wasted and suicidal. People were trying to help him back up. Not that it makes it any less tragic/horrific; but I feel a little better (selfishly) knowing that it wasn't a complete accident.

I can't imagine being there in person. There was a girl screaming "somebody do something!" (umm... maybe you can do something if you're so concerned); but what can anyone do? You can't touch him or else you'll be zapped. And again, selfishly, the smell must have been horrible. I'm not generally the knee-jerk type, but I'm sure I'd be locked away in my apartment for weeks if I witnessed that. I was sick to my stomach just seeing the video.
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Same here. I mean, honestly, it was just so hard to watch but I couldn't help it once I realized what I was in for. If I was there, I'd probably have puked. And nothing makes me puke... Except a drive on Lynn Shore Drive at low tide... No joke, it was just awful awful awful.
 
I thought many systems only ran current through the third rail on small sections just ahead of where a train is running?
 
Shepard said:
I thought many systems only ran current through the third rail on small sections just ahead of where a train is running?
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The MBTA can't even maintain a mechanically simple and quite obsolete signal system. A high tech system of blocking power to each train is way beyond the MBTA's capabilities.
 
Beton Brut said:
I spent a couple of weeks in Japan back in '06 for a friend's wedding. I know quite a few posters travel internationally for business.
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I have older family members who used to fly there regularly.
 
Just tuned into 101.7 to see what kind of music they will be playing and the first song I hear is Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People.

That's a bad start.

I wonder how far in advance the set list is programmed.
 
statler said:
Just tuned into 101.7 to see what kind of music they will be playing and the first song I hear is Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People.

That's a bad start.

I wonder how far in advance the set list is programmed.
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WFNX played a LOT of Foster the People, including Pumped Up Kicks at least once an hour back when it was charting. The press releases are saying the new format starts Monday. I think WFNX might just be airing their auto-playlist in the meantime. I heard typical WFNX songs on it today in the car.
 
datadyne007 said:
WFNX played a LOT of Foster the People, including Pumped Up Kicks at least once an hour back when it was charting. The press releases are saying the new format starts Monday. I think WFNX might just be airing their auto-playlist in the meantime. I heard typical WFNX songs on it today in the car.
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Yep. WFNX is basically on "shuffle". Just autopiloting until Clear Channel kicks us in the jaw.
 
BostonUrbEx said:
Yep. WFNX is basically on "shuffle". Just autopiloting until Clear Channel kicks us in the jaw.
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It's officially "Harbor 101.7" now. Where you can hear Madonna next to Nirvana next to The Eagles any hour of any day beamed remote from some server shed in Ft. Worth.
 
F-Line to Dudley said:
It's officially "Harbor 101.7" now. Where you can hear Madonna next to Nirvana next to The Eagles any hour of any day beamed remote from some server shed in Ft. Worth.
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They also "don't care about playing a song back-to-back because we know you don't care either." And then they played Dirty Water literally 3 times in a row. WTF? And yes, that quote there? That is one of their pre-recorded messages they play on air.
 
One of the commenters on the Herald's Power to the Pedal article made a troll suggestion that Menino wanted as many people biking as possible so that he could later make bank on instituting a bicycle license.

But actually, after thinking about it some, I'm not sure that forcing urban cyclists to demonstrate proficiency and knowledge of the rules of the road prior to being allowed onto our mixed-use streets with cars, buses and/or pedestrians is actually such a bad idea.

On the other hand, I freely admit my own personal bias against bicyclists, so I wanted to check with you guys to make sure that this is/would actually be a good idea and it is not just me convincing myself that something harmful to cyclists is actually a good thing.
 
Word is both Nickelback and Creed were heard on 101.7 The Harbor today.............
 
^^ Thanks kz. Your news makes me want to reenact the cover of the first Rage Against the Machine album.
 
Yea, it sucked, a lot actually, when WBCN went away, but you had WFNX, now you have neither. Well you do have WAAF which decided to do a right wing politics butt rock combo.
 
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The guys in my band and I have decided that the ONLY station we're allowed to listen to now is 88.9 WERS Emerson radio. Just thought I'd throw that out there :)
 
kz1000ps said:
The guys in my band and I have decided that the ONLY station we're allowed to listen to now is 88.9 WERS Emerson radio. Just thought I'd throw that out there :)
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88.9 is cool most of the time, but I believe on saturdays it is accapella, and not the cool black kind, the dorky white kind (except Carmen San Diego).


edit: It still kind of lives www.wfnx.com , but something tells me most of the DJ's will be looking else where.
 
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