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Very nice. :D

Personally, I like to kick old school:

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Tried a very good new restaurant last night: Dawat, 129 Brighton Ave. www.dawatrestaurantboston.com. You have to enjoy a place where you can hear the staff yelling at each other in Bengali in the back.

I'd say it is on about a par with India Quality in Kenmore and Bombay Club in Harvard Sq.
 
Rani is very good, and a fancier premises too. I would say the food and seasoning is very similar, probably closer to each other than, say, Rani is to the Bombay Club/Camb., which has excellent food but lighter taste. The parking is easier at Rani than Dawat for sure. But Green Line works too!

Either way, the Taj Mahal is cold!
 
Side-note -- Should we have:
  • An actual restaurant thread?
  • Or one devoted to general interest books and periodicals?
  • Or a careers thread?
  • Others (for slow news days)?
 
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Seconded.

But while I can still raise a random topic: what's the cheapest and shortest way to go between Providence and NYC? Surely not taking the commuter rail to Boston and then the Chinatown bus...
 
^ Years ago, Bonanza Bus ran from Logan/South Station to the Port Authority, via Providence, Hartford (change bus), Waterbury, Danbury, and White Plains. An awful way to spend six hours. Did it once, and never again.

I think you may be able to do the trip now via or Foxwoods/Mohegan: Providence - casino; change to casino - NYC.
 
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I don't know why I continue to read this site, its "unique voice" annoys the hell out me, but if anyone was looking for a job annoying the hell out of me here you go.
 
My facebook account has been "disabled".

WHAT THE FUCK??? IT'S AS IF I NO LONGER EXIST.
 
WTF? Really? Did they give you any kind of notice as to why?
 
I sent out 25 personal invites to my first kick-off party - I wrote a personalized first paragraph, then cut and pasted the rest. Facebook read it as spam.

How could it be spam if it's going to people on my friends list??

I guess it's not that uncommon. Yes, it was done without warning. It doesn't say, "Stop this or you'll be disabled."

You have to write a personal mea culpa to ask to be re-instated. I believe it will take days for the decision.

Eh, facebook is free, how can you complain when they do something like this?

I'm suing, nonetheless.
 
I thought it was pretty common to post an Event on Facebook and then invite people on your friendslist to it?
 
I didn't do quite that. I think if you create an event and do a "mass" invite, by inviting everyone at once, you'll be all set. It's only if you send individual messages to a bunch of people.

Either that, or one of my competitors ratted me out.
 
Now that we're talking about Facebook, I wonder how many users we have. A few of us have connected that way (and via Flickr), but doing so defeats the (perceived) anonymity of the internet forum...
 
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