October 23, 2008
Ten Years in My Life: Where I’ve Lived
On Saturday, 24th October 1998, I flew from Glasgow to Boston, with little more than a suitcase of clothes and a credit card with a decently high limit.
It's now 24th October 2008. Ten years have gone by. Time for little personal retrospection. How have I spent these ten years?
October 24, 2007
“Dear Bike Thief: You Suck!”
Flyer posted to a phone pole in Union Square.
October 15, 2007
Bloc 11 Cafe - The Vault
The building used to be a bank -- one of the vaults is now a small room with tables & chairs. Didn't test the wi-fi access from there, though.
Bloc 11 Cafe mug
Diesel Fuel from the new cafe in Union Square.
September 6, 2007
Kickass Cupcakes
New cupcakes bakery in Davis Square — Deep fried cupcakes? Be still my (clogged-and-barely) beating heart.
June 1, 2007
Back Seat Basset
When Bacon's in the back of the car, and I'm stopped in traffic, he loves sticking his head out the window and getting adoration from the other drivers.
January 22, 2007
Bostonist: Diesel Spreads to Union
Fantastic news — Diesel Cafe’s owners are opening a new coffee shop in Union Square. There hasn’t been a caffeine + wifi place within walking distance of my house since the Grand Coffeehouse shut down.
January 4, 2007
Trashbag Balancing Thursday 7:25 am 1/4/07 Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville changed their Trash pickup policy on the 1st January. Now trash will only be accepted if it's in, or on, a trashcan; you can't just leave the bags on ground level. I forsee my future of creative stacking. (Or, perhaps, going out and buying a second bin.)
December 1, 2006
City of Somerville - Street Sweeping & Street Sweeping Parking Enforcement Extended Through December 31, 2006
Tsk. Somerville parking restrictions extended a month due to “warmer weather”. It’s things like this that give global warming a bad name.
November 22, 2006
Come, Children! Drink from Santa’s Cock!
Inappropriate beverage dispensers, spotted in Target.
November 19, 2006
Wii in Action
Home, unpacked, and rawkin'! Four hours in the cold? Worth it!
October 24, 2006
With Love, From Carnegie Deli
My birthday present from my wee sister? 2.5lbs of cheesecake, overnighted from the Carnegie Deli in New York.
October 23, 2006
Joy’s Moo Cards
I treated Joy to a box of Moo Cards for herself -- each illustrated with a photo of the dogs. Here are two, resting in some dog photo holders I picked up for her at Philadelphia Airport.
The word ‘unblowupable’ is thrown around a lot these days.
This is the pressure-gauge on the outside of our central heating furnace that gave up the ghost over the weekend. You might note that the clear protective plastic shield on it has turned brown, melted and buckled.
This is because the furnace apparently decided that merely heating water into steam and pushing it around our radiators was, shall we say, passé, and instead dived head-first into a mission of heating itself up to a frighteningly hot temperature and dripping boiling water onto the basement floor.
Remind me again why home-ownership is a good idea?
October 19, 2006
My drive home from work -- Geotagged on Flickr
With little regard for public safety, I snapped a bunch of shots with my cellphone on my way home from work, which are lovingly (and automagically) placed along my route via the brilliance of Zonetag and Flickr.
October 18, 2006
Home, Wednesday 5:53 pm 10/18/06 Somerville, Massachusetts
Berkeley Street, Wednesday 5:52 pm 10/18/06 Somerville, Massachusetts
Dunkin Donuts, Union Square Wednesday 5:49 pm 10/18/06 Somerville, Massachusetts
Used Car lot, Prospect St Wednesday 5:48 pm 10/18/06 Somerville, Massachusetts
October 10, 2006
My Flickr Moo Cards
A mixture of Boston, Bassets and a Bunch of other stuff. They look great, especially considering most of the photos were taken with crappy cameraphones!
Sadly, two of the twenty images I uploaded got printed as "Unavailable photo:" Not sure what caused that, but I'm gonna ping Moo and see what happened.
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