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Thanks to my boss’ Silver Elite status, I got to tag along up into First Class with him. It’s just a shuttle flight, so no real food or anything, but we got extra snacks, and big seats. It wasn’t quite as awesome as I expected. I guess it’s a bigger deal for longer flights. On…

I guess going over 24 years without a bee sting is a good run. I understand the bee’s motivations though. If I got hit by a forehead hundreds of times my size moving at 20 MPH, I’d sting first and ask questions later too. Go go gadget hydrocortizone!

Breaking my hiatus to rant. So, before my trip this past week, I was digging through my mail pile, trying to find my July T pass. No sign of it. I figured I had just missed it coming in, but it’s a recognizable envelope that I usually pull out of the pile right away. Today,…

Question: why do I get incredibly uncomfortable, to the point of having a strong desire to leave the area, when a parent is yelling or otherwise strongly disciplining their child (“Don’t make me count to three!” and so on)? Was I not yelled at enough as a kid? Am I just a huge pushover? Do…

Before a NOVA episode: “The following program contains explicit visual material. Viewer discretion is advised.” The subject matter is bonobos, but I guess they must show stuff about the Congo wars. It was not accompanied by the Fox announcer saying “Viewer discretion… is advised” in a voice that makes it sound like “viewer discretion” is…

Tonight, the was Pubcrawl, and it was good. We hit The Avenue, the BU Pub, Cornwall’s, and Crossroads, although we did cheat and ride the T from Coolidge Corner to BU East. There was beer, and I finished the evening with an Irish Car Bomb, which may have been less than good. Thanks to Boston’s…

Yesterday, while waiting for the bus, I had a terrible compulsion. There was no one around; traffic along that stretch of Mt. Auburn was clear because the lights at both ends were holding it. There was a pile of snow right next to me, left by Monday’s brief morning precipitation, and since it was near…

While I am disappointed by the probable cancellation of Studio 60, other TV was pretty good this week. I enjoyed BSG, what with its focus on real-world social issues; Heroes was enjoyable because it filled in a lot of holes in the conspiracy; and The Black Donnellys was intriguing enough that I will give it…

Okay, I admit it – I like reading American Scientist on the T in part to be seen as the kind of person who would read American Scientist on the T.

I DVR Nova every week, but I tend to let it sit in the queue for weeks at a time while staying caught up with other series. I’m finishing up an episode about an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, and one of their experts gets the title bar “Benedict Allen, Polar Explorer”. I don’t…