Monthly Archives: January 2006

Cop Out

January 30, 2006 – 10:59 am
Boston City President Michael Flaherty has recently suggested hiring an additional 350 police officers, something Mayor Thomas Menino says the city cannot afford. At any given moment there are probably hundreds of Boston police officers standing around watching as construction crews do road work. In other parts of the world, cones and flagmen are sufficient [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Boston, Police | Please write a comment

Challenger

January 28, 2006 – 10:39 pm
It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty years already. We are farther removed in time from the Challenger explosion than that day was from the moon landing. Yet we’re still flying the same shuttles, which one astronaut recently called a “deathtrap.” Here’s an interesting article on what we’ve learned (or what we think [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Challenger, Space, Spacecraft | 2 comments

Coke Truck Stuck in Bottleneck

January 26, 2006 – 11:34 am
What do you do if you’re a semi-trailer driving through the narrow streets of a residential neighborhood, and you can’t make a turn because of an illegally parked car? (The white Cirrus shouldn’t be parked on that side of the sign.) First, you try having the people across the street move their cars. When that doesn’t work [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Auto, Brighton, Coca-Cola, Humor, Truck | 4 comments

Sock Monkey

January 23, 2006 – 9:58 pm
Today we received a surprise present in the mail from my Uncle Jim and Aunt Margaret: this Rockford sock monkey for our upcoming baby boy. Sock monkeys originate in my mother’s hometown of Rockford, Illinois, where one John Nelson invented a sock-knitting machine in the 1880s. The distinctive red heel that makes the [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Current Events | 6 comments

Critique of Practical Reason

January 22, 2006 – 10:22 pm
At great risk of arrest, I took this picture on the subway tonight. But the question is, can it pay the bills?
By filosofo | Posted in Humor, Philosophy | 1 comment

Boston: The Real Windy City

January 21, 2006 – 10:53 pm
Say “Windy City,” and most people think of Chicago, but among the large U.S. cities, Boston has the highest average wind speed. Today’s unseasonably warm weather–in the lower 60s Fahrenheit–brought strong gusts of wind, blowing down this tree less than a block from here. You might be able to see that it took [...]
By filosofo | Posted in Boston, Brighton, Weather | Please write a comment