Occasionally Coherent

I got an “action alert” from TransitMatters urging supporters to lobby Massachusetts governor Maura Healey to provide dedicated capital funding to the MBTA, in response to the agency’s anemic five-year rolling capital plan (the “CIP”), which is currently…

This past week was MIT Commencement, which always messes up traffic and parking around campus.

In 2016, the ISU World Figure Skating Championships were held at the TD Garden in Boston.

TL;DR: Photo galleries Men’s skeleton, heat 1 Women’s skeleton, heat 1 Men’s skeleton, heat 4 Women’s skeleton, heat 4 Women’s monobob, heat 1 Women’s monobob, heat 4 I’m not sure when I started following bobsled and (more significantly) skeleton.

Last week I returned home from the 2024 World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, with a bunch of things bubbling in my head that I’m trying to write down as quickly as I can lest I forget what I wanted to say.

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve spent about 60 hours researching the administrative history of offshore wind development off the coast of Massachusetts.

Attention conservation notice: 5,500 words about a conference you didn’t attend in a city where you probably don’t live by a person who is manifestly unqualified to opine on either.

It cannot have escaped anyone’s notice that the volume of posts on this blog has dropped like a rock in the last few years, and in particular the recipe posts (which I think were the reason most people followed me here) are basically extinct.

Last July, I went to Winnipeg for NASFiC, and it’s taken me six weeks to finally get around to writing something about it.

And now for something totally different.