They start at Emma’s Pizza, visit various spots in Inman and Central Squares, and even give Riverbend Park a shout-out.
Good stuff for visitors, though locals should probably just be nodding their heads and saying “yeah, those are all good, but you’d need a much longer article to do us justice”. (They could have left Harvard Stadium out, though at least they do point out that it’s not in Cambridge.)
The Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim, in Germany, was already on my list of places to visit due to the combination of a Concorde (hey, plenty of museums got one after service ended, but it’s still one I haven’t seen yet), the Soviet Tu-144 (not so easy to find in museums), and various other neat things.
Now they’ve gone one step further.
They’re getting the remaining Soviet “Buran” shuttle (article in German). Sadly, this is not the one that actually flew in space (that one was destroyed in a hangar collapse). I don’t know how long it’ll take for them to get it to Sinsheim and put it on display, but…dang, I really want to go visit once it’s done.
(First noticed at BoingBoing, but that was just a pointer to a picture gallery. I guessed it was Sinsheim, and was able to find the full Der Speigel article with a little searching.)
Five years ago, September 11th and 12th were Saturday and Sunday, as they are this year.
Five years ago, a random, quick weekend trip to New York seemed like a good idea.
Five years ago, the CityPass for NYC included the museum we really wanted to see (the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum), several others that when added together made the package worthwhile, and tickets for both the Empire State Building and World Trade Center observation decks.
And so, five years ago today, I took these pictures. What is notable now, of course, is not what is in them, but what isn’t–the building beneath my feet at the time. All of these were taken from the observation levels of the South Tower. These, like so many other pictures, are from an unreachable past.
The Amazing Race is the only reality-competition show I consider worth watching (barring stuff like Scrapheap Challenge, of course, which doesn’t have meaningful monetary prizes).
Season 5 is now close enough to show up in the TiVo’s guide data.
As the official website puts it, “Don’t miss the 90-minute broadcast premiere of THE AMAZING RACE at a special time, 9:30PM ET/PT, Tuesday July 6th.”
The Boston Globe’s got an article on how hard it is to find your way around Boston. Not exactly news, I’d say.
They cite the usual complaints (missing or incorrect signage, one-way streets, multiple streets with the same name) and point out how badly on-line maps deal with the area (the woman who wound up at Downtown Crossing instead of Codman Square because she didn’t give the site a neighborhood name).
My usual problem is making the shift from pedestrian to driver; one-way streets aren’t an issue on foot!
