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Yes! It’s back! Doing my part to move more of my quality content off of Twitter and onto a platform I control (well, pay for, anyway). Torrone is an Italian confection, popular for the winter holidays, which is widely available … Continue reading
Given the ongoing issues with Twitter, as detailed in my previous post, I’m trying to move more of my mid-length writing back onto the blog so I’m not generating as much free content for the South African emerald-mine heir. This … Continue reading
Attention conservation notice: 6,000 words about the decline of a social-media platform, none of which are particularly original or well-informed. Since Elon Musk took control of Twitter at the end of October, like many people I’ve had to ponder a … Continue reading
Since my last post, the state legislature has gotten down to work in earnest on the FY23 budget, but unfortunately I have not had time to do a dive into the Senate version of the budget before the logrolling started … Continue reading
At its last board meeting in March, the MBTA released its first five-year Capital Investment Plan (CIP) since the COVID-19 pandemic sent the agency scrambling. This marks a significant change from prior CIP cycles, in which the MBTA’s and MassDOT’s … Continue reading
I don’t write here very often about stuff I do at work, but I just finished a project that was a hassle all out of scale with the actual utility, and I wanted to document it for posterity, in the … Continue reading
For two decades, my homeward commute (when I’m driving, and these days when I’m also not working from home) has been the same: head south on Mass. Ave. to Newbury St., take the on-ramp formerly known as “exit 21”, and … Continue reading
It’s Memorial Day weekend, and in Massachusetts that means two things: the state legislature is debating the budget and the state’s draft Capital Investment Plan has been published for comment. In Washington, the Biden Administration has published its official budget … Continue reading
As I’ve neared the end of this series of posts, I’ve gotten a bit better at procrastinating, so most of the photos this post is based on (see the associated photo gallery) were taken a month ago now, and I’m … Continue reading
Passenger railroads throughout the world have mechanisms to generate timetables for both service and capital planning purposes. The way I’ve done this in the past is with the Mk. 1 eyeball: you come up with a schedule, maybe draw some stringline … Continue reading
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