July 2009 Entries
At 10:30 this morning, I walked across the MIT Bridge to a bright, blue skyline.
At noon, I left work amidst a downpour, with fog obscuring anything after perhaps 25 floors, and was drenched by the time I made it down the street to the train. Go figure!
In the absence of anything interesting to talk about, why don't I post some ranting filler content that I wrote on my handheld a few days ago?
For the past few weeks, I've noticed that the MBTA conductors have, strangely, become several orders of magnitudes more, should I say, "enthusiastic." As I'm writing this, I'm on the Red Line, and the conductor has overridden the automated stop announcements altogether and instead substituted her almost ecstatic-sounding voice: "Now, Approaching, JFK/uMass! Please gather all of your personal belongings! Doors, opening on the left!! Commuter Rail service and local bus connections! You are our...
I was going to save this post for a time when I had a photo to prove to Antony that I am, in fact, not rich, but it's taking me too long to produce that photo.
The news as of last week is that I am now the owner of a '99 BMW 528i, which a number of my friends have dubbed the "Donmobile".
For more photos, check out this post on the SD701 Forums.
(To Antony: I am poor, the 528i was the base model BMW 5series in 1999.)
(To Dave: I don't have any plans to run over your mailbox.)
I don't know what to make of how the "Coming Soon to Home Video" segment on the Good Bye Lenin! tape consisted entirely of other subtitled foreign-language films. Technically the movie is a tragedy/comedy, though it seems like Sony Pictures opted to file it as a foreign film instead. I personally think of a foreign film as something culturally foreign rather than linguistically foreign, but I guess it's not up to me to make that decision.
Then again, I suppose it's one of the shortcomings of the English-speaking world that I'm nonetheless a member of: it's been pampered with full audio...