Hey, there! Log in / Register

That's some hole

By adamg on Fri, 02/04/2005 - 9:19am

Chris, who lives in Cambridge, reports the water's back on after last night's Kendall Square pipeburst. In a note to Chris's comment, Helen adds:

There's a hole ripped at the intersection of Broadway and Main, at the service entrance to 1CC/the Marriott Hotel. Obviously this was no well planned street work; I can imagine that the dirt went flying yesterday (figuratively and literally) as workers dug to find the leak.

The pipe itself was exposed, and as the aforementioned workers were not paying attention to me, I stood right next to the hole to get a good look. All I can say is: wow! The pipe hole has to be at least two feet by eighteen inches, perhaps even larger. There was water still coming out of the pipe hole, but at a much slower clip than (I imagine) yesterday.


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

A solution for winter parking woes

By adamg on Thu, 02/03/2005 - 7:34pm

Chris proposes a way to end all the cone/chair battles:

[F]rom late December to mid-March, create assigned spaces. Such spaces could be adjudicated in whatever way seems appropriate - through a lottery, through a market-rate fixed cost, or tied to units and property tax payments. Those without space to park would need to find alternate arrangements. ... It may not be a perfect solution but would keep people from beating each other up over plastic cones.


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Boston cop an accomplice to murder?

By adamg on Thu, 02/03/2005 - 5:35pm

Some reactions to the Globe article that suggests a Boston policeman helped his cousin get away with a murder.

Carpundit wonders if the Globe got the story wrong or if maybe the case is being handled differently because the guy is a cop:

Imagine the same facts, but take the officer out of it: Two cousins from Dorchester travel to Randolph in one car, one of them kills a man, and they both drive away. Now imagine the police can find only the non-shooting cousin. What do they do with him? They arrest him. Every time.

John, though, says the Globe was simply irresonsible in running the story:

The cop that served as the source for the last paragraph in this story, Suzanne Smalley who wrote the peice, and the Globe by publishing it, may well be putting lives in jeopardy. They all should know better.

Ghost, meanwhile, notes that the murder took place at a club frequented by Cape Verdeans:

This is one of the dozen cases of shootings and violence involving the Cape Vedean youth that has not only give us a bad name in the media but also has cause great suffering and pain to families and the CV community. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

What can we do to definitely reduce and stop violence and shootings among us ?


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Sales that'll leave you in stitches

By adamg on Thu, 02/03/2005 - 5:33pm

Martha notes that at least three local knitting and fabric stores are throwing sales on Super Bowl Sunday.


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Time for college students to grow up

By adamg on Thu, 02/03/2005 - 5:31pm

Jen is sick of local college students whining about the police or the city or liquor stores and says if they don't want trouble after the Super Bowl, they should just stop acting like assholes:

... Guess what? I was a college kid, and I wasn't an asshole, so I know it's possible. I also know lots of other people who weren't idiots or jackasses in college. ...


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

There's bad traffic and there's bad drivers

By adamg on Thu, 02/03/2005 - 5:29pm

In a Globe report on the Traffic Tieup from Hell, Carpundit notes this snippet:

"Josh Resnek, 55, editor of the Chelsea Record, said it took him 1½ hours to drive from North Station to Mass. General, where his wife was in surgery."

To which Carpundit adds:

Josh, you can walk it in ten minutes. Park the car.


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Turn left where the theater used to be

By adamg on Thu, 02/03/2005 - 3:10pm

Ron ambles by the now former Loews Copley Place Cinemas:

[W]orkers were already busy taking the place apart. One of them was putting black paint over the box office windows and the theatre doors. Another was carting speakers out through a service door. I tried to wander around looking, but eventually got shooed out.

I bet that within another week, shoppers in the mall won't even see that a cinema used to be here.


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Coincidence, or something more?

By adamg on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 10:33pm

Now living in Israel, Moshe reports he was leaving a cemetery ceremony in Beit Shemesh when he ran into the former rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Malden - there for the first-year remembrance of the death of a key congregation member. Moshe joins in the service, then notices a tombstone for Rabbi Oskar Bookspan - who was his son's introduction to synagogue life in Brookline:

... There were 2 empty seats in the front left of the synagogue. 2 empty seats next to an old man, Rabbi Oscar Bookspan. We took those seats and for the next 4 years, my son was able to enjoy the character of this sweet, kind and gentle old man. He passed away in 2000 and I remember how our son cried when hearing the news. His funeral was held in Israel and we never knew where he was buried. Never knew until today. ...


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Krist Almighty

By adamg on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 4:55pm

Marc is happy that the convenience store replacing the old White Hen Pantry at 2245 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge will be open 24 hours. He is not so happy that the replacement is a Bread & Butter "Konvenience" store:

Ugh. "Konvenience." Good lord.

Neal wonders:

Maybe it's going to be run by Krusty the Clown.

And LaDivina ponders:

Will they also sell Krispy Kremes?


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Anybody remember when Matt Siegel was good?

By adamg on Wed, 02/02/2005 - 4:53pm

Me neither. Fondofelves finds herself particularly irritated at Matty this morning:

Seems Matty in the Morning (who was funny when he was Charles' sidekick) can't remember who Joe Jackson is. I mean, come ON! It's not like he's some young guy who didn't live thru the '80s. ... I miss Charles.

Note: Charles has a Weblog!


Ad:


Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Pages