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Obama Takes Connecticut

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank my fellow Connecticut voters for supporting Barack Obama in Super Tuesday’s Democratic primary!

I was hoping to let this out of the bag on Letterman or perhaps at a ritzy Manhattan fundraiser - but I guess that ain’t gonna happen - but StationStops.com is proud to officially endorse [...]

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Tags: Presidential Election

Trainjotting Party Tonight At Pershing Square 7 PM

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

TJ over at Trainjotting is having a little suaré over at Pershing Square tonight at 7PM, all are invited - I’ll be there, as well as a host of other commuting bloggers.

We’ll be the guys at the bar who look like commuting bloggers.
via Trainjotting

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Tags: StationStops.com

ScanCT.com - A Great Resource In Case of Emergency

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I have a confession to make - back in the day, I used to be a scanner nut. No, not the scanners we use now to get old snapshots into our computer, but the kind that allow you to listen to police and radio calls.
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It didn’t last long, but since I [...]

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Tags: Safety and Accidents

The Apple MacBook Air Ultraportable - A Controversial Notebook Computer

February 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Amazon.com Widgets

Interesting news for those of you who may be shopping for a new commuting notebook…. (and thats the last time I’ll qualify writing about gadgets on a commuting blog ;)…

Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air ultraportable notebook at the annual MacWorld conference in San Francisco, and its causing quite a stir.
It [...]

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Tags: Mobile Entertainment · Mobile Productivity

PBS Documentary on Grand Central Educational and Beautiful

February 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Tonight I watched the American Experience: Grand Central Terminal documentary on PBS - it was very informative and the photography was beautiful in HD.
They used a method of converting wonderfully detailed old photographs of the train yard into some sort of panning 3d-diorama to very impressive effect…

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Tags: Grand Central Terminal · MTA · Metro-North · Trains

Subways to Get Additional Love from Painters

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

On Tuesday we reported on NYC Subways getting additional anti-terrorist patrol thanks to an increase of $50M in Homeland Security funding.
Well, seems that NYC is throwing another $50M bone of its own to to the stations as well, as a dormant project to get a fresh coat of paint on stations has been resurrected.
Via NY1.com

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Tags: New York Subways