Archive for February, 2008
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Die-Pod: My Commuter Well-Being is in Serious Jeopardy
It was like reverse karma.
I was hustling down the stairs at Grand Central to catch the 6 train this morning. A woman of undetermined nationality, subway map in hand, asked a woman in front of me for help. Fearing the subway was about to leave, the commuter brushed past the tourist without so much as […]
3 Comments » - Posted in AMNY, Arctic Monkeys, iPod by TJ
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Man Loses Virginity on Metro-North
A man boards the 8:28 at White Plains. He’s tall and heavy-set, and looks like he played high school football 40 years before. He’s got white hair, glasses, a large suitcase, light blue jeans that look scarily close to Toughskins that his wife bought for him at Caldor. (Two Toughskins mentions on Trainjotting in the […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Metro North, Toughskins, White Plains by TJ
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
We Stand Corrected
Earlier today, I chastised our newspaper lady Dolores L. for failing to deliver the newspapers for the second time in a few weeks.
I owe Dolores L. an apology. In fact, the Missus informed us that the newspapers were buried in several inches of snow on our walkway. (The Missus learned this after shoveling the walkway…while six […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Snow by TJ
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Great Moments in Search Engine Optimization
If you google Roger Clemens’ new favorite word “misremember”–go ahead, do it–the #11 link to come up is none other than Trainjotting’s Word of the Week. Ahead of Trainjotting are media heavyweights that include MSN, Fox Sports, Slate, the Onion and Dictionary.com.
Pretty cool, huh?
1 Comment » - Posted in Misremember, Word of the Week by TJ
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Toughskins & Timberlands: The Great Blizzard of 2008
One thing I like about the snow is the footsteps I see as I walk to the train.
I live in a neighborhood where no one walks unless the doctor demands it of them. My house is a very doable, at least by my book, 15 minute walk to the train (13 if you’re really chugging), […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Metro North, Toughskins, Uncategorized by TJ
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Grand Central Fact of the Day
And you think the downtown 6 is slow.
Back in, oh, 1858, trains going south of 42nd Street were decoupled and then hooked up to horses–yes, horses–to take them to a terminal at 26th Street.
Source: Grand Central Terminal: Gateway to New York, by Ed Stanley
No Comments » - Posted in Grand Central by TJ
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
One-Stop Schedule Shopping at Station Stops (That’s a Mouthful!)
Our Metro-North blogging brethren StationStops.com has retooled its schedules page, putting all the stations on a single screen. In short, you can do with one click on StationStops what takes about a half-dozen clicks and some scrolling on the MTA page, and as StationStops points out, you can’t bookmark the MTA Schedules page.
The new page […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Big Board, MTA by TJ
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Found Business Card of the Day–”Petie” Rivera
Found on the 6:10 to Mt. Kisco, stuck to the window, the business card for one Joe “Petie” Rivera, a “Real Estate Salesperson” representing Weichert.
“Petie” works out of Larchmont. Looking at his color headshot on the card, he’s a Latin man in a dark suit and yellow tie, a shaved head and a trim salt-and-pepper […]
No Comments » - Posted in 6:10 by TJ
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Metro-North Fare Hikes Start NOW!
With the Metro-North fare increases starting March 1st, I thought I’d be clever and buy my March monthly now and beat the announced 3.76%-4.25% boost on monthly tickets.
Not so fast. Metro-North was just a little smarter than me, and my Web ticket cost me a full $7.84 more than it did last month.
I spent several […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Fare Hike by TJ
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Bose Takes Another Step Toward Commuter Electronics Takeover
As a preferred Bose customer who wallows in the blissful audio cocoon of his Bose QuietComfort 3 headphones each day, I received a postcard informing me of Bose’s latest development in commuter-friendly electronics: The Bose QuietComfort 3 Bluetooth communications kit. The kit “connects wirelessly to your Bluetooth phone,” says Bose, “plugs into your portable audio […]