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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Shaking the Sand and Salt Out of My Head
You know you’re off to a rough start to the week when you enter your work elevator and hit the floor of the high-rise Bahamian beach hotel you spent the past week in (that’s #15, if you’re scoring at home), … Continue reading
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Off the Rails
Trainjotting will be on vacay next week. We are at work on a long overdue redesign that will offer a much more visually pleasing aesthetic than the standard template you see today. It will be cool. Talk to you soon.
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A Ferry Cool Commute
Here’s a pretty cool commute–taking the ferry from lower Manhattan to school on Governors Island. Reports today’s NY Times: On a brisk morning on Governors Island, as winter begins to surrender to spring, the fake palm trees that greet the … Continue reading
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Metro-North Has Gone CooCoo
This Friday, at 11:30, MTA Chairman and CEO Jay Walder and Metro-North President Howard Permut will introduce something called CooCoo, which the MTA describes as “a text message service that provides train departure and arrival info via cell phone.” They’ll be … Continue reading
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The Musician on the Bus Goes Strum, Strum, Strum
Fun item in today’s NY Times Metropolitan Diary that shows NY bus drivers aren’t always gruff and soulless. DEAR DIARY: A visitor in the city with a guitar and suitcase, I boarded the M60 bus at 125th Street. “How much … Continue reading
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City-Suburbs ‘Cold’ War
The culture war has hit the workplace fridge. Note the HA at the bottom, as if the suburban person suddenly got cold feet, and felt compelled to wipe away their boastful statement. That, or an urban interloper came along and mocked the … Continue reading
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TRAINJOTTING CLASSIC: Word of the Week — Facial Profiling
FACIAL PROFILING: \FAY-shull PROH-fihh-lingg\ noun: Selecting one’s seat on the train based on the attractiveness of the person in the adjacent seat. [Note: Not to be confused with Spatial Profiling, which involves selecting one’s seat based on the size of the … Continue reading
Bee-Line Bus-ted
The 2005 Bee-line bus route at Hawthorne station this morning. Bus route maps are like wine–better with age, right? 2005 was a good year for both, right? I mean, nothing’s changed on the bus line in the last six years. … Continue reading
Grand Central Getting an Apple Store?
One of the shiny, trendy Apple stores that give a neighborhood cool-kid cred might be coming to Grand Central, reports the NY Observer. Apple has started the ball rolling on opening such a store, though opening anything in a landmark … Continue reading
Posted in Apps, Grand Central, iPhone, iPod
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