Below are the 14 most recent journal entries recorded in thebostonian's LiveJournal:

Thursday, November 30th, 2006
3:47 am	test test (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
8:44 am	Recipies Inspired by the Harvard Food Pyramid. Nutty Rice Miscellany 3 cups brown rice, cooked 1/4 cup plain (no sauce or seasoning) canned beans, your choice 1/4 cup unsalted nuts, your choice (peanuts and sunflower seeds are the cheapest) 1 cup chopped spinach, raw or steamed 1 half chopped tomato 1 half avocado in small pieces 2 tablespoons chopped onion, red or other 2 tablespoons olive oil garlic powder or minced garlic to taste pepper to taste lemon or lime juice to taste Mix and serve hot, warm or cold.  All measurements are very approximate.  The only salt in this dish will be from the canned beans.  If you need more flavor, a little salsa goes a long way without adding too much sodium. Simple Hummus Sandwich Spread hummus on... ...whole wheat bread Sprinkle sunflower seeds and/or peanuts Add raw spinach, onion and tomato Enjoy!  Hummus has much less sodium than I expected (Comment on this)
Monday, May 1st, 2006
10:45 am	Writely blog test Let's see how well Writely works with, say, Livejournal. (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
9:31 am	Test Let's see how quickly Google Reader detects a new feed. (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
3:51 pm	Home Sweet Home 12 day Florida vacation: $352.61. Working 20 hours per week and somehow being able to travel: priceless. (Comment on this)
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
11:27 am	Make your own South Park character southparkme Originally uploaded by TheBostonian. This is me.http://www.planearium2.de/flash/spstudio.html (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 27th, 2005
2:14 pm	The Architectural Boston wiki is here! abmain Originally uploaded by TheBostonian. And growing... http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/architecturalboston (Comment on this)
Monday, October 17th, 2005
10:13 pm	UMB Campus Center @ Google Earth newumbaerial Originally uploaded by TheBostonian. I noticed that Google Earth shows some newer buildings in Boston that Google Maps doesn't even show. The new Umass Boston Campus Center is one of them. (Comment on this)
Friday, September 16th, 2005
3:33 am	Useful Sites Although the internet is anti-urban in the way it decentralizes our world, some things are too good to keep to oneself. http://www.filleritem.com/ From the site: "Certain items at Amazon.com qualify for free shipping, but sometimes purchase fall short of the minimum $25 needed to recieve the free shipping. Enter the amount you need to get free shipping in the box above to see a list of products that will get you free shipping." http://www.bugmenot.com Bug Me Not will give you a user name and password to log into any of the many major sites that require registration to view their content. Their FAQ explains that this is justified because of the problems they see with registering: --------- It's a breach of privacy. Sites don't have a great track record with the whole spam thing. It's contrary to the fundamental spirit of the net. Just ask Google. It's pointless due to the significant percentage of users who enter fake demographic details anyway. It's a waste of time. It's annoying as hell. Imagine if every site required registration to access content. --------- (Comment on this)
Monday, September 12th, 2005
12:30 pm	A Giant Leap Forward WBZ has leaped forward fifty years from their number-one-rated AM radio broadcast to podcasting. http://wbz1030.com/ondemand/ 'BZ already offered a live stream, but at times its programming was, perhaps for contractual reasons, replaced by long stings of commercials. Public radio offers a great many podcasts and live streams. http://www.Publicradiofan.com gives you direct links to the dozens of live streams available at any given time. Radio will never be the same. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
9:08 pm	Mass. Public Higher Education Map I could find no good, labeled map of the entire Massachusetts public higher education system that includes the Umass system, state and community colleges. Below is the map I greatly modified to make it the map I was originally hoping to find. And here is the UrbanPlanet thread I posted to at each step leading to this map: http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15401&st=0&#entry187926 (Comment on this)
Friday, August 5th, 2005
1:45 am	Urban Terrorism Aside from basic arguments against any and all terrorism, I think it is not proper for terrorists to strike their enemy's major cities. It has been said (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_city) that major cities of the developed world have more in common with one another than with other places in their home countries. They are global cities not merely in terms of influence, but with their convergence of diverse peoples and ideas. Any major terrorist attack in New York or London (or Boston for that matter) would hit not only supporters and opponents of the Bush administration's Middle East policy, but would also likely strike Greens and Libertarians, Marxists, Constitutionalists, Eco-Feminists and Anarcho-Primitivists. Spin a globe with your eyes closed and pick some random locations for a sense of the diversity a suicide bomber on a subway might encounter. World cities, where people from all origins mix, ideas are born and debated, wars are criticized and defended, are not appropriate targets of terrorism. In such places innocents are not the only collateral damage. Pluralism and diversity are attacked too. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 18th, 2005
6:30 pm	Umass Wins! http://www.umb.edu/news/2005news/releases/july/romney.html Governor Romney announced today that part of his proposed public construction budget includes $50 million to rebuild Umass Boston's parking garage. The crumbling garage, touted as being in a state of emergency disrepair by Umass officials who carefully publicize incidents of falling concrete and smashed car roofs, also serves as the foundation for the monolithic original buildings of the Umass Boston complex. Though the garage repairs seem likely now with Romney's backing, Umass officials' call for funding came in a troubling context. Umass seemed to keep quiet about the deteriorating condition of the garage while securing funding for the recently opened $75 million Campus Center. As much as the new building miraculously improves the campus experience and raises the school's aura, none of its advocates raised the concern in that time of state budget cuts that preserving the existing parking facilities might be a higher spending priority than a wanted, but not needed, new building. UMB got lucky. They have their new Campus Center and will likely see the needed garage repairs. But waiting for the Campus Center to be built before making noise about the dangerous state of the garage was a dirty tactic. But such a low move turned out to be an effective and perhaps necessary method of securing funding to both maintain and improve Umass Boston. (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 17th, 2005
11:10 am	Let's go. Welcome. I am a metrophile--a lover of mass transit systems. Such a title makes instant sense in many places outside of Boston where subway systems are commonly or officially called "The Metro." I am also a lover of tall buildings. I can easily appear to be a suspected terrorist as I stare up at skyscrapers and across subway platforms at trains. I know enough trivia in my areas of interest to bore friends and coworkers endlessly. Few things excite me more than a new skyscraper in Boston or an extension of the MBTA. Such passions drive me to blog for those who share them. For all things urban as this journal takes root, visit the UrbanPlanet Boston forum and watch out for the overpowering enthusiasm of the Providence posters: http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?s=d214f6e36a76bbf1ff954718a52db9cc&showforum=61 (Comment on this)