I do miss playing

Because I would be scared of what he would do to me if he had lost at the very end, that’s why.

cf. Web 2.0, what’s wrong with O’Reily having a trademark on it again?

And, ya, it would be nice if they ripped up the tracks and maybe removed the Arborway stop outside of Forest Hills.

And looking at how long it took them to admit that the 57 was a permanent replacement to the old A line, I’d say you’ve got another good 20-30 years before they rip up those train tracks, bud.

Yes, Carl, for the thousandth goddamn time, the gmail gtalk dealie is just an ajax jabber client. You can turn it off and use trillian or gaim if you want.

T rate hikes, the short version: starting in ‘99, the state stopped doing retroactive funding of the T, wherein they told the T what they had to do and picked up whatever part of the bill the fares didn’t cover at the end of the year. Under the new forward funding plan, the T gets something like 20% of all state sales taxes and a couple other funding sources, but they have to balance their own books. Oh, and in the process the state dumped a giant pile of debt in the T’s laps. Add to that the large number of capital improvement plans mandated in order to get community approval for segments of the big dig (the Somerville/Malden green line extension, the Silver Line, couple others I can’t remember), and the T has no choice but to continue to raise rates.

Actually, a quick google turns up a good article over at the Phoenix talking about the T rate hikes. They mention most of the stuff I listed above, and frame it with the upcoming union negotiation the T is going to have to go through. I highly recommend reading through the whole thing to get an idea of exactly why you should be pissed off about the rate hikes, aside from the obvious “it’s more money”.

Fun time to be looking ahead to starting a job I’ll be Ting it to.

RE: Wiki. I’m happy for you, one man fighting against an insurmountable mountain of ineptude.

RE: The Banewarrens
Yes, we could have used another player and Gorg would most certainly have been able to deal that last HP of damage. But, Meiji isn’t dead. He just was transported to another (random) plane. He could be in the plane of bunnies and candy.

RE: Wikipedia
It’s not like he used it to form his opinion. He used it to basically gather some basic information regarding some basic topics. FYI, I did some Wikipedia editing this morning.