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I have my own Windows box in my office now. Isn’t that exciting? It can do things like make hard-disk-crunching noises and take forever to do anything and look ugly. But it can also talk to the wacky CS print servers, and I don’t need to carry it to and from the faculty every day.

The box arrived with an SSH client, a virus scanner, and Winzip. And, um… Notepad. Today I got administrator rights and installed Firefox, Thunderbird, Cygwin, J2SDK 5.0, Eclipse, AspectJ Dev Tools, gvim, and Adobe Reader. Anything missing? Been a long time since I had one of these creatures to care for.

I think this bit on Fafblog captures quite well the joy that is navigating the Boston subway system. And in the comments, you’ll find this gem:

"This is a Braintree Train… this train is going to Braintree."

Even now, in the snows of Montana, I hold a fondness in my heart for Braintree, though I never actually went there.

Anyone who recalls Gilad and Yoni and freshman year and the "brain tree" must surely agree.