Saturday, April 30, 2005

RSS Feed

I have added an RSS Feed to my side panel. No longer will you need to come to my site to see if I have a new post, you can simply check your aggregator. The file to add to your aggregator is also posted below.

http://andiaphora.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

DC compared to Boston (or is it city center compared to suburb?)

I was in the Boston a few days last week.

One thing that really annoyed me were all these cars that were playing their music much louder than anyone could possibly need to hear it.

At some point I got to questioning myself. Shouldn't I be used to this? I live in a city. Shouldn't this be the norm I am used to?

Well, no. I have paid more attention since I have been back home, and it isn't as common -- at least in the areas I tread (14th St, U St, H St). I mean there are a few people who had there radios louder than they needed to, but not comparable to the numbers in Boston, nor to the volume in Boston.

So I needed to look at it from another direction. I don't really think noise problem was an issue in downtown Boston. The issue was when I was out of the heart of the city, and in the suburbs (or so it seems to the best of my memory) And that really could be the explanation. If you were in some horrible environment like a suburb (and the main suburb I was in was really bad) wouldn't you want to turn up the volume? It would be a great way to drown out some of the unpleasantness, as something you enjoyed overpowered the negatives that were all around you. And if you r music upsets others in the area, who cares? It the suburbs so they are probably miserable anyway.

If I really wanted to test my theory, I would go back to College Park and see if cars are blasting music. But I would like to avoid having to ever go out there again.

Please pass on any insight you might have. Am I missing the loud music in DC (even in the areas I mentioned?) Are the suburbs worse when it comes to loud music? Am I just a curmudgeon?

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Off to Boston

I am heading off to Boston -- my sister is running a little race up there on Monday.

One of these days I will catch up with my posts to the blog (yes, I keep saying that. I realize one of these days you will stop believing me)

-- Andy

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Interesting License Plate - Interesting Location

Walking from Metro to work, I saw a car with a license plate "I Love City Life" (It had a heart instead of the word love, but I don't know how to show that via my blog)

Well, if the person loves city life so much, then why in the world are the driving when they could be taking Metro?

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

No New Updates

Sorry,

Things have been a bit to hectic lately.

I really do have a great post coming soon, that is essentially all composed (it was an email I wrote, that my sister pointed out belongs on my blog).

In the mean time, I have added the Google search to my blog, and the BlogMap. All good stuff. If you have a blog encourage you to go to http://www.feedmap.net/ and get your blog geo-coded.