The main reason I use Waze almost exclusively is that it seems to be the only navigation app that understands time-of-day turn restrictions. In the Washington DC area many turns are disallowed at certain times of the day. Some roads are closed on weekends. Rock Creek Parkway even reverses direction for rush hours. And…

I worked on the line at a Greek restaurant for a while. It was family owned, which meant that a couple had started it years ago, and their kids currently ran it. There was a lot of family drama because A) Greek and B) the parents hadn't decided which kids would inherit the restaurant. One of the brothers was a…

There IS. Cambridge is its own little world.

"TL;DR"

Come on — they'll both have a good laugh about this at the I-bank in 5 years after they've just closed the big merger that will put 16,000 people out of work....

There's lots of talk about Boston Strong after the Marathon Bombings, but this is the kind of Boston Strong I remember from my 25 years there - standing up to assholes and utterly and completely destroying them. I would have used the "South Boston Dead Eye Stare", which I still use from time to time on hapless San…

I live in Boston and I will be going to this place now. That's awesome.

Disclaimer: I have a thing for eyebrows. I promise it is mostly non-sexual.

"Fortunately for the unnamed Derplord"

You know you done fucked up when your own mother is happy you weren't home for Thanksgiving.

LITERAL BEST MOM

I wish every single pundit/politician on earth lived in fear of their mom calling them publicly on their shit.

I worked for years at a popular Georgetown 'dining saloon', and I have many stories I could tell, but for some reason this one has come to mind tonight. We were packed on a Saturday night, about three deep at the bar and my cocktail section was overflowing. The windows were open because it was a beautiful DC spring…

This might have supplanted "He save bread!" as my new favorite story.