They fish on the Assembly side now and sometimes are assholes and leave fishing line and bait lying around 🤬. My dog managed to grab a bundle of fishing wire and bait before we could see it. Thankfully no hook and the ER vet could make her vomit it back up with no harm.

Most of them are fine and harmless enough but some are real assholes who clearly don’t care about littering or any other user of the park.

Tasting Counter was incredible

Concord? What airport are you referring to? Only thing I can think of out there is minuteman which is too small for most any Biz jets. Hanscom, Beverley, and Norwood are the prime non-Logan landing areas for biz jets. Hanscom especially.

When you’re flying at $5000/hr or more, a few hundred bucks in landing fees and an extra $1000-$2000 in parking fees is considered a small thing.

Ditto! We love starry and hated Comcast before it. Shame that the business side of the org sucks when the tech and service side is seemingly very good.

Rumor is he was spotted around Dulles…

There’s definitely some security around storing proprietary information, but that’s not military specific. In fact it’s sorta the opposite. Afaik the military doesn’t have a way to make information “proprietary” outside of classification (but I’m not an expert, I never worked on any military sponsored research). Private companies that sponsor research, however, almost always have proprietary information agreements and NDAs with academia as research often involves sharing data that is proprietary.

Lincoln Labs and Draper were created specifically to deal with classified research. That way MIT can claim it has an open research policy but still get that sweet DOD money lol.

I worked in 31 for 10 years starting in 2010. It didn’t used to be locked prior to the renovation. Only certain rooms need to be locked and that’s not because of military issues specifically. They locked the building because before the renovation all grad students were in lockable offices. Now it’s all open floor plan and they had issues with some thefts.

MIT doesn’t allow classified research on main campus. Under their open research policy, only LL is allowed to do any classified research unless prior approval is given by the provost. https://policies.mit.edu/policies-procedures/140-research-policies-and-public-and-private-support/142-open-research-and-free

It’s not bullshittery to say that because of the MBTA being meh at best of times that drastically reduces the walkability of the city. Having good public transit is part of having a highly walkable city because it enables you to achieve all tasks on foot, aka walking. Having several small cores that are relatively walkable but then are barely if at all reachable without a car does not a walkable city make.

By American standards it’s probably one of the most walkable. By European standards it’s basically to most major European cities as Houston is to the US.