Friday, September 21, 2007
What the heck do they put in the water in Boston?
BOSTON—Troopers arrested an MIT student at gunpoint Friday after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweatshirt. Authorities call it a fake bomb; she called it art.
Via Flutterby, MIT student charged with wearing fake bomb she says was only art
And upon further reading, she wasn't wearing the circuit board to make a statement about airport security theatrics, but to gain attention at a career day at MIT, and was only at the airport to pick up her boyfriend.
Just below the masthead up there, I've written “The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal ‘The Boston Diaries.’” At the time, I didn't like Boston because it's old (you really have to look to find anything in South Florida build prior to the 1960s, and as a result, most every building down here is “modern” in that it was initially designed with bathrooms, decent electrical and more importantly—air conditioning!), cold (water freezes down here at 40°F) and a twisty maze of one-way roads all alike (not to mention the drivers—think we have bad drivers? Hah!).
But this crap? This, along with the Mooninite scare, the Traffic Counter scare, mandatory health insurance (and if you don't have it, you pay even more in taxes) and hypocritical liberal weenies, has dropped my opinion of Boston even further.
![[The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades]](https://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/2023/1023.t.jpg "The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades")