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.”
Go figure.
Bunny and I had lunch at Rocky's Grill and Soda Shop, and while there, I noticed this little bit of history:
![[Wow! A phone you can really dial! So that's where the term “dialing” came from!]](/2019/06/04/Payphone.jpg "Wow! A phone you can really dial! So that's where the term “dialing” came from!")
The fact that the sign says “temporarily out of serice” implies they think it can be fixed at some point in the future. I sure hope they do—it would be cool to use just for the novelty of it.
![[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")
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