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The Great Sandwich Wars of 2007
Jul. 26th, 2007 11:59 amFor a couple of weeks, the display screens that were installed a few months ago at the main T stations in Boston have had a small, orange blinking cursor in the bottom right hand corner. I took this as the sign of something big about to happen, and indeed, this morning I arrived in Park Street and somebody had finally turned them on.
Except they seem to have missed the point of them by several hundred thousand miles - all they do is cycle through "No smoking" and "For free schedule information visit WWW.MBTA.COM", rather than displaying the time until the next train on each line, or anything useful as anyone would expect. Instead it looks like they're going to be used like the propaganda machines around the North Haugh in St Andrews that were installed in my second year. I hope somebody changes them, but it probably won't matter because they're LED boards and the Boston Police will soon be down to blow them up.
As for this entry's title... I was going to write about something completely different, and even though I decided not to bother with the trouble, I thought that the title was too good to waste. Suffice to say that I'm becoming slightly disheartened that I have the ability to surround myself with people in online communities that are almost completely socially incompetent and can use their smug MENSA-troll powers to make drama out of absolutely anything. It can't be a direct consequence of the communities I'm in - after all, I'm in them and I like to think of myself as having most brain functions intact. Why can't people be a bit cleverer? I'm so ronery etc etc.
It's not to do with what inspired that mood in the first place, but I'll leave you with this snoreathon of a pomposity slag-heap as a typical example.
Except they seem to have missed the point of them by several hundred thousand miles - all they do is cycle through "No smoking" and "For free schedule information visit WWW.MBTA.COM", rather than displaying the time until the next train on each line, or anything useful as anyone would expect. Instead it looks like they're going to be used like the propaganda machines around the North Haugh in St Andrews that were installed in my second year. I hope somebody changes them, but it probably won't matter because they're LED boards and the Boston Police will soon be down to blow them up.
As for this entry's title... I was going to write about something completely different, and even though I decided not to bother with the trouble, I thought that the title was too good to waste. Suffice to say that I'm becoming slightly disheartened that I have the ability to surround myself with people in online communities that are almost completely socially incompetent and can use their smug MENSA-troll powers to make drama out of absolutely anything. It can't be a direct consequence of the communities I'm in - after all, I'm in them and I like to think of myself as having most brain functions intact. Why can't people be a bit cleverer? I'm so ronery etc etc.
It's not to do with what inspired that mood in the first place, but I'll leave you with this snoreathon of a pomposity slag-heap as a typical example.
