Rezonings and code changes are really hard. Permit reform could be an easy slam dunk for speeding development. I’m working on a commercial development in Boston and it is in limbo because ISD’s plan review is taking ten months and counting.

Olympics watching bonuses: cool buses and neat little self-erecting tower cranes in the background

Me when WTYP pod releases a GG1 episode

I want to walk across it so bad. I crave the ice.

Religious persecution in Zurich c. 1700 / leaving Alsace and chasing wealth in the Argentine pampas and failing miserably at it

In case you ever wondered what a new cemetery looks like

… and have tons of time to dedicate the task. I spent probably 30 hours removing the paint and finishing this 5-panel door

Found some of that missing snow

Did a triple take this morning because I thought a P&W locomotive had been parked at the downtown skating rink

Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.

Pascoag, Rhode Island Pop: 4,824 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascoag,_Rhode_Island Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=157747510 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=157747580 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34400623

The only way I know what the Pats are up to is seeing unusual aircraft movements to PVD.

Got some glow in Providence

I really hope this means the existing WF store becomes available for redevelopment. A 1-acre, C-2 site could easily yield 100+ new homes.

Maybe I’m a little more down the “he’s deep into suffering dementia” rabbit hole than I should be, but putting up signs in happy fonts to help someone find their own bedroom or own bathroom is exactly what you do for someone with dementia.

I look at the sky a lot and this is by far the strangest thing I’ve ever seen up there. Was definitely a rocket, maybe the Sentinel satellite that went up this afternoon from French Guiana

Oh yes, I Stan a cobblestone house.

Updating my LEGO White House

Look at CMR 521

The Boston Globe Editorial Board is running a whole series on the state’s excessive building code regulation over the next three weeks – single-stair, Massachusetts’s unusually low high-rise definition, and the mess of different septic system rules www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/21/o...

I love condensation ghosting season 👻

I spent the whole holiday weekend with some people who live in a very rural, vacation-y place and I got like 2-3k steps each day. My daily average over the past year is about 13k.

I went to Lake George Village today and I’m pretty certain I will never go back.

This is a RIPTA appreciation post

Appreciation for this Duck

That’s about as close as I like to be to a hurricane.

Herr’s mentioned

Providence is where they mill the road surface and the ride quality for biking improves

Checks out that Andrew and Betsy Wyeth designed this place

Always be foamin

Ok, so what you’re saying is Triggs should be closed, made mostly into an actual public park, with like 10% of the area made available for housing development. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

I like to see a straw house being built. Vernon street, Providence

This article claims that average PVD rents declined 19% YOY and, uhhhh reason.com/2025/07/22/r...

Here in RI, aff rental units that are developed with LIHTC funding thru RI Housing need to have a minimum of six closets (coat, pantry, broom, linen, mech/util, and then one per bedroom). It’s a good thing they are generous with design waivers.

Two terrible losses on Block Island this year. Three Sisters sandwich shop and Chapel Sweets. You will be missed.

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Elementary school: Richard Simmons videos in gym class Middle school: OJ verdict High school: the second tower collapsing

Big Dan McKee ‘L’ for not having the statehouse in Pride lighting for PVD Pride weekend.

Omfg, CSX puts its DEI locomotive on the head (but behind the armed forces tribute loco) of a trainload of tanks for Trump’s parade

Old houses are bad, actually.

Going up!

Where my classic Simpsons fans at?

Apparently this is visible along the entire NEC right now

Hell yeah. A pair of hermit thrush in the yard this morning.

Incredibly bleak. Beyond the windowlessness, there are only 11 bedrooms on the floor. Maybe 15 people will live here? That’s nothing compared to the number of people who used to work on a floor. There is no urban future for America without bringing office workers back to these buildings.

Nice. From a place where Bob Dole marched in the county seat’s 4th of July Parade in ‘96 and seeing a Clinton for President yard sign was like seeing a pig fly.

Shoutout to Providence for having their zoning code available as a PDF and not using those awful third party sites to host the code.

Woooo. My property (and thousands of others in PVD) got upzoned.

Watching Maine’s ‘High School Quiz Show’ and the team from Brunswick answered ‘Warwick’ to the question of what RI coastal city hosts a famous folk fest.