This weekend Peter and I went to Boston. The original inspiration for the trip was the Science Museum, which was expensive and disappointing. Not much seemed have changed since the last time I had been the exhibition halls, which is years and years ago. Then we walked to Cambridge and through MIT. Checked out the MIT Press Bookstore: many beautiful covers. Peter stopped and marveled at numerous buildings. We saw the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, which among other things houses the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. We did not see Simmons Hall, where Brittney stayed when she did MITES. I would like to go back there and walk around more.

From MIT we walked to Daniel and Tessa’s house and had muffins and tea and talked a lot, and it was very nice, and then Daniel drove us to South Station. I haven’t done so much on a Saturday in ages. It was refreshing to get off campus. I should have taken more photographs.

In other news, while stumbling through the internet looking for infographics, I came across another reminder that C-SPAN is not perfect: Carl Malamud to Brian Lamb: “You should not treat the U.S. Congress like Disney would treat Mickey Mouse”.