(Part 2) Top products from r/boston

I learned a lot from Power Squadron classes, but that was more about navigation and safety than maintenance. Very useful however. It will put you in touch with a bunch of great folks who will love to chat maintenance. Other than that, I got the Nigel Calder book (http://www.amazon.com/Boatowners-Mechanical-Electrical-Manual-Essential/dp/0071432388/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373317120&sr=1-1) and chatted up everyone in the Marina.

Also check out the Wollaston Yacht Club in Quincy. It's got a bunch very cool down to earth folks who love boats, boating, and maybe beer.

Buy this modem and the router/wireless access point of your choice. I like this one but you can go cheaper or more fancy if you like. Connect the modem to the cable line and the router to the modem. Write down the MAC address and serial number for each thing.

Next, take a shot, and call comcast. Tell them you want their $35/month internet-only plan and you have your own modem. Connect the modem to the cable line before calling to make things easier. They will try to sell you some stuff and get some info, but just be patient and stay on target.

This is where it gets fun. If you've been graced by heaven, you'll be done in 5 minutes but I've never seen this happen. Most likely you will be transferred around to several people, having to repeat the same info while they struggle to activate your modem. They will claim there's no signal, they'll say "maybe it's not supported," and they'll very likely drop the call at least once. Keep calling and eventually, probably within 45 minutes to an hour, they will miraculously succeed.

It will end up costing $40/month, because there's some retarded $5 fee on top of the subscription. If they try to charge you for a modem rental or installation, challenge it immediately.

Yes, this is the easiest and cheapest way to get internet in this city. Fortunately, setting up gas/electric is about a 5 minute phone call with the lovely folks at national grid.

Black Mass is literally about Bulger & the FBI. Might as well start with that since that's the movie Depp is filming in town. If you're into that stuff, Rat Bastards. is supposed to be great, though I didn't read, my old man loved it.

I've had good luck with this one, although I got it at $50. Very simple, it just works. I've had it in use for about 6 hours a day for a year now. I recommend that you take the time to run the power wire behind your headliner rather than just have the cord dangling all the time.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DLWBPCA/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

>Does not have the day/night switch. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear to be. Marked for off-road use only.

Better choice:

5-Panel Wink rear-view mirrors have been used in car racing for decades. They have the advantage of not distorting distances, so approach speed and distance can be better judged.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00699X2H4

This is one of the best books I have ever read and it's all true and about many unsolved crimes in the boston area...This book is the ring leaders confessions release post mortem. An aboslute must read for anyone living in boston.

https://www.amazon.com/Final-Confession-Unsolved-Crimes-Cresta/dp/155553449X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1523299687&sr=8-2&keywords=true+confession+phil+cresta

The Islands of Boston Harbor - Edward Rowe Snow http://www.amazon.com/Islands-Boston-Harbor-Centennial-Editions/dp/1933212853/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1426607624

This should be mandatory reading for all Bostonians. All you youngins don't know shit about the harbor islands and thats were a good chunk of our history happened. You will definitely look at the harbor differently hen you are finished.

If you want an easy way to increase your situational awareness, spend $9 on a clip-on wide-angle mirror.

If you want to be more hardcore, spend $19 on a 5-panel mirror, which doesn't distort distances.

If you like that kind of thing, there is a book that details how the 1986 tax reform was passed, and how it mutated over time. It's fascinating how many people had their hands on it.

It's called Showdown at Gucci Gulch.

Showdown at Gucci Gulch https://www.amazon.com/dp/0394758110/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_4pZxwb0ZEWDRX

This book might help: http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003216/

Baratunde (the author) went to school at Harvard and talks a bit about the flavor of racism in the area. Also, it's a great book and he's really funny.

Black Mass by Dick Lehr is a good start. I actually preferred Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy's Whitey Bulger (thought it did a better job of exploring the web of FBI and federal corruption) but both are worthy of a read.

I would recommend this one for $70 based on personal experience. It's not fun to have to remember to recharge a battery, this one is constantly powered and looks clean if you run the wire behind interior panels.

I swear by these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002G9UDYG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

That second layer give you a lot more to work with.

They even make one with a little brim, which as someone with glasses, I really appreciate:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041LQXQO/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Because the population was smaller and cities were less popular / economically important then. Now they are very important while at the same time we have made building more units illegal, thus raising the cost of housing. The problem is almost entirely political and legal.

Try Amazon Marketplace if (as I suspect) you don't get luck here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0195147790/

It's all explained here: https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Drivers-Handbook-Big-Dig/dp/0201622254/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465479481&sr=8-1&keywords=boston+drivers+guide

As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution - http://www.amazon.com/As-Enemys-Country-Occupation-Revolution/dp/0199895775

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For a sense of how Boston has changed over the years, check out:

Cityscapes of Boston and
Boston Then and Now

"Irish" history? Isn't that redundant? I mean, isn't Irish history basically the history of the entire Western Civilization?

P.S.: I'm not related to, acquainted with, or have any sort of business relationship with Thomas Cahill. If some of you do choose to buy his book based on my post, let him know he owes me some referral fees. :D

Trickle down economics is bullshit because people hoard wealth. However, no matter how rich you are you're probably only going to live in one unit in any given city. Completely different concepts. We're talking about basic supply and demand.

While I don't agree with all of the arguments in the book, I remember some studies in Triumph of the City. I'd recommend the read.

I have the same problem. Bought this baby.

First time my ears are fully covered.

Got this one and using an asus router. It's worth shelling out the cash for the Motorola...I had one that cost half as much, which died after a couple months.

And she's gone.

You should stop letting her have such a large space in your head. This is typed by a guy still getting negative events out of his own head forty years after the fact.

Here's a help. Changed my life for the better. It's been in print for >20 years.

A memoir, not a novel, but Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.

> That sure sounds like a unbiased court proceeding to me.

It was incredibly biased. Against the British soldiers. The entire town wanted to summarily lynch them. Which is why the evidence that they were acting in self defense had to be so overwhelming and incontrovertible to acquit them.

I dont know where you got that quote because it is nowhere in the document you linked. I did find this quote which undermines your conclusion:

>Thomas Preston had not expected to walk away a free man. Surrendering himself to local civilian authorities on the night of the incident, he awaited trial in the town jail for over seven months. Knowing that Massachusetts judges would preside over a provincial court held in Boston, before a jury drawn from Suffolk County freeholders, with local lawyers to represent him, he - with seemingly good reason - thought his chances of a fair trial slim. Seeing nothing but gloom ahead, he was sure that witnesses would perjure them- selves in court to secure his conviction and presumably his execution, despite his "clear conscience" and certainty that he was innocent of the charge. Were the trial before impartial judges and jurors in another venue, he believed that he would be exonerated. But in Boston he anticipated "a shameful end."

In fact I dont think you read any of this document at all because it very clearly and directly contradicts the point you are trying to make repeatedly. And for the most part this article is about the trial and its aftermath, not the massacre itself. Among the few mentions of the events leading up to the massacre is this quote:

>No one could deny that the sentry had been ridiculed by passing boys or that some had thrown snowballs at him...It was evident that the men of the relief party had been roughed up a bit. People taunted the soldiers and tugged at their weapons; the troops were hit by flying objects

The story of Garrick being hit by the butt of a rifle comes from the Short Narrative which was not evidence from the trial but a propaganda pamphlet printed by Boston newspapers to sway public opinion in Britain and the rest of the colonies. It was not used as evidence in the trial, because it was a propaganda story and by that point it had already served its purpose

More quotes from the document you linked:

>The Fair Account challenged the validity of the story presented in the Short Narrative...Hutchinson had sent twenty-five depositions from twenty-seven deponents in all, five civilians and twenty-two soldiers. Another two depositions (also from civilians) were sent later and added in London, bracketing the original set. As in the Short Narrative, a long introduction designed to shape readers' impressions preceded the depositions. Likewise, deeper causes were located years before, but there the similarities end. As the Fair Account told it, those underlying causes were not traceable to flaws in the navigation system but instead to selfish Bostonians who had wrongly denied Parliament's authority to regulate their trade. Petty, mean-spirited, ultimately treasonous, their behavior on March 5 showed their willingness to levy "war against the King" by accosting his "troops who were sent thither to preserve the public peace." Soldiers trying to do their duty encountered "the utmost malice and injustice" from the moment they stepped ashore.

>....according to this rendition, the soldiers had been lured into an ambush of fists and clubs. Gangs of local ruffians disingenuously turned their acts of self-defense into a pretext to roam the streets, indiscriminately waylaying and accosting any soldiers who crossed their path - officers or enlisted men, members of the Twenty-ninth

>...It was a civilian witness who claimed that Preston "spoke often to the mob, desiring them to be quiet and disperse," and that the soldiers fired raggedly, not in volley, only after being assaulted

Again, go read the book and stop trying to take out of context quotes to preserve the myth fabricated in American elementary schools. Particularly since the source you linked to prove me wrong says about this same book in the second paragraph:

>For more than thirty years readers have relied on legal scholar Hiller Zobel to walk them through the "massacre" maze. Zobel spent a great many pages setting the scene before telling his rigorously researched tale...Zobel's rendition is still considered authoritative on the "massacre" itself as well as the sequence of events leading up to the trials...