Comments on: Sniff ’n scratch http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Manish Vij http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/comment-page-1/#comment-51123 Manish Vij Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:50:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3177#comment-51123 <blockquote>There aren't any new subway tunnels being dug in New York City...</blockquote> <p>Hmm... maybe I'm conflating the newly-passed <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/fea/20051017/202/1618">Second Ave. subway referendum</a> with the tunnels being dug to upgrade NYC water mains.</p> There aren’t any new subway tunnels being dug in New York City…

Hmm… maybe I’m conflating the newly-passed Second Ave. subway referendum with the tunnels being dug to upgrade NYC water mains.

]]> By: Peter http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/comment-page-1/#comment-51121 Peter Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:08:16 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3177#comment-51121 <p>There aren't any new subway tunnels being dug in New York City, which after all is the city that brought us the Second Avenue Subway (planned in the 1920's, paid for twice, never built) and more recently the 63rd Street tunnel extension (seven years to dig 1,500 feet of tunnel).</p> There aren’t any new subway tunnels being dug in New York City, which after all is the city that brought us the Second Avenue Subway (planned in the 1920′s, paid for twice, never built) and more recently the 63rd Street tunnel extension (seven years to dig 1,500 feet of tunnel).

]]> By: mam http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/comment-page-1/#comment-51095 mam Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:25:50 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3177#comment-51095 <blockquote>Doesn't the Path train have something similar like this type of technology that is being tested right now? I thought I read something on the news about this the other day.</blockquote> <p>the path train has been advertised the 'smartlink' cards (the ones that will allow you just to hold it up and walk through) for seriously a year now. i'm beginning to think it's just a myth that the port authority has manufactured.</p> <p>anyway, similar technology on the mta, i would imagine, would cost a fortune as there are many more stations then path station. besides the mta's policy seems to be if a train hasn't shut down in the middle of a tunnel at least several times a week, had a broken air conditioner for most of the summer, or smell like burning on an alarmingly consistent basis - IT AIN'T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING BROKE.</p> Doesn’t the Path train have something similar like this type of technology that is being tested right now? I thought I read something on the news about this the other day.

the path train has been advertised the ‘smartlink’ cards (the ones that will allow you just to hold it up and walk through) for seriously a year now. i’m beginning to think it’s just a myth that the port authority has manufactured.

anyway, similar technology on the mta, i would imagine, would cost a fortune as there are many more stations then path station. besides the mta’s policy seems to be if a train hasn’t shut down in the middle of a tunnel at least several times a week, had a broken air conditioner for most of the summer, or smell like burning on an alarmingly consistent basis – IT AIN’T EVEN CLOSE TO BEING BROKE.

]]> By: Janeofalltrades http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/comment-page-1/#comment-51074 Janeofalltrades Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:02:04 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3177#comment-51074 <p>I think the swipe technology is terrible. Why can't they make it the same technology as my work ID? I don't have to swipe, just hold it up and it swipes me thru. Just lower the power so random people won't be charged just because they are a few feet away. Doesn't the Path train have something similar like this type of technology that is being tested right now? I thought I read something on the news about this the other day.</p> I think the swipe technology is terrible. Why can’t they make it the same technology as my work ID? I don’t have to swipe, just hold it up and it swipes me thru. Just lower the power so random people won’t be charged just because they are a few feet away. Doesn’t the Path train have something similar like this type of technology that is being tested right now? I thought I read something on the news about this the other day.

]]> By: Anil http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/comment-page-1/#comment-51071 Anil Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:30:55 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3177#comment-51071 <p>Cubic is the same company that built the metrocard system and any body who has had to swipe the ticket a 100 times just to see the "swipe again" message will know how well this is going to work.</p> Cubic is the same company that built the metrocard system and any body who has had to swipe the ticket a 100 times just to see the “swipe again” message will know how well this is going to work.

]]> By: dudette http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/comment-page-1/#comment-51047 dudette Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:12:59 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3177#comment-51047 <p>on a moderately related topic, i saw a mta cop at 42nd station open a bag someone had left behind and people on the platform apparently had brought to his attention...</p> <p>so let me deal out the scenario. i walk down stairs, see hullabaloo, see cop actually open the bag, OPEN the strange left behind bag sitting by itself on bence!!! and as i am thinking of running the heck out of there, he starts to take stuff out of the bag...</p> <p>then i figured, i would prolly already be dead, or have contracted ebola or anthrax by this point, so no use running. so 2nd-ing joat, maybe real training for the mta cops before wasting our tax $ to fund some senators bros-in-laws company's product..</p> on a moderately related topic, i saw a mta cop at 42nd station open a bag someone had left behind and people on the platform apparently had brought to his attention…

so let me deal out the scenario. i walk down stairs, see hullabaloo, see cop actually open the bag, OPEN the strange left behind bag sitting by itself on bence!!! and as i am thinking of running the heck out of there, he starts to take stuff out of the bag…

then i figured, i would prolly already be dead, or have contracted ebola or anthrax by this point, so no use running. so 2nd-ing joat, maybe real training for the mta cops before wasting our tax $ to fund some senators bros-in-laws company’s product..

]]> By: dudette http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/comment-page-1/#comment-51043 dudette Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:07:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3177#comment-51043 <p>or new years, or 4th of july, or if u r a miscreant teenager or middle schooler after u've tied a cracker to a cats tail, or... ... ...</p> <p>u know how they get ex-cat burglers and bankrobbers etc to help out the cops in figuring out deterants, they should get a bunch of these morons who have been caught and offer them timeshares in fla and trips to the caribbean in exchange for real "realistic" actual deterant ways of beating would-be terrormongers.</p> <p>btw, m., glad someone on the interwebs has the intelligence to see it for the baloney it obviously is...</p> <p>=)</p> or new years, or 4th of july, or if u r a miscreant teenager or middle schooler after u’ve tied a cracker to a cats tail, or… … …

u know how they get ex-cat burglers and bankrobbers etc to help out the cops in figuring out deterants, they should get a bunch of these morons who have been caught and offer them timeshares in fla and trips to the caribbean in exchange for real “realistic” actual deterant ways of beating would-be terrormongers.

btw, m., glad someone on the interwebs has the intelligence to see it for the baloney it obviously is…

=)

]]> By: Mousepad Marauder http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/comment-page-1/#comment-51039 Mousepad Marauder Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:59:07 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3177#comment-51039 <p>You would not want to walk through one of these security machines after celebrating Diwali.</p> You would not want to walk through one of these security machines after celebrating Diwali.

]]> By: Janeofalltrades http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/03/20/scratch_n_sniff/comment-page-1/#comment-51035 Janeofalltrades Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:18:19 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3177#comment-51035 <p>This business of bag checking was ridiculous to begin with because frankly in the name of "political correctness" old ladies and moms with strollers were getting pulled over. It was definitely not working on way or the other. I do think the presence of cops is good, whether it is effective is questionable. They still check them randomly at 47-50 Rockefeller Center but those guys should all be fired or replaced. They are all so busy flirting with the women and making small talk with eachother, a man could walk thru the turnstiles with bombs strapped to the outside of his clothing and they'd miss him!!</p> This business of bag checking was ridiculous to begin with because frankly in the name of “political correctness” old ladies and moms with strollers were getting pulled over. It was definitely not working on way or the other. I do think the presence of cops is good, whether it is effective is questionable. They still check them randomly at 47-50 Rockefeller Center but those guys should all be fired or replaced. They are all so busy flirting with the women and making small talk with eachother, a man could walk thru the turnstiles with bombs strapped to the outside of his clothing and they’d miss him!!

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