Sad. Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80

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3. I remember that as a goofy high school student.

Can't remember why I was walking the Harvard Bridge. I took a summer high school class at MIT. Maybe some station other than Kendall Square was nearer.

Damn long time age for those Smoots. The subway was a fright. Park Street Station smelled of burnt pizza, and then some assholes from Boston Latin thought it was real funny to march down the stairs shouting Sieg Heil. Don't remember much more about the subway except passing through Atlantic Avenue on a crowded train when the fish folk got off work. Oh hell.

I later was stationed briefly at Coast Guard Base Boston, but that's for another post. I was hustling mail with a very crazy short-timer.

Miss the beans and the cod (Not really)

🦞 Lobsta, yes.