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I commute by train to work every morning. Normally in Lowell the siderails are filled with boxcars. This morning they had left, but not without leaving evidence.

!(centered)http://static.flickr.com/35/73043709_0025985d9a_t.jpg!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicworkshop/73043709/ I snapped this photo just this morning. Lowell, America's Venice is crossed with canals that have just started to freeze over. The leaky drainpipe is keeping the ice from fully freezing, and the tree is still holding on to some of its leaves.

!(alignleft)http://static.flickr.com/20/73043769_12c3ff795b_m.jpg!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomicworkshop/73043769/ Jess and I were up at MIT to see a friend and coworker in a MIT Community Players production of Autobahn, a series of 7 one-act plays taking place in the front seat of an automobile, by Neil Labute. She was great, the plays themselves were ok and a little redundant by the end. Leaving the building we had to tread through some relatively thick snow. We tried to follow the footprints of others, though as the photo shows, some of them were

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