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I took this picture a while ago, but I was just thinking of my favorite road sign and thought I’d share:

I went to Whole Foods yesterday to buy some tasty things for dinner.

I like Whole Foods, as they have many good things for me to eat that I can’t get at a normal store. I also like visits to Whole Foods for their sheer entertainment value. The photos below show tags from “fashionable” Estonian firewood, composite fire logs made of coffee grounds, and aloe that is marketed as food (but only eat the insides, according to that warning on the label).

Everyone knows about the Boston Duck Tours, but there’s a new outfit in set to start tours from Charlestown soon: Super Duck Tours. I saw this one this morning at the intersection of Causeway and North Washington Streets, headed over the Charlestown Bridge.

According to an article about the amphibious tours in Maine, these Ducks are custom made for tourism (the Boston Duck Tours boats are old WWII military vehicles). A piece at CharlestownBridge.com says that they will leave from the Navy Yard and tour a route different from the Duck Boats:

The vehicles will load at Terry Ring Way in the Navy Yard, follow the truck route down Chelsea Street to the seaport and enter the water at the Little Mystic Channel. The Autoport on Terminal Street will serve as the maintenance and storage site for the vehicles. The tours begin daily at 9 a.m. and will take between one hour and one-quarter and one hour and one-half. Up to five tours could run each day, and the season could typically run from April through the end of November, depending on demand.

Now I know that Boston Duck Tours currently has a monopoly on the city’s amphibious tourism industry, but do we really need choice in our Ducks?

I was at the Stata Center at MIT this weekend, and everything inside seems to have someone’s name on it. These three examples are all from the main hallway:

Last night, my Boston Behind the Scenes podcast reached its 10,000th download. It’s come a long way!

The AP reported yesterday that 400 R2-D2 mailboxes would be deployed around the country to promote the launch of a Star Wars commemorative stamp on March 28.

Well, I came to work this morning and found this new mailbox outside the building. When I went to the website printed on the side, I found a clip from Star Wars modified to show Leah inserting an envelope into R2-D2 (bottom).

No, it’s not about drinking – it’s a free tech conference. You can read about it (or sign up to attend) here: BarCampBoston2. If you want to learn the (short) history of the event, their official historical document seems to be the Wikipedia Entry.