Rob DeCola

Boston.com circa January, 2003.

Boston.com 30th ads at Aquarium Station.

Day 1 of full time work in 2004 was with this guy.

Teresa on the mic.

Happy 30th to @boston.com !

I was 20 in 2003 and pretty sure I knew everything there was to know about journalism.

They hired me anyway.

What followed is an enviable career I wouldn't trade for anything.

Here's to all the heroes, villains, big stars, and bit players I met along the way!

Sub-Zero, MK1, Gameboy.

Sub-Zero, MK3; Kung Lao, MK2; Sub-Zero, MK2; Shang Tsung, MK2.

My mains. #MortalKombat

Myrtle the Turtle and Thomas the Eel.

And may Her days be free of Thomas the Eel getting all up in her business. #NewEnglandAquarium #NEAQ

Myrtle the Turtle (rear)

This our Queen. There are many turtles like her, but this one is ours.

Myrtle the turtle

All hail the Queen Guardian of Boston! Long may she swim around the Giant Ocean Tank and nap upon its fake coral. #myrtletheturtle

I wonder if Black Mesa was just an AWS outage? 🤔 #halflife

YouTube video by Some More News Why Can’t Gen Z Find A Job? - SOME MORE NEWS

Hi. The American job market, especially for young people, has changed drastically since the 1980s. Does that mean it’s all Reagan’s fault, or just mostly Reagan’s fault? youtu.be/grQssQUbFtg

"Everyone disliked that" new Kowloon plan.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/a...

Oh, ok. Sorry I annoyed you with my fanatical local loyalty. #kowloon

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/l...

The suspect pulled a Patterson-Gimlin. #bigfoot

www.boston25news.com/news/local/b...

I downgraded my plan. Instead of $120 more a year, I'll pay $60 less. I'm fine with that, but it didn't have to be this way. #xbox #gamepass

The #Dunkin $6 Meal Deal here in Mass. is the $8 Meal Deal out in California and not enough people are mad about it.

a man with glasses and a wig says " well back to it then " Alt: Chit gets back to work.

Well, back to it then.

One for me and WhatsHisName, my new best friend.

We are back at the Belly Up tonight! Join us for:
6p - Amigo Access
7p - doors
8p - Ted Z and The Wranglers
9p - RCPM with THE Jons

Original Xbox game spines, sun-bleached to oblivion.

The blue #Xbox X is the most obvious example of the sun-damage problem that haunts Southern California's otherwise superb #retrogaming stores.

It's Friday night, we're in Hermosa Beach, and we've got The Jons with us. Let's Go Saint Rocke!!
6:30p - Amigo pass
7p - doors
8p - Ted Z and The Wranglers
9p - RCPM with The Jons backing on percussion and horns

#SurfCity USA

Atari Poetry IV by Yucef Merhi, a 2600 displaying poetry on a CRT.

I don't know art, but I know what I like.

(Yucef Merhi's Atari Poetry IV)

#retrogaming #art

YouTube video by Star Trek Teaser | Star Trek x LEGO

Do I need a 20,000-piece Enterprise-D #LEGO set that's the size of my living room and costs as much as a mid-size SUV?

No, I need two so I can keep one in the box.

youtu.be/C4gbBGp92RU

LOL

Join me in the North End for cannoli & community—fresh ingredients, tradition & family #MikesPastry

So, 1100 men went in the water. 316 men came out. The sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

#Jaws #Thefarmerandtheshark

Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

The Farmer and the Shark movie poster.

Craig Kingsbury as Ben Gardner in Jaws.

I got to see this on the big screen at Coolidge today and WOW. #Jaws #Jaws50th

Globe photo editor killed while bicycling in rural Illinois - The Boston Globe Lloyd Young, 57, of Boston, was struck and killed Saturday in McLean County in Illinois.

A huge loss for the Globe, and for all who loved him.

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a large building found on the planet 892-IV."

The #StarTrek episode "Bread and Circuses" used stock footage of #MIT in Cambridge thus this Memory Alpha entry:

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a large building found on the planet 892-IV."

memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Massach...

It's modern and has hundreds of games and the guy swiping his credit card has no idea you destroyed something beautiful. #retrogaming #emulation

Wrong airlock. #Halflife

a man with a beard is singing into a microphone with his hair blowing in the wind . Alt: a man with a beard is singing into a microphone with his hair blowing in the wind .

I'm so old I remember when video game console prices came DOWN the longer the console was out