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Score: -400 for every tear shed watching the empty Mather Express drive by 8238494372 times at the Memorial Hall shuttle stop, +25 for Shuttleboy, a chivalrous gentleman who ALWAYS texts back
Score: -20 for losing friends (who probably didn’t care about you in the first place), +10 for additional exercise, +100 for shuttles, -5 for the addiction to Shuttleboy, -10 for the minor inconveniences when the shuttle isn’t running
...Harvard was not the only project on display. Projects ranged from tools to test musical frequencies to a service by Julia S. Howland '12 that sends you realtime sports information. Text "gocrim" followed by a sport to 41411 (the same number as ShuttleBoy) and you'll get information on latest scores and times...
Meanwhile, Randy J. Miller '13 made an iPhone app that contains a course catalog, a map of Harvard buildings, and a collection of Harvard-related RSS feeds. It still has bugs, he says, but he's hoping to work on it over J-term and expand it to include ShuttleBoy, a Harvard directory, a list of WiFi spots, and a way to check your Crimson cash. Whether that catalog app will be ready in time for spring shopping period, though, is doubtful, but, he adds, it's not his fault...
Granted, the text that prospective travelers have to send to shuttleboy is still far from intuitive. “For Shuttleboy SMS, text ‘SBOY A B’ to 41411, where A and B are the first 3+ letters of two stops!” directs the shuttleboy website. Such directions result in “Sboy boy qua” to get from Boylston Gate to the quad, phraseology that sounds like Avril Lavigne dreamt it up after reading Waiting for Godot...