What Happens to Needham Stays in Needham

As I've mentioned, I start a new job here in a week and a half. What's the first step for the new job? I must go to Boston for a week for training and such. Specifically, I'm headed to Needham, Massachusetts!

If it were up to me, Needham would be the pork capital of the USA. There'd be billboards from coast to coast that read, "Need ham? Needham!" and then it'd show a beautiful line of pigs in line in front of the ham factory. Unfortunately, it's not up to me and I don't know anything about Needham.

So, I have a question for the crowd: what do you do in Needham? If I have a car for the week, is it worth going up to Maine or Vermont? (I haven't been to those states. My rule for visiting a state is pretty lax, too; as long as I use the bathroom in a state, I count myself as having visited it. I've only been to a McDonald's in Mississippi, but I did hit the restroom so I mark that state off the list. If given a Big Gulp, I could conceivably cross off many, many states in a single night.)

It's been a while since I've recommended a TV show, and I happened to find two goodies this week. (Well, they could be tremendously stupid with only one good episode that I fortuitously happened to catch, but as some folks saw when I recommended Barbershop the tv show, that doesn't stop me from touting a program.) Anyway, the first good, very strange show is Code Monkeys on G4. If you enjoy the original NES and general geek humor, you ought to like this show. If you don't, well, I don't really care. Secondly, I caught a show on HDNet this afternoon called Sports Action Team. This appears to be a comedy improv show centering on sports, but I need to do some more research here. My diligent research shows this show is coming to NBC, so everyone will see it soon. Lots of good clips of Sports Action Team on YouTube, here's an enjoyable one.