When you consider the fact that The Times newsroom was once a parking deck, it’s really not so bad. Parking spaces were replaced by cubicles long ago, but few tell-tale signs still exist such as the wall of concrete support beams and the same rough, gray bricks covering the building’s exterior. Couple that with row after row of gray cubicle partitions, a lack of windows and the never-ending stacks of paper and you’ve got a recipe for boredom — at best.