11/3:  [insert vicious hair-scorching invective here]  &^@#% LinkedIn.  My friend who runs IT security at a FS firm has confirmed via rigorous testing that it:
-- mines members' facebook accounts for connections (friends lists, and friends' friends - at least, if not deeper: he's still experimenting on that).  Unclear whether vice versa - he's working on it;
-- tracks your google searches, then later puts YOU on your search targets' "PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW" section (if you are logged into LinkedIn at the time; not yet proven whether it happens even if you aren't); and
-- (if you are so gullible, like me, as to let it "sign in" to your eg gmail account:) EVEN IF you do not select to link to Person X, LinkedIn KEEPS PERSON X'S NAME + CONTACT, and puts you in the "PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW" not only of Person X but of all of Person X's LinkedIn connections, out to at least the 2nd degree (3rd degree suspected but not yet proven).  Delightful result in my instance:   my stalker, from whom I'd successfully hidden for some time, viewed my profile today and now knows what city I'm in and where I work.  I *really* need to get a new job now, stat.
      -- EVEN BETTER:  even if you delete your LinkedIn account in a rage, LinkedIn will keep your name, full profile info & contacts, and permit people to search for you and ask to connect with you.  (Presumably the above activities continue as well.)
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11/2: "This is the second time I'm going to ask this today, sir: why is your hand up my shirt?!" - Ava, to new sound guy
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11/1: "Wait - other people can see you?" - Brittany
"There's a bee in my bonnet, and that bee's name is government waste." - Sue
"...except on Facebook, and even then it takes years." - Finn
OMG let the Irish dude sing. Listen to that honeyed baritone. ETA ah, there ya go. Adorable.
"Why couldn't she have wished for Lord Tubbington to quit smoking?" -- Brittany, of course.  I do have a favorite.
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10/31: Even now, as often as it happens (like just now, twice), every time I see a not-obviously-of-Asian-descent person using chopsticks to eat food rather than to stick them in their mouths like buckteeth while pulling up the corners of their eyes and making ching-chong noises at me, I am filled with fondness and gratitude, having grown up around people who did not miss one opportunity, however slight, to point out how different/abnormal/inferior I was compared to them and mock me for it. *not still emotionally & psychologically affected by this as an adult, or anything* Seriously I am just realizing that this may be the reason that nothing, nothing, probably not even homicidal tendencies, will turn me off to a person faster & more irrevocably than anything even resembling mockery.
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10/30: Interviewer: Why did you stay away from this kind of character for so long?
Eddie Murphy: I was trying to anger my audience.
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10/29: Still watching Person of Interest. Still entertaining enough, if still too exposition-y especially in first showing us the mark-of-the-week. Also, Reese is ex-CIA; he'd use military alphabet, not "Greg, Henry"; it's so unlike these guys to get such a detail wrong. :/

Sometimes you put a pebble in your mouth and it turns out to be a candy, and its sweetness is so much the greater for having been unexpected. That's how I feel about the Cardinals winning the World Series. In fact Game 6 was somehow sweeter even than Game 7. (loved Freese quote after Game 7: "[I slept] 45 minutes last night, at like 8am. I didn't really understand what was going on." and his continued dazed humility and lip-chewing uncertainty even while hoisting his MVP trophy.) Same with 2006 NLCS Game 7 vs the WS, 2001 WS Game 4...etc. Funny how that is...must be that they're laced with the promise of more to come.
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10/28: Today, dude on sidewalk: "Why'd you break up the Beatles?" Welcome to the United States, New York City, 2011. (Almost as fun as the normal-looking dude in my subway stairwell the other day who said politely as I passed by, some animal instinct keeping me from breaking my stride: "Excuse me, I want to take a video of myself jacking off. Would you mind holding the camera?") I do love men, really, a lot, as anyone who knows me knows. It's just the few.

Clearly the best coverage of the truly unbelievable, unforgettable Game 6.
- "Part of the magic of Mariano is the placid look, the slumped shoulders, as if this is all just a formality, as if he had already saved the game a few hours before and is only performing it once more for those people who missed it."
- "(La Russa had run out of bench players, of course)" LOL
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10/27: "He's going to be exhausted from smoldering all evening." - M, about E

"I'm number 8, between HG Wells and Billy Joel. Who ARE these people?" - Ava, UAN

"Hey guys. Good news: whatever I have, is NOT from the bird I kissed!" - Alex, HE
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10/25: Stepped back in time again tonight. Duck to water. Struck again by the microcosm-of-life lessons. Such as: the ones that look fantastic, tons of flash and style (eg: Brian [fedora, black shirt], & "COCAINE" tshirt guy) are usually more fun to watch than to dance with. :)

Notes so I remember for next time:

Michael J: You've known this guy before and the first time he was called Larry O'Keefe. They even kinda look alike for goodness' sake. RUN. RUN SCREAMING. *doesn't* *of course* *can't keep eyes off* *will probably follow around like a puppy* Seriously though: loose as a goose, with style and attitude to burn. Irresistible. Watch & learn.

Rivers Cuomo looking guy with Wes pants (Todd? Tom?): tight, precise j-bug/charleston style, GREAT FEET, great musicality, happy, even *laughing*, genuinely engaged & in-tune with follow. Very pleasing.

Cory (hat, white t): LOVE. Solid (in every sense), felt very in-good-hands, pays attention and adjusts, lead just right firmness. Limited variations, but might have been d.t. not knowing whether I'd know them?

Shay? Chad? (navy shirt, looks like a quarterback): gentle lead and meticulous technique (esp @ the cutback on 5&6 of closed circle 8-count, didn't fling me backwards into the wall). Seems new; promising. Height difference kinda prohibitive though... too bad...

Matt (Scott A. lookalike, maroon shirt): newbie, more enthusiasm than skill, a little bossy, bit too forceful, no sense of musicality (yet?), easily distracted/thrown off by my styling, but clearly learns quickly, obviously super cute, smells awesome, incongruous intriguing faint geekiness lurking around the edges of his personality. Continued investigation is warranted :D

Mark Zuckerberg looking guy (striped shirt): nice low & loose unorthodox gumby-legged style, but seems a little rhythmically sloppy and a very big fan of himself.