I watched my very first baseball game last night, thanks to Graduate House Council's awesomely discounted $5 field-level seats (face price: $34.50, pre-tax). It was the Boston Red Sox versus the Toronto Blue Jays, and the Red Sox won 8-7.

Interesting stuff. It was great going with a bunch of grad students, as many of us were completely new to the thing. ;)

I found myself unable to boo anyone, though. I clapped and cheered (quietly) for both teams! =)

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Random Japanese sentence: 彼は猫を二匹飼っている。一匹は黒でもう一匹は白だ。 He keeps two cats: one is black, and the other white.

The hot chocolate at Linux Caffe (Grace and Harbord Sts.) never fails to perk me up. Yesterday was no exception even though it was a day particularly in need of hot chocolate.

David (the proprietor) received a whole bunch of free books and a number of free T-shirts from Apress. The shirts were adorable! They read "Every time Linux boots, a penguin gets its wings." I batted my eyelashes at David and he very kindly let me have one. =) I'm so hacking it.

Seneca was there, hacking away as always. Mike Fletcher was at the same table. Ian Garmaise had briefly introduced us at the other night's DemoCamp afterparty, but I hadn't really had a chance to talk to him. It was great discovering mutual friends: Chris and Emily, whom I know through tango and renaissance dancing and whom he knows through jazz. He knows a bunch of interesting people, and I'm looking forward to meeting them at a party at his place on Saturday. Whee!

In retrospect, it was good that I ended up over there for hot chocolate. =) Life works out one way or another.

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Random Japanese sentence: その猫の一方は黒で、もう一方は茶だ。 One of the cats is black, the other is brown. Sono neko no ippou wa kuro de, mou ippou wa cha da.

This is one of the reasons I love technology.

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Random Japanese sentence: ある日、彼女はペットの猫がほしいと私に知らせました。 One day, she told me that she wanted a pet cat. Aru hi, kanojo wa petto no neko ga hoshii to watashi ni shirasemashita.

From netsquared comment:

Although I've studied the material provided here, what I would really like is to be able to hire someone who is 100% comfortable with these technologies to help me get accustomed to them. Like a "new media coach" ;-).

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Sorry about the blog hiccup. I messed up my template last night. =)

Random Japanese sentence: 鬼の居ぬ間に洗濯。 When the cat is away, the mice will play.[Proverb]

It is my firm belief that if I mash interesting people together, they'll most probably have interesting conversations - and if I'm around to hear those conversations, even better.

I went to IBM, and that turned out to be perfect timing. Laurie Dillon, Pranam Kolari and Ian Chan all pinged me for lunch. I thought they should definitely meet each other, so we all met up for lunch at 12 and had a wonderful conversation about IBM intranet goodness and blogging visualizations. =) That was tons of fun.

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Random Japanese sentence: 家はねこが２匹います。１匹は白で、もう１匹はくろです。 We have two cats; one is white, and the other is black.

James Iveniuk reminded me that we'd planned to have some kind of barbecue tonight. I invited Jed Smith as well because he's always fun to talk to. I grabbed a bunch of vegetables and thawed two of the pork kebabs in my freezer. He brought pork chops and potatoes. Much fun was had by all. =)

Speaking of food - I had absolutely wonderful veal parmigiana at IBM today. I seriously need to learn how to cook that. The Joy of Cooking would have it for sure...

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Random Japanese sentence: 私は猫がその犬を追いかけているのをみた。 I saw a cat running after the dog.

Greet this blogger happy 83rd birthday, folks! Way, way cool.

Link from Sandy Kemsley, Helen K's daughter.

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