Nov. 3rd, 2011

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Let's say I'm having affairs with ten married women, two married men, and a couple of geese. Now, unrelated to these — and this is actual fact — I have only two Facebook friends, my friend Dave so that I can take part in turntable.fm, and my friend Tina so that I can read posts on The Campus Restaurant Revisited community (the Campus Restaurant was the long lost freak hangout across from my high school). Now, there's no crossover between those two sets of friends — my musicwrite world and my high school reminiscers — though I really hope that some of the latter will eventually enter the former world (esp. Tim Page, who's been publishing music criticism for longer than I have and has won a Pulitzer for it, Steve Nesselroth, John Freeman, who plays bass and lives in Chuck Eddy's part of Texas, and someone named Steve Gregoropoulos, whom I don't remember if I've ever met but he likes Britney's "I Wanna Go" and the Osmonds' "Crazy Horses"). But that fact is neither here nor there. What's directly pertinent is that none of the people in either of these two worlds, musicwrite and the Campus, have anything at all to do with the ten women, two men, and several geese I am having affairs with. And no one who has ever asked to friend me on Facebook, or has ever written me via Facebook, has anything to do with the ten women, two men, and assorted geese. Yet not only have all ten women as well as both men shown up in the constant barrage of "Add people you know" and "You may know this person" that Facebook is pelting me with, but their spouses and friends and spouses' friends have too. (Either the geese aren't on Facebook or they are but Facebook hasn't yet grown wise to them.)

ExpandSo how does Facebook know I know them? )



EDIT: Kat points out in the comments that this actually has fuck all to do with cookies, is rather people willing to give up their address books or email activities to Facebook.
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I think this was Tuesday night. No further snow last night, but the temperature got down to 16 degrees Fahrenheit (–8.9 degrees Celsius). As I was leaving after the assembly there was one homeless guy who was trying to convince his brother to go to the hospital. The brother had a fever and was beneath a soaked through and frozen blanket. He refused to go, but let us give him a new, dry blanket and a new jacket.

By the way, I tend to update my previous Occupy posts and add stuff on the comment threads rather than make a new post every time I get a new idea. And K-pop convos often go on for several days or get new posts weeks later, if you're interested in those. So you may want to check back on old posts. And if you have an lj account you can track new comments on someone's post by clicking on the "thumbtack" thingee atop the post.

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/tag/occupy%20denver
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/tag/k-pop [UPDATE: I've now killed the k-pop tag because there were so many k-pop posts the tag became useless.]

http://occupydenver.org

(I don't know who took the picture; I got it from the wall photos on the Occupy Denver Facebook page.)

FYI: Tents are forbidden in Civic Center Park, and the city has refused to waive that rule.

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