@atraxia: Any Meetup groups?

@The Bitter Librarian: The Guggenheim. (And then walk south a couple blocks to the Neue Galierie's Cafe Sabarsky for overpriced-but-insanely good strudel and Viennese coffee.) :)

@moonfaerie: @CubeRootOfPi:

Lost my job. Eating a giant chocolate bunny to take the edge off.

@watereatsrock: Much as punctuation is mine.

@Penny: (It's also avail. from Amazon UK. And is, of course, insanely good.)

@Rilo-Andy: Just educate yourself about the fair-use aspect of copyright laws, which allow you to quote small portions of text. I am not a lawyer, and I'm coming at this from a publishing perspective, so take all this with a grain of salt.

@dodo-bajoe: This is a tangent, but I keep wondering why Ohno was absent from all of Stephen Colbert's speed skating coverage-sponsorship-apallooza (which provided 99% of my Olympics coverage)... I assumed Ohno's fees were too high. That said, glad the rest of the team had a chance to shine!

@Iterum.Differo: Yes. I hate this. I hate them. It's like a website from 1986. Why can't I just sign up and see an entire program?! So annoying. Maybe they'll catch up in another 24 years.

@Tea and Oranges: Dorothy Parker.

@avec_accent: Done! But the names are overwhelmingly great, so I'm not sure how much help the vote will really be. ;)

@PrettyPrettyPrincess: Methinks this might be your boss: [www.nytimes.com] If so, pretty amazing!

@quesavoysavoy, grey ghost extraordinaire: I still like most of their content, but, yes, the redesign annoys me. It feels like a step backward. (I'd say "very beta," but they'd no doubt take that as a compliment.)

Hmph. He's no Viktor Petrenko!

@Charity Froggenhall: After life, there's a lot more to life than college.

Writing a check to the ol' alma mater, a women's college, as we speak.

Not to nitpick, but BMI is only one of the criteria, according to the letter above; the others are not smoking, cholesterol, and blood pressure.

@Dodgergirl: CouchSurfing! But make sure you only go with folks who are verified, have excellent feedback, etc. Alternatively, the NY Times did an article on bed-and-breakfast options a year or so ago, which should still be floating around out there somewhere....

@deeemer: A significant chunk of the Machon Weitzmann's graduate students and postdocs speak very little Hebrew beyond "Lehitraot"!

@LaComtesse: Chelsea Market. Tea Salon in late afternoon is a great place to escape.