Encountering me in a hallway, Justice O'Connor asked me when the baby was due.
"It's consistently disappointing for anyone who encounters me," he says.
[Gee, thanks – Tech.Ed.] For those fortunate enough not to have encountered me professionally, my career to date has seen me kicked out of every web company I've worked at, including two where I actually fired myself.
If you'd encountered me on the street recently, you might have seen me trotting along, laughing aloud to David Sedaris's "Barrel Fever" or Tina Fey's "Bossypants," or crying — yes, real tears and grimaces, I have to admit — to the ending of "The Mill on the Floss".
(Come on, I know I wasn't the only one. See my life flashback, circa 2008. Yikes (and sorry) for any and all who encountered me).
And there was a wonderful congregation of people in Carlsbad who were open to that idea, and had even, in fact, discussed it before they encountered me.
When he first encountered me coming onto the "trustees crew," he said: "Hey Vairo [light-skinned one], this here is my home [meaning the jail], so don't you fucking forget it Ese, OK?" .
I never saw or heard anything resembling Incognito's conduct, but what I did encounter gives me some sense of why it might happen.
"Most Americans I encountered treated me with kindness and respect," Min recalls, "but they generally didn't have any interest in me either".
6.01pm: Looking through the image gallery of previous Kasparov v Karpov encounters reminds me rather a lot of the Big Train staring sketch.
