On the way home

On the BART
The tough-looking gangster-dressed guy in front of me was reading "A Guide for the Ghetto"

Chapter: "How to Hustle and Win"
A crucial, bolded point from the book: "You ain't worth sh*t if your word ain't worth sh*t"

At the bus stop
Two couples making out, both extremely passionately. Big lady dancing nearby starts meandering over and then whispers "they should go get a room"; Me: "no it's ok"

Man nearby the stop, who I found was named Edward Brown, told me a Greek myth, among other things, about a man (don't remember the name) who carried a lamp around during the day looking for just one other real person, and didn't find one. Said Berkeley felt the same way except for me, for listening

The effective dimensionality of human personalities must be high, since odd encounters are so frequent

Good parable and saying

An old Korean saying my roommate told me,

When you laugh, the world laughs with you. When you cry, you cry alone.

A good saying I read in a good book,

Once there was a scorpion who wanted to cross a stream. He asked the frog to take him across on his back. The frog said, "no. you will sting me and I will die." To which the scorpion replied, " if I sting you then I will drown. The frog saw the scorpion's reasoning and agreed to take him across.

Halfway across, the scorpion stung the frog, plunging his barb into the frog's back. With the frog's dying breath, he asked the scorpion, why? To which the scorpion relied, "it is my nature." Then the frog died and the scorpion soon drowned.