1. I believe I was referring to Marko Rodriguez’ attempt, documented here: http://markorodriguez.com/2011/02/18/mysql-vs-neo4j-on-a-lar... I love Marko to bits and he often publishes work of great insight; but I'm not sure what he was trying to demonstrate with this one.

2. I'm not going to try to get into Ben’s head — I'll let him answer that.

3. Downtown Seattle. I have no idea what emergency was going on but there sure was something :)