Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Cell Heck
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2001 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
My parents made me get a cell phone. Now I'll be like half the people on the street, idiots who chatter away and forget that other people are around and completely obliterate the private/public distinction that makes life decent.
I met a cool Indian girl, found out that I can return one of the books for my Russian History class since I don't need it, and had three nonbad first classes of the semester.
I also updated my wishlist because my birthday's coming up and, if people are going to get me gifts, they may as well give me things I'll enjoy.
Originally published by Sumana Harihareswara at http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/27/2142/12076
The herd
Mon Aug 27th, 2001 at 07:13:33 PM PST
Today, on Sproul Plaza, at the University of California at Berkeley: "Republicans Register Here." Your call: so that they can form some sort of club, or just so we Berkeleyans can keep track of all of them?
And there's a newsreader on NPR named Laxmi Singh. She pronounces it "wrong," where "wrong" equals "Americanized" -- "Lacks-me," rather than the more properly Indian "Luck-shme."
Originally published by Sumana Harihareswara at http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/27/221333/415
