Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

23 Feb 2002, 10:23 a.m.

I evidently got the second-highest grade in the class on…

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2002 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 So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it!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.

I evidently got the second-highest grade in the class on the second Linguistics problem set. Go me! And Adam! Behind every good Linguistics problem set is an Adam.

The rhyme "reduce/deduce" came to me the other day in Logic, and it's worthy of Leonard.

Now that I've actually seen the huge flag referenced in "The Flag Burning Amendment Makes Me Want To Burn The Flag" I appreciate it more.

He said "I hold this truth to be self-evident
Anyone can see
It's not the Constitution, but the flag that makes us free
I see these commie pervert freaks and I just have to laugh
You say you want to burn the flag, well what reason could you have?"
What reason could you have?
What reason could you have?
What reason could you have?
I said what reason could you have?