Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
21 Jan 2004, 13:20 p.m.
I thought it was "champagne"
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2004 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 So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it!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.
A roundup of censorship and other suppression of texts through the ages told me: "1954: Cole Porter's lyric 'Some get a kick from cocaine' is changed to 'Some get perfume from Spain' for radio airplay."
I first heard of this song from a Lois Lowry book. Young Sam sings the song at the top of his lungs around the house, and his parents ask each other, "What will the neighbors think?"
Full year
- Eldercare, Family Caretaking, and End-of-life Logistics: Stuff I Learned
- Set Contributor Expectations To Reduce Ghosting
- Category Structure and Oppression - Insight from Shweta Narayan
- Going From Proprietary To FLOSS Product Management
- In Retrospect, Surprised We Didn't Notice The Adjacent "Mostly Harmless" Joke Available
- Free Online Classes From FEMA
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- Reluctance To Process Contributions, and Tips from InnerSource
- A Few Thoughts From Elsewhere
- Welcome To The Mountain Goats
- "The Pathway To Inclusion" - Insight From Alex Bayley
- "The community spectrum: caring to combative" - Insight From Alex Bayley
- Six Key Maintainer Skill Guides
- What You Miss By Only Checking GitHub
- The Goes Wrong Show
Full year
- Getting My First COVID-19 Vaccine In New York City
- Upcoming Talks in March and April
- A Strange Vision Of The After Times
- MozFest 2021 Followup: How To Get A Project Unstuck
- Rick Steves, Underappreciated
- MozFest 2021 Followup: Apply for Grants To Fund Open Source Work
- Podguess -- A Little Guessing Game
- Missing DIY-ish-ness
- Bad Startup Idea
- A Spec For A Sandboxed Open Source Project Environment
- A Miscellaneous Reading List
- Not The First Time We Tried (FSF, GNU, RMS, etc.)
- Autocorrect Hilarity
- Paralipsis
- Painstakingly Reminding Myself How To Play
- A Few Books Influencing Mine
- If You Call Me A Thought Leader For This Post I Will Give You A Stern Look
- Discovery Versus Context
- Trying to Notice What's Missing
- Python Packaging Tools: Security Work And An Open Position
- Anniversary
- Thinking About Safety And Competing Access Needs
- Recent Books I've Read
Full year
- How Do You React To This News?
- Three Useful Tools
- Figuring Out Which Blogging Platform To Switch To
- Three Sessions at NASFiC This Weekend
- A Sunday Morning Bike Ride
- Imaginary Book Club, and How To Run It
- Very Brief Book Reviews
- Apply For Grants To Fund Open Source Work, and Career Thoughts
- Writing And Conversing Elsewhere
- Remedial Skills In Open-To-The-Public Working Groups
- On Accepting Nonzero Criticism, Even Hate
- Making Groups, Leading Them, Treating Others Well
- Breaking Release Bottlenecks -- What Changeset Can Do
- Cool Music Rec: Abundance
- I Miss You, Friends And Strangers
- Guitars And Rock Climbing, But As Analogies For Less Glamorous And Immediately Appealing Actitivies
- Some Followups From LibrePlanet 2017
- Availability This Week
- Changes Coming To Pip In October 2020
- Potomac Jokes
- Frances, Thanksgiving, And Potatoes
- Getting Autoconf Unstuck
- Ashwatthama (The Elephant)
- Reflecting on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- On Realizing There Was Still Some American Exceptionalism Lurking In My Brain
- Two Upcoming Sumana-Talks-At-You Events
- Graduating From The I-Didn't-Graduate Dream
Full year
- Prior Art
- A Few NYC Winter Hikes
- My Recent-ish Government Transparency Efforts
- Socratic Questioning, Devil's Advocacy, and Conversational Power Tools
- Some Movies Are For Not-Me
- Puns About Domain Names Are Kinda Par For The Course Around Here
- My Open Data Quest, Part ... 11?
- As The Saying Goes, I'm Part Of The Precipitate
- The Fascinating Life of Dalip Singh Saund
- Tropes, and Missing Stories, in Art about Programming
- Interesting University Press Ebooks via NYPL
- API Copyrightability Law Brings (Many of) Us Together
- GSoC/Outreachy Mentoring Orgs: Consider Giving Applicants English Tutoring
Full year
- A Reasonably Fast Way To Construct A Writing Portfolio
- Tidelift Is Paying Maintainers And, Potentially, Fixing the Economics of an Industry
- Miscellaneous Recommendations
- Credits and References for "Python Grab Bag: A Set of Short Plays"
- Recent Diversions
- NYC Comptroller Town Hall, And Reflections on Constraint
- The Concision-Nuance Tradeoff In One-To-Many Documents
- In Memoriam
- Miscellany
Full year
- Scifi Takes on Coen Brothers Movies
- A Small Language Note
- How to Teach And Include Volunteers who Write Poor Patches
- The Rumpelstiltskin Fallacy
- Changing How I Deal With Those Humiliating Teenage Memories
- Inclusive-Or: Hospitality in Bug Tracking
- Alternate Questions
- Penguicon, Orwell, ETAOINSHRDLU, and Being Important
Full year
- Snapshots of Yesterday
- Hacking on Mailman using Launchpad and Bazaar
- Signs And Language
- A Few Technical Talks I've Really Liked
- More Fanvids
- Political Fanvids
- Ruthanna Emrys, A Writer I Like
- My Mailman Adventure Continues
- Unlocking The Funhouse (Mirror)
- Catching Yourself
- Programmers Who Then Do Something Really Different
- "Trade Me" and Courtney Milan
- Four Reasons To Apply (Soon) To Run The Ada Initiative
- It's On My Mind
- On Fear vs. Anxiety, Self-Determination, the Command Line, and Interlocutors and DX
- More Things I've Made Recently
- My Gender (Spoiler: I'm Cis)
- Book Reviews With Idiosyncratically Selected Book Covers
- PyCon 2015
- Crooked Timber Guest Post on FLOSS Licenses and Codes of Conduct
- New Takes On My Published Writing
- La Con De Python
- Marconi Plays The Mamba, Listen To The Radio
- How Knowledge Workers Can Learn More About Open Source Tools They Use
- Technothriller Book Review Partially In The Form Of A Python Exercise
Full year
- My Talks
- You Can (Sometimes) Negotiate When Being Laid Off
- Workplace Silliness
- A Brief Foray Into Amateur Litcrit
- If You Log In To Wikipedia You Can Customize A Bunch Of Stuff
- Why Job Titles Matter To Me
- Exuberantly Metatextual Historical Comedy
- Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Spamusement!
- A Voice For The Voiceless
- The Art Of Writing In The Dark
- What Is To Be Done?
- I Was So Excited To Elect A Constitutional Law Professor
- Here Are Some Grants You Could Apply For
- Younger Sumana As Media Consumer
- Misc
- Five Books For: John
- Ways To Be
- A Debugging Afternoon
- Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source
- Resources For Starting Your Own Thing
- A Failure In Fluff Recommendation
- Case Study of a Good Internship
- On Insecurity
- Choosing to Leave, Stay, or Listen
- One Way Confidence Will Look
- Back Home
- Excerpt From Another Conversation
- I'm Leaving My Job At The Wikimedia Foundation
- The next Tor, role models, and criticism: the future I want
- Podcasts - Including Me
- On Troubleshooting
- The Ada Initiative, Fanvids I Love, and How I Restarted Ken Liu's Career
- Miscellaneous Links, Nothing To See Here
- On Status
- The Continuing Adventures (Transitioning From Intern To Volunteer)
- Five Things Make A Post
- Pretentious And/Or Portentous
- Travel Tips
- If I Did It
- Kronda Adair and Self-Determination
- Some Tips On Domain Names And Hosting
- How I made a tidepool: Implementing the Friendly Space Policy for Wikimedia Foundation technical events
- Recent Reading Responses
- Lee Iacocca and Malcolm X
- The Thing You Garden
- Hacker School Miscellanea
- Epithets for Basilisks
- A Few Intermediate Git Tips
- A Code Review Group
- Blog Posts Are A Way For Tabs To Make More Tabs
- My Next Few Months
- Some Fanvids I've Enjoyed Recently
- Join Me In Donating to Stumptown Syndicate and Open Source Bridge
- Why You Have To Fix Governance To Improve Hospitality
- Good And Bad Signs For Community Change, And Some Leadership Styles
- Textboxing Day
- *crackle*
- Yuletide Recommendations
- Various Thinky Or Funny Links
- Stumptown Syndicate Challenge Match Extended to Tomorrow
- Five Things Make a Post
Full year
- PEP 8 Compliance
- Emboss
- Comprehensions
- Top, Iterators and Generators, and Git, Emacs, and REPL Tips
- Missing From Wikipedia: Tool to Help Fight Systemic Bias
- Code4Lib, Open Data, Open Access, and Fighting Systemic Bias
- Accidental Quine
- A Little Design Thinking Can Go A Long Way
- How Comprehensive Are Your Unit Tests? Coverage.py Knows
- I Cannot Be The First Person To Quip About Quantified Self-Loathing
- The Last One You'd Ever Suspect
- Shiny
- Colons: A Retrospective
- Round Seven of OPW
- Fisher-Price's My First Twitter Bot
- Narrator
- Hacker School Gets an A on the Bechdel Test
- Giant Linkdump of Activism, Tech, And Silliness
- console.captain'slog
- JavaScript and How I Learn
- Why Julia Evans's Blog Is So Great
- Long Takes, Spit-Takes
- Darmok and Jalad at StackExchange
- Yuletide 2013 Recommendations
Full year
- When Am I Ever Going To Have To Use This?
- Is Our Sumanas Learning?
- The Offspring (Of Our Friends)
- Recruiting
- After-Action Report
- Sweet!
- Consulting
- QuahogCon 2010, & 2011?
- Thumbs Up, Sarah Glidden
- More Jokes About Culture And Food
- Apple Jacks
- Not About Socialism, Sadly
- The Return of MC Masala
- Notes Notes
- Careering
- Miscellaneous
- Wikimedia
- Yahoo! Labs Research Presentations, February 2011: Part I
- Scan-sational
- Oh No, I Feel A Startup Coming On (*Achoo!*)
- "Square Pegs"
- Writing, Delegating, Researching: Marketing GNOME 3
- Well, Actually
- New Edition Of/Nueva Edición de GNOME Journal
- Phone Call For You, The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
- A Slightly Disjointed (Due To A Five-Day Cold) Musing On Open Source, Fear, Motivation, And Witnessing
- Some Short Online Scifi Recommendations
- Another Recommendation
- GNOME User Day This Thursday, 31 March
- Ada Initiative Survey
- MediaWiki Accepting Google Summer of Code Applications
- Joel On Coal
- GNOME 3 Marketing: A Snapshot
- Weekend, Weekend
- Joel on Coal Postmortem
- Business Trip
- Capital Venture
- GNOME 3 Edition of GNOME Journal Published
- GNOME Contractor Status Update: Launch Week & Next Steps
- Geeky Standup Comedy, April 21st in Astoria (And Elsewhen)
- Geeky Standup Comedy as Value-Add
- Brooklyn Gamble
- Apropos
- My Standup Comedy This Week
- I'm Making A Note Here: Moderate Success
- Do You Have 90 Minutes To Help GNOME?
- GSoC, GSoC, Who's There?
- PICC
- Everybody's Doing It: Some Hackathon Tips
- Cooking
- You Can't Miss The Point When There's No Point To Be Missed
- A Little Better
- Sustain
- You
- Usually Five Things Make a Post, But Four Will Have To Suffice
- 24 Fames Per Second
- UN Convention On the Rights of the Mild
- Pretty Spoiler-Free, In My Opinion
- Sigh
- Community Of Practice
- Gentleman Scientist
- What Women Discuss
Full year
- Ramping Back Up To Work-Time
- Simple Pleasures
- Some Recent Collabora Open Source Development
- My Worst Inhibitions
- Nineteen Letters
- For Smiles' Sake
- Tales of the Unexpected
- Ask Your Doctor If Herring And Sweet Potato Pie Is Right For You
- Upcoming FOSDEM & UK Travel
- Like The Producers Even Care What I Think
- Turn Style
- Like A Focus Group, But Useful
- Working And Thinking Together
- Tacky, Metacity, Encryption, tp-qt4, and Maemo
- A Reminder
- Grace
- "Of The Other Insectoid Worlds, I Shall Say Nothing"
- Insta-RSS Feeds: A Case Study In Freedom
- Change of Plans
- Another Change
- Travel Plans
- Sometimes Things Get Turned Around And No One's Spared
- Lazyweb
- Happy Silly Day
- 23 Links
- A Song Lyrics Post More At Home In LiveJournal Syndication Than On My Own Site
- Life Update That Might Very Well Do Better As A Bulleted List
- Milestone
- Making The Hard Look Easy, Feminism, and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
- Bleg
- Sewing, Debian Packaging, DIY Electronics, And My Love Of Old Systems
- Some Books
- Assortment
- Sweatshop-Free Linux Laptop Search, Part II
- ZaReason Response
- Dream Time
- Some Fanvids I Like
- Cautiously Opening That Door
- Fanfic Recommendations
- Huzzah
- QuahogCon and Open Source Bridge
- Web
- In Which I Offer To Do Research For You
- Predictions Come True
- In My Dreams, I Know Everyone
- Careful What You Wish For
- On Dreamwidth
- Cheering Things
- Less-Beaten-Path New York City Tourist Suggestions, With A Side of Whoo
- Gussied-Up Link Blogging
- Multipass!
- Angie Martin
- My First Seder
- I'm Looking Forward to Open Source Bridge & WisCon
- GNOME Video Site, Mysterious Bugzilla Upgrade Patron, Mallard, Acire/Quickly, An Interview & A Goodbye
- Omnibus
- Yahoo! Labs Research Presentations, February 2010
- Hours Of The Wolf
- Galen The Annoyinger
- My Lawn And The Children Upon It
- Ever Since You've Been Around
- A Few Tech-ish-Related Observations
- Out the Door
- Thoughtcrime Experiments, One Year Later
- Importing iCal .ics Files to N900 Calendar (Maemo 5)
- The Fortress of LOLitude
- A Little Seltzer Down Your Throat
- Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully GNOME
- GNOME Marketing Hackfest (Zaragoza, Spain), Day One
- GNOME Marketing Hackfest 2010, Day Two
- GNOME & Conference Planning & Writing
- Zaragoza GNOME Marketing Hackfest, Day 3
- Je Suis La Tour Eiffel
- Catabacklog
- "Earl Grey" Rhymes With "Morgaine le Fay"
- Snort, Chuckle
- *clap clap*
- Bricks
- Arrived at WisCon
- "Wis-KHAAAAAAAN!"
- From WisCon to Open Source Bridge
- On The Mic
- GNOME Journal: PHP-GTK, Shotwell, Nokia, & More
- Roll For Ballot Initiative
- Constant Off-By-One Errors (i.e., "One More Thing")
- The Dangers of Metadata
- (I Say, While Reading About Zombies)
- To A Glass, Brightly
- Announcement
- RIP S.K. Harihareswara
- From My Father's Library
- Two Business Ideas
- Method Of Loci
- Important Distinctions In Kannada
- My & My Sister's Eulogies For Our Father
- Blandishments
- This Time For Sure
- Getting Personal
- The Great American Songbook
- Blogging, Historical & Logistical Notes
- Some Preliminary Thoughts On My Adoration Of The Week
- From "I Have A Tambourine" to "LOL Warmongers" (Really Just Listen To The Talk)
- An Ecstatic Patron of Recurrent Light
- A New Brother-In-Law(-To-Be), and A New Joy
- Home
- Fortune
- No Good Reason
- Sorry, Yet Not, For The Length
- Science Fiction That Argues Back
- Two Tips On Convincing Managers & Executives To Invest In Your Technology Projects
- How To Get And Deal With A Lawyer
- Melbourne, 30 August-14 September
- Arriving A Few Days Before AussieCon
- "Going once / Going twice / Won't these gentlemen suffice?"
- Open-Face
- When Did My Mom's Hair Turn More White Than Black?
- Private Lives
- Draw A Tasteful Curtain
- The Hyperlinks I Forged In Life
- Mirabai, Plover, and Common Spaces
- I Don't Actually Feel As Alienated And Adrift As This Ends Up Sounding
- Cooking: Succotash
- Doula-y Noted
- Outlier
- Away
- Morning Update
- When Fluff Fails
- After A Rainy Night
- To Build A WiFire
- On Repeat
- I Nom, Yet I'm Aware Of The Ironic Ramifications Of My Nomming
- Request Repeat & Reamplification
- Dining Philosophical Traveling Saleswoman
- Campus Communities And Looking Back
- The "Cordial" Part Of "You Are Cordially Invited"
- Eldritch Arithmetic
- Four Short Story Recommendations
- Mom Tells Me There's Also A Taco Bell in Bangalore!
- Frontier
- Interior Drama
- Winning Every Staring Contest
- More Pop Culture, Less Family Angst In This One
- Mysore Railway Museum
- Strings
- Speculative Filk & Short Fiction
- Backscatter, Backlash, Blowback
- Longbows & Longboxes
- Charity
- Arbitron Says They Didn't Mind
- Showing All The Light We Give / And Showing Where The Light Extends
- Quotes
- FOSS.in
- Belated Blog Anniversary
- Liminal State
- Returned
- In Which I Take A Sharp Left Turn In The Last Paragraph, Just Like The BSG Finale
- A Turn From The Personal To The Professional
- Merry Christmas! Now, Fudge & Red Wine
- Theater And Music
- A 2011 Travel Wishlist
Full year
- Experimental Beverage Disposal
- Poem: "BART Spokesman Linton Johnson"
- A Fuss
- Crunched
- Lego Learning
- Late Adopter Treat
- Dropping In On Columbia Classes
- Citation Needed?
- Going to WisCon
- Sudden Travel News
- BART-Approved
- Dara, Your Style/Substance Thoughts?
- Settling In
- London-bound
- Startled
- Relief
- 'Well, I'm back,' she said
- Fine Line
- Links
- A Quiz! And, Thoughts on Ads for Nonsensical Products
- Ada Lovelace Day, Belatedly
- A Book Review About Leadership
- Fanac
- Serious
- Cost-Benefit Analysis For Projects: Caution!
- The Long View
- New Awesome Work
- If You Read This To The End You Get To See Inside My Marriage
- Me In Other Media
- Happiness
- Sagacity
- Five Books (With A Little Cheating)
- A Tiny Anthology
- "Also airport bathrooms."
- The Latter Link Includes Dick Van Dyke Non-Pun Joke
- This Retrospective, In Retrospect, Has A Theme
- Bluths as Bartlett's
- On Realizing That I Am A Veritable Switchboard Of Buttons To Be Pressed
- Words And Constraints
- Nearly-Modern Superstitions
- Well, this anxiety is a familiar bouquet.…
- Joke, Joke
- Ramping Up
- Learning
- Two Thoughts on the Role of Scrum Master
- Out-Of-Context Quotes Of The Moment
- Translation Of A Truth
- Hiro-ics Don't Scale, They Say
- Thoughtcrime Experiments Anthology Is Up
- Fan Dances And Leafblowers
- Our Woodstock
- Bad Fanfic Everywhere
- DSM-V Candidate
- Adjusting
- Fisher-Price's My First Keysigning
- Star Trek, Dilbert, Drunk History, And Self-Help Mysticism In One Inconvenient Package
- He Meant To Post To Causal Encounters
- WisCon Schedule
- Learning To Recognize That Reaction; Or, Affect
- Inconvenience
- Slapdash Thoughts On Real Estate
- Oh That Sheldon!
- Recent Quotes
- Madison, Whee
- WisCon, Properly Day One
- Sold Out
- Leeching And Seeding
- Quote of the Day
- The Chart Goes Up And To The Right
- Placeholder*
- One Of My WisesCon
- Prepping Myself
- A Peek
- "But It Might Work For Us"
- A QuickTip From America's Test Extrovert
- Opportunity Cost Plus World Market
- Your Essentializing Obsessions
- Dude, Where's My G'Kar?
- Wearing Out HREF
- Failure And Imagination
- Post-POST
- Possibly Another Post-WisCon Reentry Letdown Post
- On Reciprocity: One To Many To One
- Hajj
- On Desire And Vulnerability, Like Everything Else I Write These Days
- Rhythm Methods
- Should I Go to Think GalactiCon?
- Let's Hear It For (Labors Of) Love
- Chivvying Myself
- I'm On Dreamwidth
- Various Links
- Horrifying Book Title
- In Which I Request Things Of You
- Simplification
- "It Is Our Choices, Harry, That Show..."
- Who Needs Reddit
- Eye-Scalding Green For A Good Cause
- On Dentistry
- Readers' Choice
- I'd Let You Watch, I Would Invite You
- Like Twitter, But All In One Handy Package
- Clothes Make The Man Feel Old
- The Cool Old Rhetorical Technique That's Sweeping The Discourse
- 9AM And We Have A Quote Of The Day
- "...if I could make it stay..."
- LiveJournal People, I'm Ten Years Late To Your Party
- Distractions & Discoveries
- More Anthology Notes
- Nuts On My Pocky Like Grains Of Sand
- Four Cool Stories
- Travel Schedule
- Getting (Irrelevant) Things Done
- Poker Tells & Sideshows
- Gran Canaria Talks by Collaborans
- Cool Facts
- Small Mysteries
- While Listening To Kraftwerk
- My Life Is Complete
- Happy Birthday, Leonard
- "Shade" Is A Creepy Piece Of Interactive Fiction
- My Standby Joke
- Fun Short Scifi
- The Home Office
- Obvious Tech Talk Q&A Prep
- More Notes From The Office
- Found Poetry
- Boston Weekend
- A New Low
- Did She Ever Return? Yes, She Ever Returned
- E-mail Provider
- Those Annoying Isms Keep Isming
- Jokes And The Unconscience
- The Other James Bond
- Silliness
- First
- *collapse in a heap*
- Not Too Much Food After All
- Three Great Marketing Moves
- Travel
- Arrived
- Wintour Guide
- Momentum Is A Kind Of Stability
- Still Alive
- Blinglish
- In-Flight Edutainment
- We Already Know The Title Of His Management Tips Book
- Adventure!
- Random TMBG Appreciation
- Intertainment
- Buy In Bulk And Save
- Rubbernecking
- Useful Links
- "Not Ordinarily Borrowable: Or, Unwelcome Advice" by Thomas Thurman
- Half-Sentence Reviews
- "The Life Of The World To Come"
- An Oversimplified Cliffs Notes To Telepathy
- Travel Plans For The Next Week
- Presence & Status
- Le Line Du Punch
- Postmortem
- My Go-To New York Tourist Attractions
- Happy Deepavali
- Collabora Open Source Development Overview, 4-20 October 2009
- Foremost
- Seemlier Sumana
- More brainwanage
- Spare Ticket to Vienna Teng Tonight
- Der Lulzening (or, LOL)
- Repurposed Email
- A Mess of Geekiness Thoughts
- And A Round Of Applause For Yourself For Coming Out And Supporting Live Theater
- Charitable Giving Suggestions
- To Consume
- Everything I Knew (About Battery Care) Was Wrong
- Some Follow-Ups
- Balk-eye Bartockomouse Here?
- Refracted Light
- An Adventure Fifty-Five Months In The Making
Full year
- What Do These Have In Common?
- Yay For Our Common Heritage
- RIP, Bob Watts
- Gems
- Ramayaddayaddayadda
- The Hills Have Slopes
- Back In NYC
- Classes Start Today
- Econ Blogs For The Win
- Just In Time Idiot?
- Punchline That Goes With Two [Admittedly Related] Jokes
- Hoodies Are Enough to Justify ASBOs, Right?
- Condolences
- Clutter-prevention And Decluttering Tips
- New Job
- Christmas Visit
- Idiosyncratic Feminist Book Recommendations
- Sending Creates The Recipient?
- Here We Go
- Rituals & Security
- Legal & Investment Advice
- Technologists Needed, Tech Priorities, And Tech Triumphs
- Question
- Kale, You Have Betrayed Me!
- From Work Today
- But Wait, There's More
- After
- Why Skimming Is Lossy
- Tax History Saved For A Future Post
- Superiority Dance
- Lessons Of The Past Few Weeks
- Soycake
- Easy Listening
- Bloggers Who Give Me A Glimpse of Another World
- Did You Ever Doubt I Was That Demographic?
- Ribbit
- Designed For Me
- Musings
- Sportswomanship
- Litmus Quest
- Elegance
- Done(ish)
- Tips, Modesty, and The Magic Word (Julie Andrews)
- RIP, Mildred Loving
- Montreal
- The Last Mile
- Done?
- No Way!
- Finished With Commencement
- New Word
- Media Experience Revue
- Disoriented
- Bookishness
- I Laugh At Caffeine
- Science-y Storytelling Tomorrow Night
- Work Quip
- Quick Reviews
- Weird Things
- Aside
- I Am Never Going To Meet My Lawyer
- Brick To The Back Of The Head
- In Which I Am Suddenly Michael Lopp
- Summy-Come-Lately Nitpicks B5
- Semifinal Thoughts
- Zurek Tip
- Goodbye, Cody's
- The Invalid Coughs Piteously
- Between Achoo And A Missed Deadline
- Friday Night Blights
- HPPY TDA
- Spoiler! I'm Numb And Sad
- Existence and Uniqueness (with apologies to Seth)
- Noooo
- Log
- A Salt And Buttery
- Pi Con
- Screenpay to Screenplay
- *Toot*
- Make The Eagle Bigger
- Commemorating The Memorable
- Diary of Happy Summer Weekends
- The Scene
- Pretty Things To Click On
- Constructive Criticism or Dickishness? Yes!
- Time To Reread Aronson
- He's My Friend, And Some Crackers And Cups
- Sarah Haskins
- Slice-N-Dice
- Noooo
- Republican Women
- Nandini, This Trailer Isn't On Apple's Site Yet
- Whither
- Election Day
- How They Did "How He Did It"
- On Getting People Mad And Winning Anyway
- Kickoff, With Elaboration Later
- Voices In The News [The Non-NPR Weekend Edition Version]
- Subconscious Homophone
- Rachel Chalmers, Will This Make You Laugh As It Made Me?
- Coast Shift
- Wish Me Luck
- Yay For HOWTOs
- Some images, tweets, and documentation from Seattle MindCamp 2008
- Thanks to Riana, Brendan and Kara for putting me up…
- Hope and Sadness
- World AIDS Day
- Mysore
- Passed Through Customs
- On Family, Career, and Skill
- Heisting It Forward
- That's The Story I Heard
- You may be aware that Indians, like so many others,…
- Logistics Query
- Happy Holidays from My Favorite Cause
- How I hesitated / Now I wonder why
- Gig-Hunting & Travel
- Cynical Aha
- On Reporting
- On Shyness And Parties
- Movies, TV, Music, And More! Well, Actually, That's It
- Merry Christmas
- Yay Bay
- After "Sleeping in Light"
- Ludemes
- Square One TV Paean
- Filters
- New Year's Inspiration
Full year
- Night Of Sociability
- Hal's Torments
- Discovery
- Ill
- Horrifying Realizations
- MC Masala on Melancholy/New Year's
- Discoveries
- Slap in the Face
- MC Masala on Sorkin, Fannishness, and Salad
- Viscount Walbrook
- Bad Relationship
- Busy Begins...Now
- Not-So-Durable Goods
- Lyrics To House Fan Song
- Awesome Things Include
- MC Masala on Family, Sleep, and Trust
- New Interactive Fiction
- Ack
- Why Booze Is Safer Than Heroin But More Dangerous Than MDMA
- MC Masala on Fallibility and Bug Tracking
- Law & Tech
- Historiography
- Come On, People
- To Optimize Response Speed On MySQL, Follow These Instructions
- Mac-o! Mac-o!
- London Mid-March
- Newest MC Masala Column
- Misc
- Better
- Minimalism
- Weight And Delay
- Approved
- From An Insane Tech Support Call Today
- Sssssssss
- Holidays
- That's It
- An Exercise
- Phillip Robertson
- Day Of Activities
- Concentration
- Did You Mean
- Ugly Bags of Mostly Water
- MC Masala on Blinders
- Fixin' to Go
- We're Home!
- Quick Travelogue
- The Annoying-Industrial Complex
- Hundreds Of Hours After School In The Comp Lab
- MC Masala Columns on Flesh
- Notes From Overachievers
- Tendencies, Or, The Lives Of Others
- "World Phenomena Worry Me"
- What Kind Of Animal?
- Calling Alice, Claudia, Nandini...
- MC Masala on Vice & Tolerance
- Cursing At The Screen
- "Deferred Success" = "Failed"
- Earworm Alert
- First "Oregon Trail," Now This
- "Leonard's Still Asleep" Digest
- By The Time I Come Back I Expect Jetpacks
- QOTD
- The Horror! (x2)
- Reminder
- Conflation -> Comedy
- The Three Skills of Adulthood
- Ironically, I Spent Longer Writing This Than I Meant To
- Also, Bikram Seth's Ultra-Steamy "A Suitable Boy"
- Anatomy And Andragogy
- Nameforesaken
- Discovery
- And How Did That Work Out?
- Approval
- Movie Friends
- MC Masala on Spring and Continuous Partial Attention
- Even My High School Chemistry Teacher Liked "Frasier"
- "Stephen watched the samosa being smothered."
- Seen
- Static
- Excerpt's Incredibly Nostalgia-Inducing, Too
- Representative Excerpts
- Next Up: A. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Deck
- Pondering : Building :: Talkering : Growing
- Whew
- MC Masala(s) on O'Neill, Past, and Atrocity
- This Is Ridiculous
- Riddle Me This
- Virginia Tech
- Search Requests
- Networking Layers
- Between Transparency And The Paywall
- Futurama Lives
- Straw Men
- Want a Danish? I can see by the look on your face that you've got ringworm.
- Pizza Tip
- Firefox 2.0.x Memory "Leak" Fix
- Tales Of The SDS
- Horcrucio!
- QOTD
- Trepidation And Excitement
- "Jet, Codenamed 'More Perfect Than God'"
- I Said, Good Day
- Unused Premises
- Am I The Only One?
- Now I Have A Mas
- NYC Webcomics Meetup Tomorrow
- Free Comic Book Day
- "We Get To Sell Stuff, But You Can't"
- Tiny Updates
- The Difference
- Eurovision
- Free Mother's Day Copilot, and IE7/Vista Ponderings
- Indifferently Mixed Together
- Please Turn To The Next Book When You Hear This Chime
- The Social Net and Working
- Heard But Not Seen
- Talkin' 'bout Slang or Canon?
- Habit Of The Day
- Rollr Coastr
- Fear Of Fans
- Creating Value & Expressing It
- Batman's New Sidekick, MC Masala
- Tip For Keeping Resume To One Page
- Update Re: Resumes
- Oh No They Coopted My Indie Band Part MCMXLVIII
- MC Masala, and Le Weekend
- The Annals of Point-Missing
- Confluence of Fun
- MC Masala on Spam, and Lunch Conversation
- MC Masala, Weekend, And A Mess of Miscellany
- Notes On Attention And Shyness
- Old News Is Bad News Too
- John Gruber Talk on Mac UI Design
- Up Late Writing Dox
- Making Us Feel Old
- The Lensman, Focusing Elsewhere
- Just Look Away
- Off to MoCCA
- Today's Firsts
- Insider Faceball
- Disclaimer
- Catenary
- Ogden Nash = Hen Gonads
- New MC Masala Column & Profanity, Privilege, Preacher
- Recommendation
- Announcement (Bookend)
- Re: Microsoft Research
- Holding Out For Sub-Sub-Zero
- Elated
- Misc
- Last MC Masala Column Next Week
- In DC
- MC Masala Extravaganza -- Columns You Missed
- Notes To People I Saw Recently
- Obsession
- Last MC Masala
- Switches & Junctions
- Making Us Feel Old, Part II
- Comedy This Midmorning/Early Afternoon
- Miscellaneous
- First Day
- Reviews
- Tentative Podcast
- No Mention of Ag, Management, or "Catch Fish For Profit"
- "How can I provide for this right thing to be always done?"
- Balancing (It's All An Act)
- Froggy Went A-Suing
- Also, Music Videos
- Gifts For Friends
- Your Passion, Their Power
- To Write: Business Lessons From The Mahabharata
- Sumana <strike>Performs This Sunday</strike> Twiddles Her Thumb
- Performing *My* Life
- Details
- Notes From Classes
- Upcoming Media Experiences
- Copout Time!
- Reasons To Mistrust Government(s)
- Plans
- Investment In Education
- Vintage MoCCA Report
- I'm Disappointed In...
- Seen
- Warning! Volleyball.
- Better Things Are On Their Way
- Attempts
- Index Cards
- Clarity in Pricing Is Respectful, Not Sordid
- No Surprise
- Day Of The Lurkers
- They're Everywhere
- Logic Puzzle
- No Ex Post Facto Law Or Bill Of Attainder
- Colbert Sighting
- Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, and Copyrights
- Had Me, Lost Me
- SFLC Summit Retrospective, & Bob Loblaw
- Grab Barg
- Ask The Hardest Polite Question You Can
- Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Making Out
- Boston Visit and Greyhound Game Theory
- Just Read And Recommended
- Reasoned Discussion? On The Internet?!
- Medium-Term Plans
- Software For You
- What Slash Taught Me About "Stephen Colbert"
- Recent Math/Science Triumphs Include
- Cornucopia
- Wow
- The Other Shoe Drops
- Health And Art
- Returned
- Great For Those Icebreaker Games
- No Way That's Ruby On Rails
- My Upcoming Bollywood Masterpiece, "Dil Pyaar Kya He," Will Not Suffer From Such Flaws
- "Firefly" Jokes
- Don't Forget Umbrellas From The Boo.com Accessory Wall
- More Taboo Wizardry
- Wishlist
- Upcoming Heather Gold Show
- Sociability
- Question Time
- Instant Comedy
- Probably Pictures of Me In There
- To Reread At Least Once A Year
- In Which Sumana Suggests That Jumping Off A Cliff Might Prove Beneficial
- Coincidence
- Evidently
- Collection of SkyMall (TravelMall) Humor
- Things You Think Are Funny When You're Stressed
- Odd One Out
- Presents For You
- Powerpoint Karaoke: Best Practices
- Winding Up, Winding Down
- Don We Now Our Gay Agenda
- A Three-Hour Terror
- DONE
- Goodwill
- Happy Hols
- OMG Squee
- Back
- Visiting Bay Area Jan. 8th-15th
- (Kazoo Sound)
Full year
- Winds of Change
- MC Masala Mixes It Up
- Self-Defense
- Gotta Stand Up To Start Moving Forward?
- Good Idea, Bad Idea
- From Email To Editors
- Comedy Carroll
- Quote Of The Year 2005
- What Makes Me Cry
- Last Day of Work
- Career Advice From Scott Rosenberg
- More Last Day Magic
- A Long Goodbye
- Goodbyes: a Retrospective
- Distributed Moving
- Read My Craigslist Post And Take My Stuff
- The First Half Of Goohoo
- MC Masala
- From Goodbye Conversations
- Goodbye, Will Franken
- Tiny Nostalgia Victory
- Split
- Last Night in California
- The Final Countdown
- Tougher Than I'd Thought
- "The opposite of QED"
- Made It
- MC Masala, Only Slightly Behind The Times
- Blogging For Choice Month
- The Golden Ticket
- Moved!
- Availability
- Confusion While Unpacking
- Readings
- Welcome Back!
- Fog Creek Stuff
- Sort-of-Paid Advertisement
- Request For Recommendations
- Two Weeks' Worth of Columnity
- Too Geeky To Put In MC Masala
- Is It True?
- Reminder
- Running Cliches Through The Cuisinart
- Calling the Waaaaahmbulance
- Sketch Mayhem
- MC Masala On Food, Again
- Credit Card Tips
- Error Messages From The Bard
- A Stroke, Claude, and Dinner
- Jellyfish - Wait, "Sea Jelly"
- The Legacy of Mr. Rogers
- Dale Carnegie and the Friendly People
- Misc
- Valentine's Day
- Puzzling & Disturbing
- Heard Today on the 8th Floor of a Building
- "Robin" Was Supposed To Be Androgynous
- Miscellany
- Should I Call Him Gordon Or RLP?
- Although I Do Like the Clones:Headphones Rhyme
- Someday Green Day Will Be On An Oldies Station
- Self-Deprecated Markup
- "I hate all new Yahoos"
- How To Avoid The Cycle Of Customer Support Viciousness
- Old Love
- Subway
- Various Articles For Your Perusal
- Miscellany From The Last 36 Hours
- "We have not done the needful"
- Time Capsule
- Snow's Stopped
- Krepichy On A Mac
- Fulfilling Weekend Socialization
- Evidently Everyone But Me Reads Overcompensating
- Of Course
- Bodies And Motion
- Park Slop
- MC Masala on Alcohol
- Online Voice
- More Profound Jon Stewart Advice
- "Spaced"
- Links While Procrastinating Writing Important Deadline Things
- Quote of the Day
- What Do You Call Someone Who Knows No Languages At All?
- Sad Insight
- Certainty And Judgments
- QOTD
- Erudition
- Business Names
- Nerdvana
- In Which I Ponder Joe's Amazement That I Watch Substantial TV
- A New Theodicy
- Applying to Grad School
- Have A Laugh With UPCs
- Insults
- God Gave You Eyes, Plagiarize
- Output of Conversations Yesterday And Today
- Frickin' Caitlin Flanagan
- A Punker John Gilmore
- Taste Of The Arts
- Cory Maye
- From The Women Of New York
- "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
- When Framing Devices Go Amok
- Does Anyone (Who Writes This Blog) Have Anything Worth Saying Anymore?
- MC Masala Slams The Ramayana
- In The Application Of My Seat To A Chair
- Dr. Warren's Logic Class Shows Up Again
- For Brendan's Eyes Nonexclusively
- Yet Another Reason
- MC Masala Shares Subway Anecdotes
- Trying To Explain
- West Wing Redux
- Music
- Advice to Colleagues of Indians
- Why Do I Want To Type His Name "Ynggve"?
- Still Seems Weird To "Build" A "Gem"
- Irregular Verb Conjugation
- Dead Mice Eat No Peanut Butter
- No One Has a Calling Anymore, Just A Core Competence
- "Charade"
- Brian K. Vaughn & Bernie Hou
- MC Masala on Paying Attention To Tiny Numbers
- Leonard Make It New, the man said, and I took it…
- I'm Testing the Upgrade
- LiveJournal Userpic Epicenter
- To Love And To Cherish
- The Proto-Schemer
- Nonobvious Stuff I May Do Now That I'm Married to Leonard
- Completely Unrelated Items Entry
- Loving Infringement
- Pocket Protector = Attention
- Kaavya Viswanathan
- Entertainment Miscellany
- Resolved
- Turtle Power
- And Other Austin Powers Uses
- Anthologies, Anthropologies
- Have A Sandwich
- Love Not Played Out
- Doug Rushkoff & Amar Chitra Katha
- Observations
- Back
- Enjoying A Fine Chabon
- Rest in peace, Frances.…
- "The World Should Stop"
- Advice
- Freaking Mouse
- Viewer Discretion & Tissues Advised
- Live, In These United States!
- Steve Carrell, An Inspiration
- Frances's Obituary
- Transliteracy
- Sad Bookstore News
- "I hate the UN <i>so much</i>!"
- Joke
- Fame
- Dumb Spying Gives Us Neither Security Nor Liberty
- More Screencasting Screenhogging
- Three Equals Three Except After E
- Things I Like About Myself
- Just What I Needed
- MC Masala, and Something Laughworthy
- An Archaeopteryx And A Pig
- Amusing, Amusing, AAAAAGH
- The Customer Is Always The Customer
- MC Masala on "House, M.D."
- Incredibly Valuable Reads
- You Never Expect Burlesque
- "That does not seem like a good 'why.'"
- Hot Queens Nights
- More Data in the Jerkitude Debate
- The Thick Of It
- MC Masala on Waiting for Marriage
- Someone Should Start This Business
- Leonard Quote
- MC Masala on The End of Cody's on Telegraph
- Snapshot
- In Which A Twilight Zone Episode Is Emulated
- That's Edutainment
- Bollywood Samples
- Art Today
- More Art
- MC Masala on Being From Elsewhere
- Sunday Politics/Church Lecture
- Old Religion, New Tradition
- Love, Marriage, and Google PageRank
- "the flautists and piccoleers become angry"
- Very Imogen-Heap-Hide-&-Seek Vibe
- Realization
- Lessons Of The Month
- A Night In June
- "more than just pity and politics"
- MC Masala on Gaming For Experience Points
- Relief
- Go Robin Einhorn!
- Carthago Delenda Est, Charlie Brown!
- It Could Be Worse
- Rewarding
- Bah/Argh
- MC Masala on Magical Thinking and Superstition
- Tunnel
- Hey Catholics
- Stories and Wages
- Leftovers
- Sumana Dismisses Dilettantes, Including Herself, in MC Masala
- Independence From Work
- "I am ICANN!"
- Barack Obama's Prayer
- More Kicks From the Baby Name Wizard Voyager
- World Cup Of Hemlock
- MC Masala on Regret And Nostalgia
- Yes, I Always End Up Quoting The Communist Manifesto
- Annals of Brilliance
- Precarious Culture
- Where Daniel Davies Went
- Faith in the Memory of the Unseen
- Caution
- And Hanging On The Car Door Handle Was...A NetNanny!
- The Cangelosi Cards
- You Forgot Poland: The Musical
- Transit
- An Other Roundup
- Towards Less Sucky Management And Standup Comedy
- A Pop Culture Summary of 2006
- Need Some Wood?
- Solemn Column
- Downtime Update
- As Cute As Chandler
- 1995
- Ruby Cookbook is Out!
- Daring To Eat A Peach
- Activism Activity
- Parties
- Disturbing Comp Sci Porn Title
- MC Masala Column on Work Tips For Life
- Surprise
- Marissa Mayer & I Both Use Pine
- Some FogBlogs
- Comic Sense...Tingling!
- It's All The Greek Ideal To Me
- I Still Miss You, Will Franken
- Water Cooler
- In The Application Of My Seat To A Yoga Mat
- Reality Check
- Means of Production
- Miscellaneous
- Two, Two, Two Columns In One Post
- Managing Chance, Managing Change
- Disturbing Slash Pairing
- MC Masala on Tests of Americanness
- MC Masala on Scars & Marriage
- Dragging Everyone I Know To See
- How To Make Me Steamed
- Sort-of-manipulative Tricks
- Solids & Powders Replace Liquids
- MC Masala on A Day Out
- Steve Yegge & "Clothes For the Soul"
- Transitive Friendship Failure
- Adapt To Win
- LOLOL
- OneWebDay is September 22
- I Thought I'd Never Need My TI-85 Again
- Continuing Education
- Fame
- Time!
- Glom
- Work Experience
- The Ride
- Sensitive
- Don't Resign Yourself To Blair's Resignation Just Yet
- MC Masala on Surprise
- Study Notes
- Accounting Lessons
- Leonardisms
- Business Ideas
- Column on Fakery
- House, S.D. (Senior Developer)
- YouTube Links
- Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
- Change
- Temple Management
- Blood
- OneWebDay
- Daisey & Franken & The Kids
- Three Makes A Trend
- More Accounting Wackiness
- The Science of Sleep
- Rachel.com
- Why?
- Jonathan Coulton
- Triumphs
- Another Rejected Business Idea
- Difficulty
- Perspective
- Vacation
- Textbook Example
- More RFID Musings
- You Know You're In A Business Class If
- Whooo, Sorkin
- RSS Aggregation
- Seen Today
- Missing Frances
- Productivity Subverted
- Julia Sweeney Coming Back
- Whistleblowers Of Our Time
- Milquetoast Mainframe Japery
- "How do you remember a truth that will cause clinical depression?"
- A Public Service Announcement
- Tip
- Non-Mohammed-Related Cartoons
- MC Masala on Practice and Skill
- Wanted
- Testin'
- MC Masala Roundup
- Rebellion
- Quote of the Day
- Awesomeness v. Drags
- Quizzified
- The Intriguing Darcy Burner
- MC Masala on Diabetes
- Greenback-Colored Glasses
- Sucker For Covers
- Decision Theories
- Best Juror Ever
- Preparation
- Geek Visit
- Autumn
- Quote of the Day
- MC Masala on Election Experiences
- In Response To Reddit Speculation
- On Voting, From The Joel On Software Forum
- Quote Of The Day
- Rockin' Montage
- An Election Night Thought
- Media Artifacts
- The Hoodie And The Hijab
- Bookworm & Sandworm
- Quote Of The Day
- I Haven't Read Any Scott McCloud Yet
- MC Masala on Sketch And Standup
- Fictional Wikipedia Categories
- Flippant Snippets
- Making Me Feel Better About My Personal Safety Weaknesses
- Media Consumption
- Selected Cat And Girl
- Yay Thanksgiving
- How To Get Off Mailing Lists
- Charity Navigator
- Music
- Conflations
- MC Masala on Trust & Dating
- TiVo = 48-Pack of Strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups
- Tech Concerns Great And Small
- The Incoming Democrats' Promise
- Work On The Democracy Player in Worcester, MA
- A Sense Of History
- MC Masala on Comics
- Epistemology, Utilitarianism
- Cylonmania
- Classes Update
- Nerdy Party Game
- Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms: Pick Two
- Buttons Being Pressed, Sleeves Being Ravelled
- Cheery
- Applying Capsaicin Topic
- Inspiration
- Two MC Masala Columns
- Misc
- Consumption & Responsibility
- Swingline, Sweet Stapler
- Overdose
- MC Masala on Sister-Sister Talk
- Jonathan Coulton Song Reminds Me Of Leonard Blog Entries
- I Am Not A Janus
- Phrases With The Same Rhythm As "Blister In The Sun"
- Toot!
Full year
- Robot Dreams
- Salon Shirts
- "Cooking, Juggling, and Getting Hurt"
- Recommended Artist
- Ace of Base, Eat Your Heart Out
- Phew And Yay
- Conversation
- Cleaning Service RFC
- The Flesh Is Weak
- Tons Of Cocaine
- Don't Wish For A World Without Zinc
- So What If It's In Kenya
- Science!
- My Folksonomic Tag For 43 Things: Deceivers
- Salad Days
- Recommendation
- The World Renowned New York City Public Library
- You Can't Fire Me, I'm Water
- I Relish The Experience
- CJ Cregg Is Nicer
- Call Me Frederick W. Taylor
- Presences And Absences In The Sundries Store Downstairs
- Not Just Simple Interest
- Thousands Of Things!
- Great Deals On Indulgences
- More On Usury, & Eric And Dylan As Shylocks
- Movies
- Don't Get Me Started On The SFO Post Office That's Open 18 Hours A Day Including Sundays
- The Cloth Pouch Is Really Nice, Possibly The Femininest Thing I Own
- Best Email Opening Ever
- More Theology Comedy
- Nerdcore Hop
- "Sumana" Hasn't Yet Cracked The US Top Thousand
- Or Possibly Joke-hovah
- Question Marks
- Who Would Need To Say "AOL" To Describe E-Mail?
- A Round Of Music
- People Cleaving To Each Other
- The Summer Founders And The Sunshine Patriots
- Declaring The Pennies On And The Planks In My Eyes
- Wheee
- Fame, I Want To Live Forever
- And Of Course "Arrested Development" Blew My Mind
- Reverse Foodies
- gH
- Frist Post
- Fannishness
- We All Fall Down
- No
- Take Care
- Happy Purim!
- I New York Kind, I Delaware
- Cole Porter, Genius
- D-D-D-Doctor House in the House!
- Fun-To-Say Word Of The Moment
- Litigious Fairy-Tale Queens
- Also, I Put The Caller On Hold And Then Cursed Them
- And All The Faces Are Female!
- Farewell
- Core Competency
- Crate-Building Nuthatch
- Fetch!
- Kneel-Down Comic
- Salon Music Epiphany
- Why Not?
- Non-Crazy Libertarians?!
- Yeah
- Before Copernicus
- Blogger Turns Mainstream Media
- He Is Quite Pleasant
- That Never Fails
- I'm Not Dead(line) Yet
- The Title Is Much Dirtier Than The Reality
- Blissfully Sweating
- Frickin' Epistemology
- I Did Not Write The Headline
- Rejected Column Titles: A Selection
- The Presses
- Indian-Style Popcorn
- Questions To Ask Potential Flatmates
- Berkeley Day
- Reruns
- "obsessed with clocks" - SO CUTE
- A Cappella Clips
- Good Luck With It
- Reshma Won't Like This
- Chagrin
- Batteries It Is
- Nandini Is Not Actually Indianer-Than-Thou
- Spoiler: Starring Scott Bakula
- Made Me Laugh And Sniffle
- Argh
- "Illusions, Dad! You don't have time for my illusions!"
- On Removing Sweeping Generalizations
- This One Goes In the "Comedy" And "Religion" Categories
- The Sandman Knows Russian
- Bookishness
- Diversity Daze
- Department Store
- Another Pleasant Internet Radio Station
- Oryx & Crake
- Report A Spam Result
- Uncle Morty's Dub Shack
- This Morning On Diversity BART
- Totally Blah Experience
- Day Quality
- Requires Flash, But Isn't Flashy
- I Don't Miss Econ - Maybe I Took It Wrong
- You Should Know That It Sucks
- Am I The Only One?
- Mulling The Uses And Abuses Of Fashion
- Homes Update
- Validation
- What A Dame
- MC Masala Bookmarkable Link
- YAYAYAYAY
- Disclaiming, Declaiming
- And Just Food, Apparently
- Reason # 1 I Should Have Had A Pet Growing Up
- Some Lightsaber Wounds Never Really Heal
- Grump
- Announcement
- Waiting For Hate Mail
- Movie Time
- Machiavelli's The Little Prince
- Now Awaiting The "Publish" Cronjob
- The Trendiest Thing Ever
- Despite All Hamminess
- $10 For Fifty Minutes Of Laughs
- How To Get Airplay
- And She Wonders, Where Is Everybody?
- Recommendations For Non-Light Reading
- Don't Try Anything
- Caustic Commentary & Time-Fillers
- I Have Six Months
- Useful Link
- Huge Trek Post Coming Soon
- Much Of The Essay I Couldn't Excerpt For Reasons Of Profanity
- Here Come The Oysters!
- C.S. Lewis in Boulder, Colorado
- Does It?
- Mt. Doom, Elev. A Billion Kajilion Feet
- Trying To Want To Sleep
- Why Use Throwaway Sporks?
- Self-Defense Classes
- Stephensonia
- We're All In This Together
- Illin'
- Not Coherent Enough To Be Movie Reviews
- Memories and Irritations
- Best Medicine
- I Actually Received This "Apology" Today
- The Language Of Sick Is Uni--ah-CHOO!
- I Love My Mom
- Meta-Spoiler Alert
- Still No Punchline
- Update On Asimovs
- Sick Again
- Setting Records
- Dramatic Turnaround
- Bah
- The End Of Hu-Mor
- Frowny Face
- Used To It
- Better Enough
- Nonexistent Sue Grafton Book Title
- Far From The Greek Ideal
- Flailing At The Keyboard
- J Neo Marvin and the Content Providers are a pretty good band
- Developing
- Job Recommendations
- Giving Away Giants Ticket
- Pillow
- Double Masala
- The Royal Tenancy
- Joy
- Unending Action
- SCOTUS
- Breaking News: Not Quite All Is Vanity
- SCOTUS Jokes, Lapsing Into Seriousness
- Eminem Domain
- The Fallacy Of Only Sometimes Noticing Things
- More Comedy
- Back From The Show
- Superstition
- The Traveller
- F(e)asting
- More Food and Nervousness
- Withdrawal
- Pavlova For Pavlov's Dog
- Gauzy
- Weekend Upgrade
- Babe
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- Compare And Contrast
- The Saddest Thing
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- Rubber Chickens
- Comedy & Column
- Writing A Column
- Amazingly, I Liked Everybody
- Hail To The Remixer
- The French
- "Because I do not know what you are saying."
- Stayin' Awake
- Sunset is to Nightfall as Insomnia is to Wikipedia
- Past Current Events + Tastelessness
- Blood Donation Time
- Harry Potter Spoiled
- Movie Nights
- "Everyone Must Go"
- Fairy Tales
- Obligatory Franken Notice
- Not "Ironic," Thank Goodness
- Christmas Column In July
- Good Writers
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- Tired At 10:30
- Comedy Reminder
- Seth Stevenson Is Making Sense
- The Five-Minute MBA
- Applications For InstaFame
- MC Masala Drippiness
- Mice Are Completely Unfair
- Feminism
- "Add it up"
- Mild Wonder
- Feeling Really Blah
- Trader Joe's Goodness
- I Did Not Choose The Headline
- "And the dull pain that you live with / Isn't getting any duller"
- Day Of Sententious Quotes
- Pharmacy Recommend
- Blah
- Eh
- Over-Earnest Punctuality Is Pernicious Bollocks
- Reading Rainbow
- "In Theory"
- Request for Recommendations
- Imponderables
- Petrarch Innovated The Wacky Twist Ending
- Includes Mandelbrot Reference
- Boombox
- Spicy Quip
- From Booze To Booze
- Behind The Scene
- How And Why The USA Messed Up Healthcare
- Self-Plagiarism As Cannibalism
- Recommended Books
- Guster
- Miscellany
- The Heartwarming Stuff
- On Y Va/Nachalo
- Mentions Gordon Korman
- Nice Moment
- Phillip Robertson Is Braver Than I'll Ever Be
- Life, Liberty and Property
- Impulses
- Message From The Astrodome
- Agreement
- Jobs
- Future Travels
- Little Things
- Your Sense Of Disenchantment
- Correction
- The Play, The Play
- Volunteerism
- Hire My Smart Boyfriend
- Spring Break
- KSUM
- Useful Glossaries
- Table Talk
- Compare and Comedicize
- Considering Trek
- Sick Seth
- The Pearl Of Great Price
- We Need Jimmy Carter, We Can't Afford To Settle For Less
- All Family
- But You'll Never Find The Right Bijou
- Instant-Messaging Tidbit Of The Day
- Thoughts On Violent Movies
- Sahara Sangeet Awards
- Resourceful Leonard
- Sudden Activity
- Trek Memories
- Definite Plans
- A Not-Salon-Premium Exclusive
- Uncle Morty's Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House
- How TV Doesn't Work
- Bill Nye The Science Stud
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- Word Power
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- Editors
- Memoirs Of A Puja
- From Fluffy To Ditzy
- Dorkeror's Apprentice
- Discomfiting
- Cheery Things
- Back
- Hamminess And Its Uses
- Nervousness
- Fame For Jimbo, Trevor, et al.
- Friday, 4:30 p.m., Facing Drudgery
- Epithet For A Customer
- Progress
- Progress Redux
- Music Soothes The Savage Inequalities
- Decision Procedures
- Jobs At The Internet Archive
- The Fear Of Jerkitude
- Lies, Durned Lies, and Carrots
- "Waiting Waiting Waiting"
- Argh
- Not The Best Workweek
- Bubbles
- The Ideals
- Decluttering
- Didion on Schiavo
- The Summit Talks Continue
- Customers Do Stink
- Poets, Travel
- Brief Notes On The East Coast
- Sic Transit Gloria Transit
- In A Week Of Subways, Writer Considers Accidents of Chance (And Cars)
- Times Square: Marqueed McDonald's And Rosie O'Donnell
- Meta-Political Thoughts
- How Can It Be?
- The Inconceivable
- Quotable Quips
- Music In My Cube At Work
- The One Thing I Forgot
- Sweet Lyrics
- Memento Mori, or, Ashes To Ashes In Your Mouth
- Links Of The Morning, If Old
- Free Ticket To TMBG Concert
- Good Show, Old Chap
- A Quarter You Can't Understand
- Start The Editor
- Reading about Rockin'
- Sad And Happy Link Post
- A James Spader Character Shows Up In Table Talk
- You Get To Be a Writer By Writing
- Comedy = Tragedy + Paradigm Shift
- One Box Mushroom Bites @5.39ea
- Bay Buffet
- East Bay Denizens & Franken Fans Take Note
- Cheering Exchange
- Yearly Complaint
- RIP
- Sounds Like Satire But Isn't
- Limitations Of The Form, or, "There shall be grief."
- Predictable Praise
- Thoughts On Maturity
- Self-Contradiction Comes Free With The Unhappy Meal
- Alan Alda, Terrell Owens, and Merlin Mann
- Salon: A Wacky Retrospective
- Map Of Our Past
- Tetris Is Awesome
- Yep, That's Optimus Prime
- Sky-High Praise
- It Always Comes Back
- Not So Unthinkable
- Kris Loves The Bones
- Request to Morpheus/Sandman/Subconscious
- Exception
- Hard Lesson Number 5823675
- Terrible And Inevitable
- Old Anagrams
- Christmas Suggestion
- Mike Daisey Makes Me Laugh
- Mourning Russia
- Post-Thanksgiving Traditions One Week Early
- Surprise
- Cute Human Interest Story
- Women Have Hair, Men Don't
- Data Point
- Nonexistent Shirt
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Thanks, Earth
- Links For A Long Weekend
- Column and Moving Sale
- Reading Lists
- A Champion
- Music And Linking
- Nonlucid Dreams
- Smart Dirty Jokes
- Chocolate-Milk-Through-The-Nose Hilarious Aside
- Luck
- Edutainment
- Tales Of XM
- Tip
- Useful Phone Number
- Articles You Might Enjoy
- Wuh?
- Worry
- "House Band" (hat-tip to Leonard)
- Quote of the Day
- Manufacturing Consent To Laugh
- Articulation
- The Escalator Of Reason
- On Cutting Through Personal Style
- HOWTO Write Hackish Standup, Part II
- More Cutting-Edge Comedy Theory
- Conversation From Last Night
- Mind Games -- The Good Kind
- From Bangalore To Bengaluru
- The Mildest Of Wins
- Work Into Play
- Has Peak Oil Not Hit These People?
- Rent Rent Rent Re-ent Rent
- Request For Suggestions
- Unavailability Notice
- End Busy Signal
- Social Mobility, Greed, and Uncomfortable Timeliness
- Big Giant Announcement
- Praise
- Collections Of Links For Advice
- Request For Help
- Clutter Chronicles
- The Irregular, Finite, Fantastic Golden Braid
- Charity
- MC Masala Reprint
- Tiny First-World Problem
- Social Overload
Full year
- Feeling Blank
- What We Can't Say
- Why in the world is it so difficult to find…
- Happy New Year. I spent the 2003-2004 liminal time watching a…
- Late last year, Comedy Central reran a Nov. 18th Daily…
- Truncated Dac (tyl)
- The Syndicate
- Utter Mayhem!
- Out Of Context Theater
- Just Reread Gatsby
- Exposure
- I Knew Him When We Were Acquainted
- Living High On the Sog (Tofog?)
- "Did you find the fun you were seeking?"
- Who Strikes the Public Sentiment, Say Who Will Be Our President?
- I Want a President Who Has Written Fanfic
- Nibbling on Jerquee, baby carrots, and Christmas peanut brittle as…
- Thanatos
- Aha! The film was Whatever It Takes (1 and a…
- Whose Bed This Is, I Think I Know
- Partition Was A Lesson
- Some Salon people have the "State" "of" "the" "Union" on.…
- The Spamegorical Imperative
- "And I think we are stuck with this."
- I thought it was "champagne"
- Dreampitcher
- She's "Not A Thing Person"; I'm Sold!
- Over the weekend, I saw friends and had lovely conversations,…
- Really selling the car now. If you know anyone…
- High school hierarchies and the attendant etiquette dilemmas are the…
- Life's Medium-Sized Victories
- Are You An Asian Woman?
- Reminiscences
- Salon Brilliant Career (Mine)
- I just got back from a weeklong trip to India…
- Clark Ends Bid
- Alone
- Sex Taboos
- This weekend I reread Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter.…
- Thanks to Alexei, Zack, and Patrick for a nice weekend,…
- Brendan, a good houseguest and a friend, visited and now…
- Calling My Ex
- Getting down some insights about visiting a call center while…
- Car got broken into again. The asking price is…
- I just laughed so hard and long that my face…
- "Four hours of work, twenty years of bourgeois guilt GONE!"
- I saw a lonely bit of refuse labelled "BASURA," which…
- "Ambiguous"
- Andy Holloway said thoughtful things about number-based roleplaying games such…
- bum-BUM
- Just Like "In Cold Blood"
- Welcome, Squirrelly!
- Yay!
- My Share of Leonard's TiVo
- Publishment
- Aye, Caesar, And Not Yet Gone
- Waiting for Soydot
- "Have You Forgotten About The Bomb?"
- I Have The Best Boss
- They Call It "Whole Paycheck"
- I'd love to see "Dirty Story", and I'm concerned that…
- Blaaaah
- I Have Fish!
- Scattered Notes
- I Promise No Fish In This One
- "A tale of two miseries"
- Track Lighting!
- Waah
- Sex Pistils
- Me, to Leonard
- Jerky
- Our office has moved. I scavenged a footrest and…
- Sounds Like Leonard
- After a week of slogging at work (but actually getting…
- Names, Fish, Taxes
- Reminder
- You Can't Violate the 4th Amendment On Television (Or Elsewhere)
- Fascinating
- Report and Request
- Funnymen
- SPAA
- Tax Tips
- Also "The Screwfly Solution"!
- Who lives in the username next door?
- "I forgot to hook up the hose to the server!"
- It Would Explain That Crazy Scott Rosenberg
- Letters, I Read Letters
- "Piles of meth"?
- On The Night-Table
- Maybe Some Of That Philip Glass (or, Usually I Listen To KUSF, I Swear)
- A Lot Of Days
- Perhaps "Not Passive-Aggressive" Is Too Much To Ask
- Also Sneezy
- Yay!
- More Gross Fish
- Enjoy
- It's Been A Quiet Week in Riyadh
- Shopping Is Hard; Let's Do Math
- Spring
- Dave
- Dave, my grey goldfish, died yesterday. Leonard and I…
- Compare And Contract
- The Replacement Swimmer
- Women
- Cherry Blossoms
- As Though They Cater To Me Specifically
- Hoji-Cha
- How Do Dead Godzillas Stomp?
- Now I Have Seen Norm Howard
- I Be Walkin' Down The Street (to the Marsh's Mock Cafe)
- You're Not Scottish, Stop Macking On Me
- The Apple Cobbler's Children
- Atari Bihari Vajpayee
- Probably No Connection
- Silly Word Munging
- Again, Free Bagels
- Media Revue
- THIS is India Shining
- What's Wrong?
- Better
- Another Obituary
- The Underground Sound
- Death, Taxes, And Sumana Writing About Taxes
- Is Something Missing?
- Bobby Flay, Tina Fey, Liza Dei
- Fascinating
- Articulation
- Easily Swayed
- Oh no
- "Coming Out as a Human"
- She Said Yes
- Books
- Life, Drugs, And
- Poor Akshay!
- I Was Also Right About Carbs
- "Scum-Sucking Bottom Feeders"
- How Could I Have Missed This?
- Annals of Compassion and Genius
- I Am A Nut
- Here Baby, There Mama, Everywhere Daddy Daddy
- "You're as manly as the manliest tree on the Isle of Man."
- "Very Bad News"
- Post-Weekend Update
- Listening To
- Also We Were Eating Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto On Arugula
- Just Two Months Early For Independence Day
- Fun And Tempting
- Copy, Paste, Delete, Copy, Paste, Delete-No-Wait...
- Men In Black And Blue
- Grumpy
- When I Get Depressed I Read Beliefnet
- America's Moving Adventure
- Retroactive Continuity
- I Could Tell You Stories, Wait, They'd Be Boring
- "The government should pay for goods and services in wishes and fairy dust."
- Everybody's Working, Till The Weekend
- After the Weekend I Won't Be As Bitter
- Also Includes "Really quick, is God on America's side?"
- Wow, Sense!
- My grandmother has died. She was 85 years old…
- Roots and Canberries
- Did You Mean: C.S. Lewis or Philip Pullman?
- "I'm tired of being Bob Dole's straight man."
- Tasteless Sudan Joke Inside!
- Party, etc.
- Bliss
- The Chart Does Not Lie
- You Already Read Achewood
- Caution: Dark Fantasy, Rambling, No Closure
- Must Be Not Allergic To Gluten
- Reassurance
- Full Faith and Credit Cards
- A Friendly Request
- Tigers and Lions
- Fast Food Alien Nation
- Buy Me Some Pesto and Camembert
- Happy Greek Face, Frowny Greek Face
- You (Don't) Make The Call!
- My Name is Say and I'm Here to -- Wait, No
- Taken Out To A Ball Game
- Will Johnny Control?
- Argh
- Sci-Follywood
- I Miss Retail Stories
- Morose
- Lately
- Reasoned Persuasion
- Awesome
- Learning By Mistakes
- Airport
- Bailey, Wavy Intonation, and Churches That Face Mecca
- Happenings
- Recurring
- Leonard: "Man, Jesus is so picky"
- Alton Brown in SF
- Week of Analogies
- I Am More Angry About This Than I Should Be
- Remnants
- Ack, Nervous
- Doesn't Help
- Sumanazilla Prepares
- Heck, I Worked On The Yearbook
- Public Transit Heaven
- They Actually Do Say 'Arigato'
- Life Lessons
- Weird
- Sumimasen, Gomen Nasai
- Fast Facts
- No Coins With Holes In The Middle?
- Imagine The Duet
- TV Misguide
- World Phenomena Worry Me
- Spicy ---} Endorphins
- "Majors was laughing like a fool"
- Media
- What If
- Just Observing
- Lots Of Puns And Theodicy
- Twice In Two Weeks = Every Week
- Will Franken, Today and Tomorrow
- My Secret Leonard's Family Weapon
- Listening To Jonathan Richman
- Seth, Don't Read This Till Tomorrow!
- He Likes The Shirt
- Happy
- MacArthur Beefcake
- No Endless Recursion? Darn
- Meera, Toll-Free: (888) 311-2FLY
- Vegan Yum Or Blech Review
- Zombie Kings
- Blah
- Erudition
- Full Faith and Debit
- Dot-Com Shocker
- I Can't Explain Why It's Spooky
- This Will Hurt
- Google Testimonies Provoke Wow
- Could Be Yemen
- "First trip to the ER?" asked the paramedic.
- "Why would I write my own epitaph?"
- Escapist or Papist?
- Argh! Freaking Saudi Arabia!
- The Kind Of Post Steve Schultz Hates
- Worldview Correspondence
- The Vaccine
- Want More Profane Rants?
- More Jon Stewart Obsessiveness
- Includes "Life Of Crime" Sidebar
- Sarah Said It Was An Adlerian Slip
- Politics, Food, Politics
- Come With?
- Lesson For Today!
- Yes, It's In The Tenderloin
- I Will Never Learn This
- Yet Another Kinship Between My Heritage And LDS
- No One Cares If You Smoke In A Bar In The Tenderloin
- Customer Service Lessons
- Even Better Than Usual
- A Crying Shame
- Votes Count When We Count The Votes
- An Ad For Canadian Schooling
- I Can Feel It Brushing Against My Eardrum
- Ear Cleared
- Election Day, 2004
- Election Night, 2004
- Cute Animal Pictures
- The Clothes Make The Man Not Be Naked
- Not To Mention The Original Big Book
- RIP Iris Chang
- The Anointing
- Google Ads Come Through Again
- Deepavali, Dipawali, Whatever
- The Dot Isn't Just For "Dot Com"
- Shahrukh Khan Stories!
- Yes, Important People Have Weblogs Too
- He Is The Franken. I Must Go.
- Too Many Tears
- Verb, Noun, Whatever!
- Wish List
- Unexpected
- I Hope to Go
- In Santiago And A Hospital
- Aha
- It's A Faaaaaaake
- Then Again, Seeing "Kinsey" With My Mom Would Have Been Pretty Awkward
- Books I Read When I Was Too Young to Really Understand Them
- More Than Reading Schneier At Lunch, This Reveals My Geekiness
- I Experience Cinema, You View Film, He Watches Movies
- It's Pompousness Night Here at Sumana's
- "the acatalectic record of mankind"
- Geeks
- Includes A Link To Wikipedia!
- Spilling the Beans (Into the Soaking Water)
- Painful!
- An Incredibly Unbalanced Inflation Index
- Dinosaurs Are Mentioned
- Unitarians Be Walkin' Down The Street Like This
- In Progress
- Thanks, Professor Bishop
- December 11th
- Aiee!
- Happy Nostalgia
- Pineapple Whatever
- Lessons From Web Publishing
- Why can't I photosynthesize? Why?…
- White Shirt - No Marinara, Please
- I Miss Michael Rogin
- Media Matters
- Sorry, Sophomore English Teachers
- Continuity!
- TeeVee
- Delicious Dioxin
- Egg/Cookie Redux
- Aside From Saints, Psychopaths, And Children
- Metahumor Discovery
- I'm Turning Into A Secular Mormon
- What A Huge Fuss
- Regrets
- Finally Created A "Religion" Category
- Quality Of Life Increase
- "Look at all these banjo lovers, not a dry eye in the place"
- There Is A God (yes/no)
- In Other News, Stendahl Did Not Write "The Cream And The Clear"
- Grrrr
- Filing Personal Moral Bankruptcy
Full year
- The Long Backwards Glance
- The Other Philosophers' Song
- Loves and Wishes
- Cody's Deals & Cody's Big Deals
- Fact Friction
- Rest in Peace
- Last night, I found out that (hearsay) it's illegal to…
- I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence
- Sumana the Sarcasto and Leonard the Logiccini
- Leonard turned down my enticing offer to 'mix weblogs' by…
- I lost my physical notebook, the one Nandini gave me…
- Parties, work, and other worries. I have no notebook…
- Adam and I saw Punch-Drunk Love again. Still so…
- Too Many Notes
- Double Duty
- I turned into Andy Holloway for a weekend. I'm…
- He's So Dreamy!
- I know I haven't become a retail person yet. …
- I volunteered for an assignment to sell textbooks for Cody's…
- Soliloquy on a Suspected Speakeasy
- Economists not only make great butts of jokes, they banter…
- Further investigation will reveal whether emptygeneration of Ohio and OgGogBeGog…
- I worked overtime five hours a day selling textbooks from…
- I'm steadily developing new material for tomorrow's A Cuppa Tea open…
- Search Request Terms On Which, Sadly, I Am Actually An Expert
- Labor Legislation Vetoed By Sandman
- Cue Old-School Star Search Theme
- I would actually watch Mr. Sterling, a new NBC drama best…
- So I stood in the shower and tried to remember…
- I finally got back to the Sally Lockhart trilogy. …
- McWhorter Update!
- Observer and Observed
- cleaning out the filesystem
- New Frog Record!
- A Short-Lifespan Sumanonics Schema
- Leonard is helping me finalise my act for tomorrow evening.…
- Here on Fibber Island, We Use Turbans Instead of Poker Chips
- Dry T-Shirt Contest
- Finally, Some Reviews
- Poetry Slum
- Mr. Sandman, Give Me a Break
- Bald Ego
- I hereby confess that, when I was about ten, my…
- Staying home thanks to a disease meme. Coming soon:…
- Her Stage Name is Sumana Somebody
- I hear Saddam Hussein is trying to get these forbidden…
- The Onion
- Democracy Now
- All Tomorrow's Smarty-Pants
- I am currently rearranging a stack of purchase orders. …
- Linkrot Guaranteed!
- Hilary, Nandini, and I tonight participated in an Asian American…
- I have never smoked marijuana, and yet it often appears in…
- Welcome Back, Leonard!
- Johnny's Cabaret of Curiosities
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- Last night Joe and I went to Cobb's Comedy Club…
- A Roundabout Tale of Inadvertent Rage and Mollification
- A Clean, Moist Panic
- My Life as a Sundance Festival Award-Winning Independent Film
- The Audience of One
- I'm heading to the East Coast next month. Leonard…
- In Soviet Russia, the Weblog Updates Me!
- Hey, Alan! "In a supposedly live online chat with…
- YAGPG (Yet Another Google Party Game)
- Skit and Skittishness
- A Dutiful Finger in a Swiss Cheese Dike
- Refreshing Breeze From the Past
- Sumana Suggests Signifiers
- The Language of Film is the Roundup
- Brief Fierce Conversations in Hideous Climates
- I Live in Vaudeville
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- Shopping for Present and Future Nostalgia
- In Soviet Russia, the Cult Warns You Against the Nonprofit!
- As you know if you've met me, I sometimes enjoy…
- Leonard and I shared a Googlewhack with Adam over brunch…
- Music, Please!
- A Reader in Every Port
- McWhorter Update
- It Takes Galt's Gulch to Raise a Child
- Time to Weep
- The Man Makes the Clothes Dirty
- Gordon Korman, a very good Canadian-American author for children and…
- I have finished several books recently, such as Mostly Harmless…
- Real Live Preacher's song of praise really sounds like Mirabai,…
- Well-Rounded, Please
- My parents are in town. They're going to be…
- Return to Manzanar
- You Will Believe the Twist!
- J. Bradford DeLong, whom I should meet someday, presents A…
- Wondrous Skeins of Connexion Guide Us to Booze
- Dreamweaver, Don't Bother Me
- I finally got around to visiting Sproul Hall. And…
- More neat paper things
- So, Zed's improv show. Sadly, noise complaints …
- Geek or Weak?
- My boss complimented me! …
- Who's coming to Cody's Books in March? Susie Bright,…
- From Work
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- Sick. Cold. Very demanding nose and violent sneezing…
- Books You Can't Read Yet
- I'm a liar. Ullman's book called to me and…
- How to Take a Nap
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- Happy birthday to Rachel (psst: I noticed the purse first),…
- Call For Comments
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- A pretty boring day at work. …
- Better Punditry Through Fictionalizations
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- Compare, Contrast, Cry
- Tonight!
- Resigned Fury
- Naan and Circuses
- Grudges I Can't Help Keeping
- Leonard and I must be at least a quarter of…
- In Which I Pretend to Be an Actress
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- Revisited
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- Gems From Work
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- Another One Rides the Limo
- From Mandalay
- From Snow to Bobo
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- Sad Search Requests
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- April Fool's Day forces upon me only a broader necessity…
- A Long Quote From An Interesting Thinker
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- Divine Intervention: I liked it even less than Leonard did.…
- I need to start reading weekly reviews of syndicated comic…
- What Next, Meat Eating?
- Excerpt From My Lonely Planet Guide To Weblogs
- You may ask, "Sumana, how do you figure out whether…
- Better Than The Original Dept.
- I had worried about Nate Thayer of Slate and Salam…
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- Death And Praxis
- "I fled the wraps"
- Lest Ye Be Mike Judge
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- Intellectual Time Waster
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- Also at work: I recognized that a customer had just…
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- More Silly Movie Review Reviews
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- Disorder of the Phoenix
- Steve Robertson's fiancée, Alice, now has a weblog. "Wow.…
- Our Dumb Decade
- Beyond Extreme!
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- It's Up - It's Good!
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- The Opposite of "Remember You Are Mortal"
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- Silly News, All Flavors
- Neat!
- The Found Weekend
- Observations
- HYPE!
- Quiet Pulse
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- Action-Packed Tuna
- Nisha Sharma Is My Hero
- Workaround
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- Farewell to All That
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- Today's Amazing Moments
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- The Intersection of With-It and True
- I Expound, Leonard Distills
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- Je suis mal. Er, j'ai mal
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- I Used to Want to Be Cokie Roberts
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- Lack of Interest, Ha!
- Spaaaaah
- Pinging in the Rain
- The Island of Mathematicians and Morons
- Fine Corinthian Columns
- Business is Up-Down-Left-Right-Left
- Tassel Pass
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- Finally!
- Daydreams
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- Theology Lesson
- Imaginary People Be Complex
- I wish you a fulfilling new year.
Full year
- I'm seeing more Kieslowski today!
- I OD'd on Kieslowski -- next time on Springer
- Two days till school starts
- "Traffic" - an important film to Smokedotters and others
- An extended narrative on teaching, comedy, and temperament
- Short/sweet, I hope
- Learning to Teach; and, Comedy as Power
- The Arbiters of Funny
- I cried this morning
- I was wrong. She's a girl, in a private school.
- Crummy Snow Cadence Confederacy Whom Violence and SciFi
- Birdie, birdie, birdie! & beware
- Puns, nuns, and MUN
- Questions (unanswerable?), and answers to non-questions
- Seeking readers of old Indian comic books
- Three, two, one, impress me!
- A phone-thrower!
- Too...many...choices!
- So I didn't do the socially conscious thing.
- Books for Spring Break
- Kress & speciation
- Live, from Spring Break, Brain wanes
- President Barlet, and April Fool's Day
- Where does the track end? Can I stumble without falling?
- More morosity, & some hope
- Space, time, and "take my wife ... please!"
- Cats and Advogato and freedom
- Take that, economists!
- And when I die I expect to find Him laughing
- And did you always do what Mama said?
- Comedy Night Is Coming!
- So heaven is a slasher flick?
- Without Darth
- I done got schooled
- Watch yo'self!
- Russkies and Injuns
- Do I look fat in this font?
- In which the writer performs mundanities
- A dream I had last night
- Fickle Fiona takes over my dreams
- Comedy Night II: Canadian Showdown
- Hangman
- Antics of the Russian Students
- The Nut That Didn't Crack
- The funny
- Got your nose!
- Episode I: The Summer Begins
- Slouching Towards Beth El, Hmm?
- Weird Al brainwaneovich
- I like to go out dancing; my baby loves a bunch of authors
- People who don't know me can disregard this
- Funny lines from my final
- Fun, fun, fun, till daddy takes my independence away.
- A short announcement-entry
- The Most Recent Picture Show
- A short heartache
- Cold comfort
- The Heartbreak Of St. Petersburg
- It's brainwane-o Bandito, the Bandit brainwane
- In a small golf pond, I'll be a big fish
- Milk, cheese, bread, diary
- Dude, Where's My Activity?
- Girlfriend in a SoMa
- Devotion Demotion
- Recent Dreams
- Panic-p
- Just had to record this
- Quick thoughts
- brainwane: The Journey Sort Of Begins
- Day of the Dead
- Diary For the Damned
- To Russia With Like
- Live from Leningrad, it's Saturday Morning
- Ochen buistro -- very quick
- An American Desi in Leningrad
- I Take My Tea with Murder and Cream, Thanks
- Deniable Plausibility
- Choco Popov
- brainwaneichka
- "I need a syllabus to listen to you talk!"
- The Tale of the Seven Bookmarks
- Kak ckazat po-russkie, "Windows blows"?
- Short -- books and religion, basically
- Rimsky-Course-akov
- OK, OK, Catholicism, my bad.
- Obtuse Angling, and Conjugating Imaginary Verbs
- Compare and Contrast...The World!
- Why HRC and not AR? -- And the Smolnyi.
- NO PHOTO NO VIDEO YES TOURISTS
- Jacques Sirok (Jack, the Little Cheese)
- Declension and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Dude, Where's My Dignity?
- Row, row, row...down the Neva
- Your Mileage May Very Cherry
- The Pakazhitye Mnye State
- The America Club
- A Square in Red Square
- Lenin, booze, metro, uniforms, guns
- More later
- Political Insane Asylum
- Moscow, Part I
- Erin Brockovna
- Feelings Mixed -- Shaken, not Stirred
- YASE -- Yet Another Short Entry
- The Intersection of Doom...and Death
- Moscow, Part II.V
- Three Weeks to Leningraduation
- St. Petersburger and Cheese
- Moscow Last
- Hi, I'm fine, and back in Piter
- Construction
- Chto-ever!
- I only want to find the statue of the dog!
- Cheap, Tasty, or Blessed: Pick Two.
- The Return of the Native Speaker
- Solovki, Part II.
- Lenindependence Day in Less Than a Week
- I Love Dead People
- We'll Always Have Petrograd
- I'm Alive and Missing Russia Already
- I can't believe I'm not staying
- From Piter to Frankfurt to Here to SFO
- Back in Berkeley
- Resocialization
- Wodehouse, Eco, party, transport, language, shopping
- S-Town, B-Rown
- Zhili Buili
- We Don't Except Checks
- Finally
- Terrific weekend
- Notes on Neal and Jon
- Indian Matroshki, Lenin, Ask the Rabbi
- I HATE CLEANING
- Party and NonParty
- Cell Heck
- Seduction
- Hardball and contradictions
- Authorship and Air Hockey
- The leaking pen in the shirt pocket of my life
- Joke, links, ruminations on hippos, Russian, war
- Blood, social psych, glass, Enterprise, &tc.
- More smorgasbord of Sumana
- Some of the best things in life might be things.
- Eco, handball, worrying, and the teevee.
- Carrot Stick
- Is a puzzlemint.
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- Yesterday, as I walked home in the dark at 5:45pm…
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- Jon Carroll today: ...we must, as an act of common sense,…
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