Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Premise Quest
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2009 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 So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it!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.
You know how when you play a lot of Tetris, brick walls look like problems to solve? And DDR makes techno songs sound like a cue to box step? Enter scifi obsession.
The quest for warm hands in a cold demanding environment is a long and frustrating one.Corporal Duffy cursed Spacegov for banning weavlar mitts during duty shifts. The few seconds required to rip them off were an unacceptable risk, desk jockeys declared. She squeezed and released her neoneoprene-covered fists over and over...
