Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

03 Mar 2010, 11:20 a.m.

Assortment

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2010 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 So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it!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 keep hearing about cool people & events in Portland, Oregon. Punk rock mathematicians, Michael Schaub, and the Open Source Bridge conference, whose call for proposals closes in two weeks. (I should just decide whether to go to that, since I can't buy my WisCon plane tickets until I know whether I'm flying back to New York or westward to Oregon when WisCon ends.) And then in July Portland hosts the Community Leadership Summit just before OSCON. Brendan, Jade, maybe I should just show up and crash on your couch for two months. (Not really.)

I responded to Julia's questions, "Where do you find music? How has it changed over time? Do you have certain people to thank for helping you develop your musical palate?" in an excessively long series of comments on her blog, should you be interested.

A gripping quote for anyone who wants to lower mental barriers to growth:

The State is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.

Comments

Julia
http://www.m14m.net/julia
03 Mar 2010, 16:28 p.m.

Thank you for answering!

Moss
03 Mar 2010, 20:06 p.m.

I just want to say how much I love that quote. It perfectly encapsulates what I like about anarchism. And why there's cause to be hopeful, which is something I needed reminding of.

chris.
http://wrdnrd.net
03 Mar 2010, 23:05 p.m.

And in august is the Portland Zine Symposium!! :D I do love Portland.