Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Quotes
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 So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it!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.
First a bunch of little snippets from my recent instant messenger conversations:
Oh, the new movie Black Swan isn't an adaptation of the economics book? It's about ballerinas? BLAH TO THAT. I mean, there's a Freakonomics movie. And surely you saw that summer blockbuster The General Theory of Employment, Interest, And Money. I think Keynes got a best screenplay Oscar nod for that one.
Leaving the house is magic.
[After saying "didn't mean to nag, just correct for lag," I sought a rhyming followup or rephrasing.] You disconnected from the server, I repeated my line further. Just checking dropped packets, didn't mean to make a racket. DOGGEREL AWARD HERE I COME?
"oh yeah" like "OH yeah" or "oh, that would be a good idea" or Kool-Aid man bursting through a wall?
I am reading about Privilege Denying Dude, etc. while a young Indian woman sweeps my room. Right near me. COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
I thought we were not-bothering buddies. I RESCIND MY HIGH-FIVE
And now quotes from recent issues of The Caravan:
It was 20 years ago that I experienced for the first time while reading, the strange combination of soaring and falling natural only to the economies of debtor-states.
...those of us who criticise the Western media for bestowing magical Taliban-defeating powers on Karachi's Ecstasy-popping 20-somethings...
Just outside Italian Village, I found a Dairy Queen fast-food restaurant, filled with Kurds talking rapidly on Bluetooth headsets. A spokesman for Dairy Queen told me his company had no restaurants in Erbil, and he suspected another Dairy Queen operator in West Asia had gone rogue and set up shop there as a freelancer; just as a mushroom cloud in North Korea bears the marks of the influence of AQ Khan, an ice cream cake in Kurdistan implies the assistance of someone with mastery of Dairy Queen technology in Istanbul or Bahrain.
And so it was, in this entertainment vacuum following the Hindi ban and without a decent replacement, that something unexpected happened in Manipur: the Koreans moved in.
Comments
Thomas Thurman
http://thomasthurman.org
06 Dec 2010, 13:48 p.m.
Avram Grumer
http://agrumer.livejournal.com/
06 Dec 2010, 15:02 p.m.
<br/>400 Bad Request, maybe made in jest?
403 Forbidden, from you this page is hidden.
404 Not Found, you could look around.
408 Request Timeout, our server's having a pout.
412 Precondition Failed, like an unstamped letter mailed.
416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable, though we tried everything that was try-able.
418 I'm a teapot, I don't have a rhyme for this one; I'm just amazed that it exists. <br/>
Zed
http://www.mememachinego.com/
10 Dec 2010, 12:50 p.m.
Pocahontas read this entry before I did and told me about the "The Black Swan isn't about economics?" joke. I promptly said, "There was a Freakonomics movie."
Raising an objection, lest there's disconnection.
Didn't mean to sing it, checking I could ping it.
Working round the latency, not content to wait and see.