Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
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Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2012 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 So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it!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'm thoroughly enjoying the webcomic "Strong Female Protagonist": "SFP follows the adventures of a young middle-class American with super-strength, invincibility and a crippling sense of social injustice."
Please encourage people you know, especially women, to apply to Hacker School by January 1st if they enjoy making software. Financial subsidies are available.
So far, my favorite fanfic this month is "A Great and Gruesome Height", which is about Dar Williams's song "Iowa" and The West Wing and a closeted lesbian.
It's 1998, Josiah Bartlet is the Democratic nominee battling sitting Republican President Lawrence Armstrong for the Oval Office, and back in Iowa, Republican campaign coordinator Megan Richter is about to fall from a great and gruesome height.
And I found a lovely Babylon 5 fanvid from 2007 that hits most of the high points of the series.
I spent my Christmas this year alone in my apartment, which was very nice in some ways (zero travel, zero hassle, no presents, no feasts, etc.), but it would have been nice to see loved ones. And this Kate Beaton cartoon gets at the incoherent yearning far better than any Christmas carol I've ever heard.
Finally, links to a bunch of Key & Peele sketches that have made me very happy lately.
Comments
Susie
31 Dec 2012, 20:37 p.m.
Jae Gecko
http://http://archiveofourown.org/users/jaegecko
05 Jan 2013, 15:20 p.m.
Thanks so much for your rec of "A Great and Gruesome Height"! It's much appreciated. :)
Maitri
http://vatul.net/blog/
11 Jan 2013, 10:58 a.m.
You're a female technologist with a social-justice bent AND you like Bablyon 5? Knew I keep coming back to your journal from time to time for a reason.
For the hackers of tomorrow: A wannabe coder myself, I am starting to find Anki (http://ankisrs.net/) useful. The trick is that there is no trick, only patience and spaced repetition/reiteration (http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/12/05/janki-method.html). The same goes for learning a lot of things, I suppose.
Glad for your work, Sumana.
That's my favorite Dar Williams song.