Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
22 Mar 2020, 21:42 p.m.
Some Useful Tools, Art, And Tips
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2020 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 So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it!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.
Making note here of various threads and posts that have come to my attention recently:
- On lessons for the coronavirus crisis, from someone who lived through the start of the AIDS crisis.
- "I'm sitting here in Berlin, watching the same conversations unfold everywhere, slowly, inevitably." An illustration.
- The current and near-future situation facing fine artists, and what you can do to help.
- If you're counting on a crisis pause to help you with your mortgage payment (especially in New York), watch out.
- If you have to cancel a catered event, you can keep the contract with the caterer and send the pans of food to people in quarantine.
- "This is probably obvious but if you are in a key position and haven't written up a doc that describes what people should do if you're unexpectedly out for a few weeks, now is the time!"
- A quarantine book club via Zoom chat, happening regularly through April.
- The EFF on things to consider regarding online tools your institution is switching to during the crisis.
- Some folks are comparing notes on free and open source software for live videochats and audio/videocalls.
- Crisis communications principles, including: "Start drafting some of the copy you might need to use in these scenarios so you don’t have to scramble in real time. Create protocols in advance for who needs eyes on it and who gets final sign off on what before it goes out the door."
- People with a lot of experience being stuck at home for many days in a row share tips: alias_sqbr, Connie Rourke.
- Tips on switching a class, mid-course, from in-person to online.
- A gym workout you can do at home.
- Recurse Center has gone online-only till at least May.
- There's a "Coronacon Vidshow" on April 4th!
- An amazing filk of "One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies (continues here).
- A lovely cover of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" with a video that brings new present meaning to the song's yearning. (Via MetaFilter.)
- In case you missed it: Wash Your Lyrics, which gives you custom handwashing instruction sheets synchronized with lyrics from a song of your choice.
- A guide to food safety (including the risks of eating delivery or takeout meals from restaurants).
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
Full year
- 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
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- Who Strikes the Public Sentiment, Say Who Will Be Our President?
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- Fascinating
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- 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
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- What's Wrong?
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- Tasteless Sudan Joke Inside!
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- 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
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- Leonard: "Man, Jesus is so picky"
- Alton Brown in SF
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- Doesn't Help
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- Life Lessons
- Weird
- Sumimasen, Gomen Nasai
- Fast Facts
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- TV Misguide
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- "Majors was laughing like a fool"
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- Lots Of Puns And Theodicy
- Twice In Two Weeks = Every Week
- Will Franken, Today and Tomorrow
- My Secret Leonard's Family Weapon
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- Seth, Don't Read This Till Tomorrow!
- He Likes The Shirt
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- No Endless Recursion? Darn
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- 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
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- Includes "Life Of Crime" Sidebar
- Sarah Said It Was An Adlerian Slip
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- Come With?
- Lesson For Today!
- Yes, It's In The Tenderloin
- I Will Never Learn This
- Yet Another Kinship Between My Heritage And LDS
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- Even Better Than Usual
- A Crying Shame
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- An Ad For Canadian Schooling
- I Can Feel It Brushing Against My Eardrum
- Ear Cleared
- Election Day, 2004
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- Not To Mention The Original Big Book
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- He Is The Franken. I Must Go.
- Too Many Tears
- Verb, Noun, Whatever!
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- 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
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- In Progress
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- December 11th
- Aiee!
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- TeeVee
- Delicious Dioxin
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- I'm Turning Into A Secular Mormon
- What A Huge Fuss
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- Grrrr
- Filing Personal Moral Bankruptcy
Full year
- The Long Backwards Glance
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- Soliloquy on a Suspected Speakeasy
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- Cue Old-School Star Search Theme
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- McWhorter Update!
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- cleaning out the filesystem
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- Return to Manzanar
- You Will Believe the Twist!
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- Revisited
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- Leonard is fantastic!
- Flashback to AcaDec
- My <i>Microserfs</i>?
- I Used to Want to Be Cokie Roberts
- Disambiguate!
- 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
- The Sandman Cometh
- Bon Mots from the Mot Shop
- C.S. Lewis on Merry Christianity
- Postmodern Maturity
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- Sumana the Pink-Nosed Person
- Finally!
- Daydreams
- Yesterday, upon encountering my cheerful demeanor, a customer said, "This…
- The default "end conversation" phrase has now changed to "Is…
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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.
- Usability, Wobegon, Segfault, Potter
- First post! …
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- Leonard: Happy Wodehouse anniversary. I must mention that Leonard, with his…
- Salon's Mulholland Drive dissection reminds me of Kafka's The Trial.…
- Who knew I'd ever be messing with server-side includes?
- Who knew I'd ever be messing with server-side includes? I'm working…
- So I'm done archiving around a third of my Kuro5hin.org…
- Handball really tired me out. More sleep would have…
- I should not have forgotten to mention that today, as…
- T-shirt, seen yesterday: "Bush isn't any smarter than he was…
- The Peter Thomas Hair Salon at Virginia and Shattuck in…
- The Daily Californian amuses both deliberately and inadvertently. The…
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- I actually like the quote/fortune that the bottom of Slashdot…
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- Trials and Travails I'm writing several times a day now at…
- I'll just stay up long enough to archive July, and…
- All right, I lied. I won't be finishing all…
- It's Sunday. Yes, it's always Sunday here at Sumana's…
- Leonard done fixed up a heap of stuff for me.…
- Oi! Five messages in my inbox when I wake…
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- "But doctor, why? Why did you create a bomb…
- I'm tired and blue and I misspelled "brag" as "vrag"…
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- I'm not certain what in my Russian Imperial History class…
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- I'm still messing around with site design, but now I…
- I'll be busy this weekend, so I won't be updating…
- Idea for a really patriotic bumper sticker: "My other car…
- At least I know people will miss me now that…
- So last night I dreamt that -- much as in…
- Back from my 30-hour trip to & from Stockton via…
- I dreamt last night that I reconciled with my old…
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- An incomplete list of stuff I've lost. my little red notebook…
- It would be completely unscientific to conclude, on the basis…
- Oh, the last thing that Kavalier man said to me…
- From Leonard's favorite philosophical tract this week:Then we replicate in…
- Today I had lunch at a house with a Silicon…
- Before I turn in for the night -- Rick Starr…
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- Alexei and I discussed a while back the myth-motif of…
- Joel Spolsky points to a paper on writing, written by…
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- It would seem that John Searle got picketed at one…
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- Lunch with Brandon."So, I have it from reliable sources that,…
- I wanted to go see Barbara Ehrenreich speak from noon…
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- Seth: Thank goodness I'm not the only one who confuses…
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- For about three hours I studied -- well, studied in…
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- So a bunch of flies decided to make my apartment…
- The BEARCade, UC Berkeley's gaming facility, is selling off some…
- At least three of my partners in diarizing have somewhat…
- So Leonard was singing "Big Rock Candy Mountain" the other…
- Directors who want believable crowd scenes often (I've been informed)…
- Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler looked very much alike. …
- I'm never certain how to feel about the Berkeley College…
- Ray Bradbury is still alive, I infer from his announced…
- Today is Hallowe'en, Reformation Day (the anniversary of the day…
- Susie (of OCF fame) says that "everybody and their mother"…
- Yesterday, as I walked home in the dark at 5:45pm…
- Two dreams. I've had two dreams recently about the destruction of…
- I applied to join Slate's Book Club using a modified…
- Done with my last Imperial Russian History midterm, probably the…
- Pretty good episodes of West Wing and Enterprise. …
- archives …
- Aaron Sorkin often has various characters in "The West Wing"…
- I find David Denby's Slate article on how Americans can…
- Tonight Leonard and I are going to see The Man…
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- Avoiding dangling participles in Russian class: "I can hear the…
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- I wrote a poem a few weeks ago. Here…
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- Ooh ahh, ooh ahh, ooh ooh diddy, tell me about…
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- What have I been reading? The Design of Everyday Things…
- Scary look-alikes: I have an uncle who looks a heck of…
- The Man Who Wasn't There. I'd seen three other…
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- Joke that Professor Filippenko read in lecture:Please stop jumping up…
- I'm catching up on e-mail while listening to this terrific…
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- Professor John Searle, philosopher of the mind and language and…
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- My current fun-book is Robert Kanigel's The One Best Way,…
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- Poor Leonard. Segfault and his weblog and Scott's and…
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- Leonard: So I heard this joke about the situation in…
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- Had I time enough to read, time enough at last,…
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- Tom Tomorrow: "If you don't collect 'em all -- then…
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- Last night I realized one reason that Professor Reginald Zelnik…
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- Jon Carroll today: ...we must, as an act of common sense,…
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- Wil Wheaton says that he just knows what he reads…
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