I've got networking, windowing, and Mozilla set up on my week-ago-nonfunctioning PC, but am I happy? No. Sound doesn't work, so I grump. Grump! Well, eventually I'll exploit Michael for unpaid tech support and then …
Probably only Steve and I notice the subtle and constant change on my home page. Years ago it just said something like "I'm Sumana and you should read Crummy", but now it's a huge human-readable …
How can a dictatorship exist in Iraq when most households own guns? I'm wondering, too -- send the Slate writer your theories.
Happy birthday to Rachel (psst: I noticed the purse first), who is but a whippersnapper compared to old fogeys such as myself and her brother. As old as I get, as mature and understanding as …
I wonder how many weblogs I like are written by ex-Mormons. I knew about Adam and Leonard, but Did You Know that Teresa Nielsen Hayden (of Making Light fame) was excommunicated from the Church of …
I'm sick. I needed to take a nap and I was a little tired. So I set myself up with tissues and water, and put on a soothing tape of Russian choral music, and tried …
I'm a liar. Ullman's book called to me and I finished it last night. Quite good. Still sick. "Whatever angels call you, go!"
Finished Crescent (April) by Diana Abu-Jaber, which is very good. The blurb calls it an Arab-American Like Water For Chocolate, and though I haven't read Like Water that seems right. I laughed and cried and …
Sick. Cold. Very demanding nose and violent sneezing in packs of threes, not my usual pairs. Left work early, may skip tomorrow. I've already had my yearly cold, darnit!
