Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2001

30 Nov 2001, 23:21 p.m.

John wrote me, asking: was he not getting the Paul…

John wrote me, asking: was he not getting the Paul Conrad cartoons because John is stupid, or because the cartoons are stupid? My answer: if incompetent editorial cartooning causes you to question your judgment, then …

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30 Nov 2001, 23:19 p.m.

Wow, a Friday night alone and decisions on a whim.…

Wow, a Friday night alone and decisions on a whim. I wrote some emails and surfed the web in the OCF, ate a burger and read more of The One Best Way at Smart Alec's, …

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30 Nov 2001, 15:58 p.m.

It's a week like this that makes me wish I…

It's a week like this that makes me wish I were going to a concert tonight. But I'm going to see Ghost World instead, thanks to the special Friday night movie showings that SUPERB puts …

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30 Nov 2001, 15:55 p.m.

Bem, ranting on how his professor reacted to a query:…

Bem, ranting on how his professor reacted to a query: "Not only that, he's wrong."

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30 Nov 2001, 13:08 p.m.

Last night I attended the Undergraduate Political Science Association trivia…

Last night I attended the Undergraduate Political Science Association trivia game. Two undergraduate students and two graduate students answered trivia questions on politics and on pop culture. A diverting event, even if I couldn't tell …

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30 Nov 2001, 12:54 p.m.

The end of this FAQ gives a lot away. …

The end of this FAQ gives a lot away.

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30 Nov 2001, 12:38 p.m.

Paul Conrad has won three Pulitzers. I weep for…

Paul Conrad has won three Pulitzers. I weep for journalism. You know, somehow Jim Borgman finds the time to draw Zits every day and draw political cartoons that are, unlike Conrad's work, reliably political cartoons …

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30 Nov 2001, 12:28 p.m.

Is this the all-time bizarrest Paul Conrad? Or this…

Is this the all-time bizarrest Paul Conrad? Or this one? Or yet another? This is just too fun.

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30 Nov 2001, 10:58 a.m.

I may have actually broken some unimportant anatomical item whilst…

I may have actually broken some unimportant anatomical item whilst laughing with Leonard over the oeuvre of Paul Conrad, the man who takes the editorial cartooning genre to new extra-dimensional extremes. Kris introduced us to …

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30 Nov 2001, 10:48 a.m.

Adam and I were writing papers at the same time: I…

Adam and I were writing papers at the same time: I think I'm getting delirious. Already. I'm making up sources that don't actually exist and then desperately trying to find them on Lexis-Nexis.

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