Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2001

21 Nov 2001, 12:33 p.m.

Wow, I usually make my first entry of the day…

Wow, I usually make my first entry of the day earlier than this. Russian class always holds some amusing tidbit. Today I realized that "Sumana" -- with the accents mangled -- turns into "out of …

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20 Nov 2001, 22:57 p.m.

It's almost 11pm. I should turn in as I…

It's almost 11pm. I should turn in as I have a busy day tomorrow: handball, Russian, Russian history, research in the Business/Econ and main libraries, and television-socializing in the evening. So many of my friends …

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20 Nov 2001, 22:45 p.m.

From an InPassing.org entry: "Some engineer worked for years alone in…

From an InPassing.org entry: "Some engineer worked for years alone in a lab making circuit diagrams and signal flow graphs to make this sound card. And then some guy from Haas [the UC Berkeley business …

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20 Nov 2001, 22:33 p.m.

This past weekend, I thought a heck of a lot…

This past weekend, I thought a heck of a lot about birth and death. Today, my mother told me that a guy I knew in high school, Avi Raina, died yesterday. I met him many …

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20 Nov 2001, 18:56 p.m.

I'm reading a heck of a lot on persuasion for…

I'm reading a heck of a lot on persuasion for my paper in political psychology. Peter Wright, summarizing an experiment in "Cognitive Responses to Mass Media Advocacy": Adult women were presented either anaudio or print …

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20 Nov 2001, 13:58 p.m.

In Russian class the other day I navigated on a…

In Russian class the other day I navigated on a map of St. Petersburg from Vasilevskiy Ostrov to Gostiniy Dvor. Pretty much the only thing I ever did on Vasilevskiy Ostrov was visit the "Open …

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20 Nov 2001, 13:42 p.m.

You might think that http://www.salon.com/people/bc/ could be a shortcut to…

You might think that http://www.salon.com/people/bc/ could be a shortcut to Salon's "Brilliant Careers" archive. But no, it's a three-year-old post-election pre-impeachment cackle.

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20 Nov 2001, 13:37 p.m.

"The case has alarmed First Amendment experts, who believe Dalton…

"The case has alarmed First Amendment experts, who believe Dalton is the first person in the United States successfully prosecuted for child pornography that involved writings, not images." Call me crazy, but I believe that …

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20 Nov 2001, 13:28 p.m.

I've been listening to Dar Williams's album Mortal City, which…

I've been listening to Dar Williams's album Mortal City, which Seth gave me. There's a certain passage in "Iowa" that I've been humming to myself recently: So I asked a friend about it on a …

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20 Nov 2001, 13:10 p.m.

Brunching Shuttlecocks does it again! Quatre étoiles! …

Brunching Shuttlecocks does it again! Quatre étoiles!

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