Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
"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 …
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 …
Brunching Shuttlecocks does it again! Quatre étoiles!