Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Leonard: So I heard this joke about the situation in Afghanistan. Now that the war's basically over, the French have decided to send in troops. Me: Ha ha ha! Leonard: That's not the joke. Me: …
I did, in fact, go to bed around 3:40. I stayed up for a tiny bit reading The One Best Way. I really like Kanigel's method, though he gets repetitive in talking about young Taylor's …
Yes, it's 2:30 in the morning. I just rearranged a bunch of furniture -- and I'm not done yet -- and I still have to clean up the mess I've made. So be it. It …
Le Guin reads Jon Carroll and called Carroll's column today a terrific example of politically aware speculative fiction.
Thanks to Jeana, I attended a lecture by Ursula K. Le Guin today and even spoke with her a tiny bit. She seemed very happy that I'd had such a great experience teaching her book. …
I have been thinking for quite a while about the ways in which different technologies lead people to communicate in different ways. Joel Spolsky points out that -- for example -- when a message board …
Poor Leonard. Segfault and his weblog and Scott's and Frances's and Susanna's weblogs are offline and he doesn't know exactly why. To boot, one must use Google's cache of his front page if one has …
Jeff might use information on Ishi, last of the Yahi, in his linguistics dissertation. He mentioned this today in Russian class, which amused me for two reasons. First, the anthropologist whom we most associate with …
Dan and other people in the OCF just found out about INTERCAL. Dan is laughing hysterically.
From Steve Hofstetter's Observational Humor: Most colleges have huge ever-expanding libraries with hundreds of thousands of books, so they need a complex system of numbers and maps to tell you exactly which shelf your book …