Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
I used to have all sorts of theories about the Harry Potter books. I'd talk about how the weakness of the French and the evil of the Germans had to do with World War II, …
I really should go to sleep. Then again, I really should eat well-balanced meals every day and keep up on the reading for my classes and take care of other responsibilities as well. Me on …
From Jeana's journal: For anyone in the Berkeley area, today (being Friday) at 4 pm, Ursula K. Le Guin will be speaking in the Morrison Room of Doe Library. The "K" in her name stands …
You might think that "I want to find a book [so as] to read" might be literally translated, without the "so as": "Ya khochu naiyti knigu chitat'". But no. If you wish to say, in …
Directions. My Russian class is learning about how to give directions. We're learning this for, oh, the fourth time, so we can have some fun with it. "How do I get to the Marinskiy Theatre?" …
In high school, probably my junior year, I made a poster for my French class to advertise my then-favorite movie, Dave. The last lines was "Regardez-vous sur vidéo!" Only in the past month have I …
I actually own and have sort of started Shirer's classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which I bought for a buck at a thrift store next to the S-Mart Foods in Stockton. …
The other night, as I waited for a campus shuttle at Bancroft and Telegraph -- as I have a hundred times -- I saw for the first time that the cement bears pawprints.
"Oh, now we see the violence inherent in the system!" What a great movie, Holy Grail. Before the film, Robin and I should have done reading for our classes, but instead we talked about books …
I went to a showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail today with Robin at some history students' society showing. I'd forgotten how enjoyable it is! A history professor spoke a bit before and …