Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
My current fun-book is Robert Kanigel's The One Best Way, a biography of Frederick W. Taylor. An offhanded remark about transcendentalists seized me -- what's the name of the transcendentalist journal that Emerson started? Ah, …
I now have the address of Mr. Berkowitz, after some rather desultory time at classmates.com. I'll send him a letter soon.
A week ago, whilst helping Jeana and her cooking partner prepare dinner, I was listening to a commercial radio station. Quite rare, for me. I only burst out laughing a few times. One ad for …
George Orwell wrote in "Politics and the English Language" that incompatible metaphors are frequently mixed, a sure sign that the writer is not interested in what he is saying. Some metaphors now current have been …
I went to the Allston Way post office today and, after waiting several minutes and filling out a short form, received the $3.40 in first-class stamps that I tried to buy from a vending machine …
Even if I move outside of Northern California after I graduate, I'll still keep reading Jon Carroll's column in the San Francisco Chronicle.
I dreamt a long, complicated dream last night. I participated in a snowball fight, saw Alexei in a line for a movie theater, saw my Political Psychology TA working a minimum-wage food-service job, and possibly …
Adam linked to Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think." I've never read it, but since I posit that Google helps us achieve memex-hood, I should. Once upon a time, Leonard impressed me by instantly recalling …
I cut myself today while removing the tough outer layers from blocks of tofu. Not nearly as dour as some medical news I could think of, but still annoying. Be careful when using sharp knives, …
Oh yeah, I actually did get quite a bit of Russian homework done this morning. I did not finish the ridiculously repetitive "rewrite this passage in three slightly different forms" portion, nor did I do …