Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Jon Carroll today: ...we must, as an act of common sense, practice kindness, cultivate compassion, search for the sacred in the mundane. That does not mean shrinking from a fight. That means understanding that violence …
Have I yet mentioned how terrific the TakeTransit Automated Trip Planner is? It's awesome! When it comes to San Francisco Bay area public transit, TransitInfo's Trip Planner is as good as gold -- or, better, …
I don't know the proper superlatives to explain how deeply Professor Alexei Filippenko's final Astronomy 10 lecture moved me. The hour after I heard him speak yesterday was one of the happiest hours of my …
My landlord raised my rent again, as per his right to make yearly cost-of-living adjustments. So I'm looking for a new place to live. I just put up a Craig's List post. Anyone know of …
Leonard and I have noted that Hagar the Horrible is uniquely suited to oblique discussion of the current military situation.
I found out today that I won't have a Russian final, even though Zhenia told us that the past three days' tests wouldn't count for anything unless we did very well. Wheee! Okay, then, I …
Okay redux. Contacting my sister: done. Bouquet for Zhenia: bought and given. Russian test: taken. The secret errand: done for now. I'm not going to go home, to get my phone or to get library …
Slashdot Science headline: Global Warming Mostly Confirmed - On Mars, That Is! Cinzia, my classmate in Russian and a graduate student in sociology, spells "moola" as "mula."
It's Friday, the last day of classes, and today I get to hear about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the search for extraterrestrial life, and in Kandahar Taliban forces are surrendering. Why am I …
Steve likes "slothful induction" (cf. the giant list of fallacies) because of the image it conjures: huge furry three-toed animals debating propositions of logic. I still haven't perused the list. Every time I look at …