Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2003

24 Feb 2003, 17:22 p.m.

Leonard and I shared a Googlewhack with Adam over brunch…

Leonard and I shared a Googlewhack with Adam over brunch on Sunday. He momentarily thought that we should have rot13'd it.

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24 Feb 2003, 15:02 p.m.

As you know if you've met me, I sometimes enjoy…

As you know if you've met me, I sometimes enjoy socializing. This snarky article, like other pro-introvert books and articles I've recently seen, concentrates on the "we're so persecuted, everyone else is a boor" angle …

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24 Feb 2003, 15:00 p.m.

In Soviet Russia, the Cult Warns You Against the Nonprofit!

Zed relays scary news on the Cult Awareness Network. Don't trust them.

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23 Feb 2003, 17:19 p.m.

Shopping for Present and Future Nostalgia

Yesterday I finally got to substantively hang out with my school-friend Sarah. We've both changed in the nine years since we met, but then again we haven't. We brunched, visited yard sales and the Ashby …

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23 Feb 2003, 9:59 a.m.

My town of Satellite reminds me that someone recently searched…

My town of Satellite reminds me that someone recently searched for "speed of seattlite spinning around earth" and hit my site. Are there any residents of Seattle currently orbiting Earth?

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23 Feb 2003, 9:53 a.m.

I Live in Vaudeville

I am introduced to a stranger as "a comic." "You're a comic? Really?" "Yes. Actually, I'm Beetle Bailey." A stranger points to my tie. "Tie?" he asks. "No, I'm Indian." By the way, Beetle Bailey …

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22 Feb 2003, 7:45 a.m.

Brief Fierce Conversations in Hideous Climates

One nice thing about living with Michael is that he has many neat friends and acquaintances. I meet them and they guest star in my life for a few hours. The cameos have rarely turned …

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21 Feb 2003, 19:05 p.m.

The Language of Film is the Roundup

Bend it like Beckham. I got to see this a few weeks back because my sister is a mover and shaker and got preview screening tickets. What a country! The plot: think American Chai plus …

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21 Feb 2003, 18:45 p.m.

Sumana Suggests Signifiers

I should distinguish between the signifiers "woooOOOOooo" and "doodley-oodley-oodley". "wooOOOooo" tells the audience, "this is a scary story; feel scared." For my purposes, "woooOOOOooo" is appropriate for supernatural tales even when the story is not …

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21 Feb 2003, 17:29 p.m.

Refreshing Breeze From the Past

"I think many civil libertarians have gotten this idea from mathematics about epsilon-delta proofs of limits and thought that you could have a moral bounding box around an act..." "Hello my name is Jeremy I …

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