Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2004

20 Jul 2004, 17:34 p.m.

Fast Food Alien Nation

My parents lived in India for decades before emigrating to the US. We ate dinner at home (where I never ate enough for my mother's liking) almost every night, and the only friends who had …

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20 Jul 2004, 8:51 a.m.

Tigers and Lions

My neighbor and coworker Susan McCarthy has a new book out on how animals learn. Many funny examples. As The Religious Policeman illustrates in his Saudi weblog, the Saudi royal family needs some reform. My …

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19 Jul 2004, 12:30 p.m.

A Friendly Request

People of the world! If you are not resourceful, or if you plan on being a nuisance in some other way, please do not interact with me today. As Alice said in a slightly different …

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19 Jul 2004, 11:07 a.m.

Full Faith and Credit Cards

I got to see Steve and Alice this weekend. Man, their ceremony will be three and a half hours (including the reception) and I am going to cry the whole time. Related: a coworker's planning …

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19 Jul 2004, 10:02 a.m.

Reassurance

Sometimes I think it's useless to write boring letters to soldiers I've never met; ginmar reassures me. Update: one of them wrote me back!

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19 Jul 2004, 7:59 a.m.

Must Be Not Allergic To Gluten

I'm looking for a backup stage manager to train for "I Look Like An Egg, But I Identify As A Cookie", the show I'm stage-managing. Heather is extending the run and I may not be …

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15 Jul 2004, 11:25 a.m.

Caution: Dark Fantasy, Rambling, No Closure

Jon Carroll, like me, is thinking about Ralph Nader. I overheard David Talbot's phone call with Nader in the office a few days ago. As I see it, the cycle of marginalization and radicalization has …

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13 Jul 2004, 17:44 p.m.

You Already Read Achewood

For future reference, here is a list of my favorite Achewood strips. Caution: some require context. I have felt this way except for the Computer Science. One reason I now eschew slogan tees (although I …

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13 Jul 2004, 14:02 p.m.

The Chart Does Not Lie

Make A Cost-Per-Wear Chart and embarrass yourself into wardrobe reasonableness!

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13 Jul 2004, 12:51 p.m.

Bliss

An okay Dinosaur Comics reminds me that Bill Nye has a "consider the following" shtick. I spent many pleasant hours in front of Bill Nye the Science Guy. One year of high school I had …

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