Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2005

03 Nov 2005, 6:00 a.m.

Links Of The Morning, If Old

Doesn't a management training program for tech companies sound like a great idea? Also, how to get your resume read if you apply. Almost three years later, even I have to strain to get the …

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02 Nov 2005, 18:38 p.m.

Memento Mori, or, Ashes To Ashes In Your Mouth

I am listening to Tallahassee over and over, not eating enough, staying too late at work, wanting to see The Weather Man. It is as though I am so happy, with all of this unexpected …

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02 Nov 2005, 16:50 p.m.

Sweet Lyrics

Reading Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, a novel in sonnets. I like recognizing the scattered nice (precisely fitted) rhymes, and familiar external and internal locations. I adored A Suitable Boy as I loved Anna Karenina. …

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02 Nov 2005, 12:37 p.m.

The One Thing I Forgot

was the one thing I meant to mention. Kris and Leonard: "Idylls of the King" by The Mountain Goats starts with "This place" and yet is not awful. Also includes "And the shrieking of innumerable …

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02 Nov 2005, 12:32 p.m.

Music In My Cube At Work

I have some sufficiently non-mainstream music in this pile, so I am going to say bah to my insecurities and share the list of CDs on the shelf in my cube here at Salon: Margot …

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02 Nov 2005, 12:12 p.m.

Quotable Quips

Today I found myself quoting Keynes or Galbraith, one of those: "In the long run we are all dead."

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02 Nov 2005, 6:40 a.m.

The Inconceivable

According to my mom, my dad is actually okay with the fact that I am dating Leonard. In many ways, Leonard is like my dad. They are engineers with creative side endeavors. They love puns …

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01 Nov 2005, 9:18 a.m.

How Can It Be?

Listening to the new Franz Ferdinand CD as I turn on my work computer and start getting into the customer service tool. How can it be that life is this awesome?

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01 Nov 2005, 8:18 a.m.

Meta-Political Thoughts

As election time swings round again, Leonard's ponderings from last year come back to relevance.

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31 Oct 2005, 22:08 p.m.

Times Square: Marqueed McDonald's And Rosie O'Donnell

My wonderful friend Angel (who made my acquaintance in high school) and I have returned from a weeklong trip to Washington, DC and New York City. I deliberately took no pictures and bought few souvenirs, …

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