Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2006

03 Sep 2006, 15:43 p.m.

MC Masala on A Day Out

I took a friend to Roosevelt Island. We walked down to the southern tip, where planted and overgrown greenery shaded a ruin from view. It used to house smallpox labs or patients, and now it …

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01 Sep 2006, 14:33 p.m.

Solids & Powders Replace Liquids

Per Leonard's posts, sometimes we use shampoo bars. I also use stick deodorant (Tom's of Maine or other non-mainstream stuff) and chew gum or use those little plastic strips for breath freshening. Thus, my usual …

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31 Aug 2006, 15:58 p.m.

Sort-of-manipulative Tricks

How to handle chronic complainers: actually listen to them and empathize, saying, "I don't know how you put up with it." From the discussion of Joel Spolsky's timeless "Fire and Motion": So, I took my …

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29 Aug 2006, 10:32 a.m.

How To Make Me Steamed

Take some US citizens, don't charge them with any crime, but keep them from returning to their home in Northern California, and deny them their constitutional rights. Especially when one is a teenager, and they're …

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29 Aug 2006, 2:51 a.m.

Dragging Everyone I Know To See

Will Franken! September 7th-28th he tours NYC, including a couple of stops at my usual haunt Rififi.

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27 Aug 2006, 21:46 p.m.

MC Masala on Scars & Marriage

Math teachers, parents, husbands, and tables all get under our skin. I left home for college, cut my hair, and took off my earrings once and for all. But my mom asked me to wear …

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20 Aug 2006, 14:30 p.m.

MC Masala on Tests of Americanness

"Who discovered the USA? Christopher Columbus." "Is this still right?" she asked. Man, oh, man, all the things I wanted to say. Before any white people from Europe came along, indigenous people lived in North …

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20 Aug 2006, 1:38 a.m.

Disturbing Slash Pairing

Keynes/Galbraith.

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19 Aug 2006, 14:13 p.m.

Managing Chance, Managing Change

Scott Rosenberg shouts in favor of incremental change, reminding me of Leonard's maxim: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." Scott also points to Josh …

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15 Aug 2006, 15:13 p.m.

Two, Two, Two Columns In One Post

Last week's MC Masala and this week's went up on the web today. The pursuit of happiness analysis: I'll never make it as a self-help book author because I can't reduce creating happiness to a …

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