Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2007

12 Apr 2007, 16:21 p.m.

Static

For the past six months, my life at Fog Creek has had a rather unpleasant and pervasive physical element. I accumulate static electricity while in my Aeron chair. It seemed to start during the rainy/snowy …

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12 Apr 2007, 11:58 a.m.

Seen

Yesterday: a sign encouraging me to "Give $ Baby". I gave a dollar, but not a baby. Tuesday: a "Health King" juice/smoothie seller in the forties or fifties on Lexington Avenue. I thought the 38th …

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11 Apr 2007, 10:11 a.m.

"Stephen watched the samosa being smothered."

I have posted over 160 links, without meaning to accumulate such a repository, to the del.icio.us account that Leonard and I share. Here's something that might not get posted there: the Colbert/Stewart slash that made …

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08 Apr 2007, 18:04 p.m.

Even My High School Chemistry Teacher Liked "Frasier"

From a reference on Jaime Weinman's MacLeans blog: parts 1 and 2 of the Frasier episode "Ham Radio" (the YouTube links in the original Weinman post don't work anymore).

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08 Apr 2007, 15:35 p.m.

MC Masala on Spring and Continuous Partial Attention

Okay, this is ridiculous. It is snowing! in early April! This puts the lie to my "yay it's springtime" column this week. After I failed one quiz and squeaked by another, he gave me advice …

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08 Apr 2007, 15:30 p.m.

Movie Friends

Leonard doesn't like seeing movies in the theater, so I'm used to going alone or with other people. When we lived in SF, I had free time and a bunch of acquaintances who would go …

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06 Apr 2007, 15:03 p.m.

Approval

It turns out that my wantlist is my primary means of listing off bands I like, so I added a bunch today. I wouldn't know of half those bands without Internet radio. The list of …

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05 Apr 2007, 21:22 p.m.

And How Did That Work Out?

World-Famous Leonard from a Salon article three years ago: At an engineering offsite in the Marin Headlands, soon after the announcement, a "V.C.-type" speaker came in to put [Collabnet]'s move into a larger economic context, …

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05 Apr 2007, 21:18 p.m.

Discovery

People at work are loving the new Discovery Channel show "Planet Earth." However, one colleague described a heartbreaking scene where a mama elephant has to leave the worse-performing of her two babies behind during a …

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03 Apr 2007, 15:33 p.m.

Nameforesaken

I won a little competition, so Gareth L. Powell will, as I suggested, name a protagonist in his new story "Shweta Venkatesh." I found out about the contest from the Futurismic blog. Futurismic is publishing …

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