Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2007

27 Mar 2007, 11:28 a.m.

First "Oregon Trail," Now This

A colleague's tale of a multiple-anxiety dream (late to work + train is going the wrong place + never actually graduated from high school) caused me to tell him about Weird Al's song "Stuck in …

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27 Mar 2007, 10:40 a.m.

Earworm Alert

"I'm Downright Amazed At What I Can Destroy With Just A Hammer" by Atom & His Package. Has a faint kinship with the Ben Folds/Shatner version of "Common People."

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26 Mar 2007, 17:03 p.m.

"Deferred Success" = "Failed"

The other day I referred to poop as "the deliverable." More "Performance evaluation euphemisms invading everyday speech (ironically)" from Raymond Chen's blog.

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25 Mar 2007, 23:45 p.m.

Cursing At The Screen

Battlestar Galactica made me yell a real curse word at the screen tonight. Not "frack," either. The culprit: not the 60s song, not the revelations of Cylonitude, but the "back in 2008." Noooo! For those …

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25 Mar 2007, 12:47 p.m.

MC Masala on Vice & Tolerance

Pot, gambling, adultery, what have you. Quotes Daniel Davies. It gets more obvious when you see political moderates turn into radicals. The cycle of marginalization and radicalization has gotten to Ralph Nader, just as it …

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22 Mar 2007, 14:10 p.m.

Calling Alice, Claudia, Nandini...

Submit your paper-napkin business plan and win money + a pitching opportunity. "Women 2.0," they say. Via Systers.

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22 Mar 2007, 9:36 a.m.

What Kind Of Animal?

Yesterday, talking with a classmate about tricks to discipline ourselves into eating better, I found myself saying: "If your brain can't override your appetites, then you're no better than an animal." Bruce Schneier reminds us …

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22 Mar 2007, 2:16 a.m.

"World Phenomena Worry Me"

The more things change...

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21 Mar 2007, 12:05 p.m.

Tendencies, Or, The Lives Of Others

I'd like to see that film, The Lives of Others. Maybe it would help remind me of this bit of wisdom, one that's been slipping off me no matter how many times I try to …

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21 Mar 2007, 11:42 a.m.

Notes From Overachievers

A wry coda to an essaylet from my colleague Eric: "So I'm going to be thinking about these concepts. Figure out where I want to be getting results, and therefore what I should be paying …

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