Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2008

14 Apr 2008, 0:35 a.m.

Escapism

I can't wait to be done with school so I can travel, see friends, get back into How To Design Programs, and generally relax and catch up. Near-future plans of this type include: Yay visitors! …

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10 Apr 2008, 8:25 a.m.

Trivia, Drugs, And Profit

Yesterday, in the back of the M60 bus coming back home from Columbia, I overheard a group of people discussing hair, phones, cable companies, the wireless auction, etc. I offered a factlet about rotary dial …

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08 Apr 2008, 11:36 a.m.

Words Flagged As Misspelled

in an email I just sent: DTs, SEs, Meetup, WebGrrrls [actually WebGrrls], LinkedIn, WTF, hackathon, Twitteriffic [actually Twitterrific], miniconference, nametags, MoMA, PMing. I wonder if you can deduce what the email was about.

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06 Apr 2008, 22:29 p.m.

19th Century Slang Help Request

I'm reading Trollope's autobiography and need help understanding this passage: The [clerical] critic, however, had been driven to wrath by my saying that Deans of the Church of England loved to revisit the glimpses of …

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02 Apr 2008, 10:42 a.m.

Huh

I just saw stick-figure whiteboard diagrams and thought for a moment that they were an xkcd.

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01 Apr 2008, 9:08 a.m.

Mallory

"Mallory," a near-future sci-fi tale by my husband Leonard, is published at Futurismic. I absolutely love it and hope you do too.

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29 Mar 2008, 22:02 p.m.

Done

Manhattan has been walked. I kind of can't believe we did it. More later.

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27 Mar 2008, 23:11 p.m.

A Random Walk

My sister is visiting me this weekend and we're going to try to walk the length of Manhattan this Saturday. We are tantalizingly close to the end of our trek and elated to find ourselves …

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23 Mar 2008, 20:30 p.m.

Who's Afraid of Castle Wolfenstein?

Zack and Pam stayed with us for a few days just now. I was mentioning something that Leonard's not great at -- boring repetitive tasks, or something. Leonard (entering): Wait, what's my alleged flaw? Sumana: …

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19 Mar 2008, 12:51 p.m.

Said At Work

"So it turns out I coulda bought Bear Stearns."

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