Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2009

07 Apr 2009, 20:01 p.m.

"Also airport bathrooms."

As Leonard and I read submissions for the anthology, we compiled some tips for writers. Leonard has them up on his site.

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07 Apr 2009, 19:17 p.m.

A Tiny Anthology

If you liked my most recent poem (the Linton Johnson one about BART), you might like these: on my right pinky finger (near the end of the page) on chess "Consistency Bias," on coercion and …

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07 Apr 2009, 13:23 p.m.

Five Books (With A Little Cheating)

Years after Zed and Rachel C. (Update: and Erica Olsen!!) tagged me with fairly similar book blogpostmemes, I respond. Hugo Schwyzer did a similar one once that I'm taking this opportunity to link to, and …

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06 Apr 2009, 19:06 p.m.

Sagacity

Leonard and I are watching Carl Sagan's COSMOS, which is astounding. Also, if you're doing impressions, two parts Obama plus one part Woody Allen will give you an okay Sagan.

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03 Apr 2009, 21:58 p.m.

Happiness

Leonard and I got to hang out with Jed Hartman, an editor of Strange Horizons, this afternoon! We talked about scifi and editing and his magazine and our anthology. Then he left, then Aaditya came …

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02 Apr 2009, 9:13 a.m.

Me In Other Media

The Thoughtcrime Experiments anthology, which Leonard and I are finishing up now, got me into Your Favorite Thing About The Recession from The Morning News. It's also a big reason Sharon Panelo interviewed me about …

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02 Apr 2009, 8:35 a.m.

If You Read This To The End You Get To See Inside My Marriage

I watched the interview Jon Stewart did with Jim Cramer a few weeks ago. If you're the kind of person who loves Jon Stewart's work, you probably heard about it. Stewart's key critiques of CNBC: …

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01 Apr 2009, 9:17 a.m.

New Awesome Work

Martin and I are co-founding a new firm to produce the PoTeaTo, a food-and-beverage convergence device targeted at the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Simply drop the PoTeaTo into a small pot of …

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01 Apr 2009, 7:40 a.m.

The Long View

Throughout Jody Procter's memoir Toil: Building Yourself, a diary of his work helping build one specific house in a small Oregon city, Procter aches for the weekend, feels hopeful and buoyant working through Friday afternoon, …

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01 Apr 2009, 0:49 a.m.

Cost-Benefit Analysis For Projects: Caution!

We often say that something is/isn't "worth it" based on a reflexive guess. The important thing isn't quantifying all those guesses to the tenth decimal point, it's getting into the habit of interrogating them. How …

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