Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Last night I gave Leonard some alone time to work on a Constellation Games bonus story. I went to Ward III, a Manhattan bar that does bespoke cocktails. They have a menu of predesigned cocktails …
Yesterday I bought and read Jeremy Blachman's Anonymous Lawyer because I remembered liking the blog. Strange. I don't usually like wince humor, but the book went pretty fast and balanced out the narrator's ambition and …
A few months ago, I was talking with one of MediaWiki's summer interns in our IRC chatroom. He confessed that he had procrastinated on the work for his project and was rushing to finish it …
Leonard and I both spend most of our time at the apartment these days, me working for the Wikimedia Foundation, him working on Constellation Games, his science fiction novel, launching Tuesday. (The novel's done, but …
From and following conversation with Finn back in the winter, and "Slapdash Thoughts On Real Estate" two years ago: I told Finn that Locke had posited three ways to legitimately acquire land-style property. "Incidentally, the …
Geeky Stand-up Comedy from Heiko V. on Vimeo.Sumana's Stand Up Comedy on the second day of the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2011. Unfortunately the recording died half way through the video... Thanks to …
I enjoyed the new Muppet movie thoroughly. I have, basically, only two substantial criticisms. One is the fact that nearly all the female characters are defined by their relationships with men. The second is more …
I remember, during an election debate, Al Gore quoting the line, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" from Matthew. There's a similar Gibran line, "Work is love made visible." It's …
"Tomorrow Is Waiting" by Holli Mintzer. If you want the truth, it happened because Anji was feeling lazy. Her AI class wasn't all that interesting, nor was it a field she wanted a career in, …
Police shut down the airspace and part of the subway and crushed donated books and tossed out reporters here, where I live, in New York City. And in Berkeley, at the University of California at …