Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2013

18 Aug 2013, 15:44 p.m.

It Is A Fun Word

This MetaFilter comment, plus not actually knowing how the song goes, caused my household to start chanting bringing in the sheaves; bringing in the sheaves as a sort of "la la la can't hear you!". …

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18 Aug 2013, 12:19 p.m.

Only About Twenty Years After Joining Usenet, A Realization

Emoticons are pretty essential.

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14 Aug 2013, 18:04 p.m.

Uniform Light

I can be bad at remembering titles (e.g., misremembering "Silent Weapons" as "Distant Voices"). Part of this is because titles in specific genres blur together for me. You can come up with "this is about …

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02 Aug 2013, 20:28 p.m.

I Don't Understand; You Must Be To Blame

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: My friend Jelani Cobb talks about how the literature of slavemasters is filled with exasperation over their slaves laughing at invisible jokes. So from time to time you will see people come …

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21 Jul 2013, 22:09 p.m.

Writing A Short Varied Life Update In A Fruitless Attempt To Ignore The Heat

All those words for "hot weather, uncomfortable variety" feel about right now. Sweltering, sultry, torrid, what have you. It broils my brain more than hot weather used to; I feel like a Terry Pratchett troll. …

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04 Jul 2013, 23:05 p.m.

Innocuous

The friendly people of OpenITP let me co-work there sometimes, so I got to sit in on a chat recently in which Karl Fogel mentioned Telex. Part of how Telex would help censored users is …

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30 Jun 2013, 10:28 a.m.

No

"No" is a new Chilean film and if you liked any combination of The War Room/Wag the Dog/Forrest Gump/Goodbye Lenin!/University of Laughs then you should check this out too.

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29 Jun 2013, 23:00 p.m.

On the End of Google Reader

Google Reader will end on July 1st, in just a few days. It looks like many of my friends are switching to the Newsblur service, or running an instance themselves. If you subscribe to this …

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10 Jun 2013, 9:57 a.m.

Yes You Should Have Business Cards

Left-justify your name and web address and email address -- no title necessary -- in a legible font. Get the perforated cardstock and do it on a home printer, or get a local copy shop …

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02 Jun 2013, 8:35 a.m.

Misunderstandings

Yesterday I was waiting on a subway platform and saw an ad for "The Hangover Part III" (with "The End" at the top), and a movie ad stating "This Is The End". "Wow, they're really …

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