Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Whistling update: After months of practice, I can now produce a whistle on demand (after a few false starts). Now I'm working on pitch modulation. Yesterday I finished Lem's A Perfect Vacuum. I hope to …
From the latest issue of that esteemed journal of diaspora, India Post, two items. First: in the "Woman Post" (two-page spread devoted to women), an article (if you can call it that) repeating some press …
Many, many media experiences over the past few days have I had.On Tuesday I saw Noam Chomsky speak. I couldn't follow his speech, which was about about theories of linguistics or something. On Wednesday I …
This morning I read the first two short stories in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies. I like them, much as I liked the stories in Anjana Appachana's Incantations and Other Stories. Both sets have that …
So I enjoyed but fell asleep while listening to Bach's Mass in B minor with Leonard and Seth, after showing Leonard a few episodes of Yes, Minister. In other media experiences, Leonard and I watched …
From Adam: "Snapple says it's 'made from the best stuff on earth.' Evidently the best stuff on earth is ... water and high-fructose corn syrup." I hung out with Matt and Adam last night, er, …
It's not often that I wonder, "How should I address this professor? Would he rather I use his title, his title and last name, or his first name?" and then read a book by him …
Even though Bad Subjects is usually full of grad-student wankery, I still read it. Case in point: it's fun to skim such a perfect embodiment of the genre, especially when it's queer theory being applied …
I'm reading Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner. Enjoyable and thought-provoking. So now I have over a year of my life here in my journal at this website. I started …
Every year I try not to pay attention to Valentine's Day or the Academy Awards, and every year I kinda do. Hey, Lagaan is up for Best Foreign Film! Adam, it'll be a deathmatch between …