From The Young Buddhists' Path To Success, by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, 1987, p. 25: What the Buddhist youth lack today is a sense of ambition. I'm turning this over in my head, half thoughtful …

(Title from some lost-to-the-ages sage, I think.) I recently said to a friend that I'm pretty on-board with "Labels are for mailing things" and "Normal's just a setting on the dryer" (also said as "Normal: …

My third week of my 2014 Hacker School batch, I decided to take on a project that I'd originally thought about doing a year before, during my first go at HS. Between April 2005 and …

In my second week of my 2014 Hacker School batch, I asked: What are red flags in scifi/fantasy magazines' calls for submissions? What words/phrases make you think "ew, avoid"? -- @brainwane, 3:48 PM - 13 …

Back on October 7th, I offered "Some Tips On Domain Names And Hosting", and said: "So, next step: choosing a provider, spinning up a server, loading it up, and pointing my new domain name at …

Mary Schmich wrote in that 1997 "wear sunscreen" advicedump, which has stuck with me and overall proven a good guide for adult Sumana: Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you …

I just finished a six-week batch at Hacker School. As an alumna, I had the option of asking to come back for three months or for a six-week minibatch, and I decided on the latter. …

Sometime in early 2010, I jotted down a few notes that I meant to blog at the time; I've now expanded them into the following entry. I was in between jobs; I think it was …

Last night one of my Hacker School peers was practicing sleight-of-hand with a card deck, and another peer walked over and said, "Oh, I used to run a magic tricks website." I waited with bated …

I know some Russian, some French, and some Kannada, and every once in a while, my vocabulary fractures and I say a word from some other language. "Nodu" is Kannada for "look" (imperative second-person), and …