Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Leonard loves the crankiness of Losing the Race by John McWhorter. I love the anecdotes. I'd be fine with a book that just contained the anecdotes from all of McWhorter's other books, and lectures, if …
So, yeah, I'm done with school. I'm pretty glad about it. I sat between Mike Carns and Jade for the Logic final, and finished among the first few in the room. I did rather well, …
You know what I love about Leonard? Among other things, he writes sentences that I'm pretty sure have never been written or said before. McWhorter used "Admit it, my friends -- the woman hasn't even …
Now I know Unix, and Russian, and close analysis, and some history and literature and politics and economics, and some handball and judo and linguistics and logic. Today I prove that last one, 12:30-3:30.
Graduation: I graduated today. That is, I dressed up in the cap and gown that Shweta lent me, with a gold tassel from my high school mortarboard (which differentiated me from my blue-and-gold-tasseled classmates), and …
BookFinder's Fifth Anniversary Extravaganza (a history of the company) is laugh-out-loud funny and worth reading.
Computer scientists are always talking about the halting problem. Halting problem? What halting problem? When I want to shut down my computer, I go to a prompt and type, "halt", and hit Enter. What's the …
Skimmed Neal Stephenson's The Big U last night. Stephenson didn't rerelease it for a long time, arguing that he didn't want people to read his inferior early work instead of reading worthwhile fiction by other …
As I woke up, nearsighted, and looked from my bed to my wall-hooks, I saw this funny plain black dress on top of the whole pile. Oh, yeah, the graduation gown Shweta lent me. According …
Got two graduation gifts today, which were, as all of them will be, unexpected. I can't believe I'm graduating, and therefore can't quite believe that I should get gifts for anything. Jeana gave me Two …