Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
In Mexico, is the card game "Uno" called "One"?
A not-very-helpful driving lesson took place today. The most interesting thing I learned (besides the oh-so-enthralling "you're not scanning enough" and so on) was that a certain empty lot at an intersection in downtown Stockton …
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 …
You remember that I warned you that it would depress thee to hit the "random user" link on LiveJournal? Well, just as bad but more entertaining in its "this is what our civilization has wrought?" …
Last night, while talking with Leonard, I messed up some of the lyrics of the song "It's a Small World." He and I discussed the possibility of a parody and came up with a few …
As the KQED announcer told us last night at 8, "A Prairie Home Companion will be trotted out again tomorrow morning at 11..."
Much fun recently, what with Strike Up The Band! last night (1927 war satire by the Gershwins and George S. Kaufman) and a party at my sister's today.
I really hope Google doesn't give in to the Scientologists and continue to delist xenu.net, a site critical of Scientology.
You Can't Get There From Here: The University of California at Berkeley set up some internet kiosks in the lobby of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union. Only today did I discover that the …