Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
My Russian prof tries to involve the class in all sorts of curriculum decisions. As Josh Brockman once wrote, "I'm tired of all this empowerment."
From Logic discussion, on the sentence "For all x, if x is a basketball player, then x is large": "Now suppose we pick Jerry Rice for x. [pause] Football player."
On Zack's "I need a bigger dishrack" of 3 March: Kitchenware? Food laundry? You could take some of your dishes &tc. out of commission -- bench them so you have to do the dishes more …
I think I'm done with my Logic homework due Friday, and I've started my Linguistics problem set way ahead of time, too. I'm learning syntax by diagramming sentences, an exercise I thought I'd finished about …
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, …
From Mickey Kaus's latest Series-Skipper: "[Condoleeza] Rice says the problems of Afghanistan are so complex, 'We're going to wish this was the Balkans.'"
March 8 will be International Women's Day. In Russia. Custom: men give flowers to pretty much all the women they know. Aside from the floracide, pretty cool.
I nearly burst into tears when I saw a headline this morning about the recent Hindu/Muslim violence in India. Even now I can barely form any thought beyond "my people."
Zack and I hung out today. I had only been to Bacheeso's, a nice breakfast place at Dwight and San Pablo, once before, and I'd never visited Fourth Street (you think your downtown is gentrified?) …
On the other hand, yesterday I had a real and enjoyable conversation with Dan and found out some of what's going on in his life. I wonder whether he would have asked about me if …