Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Tag
Comedy

02 Dec 2007, 11:08 a.m.

"Firefly" Jokes

Today Leonard is having his yearly backup Thanksgiving. I say "his" because it's really his idea and his motive, although I do get to eat lots of stuffing. I get leftovers twice! It's great. And …

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01 Dec 2007, 14:55 p.m.

No Way That's Ruby On Rails

You Know You're A Geek When you see a trailer for Untraceable and immediately wonder what sort of infrastructure can scale like that. Also, the government could just make up a copyright infringement claim and …

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26 Nov 2007, 15:18 p.m.

Health And Art

I hate owing more than one blog entry to someone. One seems reasonable, two seems sloppy. So here's the first of a couple responses to my old pal Zed Lopez -- improvisateur, author of the …

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15 Nov 2007, 22:01 p.m.

What Slash Taught Me About "Stephen Colbert"

You might think that I began reading Stephen Colbert fan fiction because the writers' strike is keeping his show off the air.* But it was two weeks ago that I started seeking it out. I'd …

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07 Nov 2007, 2:09 a.m.

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Making Out

Once upon a time, I watched that OK Go treadmill video once a day for a week because it cheered me so. I'm currently there with times Stephen Colbert has broken character, set to "Don't …

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21 Oct 2007, 0:41 a.m.

They're Everywhere

When ironic/sarcasm scare quotes meet signmakers who use quotation marks for emphasis, you have the "Quotation Mark" Abuse photo pool (found via every damn blog ever). It reminds me of Spamusement, how plaintive and angry …

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19 Oct 2007, 0:11 a.m.

No Surprise

As of right now, the DonorsChoose site is not terribly responsive.

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09 Oct 2007, 10:18 a.m.

Seen

Now that Leonard's starting his new job, we're waking up earlier and moving our daily handball games to the realm of 7:30 or 8am. This means that today we saw Astorians in suits walking to …

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21 Sep 2007, 12:14 p.m.

Sumana Performs This Sunday Twiddles Her Thumb

This weekend I'm doing a monologue workshop called "Performing Your Life". Mike Daisey, a performer I like a lot, is teaching it. On Sunday the 23rd, at 9pm, those of us who want can perform …

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17 Sep 2007, 13:57 p.m.

To Write: Business Lessons From The Mahabharata

"How to depreciate an elephant" "Me or my weapons? Domain experience and the people-focused enterprise" "Draupadi and Just-In-Time Inventory" (food or sex? you decide!)

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