Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Tag
Comedy

27 Apr 2006, 1:00 a.m.

Entertainment Miscellany

Watched the new Spike Lee film The Inside Man tonight. It contains a subtle Bamboozled reference, constant wit, and unyielding suspense. Very good. From dinner: "Michael Dell [in Direct from Dell] has ruined the word …

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23 Apr 2006, 17:23 p.m.

Nonobvious Stuff I May Do Now That I'm Married to Leonard

Talk freely with him about family money situations Mention our one-bedroom apartment Get cheaper memberships at some museums than we could while single Feel threatened by gay marriage (just kidding)

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13 Apr 2006, 21:53 p.m.

Dead Mice Eat No Peanut Butter

"Man, [that instance of vermin] is eating that poison like crazy!" "Yeah, we can't keep it on the shelves!" "Yes, because the FDA won't let us, because it's POISON."

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13 Apr 2006, 21:36 p.m.

Irregular Verb Conjugation

I have a healthy respect for the inherent viciousness of the feline. You don't care for cats. He's afraid of the kitty.

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04 Apr 2006, 11:25 a.m.

Dr. Warren's Logic Class Shows Up Again

The other day, I made a funny typo when writing a letter to a customer. I wrote, "Iff you'd like to order..." Logically, that's "If and only if you'd like to order..."

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24 Mar 2006, 7:44 a.m.

Insults

When you are insulting a piece of software in the "it is ugly" or "it sucks" manner, does it make sense to say "it has diabetes"? Or -- as a colleague suggested -- is mere …

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23 Mar 2006, 8:23 a.m.

A New Theodicy

"If you don't like it, file a bug with God." "That's it! The reason that bad things happen is that God doesn't have a copy of FogBugz."

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22 Mar 2006, 22:10 p.m.

Miscellany From The Last 36 Hours

"You could use Dissociated Press to generate the string and then reverse the tokens. Is 'tokens' the right word?" "Yes, it is." "YES!" "What's the singular of vermin?" Since people who arrive new and befuddled …

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13 Mar 2006, 9:06 a.m.

Quote of the Day

"That's my meta-weakness: getting into situations where my weakness is applicable."

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15 Feb 2006, 23:44 p.m.

Heard Today on the 8th Floor of a Building

"It means a lot that you came today, overcoming snow...well, there's not that much snow now, really...overcoming, um, elevators..."

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