Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Reading Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth, which I like.
I realize that my current job as a lowly clerk at Cody's makes me some bizarre triangulation between Anirvan, who founded Bookfinder, and Seth, who frequents bookstores and whose dad is in the brick-and-mortar bookstore …
I missed the They Might Be Giants concert. Maybe I'll catch 'em sometime when I'm Older. Oh, and you may wish to check out Seth's perspective. I now realize that the wacky character from Gordon …
I have a free DSL modem and bike helmet, left over from flatmates at my old place, for anyone who wants them. The velorutionary angel is littering! But yeah, she is beautiful, as per the …
Thanks to Cam for pointing us to Russian Jokes Translated Into English. I just started Foucault's Pendulum and I hate it, but I'll try to finish it anyway.
There is a mildly malevolent character in The Peace War called Roberto Richardson. I find this hilarious. Also the fact that in one or two passages the protagonist silently calls him Señor Loudmouth.
Yesterday night I stayed up too late reading Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke, the first in the Sally Lockhart trilogy of mysteries. Today I finished Vernor Vinge's The Peace War. Early on in …
Leonard is still ill. On the up side, he's almost finished Mark Twain's wonderful The Innocents Abroad, I finished Mikahil Bulgakov's off-the-rails The Master and Margarita, Adam and Kim came over for a short personal …
I'm reading The Master and Margarita, which is quite fun, and which mentions the Solovki Islands, which instantly endeared it to me. However, one incident in the story moves me to both remember an episode …
Recently I've actually finished two books. I didn't like Jon Stewart's anthology Naked Pictures of Famous People as much as I'd hoped, although a few of the pieces were worthwhile. I especially liked "The Devil …