Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Now I have to update my weblogging software (NewsBruiser). I should be glad that Leonard added functionality. And I am. But upgrades. Grrr. I have to reply to a lot of email. I will be …
Finished The Gift of Fear and will have to talk more about it later, especially regarding de Becker's pet peeve: local TV news. de Becker warns us that one indicator that signals danger is a …
Today I entered a used books store in El Portal and ended up buying The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker, whom my sister and I used to mock back in the late nineties …
Today I had much fun. I met Steve and his friend Michelle at brunch at Crepe de Vine on Shattuck and we had a fun conversation. Steve gave me Christmas presents: three "tacky" bookmarks, and …
I'm still reading Douglas Hofstadter's G�del, Escher, Bach, and I'm in the chapter entitled Typographical Number Theory. (By the way, even though I've seen Hofstadter in person and in pictures, whenever I try to picture …
Reread Anurag Mathur's book The Inscrutable Americans. Much like R.K. Narayan's My Dateless Diary, which is better and which mentions Berkeley. The funniest portion of the Mathur novel concerns our Indian visitor's discovery of American …
Certain bits of television I'd like to watch all the way through. Examples: Baseball and The Civil War by Ken Burns. The seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that I never saw, and all …
Today felt terrific. I finished The Dispossessed, started Hofstadter's book, and watched The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and spent time with agreeable people, and liked it all. This is what …
Last night I conversed with my sister on many topics. She came over to discuss Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, which I had lent her, and which had set her head abuzz. (Kress and …
I've been reading The Dispossessed by Le Guin. Enjoyable and thought-provoking. Better get to the housecleaning, though.