Idea for a really patriotic bumper sticker: "My other car is an American flag."
I'll be busy this weekend, so I won't be updating much till Sunday evening, I expect. At least I've gotten some more archiving done.
I'm still messing around with site design, but now I at least have a reasonable this-month newest-entry-first page up at http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sumanah/ces.shtml. And, as you may have noticed, the new name of the journal is Cogito, …
Leonard done fixed up a heap of stuff for me. So real soon now you'll be seeing bits of the diary on my homepage or something really convenient like that. Also, he discovered some weirdness …
It's Sunday. Yes, it's always Sunday here at Sumana's Journal. Even when it's Friday, as it is today. I don't know why NewsBruiser is stamping every message with "Sunday" when all the rest of the …
It's easier to trace the mental map to my next reference. Russia in this period had serfdom, autocracy, all sorts of arbitrariness in its political system. "I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How …
I'm not certain what in my Russian Imperial History class reminded me of Shirin Bakhshay and a song by Cake, "Going the Distance", that she liked back when we were in French class together in …
I used to do tech writing for money during the summers. If I'd had fun stuff to write, like this, maybe I wouldn't have gotten sick of it.
I'm tired and blue and I misspelled "brag" as "vrag" a few days ago and I spend this weekend without most of my friends. But I received a substantial injection of cheer this morning in …
"But doctor, why? Why did you create a bomb to destroy all of pop culture?""People have become obsessed with the nonsense that the mass media tell them is important! People never talk about anything real …
