I am sure that I am not the first person to note that the openings to Dar Williams's "The Christians and the Pagans" and the Indigo Girls' "Closer to Fine" are pretty darn similar. Have …

I dreamt last night that I reconciled with my old archnemesis from high school, Suzanne R. She goes to Stanford now. I'll send her an email sometime soon asking how things are going. I've changed …

Back from my 30-hour trip to & from Stockton via Davis and Sunnyvale. I have a lot of stuff to say. First of all, though, I have to remember to set my few clocks back …

So last night I dreamt that -- much as in the movie Antitrust that John and I mocked in the plane on the way to Frankfurt -- some young hotshot programmer got chased down by …

At least I know people will miss me now that I'm leaving Kuro5hin.org as a diary-hosting site. It's always nice to know I'm missed when I leave something or someone behind. I've been thinking recently …

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 …