"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 …

Last night, boarding the 43, I think I might have seen Eve, the pseudonymic administrator of InPassing.org. A nice-looking girl holding an O'Reilly book was a bit exasperated when some other woman accused her of …

I am assuming that, if one searches for "sumana" via any relevant search engine, one of the last URLs that will actually refer to me is the alt.fan.dave_barry FAQ. That list is how I met …

Oi! Five messages in my inbox when I wake up, and four of them are from actual people I know, including Susanna wishing to see a picture of my haircut (perhaps next time I see …

All right, I lied. I won't be finishing all of July tonight. Maybe if I have some free time tomorrow morning. I'm not setting my alarm, I'll tell you that right now. I'm sleeping as …

I'll just stay up long enough to archive July, and then I'll go to sleep, I promise.

Trials and Travails I'm writing several times a day now at the new location, http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sumanah/cgi-bin/view.cgi/weblog, and working to get some less bulky address working as well. Today: I got a haircut and reminisced a bit …

My haircut reminds me that my previous hair arrangement did not look terrific. I like this one a great deal better. Earlier today, something -- perhaps some idle notion that someone "had issues," or was …

I actually like the quote/fortune that the bottom of Slashdot featured for me just now: "But this one goes to eleven." -- Nigel Tufnel

I sat in on the other TA's discussion section of Political Psychology but left early. A fire alarm interrupted Russian. Political Psychology lecture might have been useful, but I fell asleep and didn't care so …