Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
I spent this past weekend at Foo Camp, an unconference for/by/of makers, leaders, and generally interesting hacker-ish people. Thanks to O'Reilly Media (the tech publisher with the woodcuts on the covers, not the blowhard FOX …
Leonard was pretending to be angry beyond reason. I said, "Wow, looks like you're a savage beast!" and hummed. "What are you singing?" "The 90210 theme song." "Why?" "Because 'music hath charms to soothe the …
I made up a doo-wop song to celebrate Leonard's breakfast generosity. I like to make up songs, but the rhyming dictionary in my head gives me pretty strange rhymes on short notice. Excerpt: I'll pour …
Two jokes from the hackfest, both rather picking on Vincent: Vincent projected from his computer onto the big screen to demonstrate. GNOME windows and apps showed up, appropriately localised into French. "Oh, it's in French, …
I took the train from New York City to Providence on Friday morning. My first seatmate: a salesman who was discussing with a fellow sales executive why he should get a unified sales quota, rather …
From conversation with my sister yesterday: "So Greyhound has this new innovation called 'Reserved Seating' --" "So you just said 'innovation' and 'Greyhound' in the same sentence. Let's just take a pause to appreciate that." …
"I was friends with Jerry Seinfeld. We were just hanging out. He had a plot in a community garden so we went over and worked on that for a while...as he dropped me off at …
I went to high school for four years. Each of those years, I wrote for the high school newspaper. And each year, for the Valentine's Day issue, I wrote a separate, all-new anti-Valentine's Day opinion …
I made it back to New York City just fine, and in time to catch our own snowfall. Leonard & I have again been using the infinite uploads of the mysterious bobtwcatlanta for entertainment. "This …
Just finished Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker after a year or two. I was reading it at about two pages a day. But more happens in two paragraphs of Stapledon than happens in most entire novels. …