On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Does this mean you are going to be studying at Yale, Solipsist?
>
> I must remark on the modesty of those who go to Ivy League schools. If they
> are at Harvard, they say "Cambridge"...if at Stanford, they say,
> "California"...if Yale, it's "
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Groklaw has decided to shut shop.
>
>
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130820/02152224249/more-nsa-spying-fallout-groklaw-shutting-down.shtml
>
> Thoughts?
>
Seems a tad overwrought as far as reactions go, but to each their own.
Anyw
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:07 PM, John R. Sundman wrote:
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>
>>> Tracy Kidder's book "Soul of a New Machine"
>>>
>>
>
> Added the book to my reading list. What kind is it?
>>
>
> Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book about a team of hardware
> engineers working for Data General Corporation
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> list.lurker Kragen wrote this piece which is all over my twitter
> timeline, and I thought I'd mirror it on silk as well, as it's a good
> overview of the events in Egypt so far. Additional thoughts, folks?
>
> Udhay
>
> http://canonical.
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters
> to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten.
>
> It may not seem so strange since it is consumed so commonly in some parts,
but I'm going to have to sa
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:58:41PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> > Srini RamaKrishnan wrote, [on 3/31/2010 8:02 PM]:
> >
> > >>> Why you Nazi you, you are no better than Hitler.
> > >>
> > >> Since that is ironic, Mike G's wise observation
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Lahar Appaiah wrote:
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> My alumni listing has Infosys, Wipro, National Law School and Bishop
> Cottons
> Bangalore.
>
>
A fellow Cottonian! And another in the long list of Appaiahs to attend
Cottons (though it is a common name I suppose).
DK (ISC/ICSE from BCBS
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Kiran Jonnalagadda [15/04/09 01:18 +0530]:
>
>> Does anyone here know how to get the attention of Facebook's management?
>>
>
> I have a friend there who heads facebook security. He's not a contact I use
> very often, certainly not f
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
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> Friday lunch then? Who do we have? Speak up!
>
> Udhay
> Deepa
> Ravi Bellur
> Dave Kumar (?)
> Venkat Mangudi (?)
>
> I'm not yet sure about Friday lunch, unfortunately. Relatives are coming to
town o
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Radhika, Y. wrote:
> there was also the woman in Montana who named her daugther Syphilis-it
> seemed such a feminine, pretty word to her!
>
> A friend of mine said she talked to a woman in Brazil who had named her
daughter Menage A Trois. She (the mom) had no idea
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>
> Ethiopian, judging from the number of desis I see in restaurants
> serving this cusine in the US, would be well received, though the
> dosa-bred southies will wonder what was so great about Ethiopian food.
>
> In my experienc
t your absentee ballot!!
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On 4/10/08, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Dave Kumar wrote, [on 4/10/2008 7:05 PM]:
>
> Way back when, in the late 80s, there was a Mexican restaurant in
> > Bangalore,
> > on Church Street or thereabouts I believe. It was a Mexican "fast fo
On 4/10/08, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I've been wondering why there is an acute lack of *any* restaurant, in
> Bangalore, that serves Mexican food. I'm not sure if this is true of
> the rest of India too...
>
>
Way back when, in the late 80s, there was a Mexican restaurant in Banga
On 2/8/08, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Feb 8, 2008 11:06 PM, Dave Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > at a law school there a couple of years ago
>
> Oh? When was that? I graduated in '02, assuming it's NLS you are
> referring to
On 2/8/08, Linda L. Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I'm looking forward to getting to know you all.
>
> Linda
>
> As a former resident of both Bangalore (middle school, high school, taught
at a law school there a couple of years ago, parents still live there) and
Somerville (while in law scho
On Jan 21, 2008 9:24 AM, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A chap with the name "Ramak Fazel" with an "untraceable accent" (i.eFurriner
> of unknown origin) is a "quintessential world citizen". What's that? Who's
> deluding whom?
>
> Tell me another one.
>
> [snip]
>
> It is easy to spot an
On 12/12/07, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I have the following scenario, with no clear answer :
>
> Lets say a Govt. department in Country-X purchases online services
> from an American company (for e.g. Web hosting...).
>
> Country-X subsequently, for various reasons, falls under a US go
On Dec 7, 2007 6:08 AM, Amit Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.itpiraten.com/captainsblog.htm#uTorrent
>
> As you may or may not know, uTorrent, the popular torrent client, have
> > joined forces with Time Warner. There are already lots of trackers out
> there
> > that have banned uTor
On 11/3/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> It's just a commercial. An Apple commercial, for crying out loud.
>
> People who buy Apple computers think that a mouse with two buttons is too
> complicated; these are not the brightest bulbs on the tree here. They
> think
> it's be
On 10/24/07, Dave Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> This is, admittedly, focused on the US regulatory world, but it includes
> some discussion of the tension between wireless network operators and
> software applications like Skype. This debate may be entirely different in
This is, admittedly, focused on the US regulatory world, but it includes
some discussion of the tension between wireless network operators and
software applications like Skype. This debate may be entirely different in
other countries. (In fact, seeing as how I'm supposedly teaching a class on
Regu
I hesitate to start this discussion with some of the opinionated folks out
there (oh, who am I kidding?), but I found this to be very interesting. It
is a "book review" in the New Yorker, although it is really just a column
that doesn't really review the book. The original article is quite long, b
On 8/6/07, Divya Sampath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> --- Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Newsweek Disgrace: 'Global-Warming Deniers: A
> > Well-Funded Machine'
> > By Noel Sheppard | August 5, 2007 - 13:43 ET
>
> I find it interesting that this article appears to be
> more critical
On 6/29/07, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Actually, I believe Deepa was quoting someone else, but ]
Now here's a prediction: the iPhone will not be seen as perfect, by Saturday
there will be a minority of less-than- thrilled new iPhone owners who
will form
an anti-[iPhone, Apple,
On 5/31/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The mangoes are probably straight from the can. Generally, restaurants use
canned alphonso mangoes to make the icecream
Doubt that was the case at Rasika -- they made a show of adding the
dessert special right after the US-India mang
On 5/30/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lawnun [30/05/07 17:20 -0400]:
>Oooh. I second that need. And maybe, if we get a good suggestion, a few
of
>us can do a little DC/VA silklist meetup?
>
I'll be in DC from July 10th night to the 14th afternoon .. 11 / 12 July
in
a mee
P.S. For those of us who live in the US and who were ecstatic to hear that
Indian mangoes are now available in the US (but haven't yet seen them in
stores), Rasika has a Alphonso-mangoes-with-cardamom-flavored-ice-cream
dessert.
On 5/30/07, Dave Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In
In my opinion, your best bets in DC/Arlington are all in DC -- Rasika (6th
and D downtown, near the Verizon Center), Indique on Connecticut in
Cleveland Park, and Heritage India on Wisconsin in Glover Park (the
original, not the newer branch near Dupont Circle). Heritage India was for
a long time
On 1/10/07, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it possible that some of the information might have been made by the
users of Google Earth? Maybe Thaths can find out...
One error I noticed -- 9th Cross in JP Nagar (off which I grew up) is named
"Sarakki Main Road," whereas Sarakki M
On 10/23/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/23/06, Dave Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 10/23/06, Kragen Javier Sitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > What's the "London School of Economics"? Is it part of some
> > university, o
On 10/23/06, Kragen Javier Sitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What's the "London School of Economics"? Is it part of someuniversity, or is it more like DeVRY?Is
that a joke? LSE is regarded by many as one of the finer academic
institutions in the world -- not quite Cambridge/Oxford/Harvard/Yale
te
On 8/2/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So. Where is everybody located these days?
In Washington, DC these days, working for a small law firm specializing
in telecommunications law. Involved in all the fun fights in the
telecom law and policy world, such as net neutrality (on the "ri
On 4/27/06, Ashok Hariharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i didnt know there was a 'broke-back' biju on this list who was 'leadingpeople astray' :pmind your words sir, in some quarters such language may not be looked uponkindly...I believe a "not that there's anything wrong with that" is in order. ;
On 4/24/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Deepa Mohan wrote: [ on 10:26 PM 4/24/2006 ]>why do developers use footnotes(1) so much?>>(1) their head notes are possibly undeveloped?It may be worth noting that this is a convention followed, inter
alia, by some tools that translate HTML mar
On 3/8/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think a goodly percentage of the population here will find this amusing...>Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Godel and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar.>Heisenberg looks around the bar and says, "Because there are three of
>us and because this is a bar, it
On 1/31/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,5387630-111087,00.htmlVeteran actor, 10, writes and directs his own filmRandeep Ramesh in New Delhi
Tuesday January 31, 2006GuardianA 10-year-old Indian boy is close to becoming one of the world'syoungest directors wit
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