So Irealize: I grow old, and while I still enjoy life, I learn that dyingisn't that far away anymore. I've probably reached the top of thehill already. There is also death around in the neighbourhood(meaning relatives, parents, uncles and aunts etc.), I can't avoid
it. And as a pastor, I have to h
I gave up the fight (I didn't fight very hard) to inject some Rush
lyrics into this conversation.
Udhay
Time Stand Still
=
I turn my back to the wind
To catch my breath
Before I start off again
Driven on
Without a moment to spend
To pass an evening
With a drink and a friend
I let
Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 20:37 schrieb Devdas Bhagat:
>
> I figure some people would dispute that. On the other hand,
> Live fast, die young has a certain attraction.
I'm not that old, just approaching the 50s, but I had gone through
several sections of time in which I didn't see a point in li
You should take no such thing. I'm using a dog as a pillow right now,
and my cat is dead.
What is up with all this death and morbidity? Is silk going through
externally induced mass depression?
-- ams
--
Ferric (http://ferric.net/)
At 2006-08-09 23:27:26 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I take it you're a cat person.
You should take no such thing. I'm using a dog as a pillow right now,
and my cat is dead.
-- ams
On 09/08/06 23:27 +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
> Show of hands? Dogs vs Cats?
>
Woof!
Devdas Bhagat
On 09/08/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But doesn't the mental image of a cat poised with all four paws on the
home row just brighten up your day?
I take it you're a cat person. I prefer dogs myself.
Show of hands? Dogs vs Cats?
-- b
unless one is predisposde to a certain frame of mind
(a certain situation,
which leads to suicide), or one has a timebound terminal
illness -- it is
very hard to talk about the right time to shuffle
off this mortal coil.
i enjoy travelling, and sometimes, to get a real feel
of things, its necces
Vinayak Hegde wrote:
On 8/7/06, Srini RamaKrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Makes for an alarming parallel to the poison seas thread.
Cheeni
Another similar story
[...]
They also know a large king crab quota means big money.
Neighbouring Russian king crab fishermen have a quota
10 times th
At 2006-08-09 19:24:58 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I hypothesize that ams' runaway cat has returned home. And the joy
> of seeing her (Mimi, right?) back is making him pretend to be Bret
> pretending to be her.
I'm afraid not. I think Mimi is dead.
-- ams
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:15:54 +0530
From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [silk] irc forensics
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
> I don't have a cat here to test, but that set of keypresses doesn't
> look as if it could be generated by a feline.
But doesn't the mental image of a
On 8/7/06, Srini RamaKrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Makes for an alarming parallel to the poison seas thread.
Cheeni
Another similar story
The biodiversity convention states
specifically that introduced species is one of the four most
important factors for species extermination in the wor
On 09/08/06 17:47 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Huhexcept for Deepak, not ONE of you has said at what age YOU would like
> to die! Would you like to die voluntarily when disease or infirmities catch
But I don't intend to die. I intend to live forever, or die trying.
More seriously, I want to
Do you have this? If yes, bring it when you come to Hyd.Adit.On 8/9/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ObSFReference: _Strata_ by Terry Pratchett, a rare early SF novel.Cracking good read, too.
-- "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies are Drosophila"
I did in a related post: 600 (but I guess I meant it as a metaphor for VERY LONG.)Adit.On 8/9/06, Deepa Mohan <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Deepak wrote:
Huhexcept for Deepak, not ONE of you has said at what age YOU would like to die!
-- "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies are Drosophi
Deepak wrote:
don't want to die. I'd like to live forever.
I'd like to have much more money so I could afford the best tech so I could be kept alive and will way beyond... stem cells, cloned organs whatever.
Huhexcept for Deepak, not ONE of you has said at what age YOU would lik
At 2006-08-09 15:10:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Assuming QWERTY layout, I would guess that this is a human.
> ;alskdfj <=== both sides move towards the center.
Indeed. Real cats also tend to have fewer sudden transitions, and much
longer runs of the same character repeated (which would
On 09/08/06 14:44 +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> > ;alskdfja;sldkfja;weoifj;23
>
> Your forensic exercise today is to decide if that's a cat simulating a
> human at the keyboard, or a human simulating a cat at the keyboard.
Assuming QWERTY layout, I would guess that this is a human.
;alskdfj
On 09/08/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ;alskdfja;sldkfja;weoifj;23
Your forensic exercise today is to decide if that's a cat simulating a
human at the keyboard, or a human simulating a cat at the keyboard.
That's a human, unless the cat is a touch typist.
-- b
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote [at 02:44 PM 8/9/2006] :
> ;alskdfja;sldkfja;weoifj;23
Your forensic exercise today is to decide if that's a cat simulating a
human at the keyboard, or a human simulating a cat at the keyboard.
I thought I'd use pawsense [1], but it apparently costs money. Oh well.
U
>>or a human simulating a cat at the keyboard.:-)in an AI world, what would be the equivalent of a Turing Test for "natural stupidity"On 8/9/06,
Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ;alskdfja;sldkfja;weoifj;23Your forensic exercise today is to decide if that's a cat simulating ahuman at
> ;alskdfja;sldkfja;weoifj;23
Your forensic exercise today is to decide if that's a cat simulating a
human at the keyboard, or a human simulating a cat at the keyboard.
-- ams
At 2006-08-08 10:58:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> And besides I think I am a pretty darn smart fun guy and this planet
> is lucky to have me
Time will tell if the planet feels the same way.
-- ams
Aditya Kapil wrote [at 12:03 PM 8/9/2006] :
Most large pharma are working on anti-ageing products. I am not an
expert on the area but would like to think they are on to something
given the $1 billion or so that it takes to bring a single drug into
the market. If something comes out I'd like to
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