Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Aditya Kapil [09/01/07 13:20 +0530]: Ever tried the fillet mignon at Sunny's. They understand 'rare'. Have'nt been to the new Only Place. Any feedback? Adit. filet mignon, eh? it can be very good indeed, if done right. thanks, if i come to bangalore again i'll take a look

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 09 Jan 2007 12:29 pm, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Someone in the comments   mentioned MTR as a better example I believe veg only restaurants in Bangalore have a serious problem - because they are the worst places to sit down and eat. They have too many customers and there are places

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Biju Chacko
On 09/01/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09-Jan-07, at 11:43 AM, Aditya Kapil wrote: I met some friends at Koshy's (Bangalore) for a meal. Not the best experience in recent years. Pity... I used to like the place at one time.

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Biju Chacko
The new Only Place is pretty average. I don't think their food has deteriorated -- just that my standards have gone up as better Restaurants have opened in Bangalore. On the other hand, The Only Place's prices have not kept pace with inflation, so they've become far better value for money than

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Aditya Kapil
So what's your favourite place now for beef steaks? Adit. On 1/9/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just that my standards have gone up as better Restaurants have opened in Bangalore.

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Biju Chacko
I'm not sure if it's the best place for steak, but I like Herbs and Spice in Indira Nagar. In fact, Gabin and I are known as the steak brothers there because we always order steak there. :) -- b On 09/01/07, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's your favourite place now for beef

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Madhu Menon
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: I met some friends at Koshy's (Bangalore) for a meal. Not the best experience in recent years. Pity... I used to like the place at one time. http://thebangaloretorpedo.blogspot.com/2006/11/restaurant-reviewkoshys.html Even in the early to late 90s .. their

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: I'm not sure if it's the best place for steak, but I like Herbs and Spice in Indira Nagar. Don't know if that's the branch/sibling of the one in Pune, but the one here serves oh-so-passable fare - -- You see things; and you

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Madhu Menon
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: I'm not sure if it's the best place for steak, but I like Herbs and Spice in Indira Nagar. Don't know if that's the branch/sibling of the one in Pune, but the one here serves oh-so-passable fare

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 24 Dec 2006 12:18 am, Dave Long wrote: ... affected individuals often suffer permanent injury during childhood because they fail to notice illnesses or injuries, and fail to learn pain-avoiding (severe risk-avoiding) behaviours -- as in this study's index case. Injuries caused

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Aditya Kapil
I will take you up on this the next time in Blr. Adit. On 1/9/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aditya Kapil wrote: So what's your favourite place now for beef steaks? If you give me advance notice, I can make you a good steak. :D

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Aditya Kapil
Does SCN9A refer to an ion channel? Adit. On 12/24/06, Dave Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An SCN9A channelopathy causes congenital inability to experience pain:

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Aditya Kapil wrote: [ on 03:05 PM 1/9/2007 ] So what's your favourite place now for beef steaks? Shezan (now back on Lavelle road) used to be pretty good. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Long
Does SCN9A refer to an ion channel? Looks like, at least indirectly. Not that I know ion channels from Adam, but according to the abstract: This region contain the gene SCN9A, encoding the \alpha-subunit of the voltage-gated sodium channel, Na_{v}1.7, which is strongly expressed in

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 shiv sastry wrote: I believe veg only restaurants in Bangalore have a serious problem - because they are the worst places to sit down and eat. They have too many customers and there are places where the queue consists of people standing right

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Udhay Shankar N wrote: Dave Long wrote: [ on 08:27 PM 1/9/2007 ] Is southern indian cuisine as dairy-heavy as northern? Not really. The only dairy products in everyday food in most South Indian cuisines are curd (yogurt) and ghee. Though there do exist lots of heavy sweets made from milk.

Re: [silk] Medical term of the day

2007-01-09 Thread Shyam Visweswaran
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to get personal. Shyam - are you the Shyam that I think you are? If so - it is a real pleasure to see you on here. shiv (sastry1972) Small world, Sastry you are on here too? I stumbled on this list a few days ago -

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Shyam Visweswaran
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does SCN9A refer to an ion channel? Adit. Its been a while since I worked on ion channels, but I will give it a shot... The ion channel referred to here is a sodium ion channel. Sodium ion channels are usually consist of a

Re: [silk] Medical term of the day

2007-01-09 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 09 Jan 2007 10:06 pm, Shyam Visweswaran wrote: I wil try and post an intro for the rest of the list soon. You'd better do that - or I will post an intro that will probably embarrass you :) shiv

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 09 Jan 2007 10:18 pm, Shyam Visweswaran wrote: The cool thing would be to come up with a drug that mimics the SCN9A mutation: then you could remove pain without removing any other sensory function. Interestingly this is the exact context in which Dave Long posted this SCN9A

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 09 Jan 2007 8:27 pm, Dave Long wrote: judging from the traditional alpine diet, anyone with lactose intolerance here might have starved even in times of plenty)  Is southern indian cuisine as dairy-heavy as northern? One of the reasons that I have heard quoted for lactose

[silk] email disclaimer of the day

2007-01-09 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Found in mail sent by Cory. Any comments on intentions, Cory? :) Udhay READ CAREFULLY. By reading this email, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap,

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
shiv sastry [10/01/07 06:48 +0530]: Interestingly this is the exact context in which Dave Long posted this SCN9A business. There was an earlier thread that spoke of removing fear from soldiers. I wonder what we would get if you removed both fear and pain.. Oh I know - either a robot or

Re: [silk] email disclaimer of the day

2007-01-09 Thread Cory Doctorow
It's going to be a whole site -- t-shirts, stickers, etc. Cory Udhay Shankar N wrote: Found in mail sent by Cory. Any comments on intentions, Cory? :) Udhay READ CAREFULLY. By reading this email, you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising

Re: [silk] email disclaimer of the day

2007-01-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Cory Doctorow wrote: It's going to be a whole site -- t-shirts, stickers, etc. Cory Well, not the first one so far .. Jeff Goldberg has this lot up - http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Gautam John
Only Place is still pretty good. So is Millers 46. Shezan does sell some excellent raw beef though. Perfect for home grilling. As for Koshy's, I'm still a fan. Though I can't say really why... On another note, hello all! I'm not sure what the accepted norm for self-introductions are but here

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Gautam John
Yogurt, in varied forms, forms quite an integral part of the South Indian diet. And this may very well be due to the fact that the probiotics may actually help lactose digestion. I don't have an immediate reference to for this but will try and dig one up. On 1/10/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-10 06:56:19 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lactose intolerance to varying degrees is rampant in India - certainly in Bangalore - where i work, but it tends to vary greatly in severity and is rarely crippling. I've sometimes wondered if my Bengali genes protect me from the lactose

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

2007-01-09 Thread Gautam John
Narco-Testing is some variation on the Sodium Pentothal or Sodium Amytal ritual. On brain mapping, I remember reading that it was a combination of a variety of neuro-anatomical studies and those responses to specific questions about the crime in question. Though, I'm pretty sure these are only

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

2007-01-09 Thread Sthitaprajna
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: So... what the hell are narco testing and brain mapping? Are they as bogus as they sound, and as bogus as lie detector tests? Um, in narco tests, you pump the body with sedatives/barbituates/truth serums, so the suspect cannot lie. Here you assume that the subject

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

2007-01-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-10 10:59:38 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, in narco tests, you pump the body with sedatives/barbituates/ truth serums, so the suspect cannot lie. Hooray for not-quite-modern forensic not-quite-science. -- ams

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

2007-01-09 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-01-10 11:52:52 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hooray for not-quite-modern forensic not-quite-science. Can you suggest some alternatives? I suggest not wasting (my!) money on voodoo forensic mumbo jumbo. I suspect India is a few years away from CSI style forensics. I read that

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

2007-01-09 Thread Nandkumar Saravade
Venkat Mangudi wrote: Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Hooray for not-quite-modern forensic not-quite-science. -- ams Can you suggest some alternatives? I do not condone these methods, but I suspect India is a few years away from CSI style forensics. I agree completely. Most of us would like to

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 09-Jan-07, at 6:05 PM, Aditya Kapil wrote: Does SCN9A refer to an ion channel? All you wanted to know: http://hprd.org/protein/04565 -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/

Re: [silk] feeling no pain

2007-01-09 Thread Aditya Kapil
This does'nt tell me if there is a crystal structure. Is there one? Ion channels have proved hard to crystallize. Rod McKinnon who managed to do elucidate the potassium channel crystal structure was awarded the Nobel for his efforts. Without the crystal structure it's hard to design inhibitiors.

Re: [silk] on the cutting edge of forensic science

2007-01-09 Thread Gautam John
Well, if you're looking for questions that were asked, in the Noida case, when he was under-the-influence, so to speak, here is a sampling: Question: Why were you killing children? Surendra: Sexual frustration Question: Did you kill the children before having sex with them or afterwards?