Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 07 Feb 2008 12:55 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: all things considered I'd say Hassath is male. Aha! Sex talk eh? shiv

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Hassath
:-) I think the list introduced itself to me as well. On Feb 7, 2008 12:41 PM, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this bulleted list, with its conspicuous gaps of information - what is the color and texture of the desk surface, for example - is in an a way more revealing than a

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Sajith T S
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: I haven't known anyone called Hassath, so I can't hazard assumptions on the gender. However there are characteristics to the introduction that smack of a computer geek. Men are in the majority among computer geeks, so all things considered I'd say Hassath is male.

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 07-Feb-08, at 1:11 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: Maybe Hassath is the one on the left, and our friend AMS is the fellow in the middle. Fair guess, following from NS1.TOROID.ORG You may recall Quinn Norton's India trip for the Global Voices Summit was preceded by a post to this list

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Deepa Mohan
Men are in the majority among computer geeks, so all things considered I'd say Hassath is male. Cheeni AARRRGGHH!!! This from someone who calls himself Sugar...when he has a child I look forward to calling him Sugar Daddy. Welcome to Resham, Hassath! Er...what's a 5-subject notebook? Deepa.

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: | Er...what's a 5-subject notebook? Possibly that kind of notebook that BILT retails through various outlets - - has plastic or like material separator for subjects and has pages which remind me of the arithmetic copies of my

Re: [silk] Do you think Ubuntu is dead?

2008-02-07 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Rishab Ghosh wrote: So I was trying it again last night after the kernel update, and resume will sometimes come back - and other times appear to come back, but without turning the LCD backlight on. That is, I can tell the LCD is drawing something on the screen - I can make

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Hassath
On Feb 7, 2008 6:05 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AARRRGGHH!!! :-) Welcome to Resham, Hassath! Thanks, Deepa. Er...what's a 5-subject notebook? It's a notebook which has five sections- with coloured separators to demarcate the different sections. The pages are either all the

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Long
Oh my, whatever became of the good old asl plz? :) I have obviously led far too sheltered a life: Back in June, I learned that, if one's wife suddenly sports a Brazilian, it might be wise to reevaluate the health of one's marriage; further, if she proceeds to empty the bank accounts and

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Bharath Chari
Deepa Mohan wrote: Ah. My aarghh was the same sort of argh! NOM..No Offence Meant, Cheeni! (apropos of which...could sugar have come from China, to get that name? How much more convenient to ask someone than to go a-googling...) Deepa. Hmmm. Sandeep Kapoor again. Shiv, don't think your last

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-07 20:15:05 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apropos of which...could sugar have come from China, to get that name? No, actually it's exactly backwards. China got sugar from India, which might have been where sugar was first cultivated. The origin of 'chini' is not clear, but I seem

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Feb 7, 2008 8:06 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2008 6:05 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: someone who calls himself Sugar...when he has a child I look forward to calling him Sugar Daddy. AARRRGGHH!!! Ah. My aarghh was the same sort of argh! NOM..No

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Hassath
On Feb 7, 2008 7:49 PM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We (meaning: my spouse and her grouse) used to know one hassath, in a few avatars of her - very many years ago. :-) Yes, it is the same Hassath. (Tried to get in touch with Sowmya several times, but I guess her email address

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
Hi Hassath, On Thursday 07 February 2008, Hassath wrote: [snip] I'm looking at this list and failing to see where you mentioned that your daughter is awesome. I think that's a pretty big oversight. -Taj.

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread va
On Feb 7, 2008 6:48 AM, Hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I couldn't think of a better introduction. if '/me' implies 'person' and 'person' implies 'www.svaksha.com', then /me = www.svaksha.com || vid || ...crawls back into her shell after waving a hello to Hassath :)

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Ramjee Swaminathan
On 2/7/08, Hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :-) I think the list introduced itself to me as well. NO, not yet! What the hell, let me hassath a guess too. We (meaning: my spouse and her grouse) used to know one hassath, in a few avatars of her - very many years ago. If it is OR you are

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Casey O'Donnell
- The case of an iPod nano, with its USB cable Just the case? Like the shell or husk of what once was an iPod Nano? Or perhaps the carrying case for a working still Nano? If it (the Nano) isn't in its case, where is it? I'm all for the breaking apart of iPods, though their design demands that

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Feb 7, 2008 6:05 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Men are in the majority among computer geeks, so all things considered I'd say Hassath is male. Cheeni AARRRGGHH!!! Did I say something annoying? This from someone who calls himself Sugar...when he has a child I look forward

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-07 20:23:00 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, actually it's exactly backwards. China got sugar from India, which might have been where sugar was first cultivated. The origin of 'chini' is not clear, but I seem to remember that it had something to do with cinnamon. I refreshed my

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Thaths
On Feb 6, 2008 11:11 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2008 12:18 PM, Hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Samsung SyncMaster 172s 17 LCD monitor HP LP3065 30 LCD - mwahahahaha Tut, tut! Sometimes, Cheeni, a monitor is just a monitor. Thaths -- Bart: We were just

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: | BTW, in Malayalam, cc sugar is usually called pan[cha]sara. I've only | heard the charkarai form used for gur or perhaps palm sugar. Is there | a similar distinction in Tamil? Speaking of which,

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-07 Thread Deepa Mohan
BTW, in Malayalam, cc sugar is usually called pan[cha]sara. I've only | heard the charkarai form used for gur or perhaps palm sugar. Is there | a similar distinction in Tamil? No...gur is called vellam...and palm sugar is panam kalkandu. (kalkandu is sugar candy ...the kind that comes in

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-07 Thread Gautam John
On Feb 8, 2008 9:05 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No...gur is called vellam...and palm sugar is panam kalkandu. There is also this liquid palm sugar syrup, in Kerala, that is called paani.

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Hassath
On Feb 7, 2008 1:00 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Hassath Hassath 7B, Pocket B, SFS Apartments Mayur Vihar Phase 3 Delhi Postal Code:110096 Phone:+91.9811152926 Hmm. That's surely more of an introduction to a list than I would ever have intended. -- - Hassath

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Hassath
On Feb 7, 2008 9:22 PM, Casey O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or perhaps the carrying case for a working still Nano? If it (the Nano) isn't in its case, where is it? Yes, just the carrying case. The Nano still works, it's on my bed. :-) I'm all for the breaking apart of iPods, though

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-07 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-08 08:32:33 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster I am a terrible human being, because I find that description very funny. «The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15 ft (2.5 to 4.5 m) high, moving at 35

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Biju Chacko wrote, [on 2/8/2008 10:09 AM]: snip home address Hmm. That's surely more of an introduction to a list than I would ever have intended. I have to admit that I thought that post was a little injudicious, Cheeni. I agree. And I have no idea what Cheeni intended to convey, either,

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Feb 7, 2008 1:48 AM, Hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I couldn't think of a better introduction. From right to left... [Long list of 'teh awesome' things snipped] I like the gaps analogy - It feels like something out of a Michel Gondry movie - random stuff strung together to

Re: [silk] greetings and salutations

2008-02-07 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
Hi Brian, nice to see you on silk. At 2008-02-03 23:27:17 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to be in India for the next two weeks [...] Feb 14-15: Delhi (OSIweek) I didn't write earlier because I wasn't sure I would be around while you were in town. But I'm leaving only on the 15th

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Abhishek Hazra
We wanted to put it up ourselves (it had to be *exactly* level) and it was tough doing it, though we enjoyed it too- indeed. the pleasures of workmanship (yes, its a gendered word, but you get my point) thanks for sharing the details - i am always fascinated by workplace details, particularly

[silk] Fwd: Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
I'd sum this as unintended consequences of a curious break from stressful work. Also known as curiosity killed the cat. Thanks Hassath and Abhijeet for accepting my explanation and apology. *I am now going to crawl away into a corner where I don't read too much email, it clearly can't be good for

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Feb 8, 2008 10:09 AM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I have to admit that I thought that post was a little injudicious, Cheeni. Yes, yes I know, apologies, and I just sent in an email with what I think is a rough explanation of what may have gone through my mind. As easily