Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Mohit (मॊिहत)
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome (Just)! > > That's an unusual first name. How did you come by it? > The first name (& the full name) is Mohit. "Just" is a nickname, since I don't have a surname to go by (The family disowned me & so no family affili

Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Biju Chacko
Welcome (Just)! That's an unusual first name. How did you come by it? -- b On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Mohit (मॊिहत) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Firstly let me thank Udhay for accepting my request & getting me on to Silk. > > My name is (Just) Mohit. I live in Delhi after having

Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Abhishek Hazra
>>My Udhay number is probably 2 would any one on silk have a Erdos number of 2 (or 1) by any chance? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number In order to be assigned an Erdős number, an author must co-write a mathematical paper with an author with a finite Erdős number. Paul Erdős is the o

Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 12:30:21PM +0530, Sumant Srivathsan wrote: > Interesting question. I never have, though we've had some interesting > conversations. I wonder how many on this list actually *have* met Udhay. My Udhay number is probably 2. P.S. Meatspace is much overrated.

Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Mohit (मॊिहत)
Interesting! :) The grape thing appears on some of the replies sent to me, but doesn't in others. Seems to be some sort of unicode buggery as Sumant said. I will need to investigate & rectify. Thanks for pointing it out. Have never met Udhay, but he seems to enjoy an awesome reputation in certain

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-11-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > they indeed show causation. since they will > all include correlation in their results as one of the pieces of > evidence for causation, well causation and correlation would correlate. Rishab! NOT a paragraph to spri

Re: [silk] Looking for..

2008-11-02 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 19:29 +0530, ss wrote: > Have you checked out "ladies of calcutta" in my alternate YouTube avatar > channel (shuddhapoly) > > http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=ozKEo8f5cmI which leads to a Most Important Question. why is there no wikipedia entry for kal kahn / bill forbes? is

Re: [silk] Golfers in the US?

2008-11-02 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 06:16 +0530, ss wrote: > How many kids have been warned by their mothers not > to kick or hit random cans and rocks on the street with a stick? Golf demands > that you execute the same immensely pleasurable action repeatedly and that is > called "sport". Sport indeed. AND

Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sumant Srivathsan wrote: > >> Interesting question. I never have, though we've had some interesting >> conversations. I wonder how many on this list actually *have* met Udhay. > > This is why the FoU meet is being organized,

Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 11:22 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: > Speaking of which, what is that little grape-like thing hanging between the > "i" matra and the letter "ha" in the Hindi rendition of your name? Or is it > something that only shows up on my computer? it is a place-holder for the 'ha' which f

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-11-02 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:45 +0530, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > Sorry sir but you have been misled, correlation does indeed imply > causation. Here is the proof: > > http://ghill.customer.netspace.net.au/correlation-causation.html heh thanks for that article :-) of course it's a joke, but if it

Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I saw that as half a "va" matra - just the circle rather than the circle o > + the vertical stroke | (o| stuck together) > >srs You mean, his name is Mohvit or Movhit? :) Deepa.

Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Madhu Menon
Sumant Srivathsan wrote: Interesting question. I never have, though we've had some interesting conversations. I wonder how many on this list actually *have* met Udhay. Udhay is a creature of legend. He doesn't actually exist. (But my answer would be "saw him last Friday".) -- <<< * >>

Re: [silk] Intro

2008-11-02 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
> > Speaking of which, what is that little grape-like thing hanging between the > "i" matra and the letter "ha" in the Hindi rendition of your name? Or is it > something that only shows up on my computer? I see it too. Might be some unicode buggery. How did you meet Udhay? Interesting question