Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

2011-01-05 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 11:10 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: ever consider Lasik surgery or contact lenses? the latter brought my diopter Am I the only one who finds contact lenses vaguely stomach churning? I've been told

Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

2011-01-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:56:46AM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: I see lots of people just typing +1that's two keystrokes and a send button, thrice as much effort! No way to track such mana without a central server or a distributed P2P store. I find that I have had to re-evaluate the

Re: [silk] Lurkers, hidden audiences, and public archives

2011-01-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:38:34PM +0530, Vinit Bhansali wrote: However, many people still (want to) assume anything they email to an individual or group (that is being emailed) is private. I don't think this assumption/want on their part is unfair. The consensus is that anything posted to a

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Kolkata?

2011-01-05 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:03, Volker Grassmuck vgr...@rz.hu-berlin.de wrote: I didn’t respond to the meet request in Sao Paulo by Andre in October because I was away in Europe. Didn’t even know there are other silkers in Sao Paulo. Now they will be −1 as unfortunately I have to move back to

Re: [silk] Lurkers, hidden audiences, and public archives

2011-01-05 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Violators of such expectations, especially repeat offenders will be sliced thin and served with mint julep. And their names changed to Julie N.

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Thaths
On Sunday, December 12, 2010, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: following fish, by samanth subramanian I read the first two chapters of this yesterday. An excellent read. Beautifully written (brought Wodehouse and Douglas Adams to mind) with humor and candor. Even though I am not

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Radhika, Y.
I suggest The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown and The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon. Since I haven't followed this discussion on book recommendations, my message might suffer from the Lurkers' Occupational Hazard i.e. completely out of context recommendations. Blame it on my hangover from imbibing

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Samanth is silklist material and udhay's been trying to entice him over for quite some time. Samanth being maxed out on email already, will probably take time to do that. Thaths [06/01/11 08:58 +0530]: On Sunday, December 12, 2010, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: following

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Suresh Ramasubramanian [05/01/11 19:59 -0800]: Samanth is silklist material and udhay's been trying to entice him over for quite some time. Samanth being maxed out on email already, will probably take time to do that. amazon threw this out as a suggested link for following fish doesnt seem

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Supriya Nair
Random House has just published the first two translations in their new Classics series, both from the Bengali: one is Bankim's Durgeshnandini, which is widely considered the first novel written in an Indian language. The other is called Three Women and is a collection of three Tagore novellas. I

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Supriya Nair supriya.n...@gmail.com wrote: Random House has just published the first two translations in their new Classics series, both from the Bengali: one is Bankim's Durgeshnandini, which is widely considered the first novel written in an Indian language.

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [06/01/11 11:55 +0530]: http://randomhouseindia.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/arunava-sinha-bankim-or-tagore/ in context. I've had the chance to speed read parts of the Durgeshnandini translation and, I'd heartily recommend it to anyone who'd love to read a reasonably rich and

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, December 12, 2010, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: following fish, by samanth subramanian I read the first two chapters of this yesterday. An excellent read. Beautifully written (brought Wodehouse