Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: You better start preparing for the next Masterchef India then :) Haven't seen the Indian version, but am a fan of the UK series. How does the Akshay Kumar thing compare to the original? C --

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Thursday 20 January 2011 01:26 PM, Vijay Anand wrote: --V (getting tired typing out the same 6 characters over and over again) Type the 6 characters I say! What if I also (and I often do) get tired? V. The addition of -- will mark the difference. :)

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Thursday 20 January 2011 01:30 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: Haven't seen the Indian version, but am a fan of the UK series. How does the Akshay Kumar thing compare to the original? It doesn't. --V

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 20 January 2011 13:19, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: --V (getting tired typing out the same 6 characters over and over again) I see that you are moving head-on towards a Nov 5th goal. :) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 20 January 2011 13:30, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: You better start preparing for the next Masterchef India then :) Haven't seen the Indian version, but am a fan of the UK

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: Madhu Menon hasa very nice piece on MCI. Whenever I watched the show, my violent tendencies were stimulated. Smashing a few heads is occasionally good for the health. I'd think not to the health of the smashee. C --

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Madhu Menon
My bucket list? World domination! Riches, fame, and everyone living in fear of my knives! Muhahahaahahaa! -- Madhu Menon http://twitter.com/madmanweb MCorp Hospitality Consulting: http://mcorphospitality.com

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Madhu Menon
On 20-01-2011 13:37, Ashwin Kumar wrote: You better start preparing for the next Masterchef India then :) Haven't seen the Indian version, but am a fan of the UK series. How does the Akshay Kumar thing compare to the original? Madhu Menon hasa very nice piece on MCI.

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Vijay Anand
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 January 2011 13:19, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: --V (getting tired typing out the same 6 characters over and over again) I see that you are moving head-on towards a Nov 5th goal. :) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Thursday 20 January 2011 01:57 PM, Madhu Menon wrote: everyone living in fear of my knives! I think this is generally the case among people who live in your neighbourhood, isn't it? --V

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2011 13:00, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: What's on *your* bucket list? I will list the more practical achievable stuff that is there on my list: * explore parts of India for two weeks every year.

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 20 January 2011 16:05, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: I have reserached the trans-Siberian and Ghan. Someday I will get around to doing them. Divya on this list has done the Ghan a couple of months back. And, I have done the Indian-Pacific. So, feel free get more details. :)

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote: My bucket list? World domination! Riches, fame, and everyone living in fear of my knives! Muhahahaahahaa! That's your heads-in-the-bucket Madame Defarge list, Madman!

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Meera
Retire, learn horse riding, become an expert in skating, become the president, or at least a governor. In any order. -Me

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Meera meerak...@gmail.com wrote: Retire, learn horse riding, become an expert in skating, become the president, or at least a governor. In any order. If you retire and learn horse trading, you CAN become the president or governor in any order...or lack of it,

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Madhu Menon
On 20-01-2011 18:26, Deepa Mohan wrote: Muhahahaahahaa! That's your heads-in-the-bucket Madame Defarge list, Madman! Here, something to use as your mobile phone ring tone till I get there: http://madhumenon.posterous.com/madman-evil-laugh -- Madhu Menon http://twitter.com/madmanweb

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote: Here, something to use as your mobile phone ring tone till I get there: http://madhumenon.posterous.com/madman-evil-laugh For those who are lazy, can we receive the same as an attachment offlist ? ;) -- sankarshan

[silk] Can't wait to shop? Blame your surname, says study

2011-01-20 Thread Deepak S
An excellent study. I know my in my school roll call was by first names so the 'Deepak' overruled the 'Srinivasan' In any case ... read on Can't wait to shop? Blame your surname, says study 2011-01-20 09:34:48 Washington: Why do some people wait patiently to buy stuff while others rush

Re: [silk] Silk, the interactive edition

2011-01-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:48:34PM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: Yes, his usual rant was Βγείτε γκαζόν μου! Sorry, that was greek to me. Not to Google Chrome. And of course silk archive is the #1 hit. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[silk] The bloggers called it, the Street blew it

2011-01-20 Thread Anand Manikutty
Unaffiliated analysts took 9 out of the 10 top spots. Oy vey! http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/19/apples-blow-out-quarter-the-bloggers-called-it-the-street-blew-it-2/ Anand

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Thu, 20/1/11, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote: From: Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com Subject: Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list? To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Thursday, 20 January, 2011, 18:47 On 20-01-2011 18:26, Deepa Mohan wrote:      Muhahahaahahaa! That's your

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread ss
I had only one thing on my bucket list. I have done it now. I have written a will. After my will, everything else can only be a won't or at best a maybe. shiv

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 21-Jan-11 3:31 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: Very disappointing. More enthusiasm than evil. Why is the immediate reaction one of sympathetic concern, a desire to let the man race past us in a crowded corridor on his urgent mission to the men's room? Where is that susurrus of evil, that

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Fri, 21/1/11, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: From: Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com Subject: Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list? To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Friday, 21 January, 2011, 7:06 On 21-Jan-11 3:31 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: Very disappointing. More

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Biju Chacko
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: We've all heard the herding cats analogy with regard to managing programmers. Managing sysadmins is like leading a neighborhood gang of neurotic pumas on jet-powered hoverbikes with nasty smack habits and opposable thumbs.

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Fri, 21/1/11, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: From: Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list? To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Friday, 21 January, 2011, 8:59 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 21 January 2011 10:26, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: NOTHING helps keep sysadmins in line. They are born without fear, or have it 'smacked' out of them. Try grabbing on to their cables. There lies their power. ~ashwin PS: cables can be replaced with pipes if you are a

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 14, Issue 22

2011-01-20 Thread Anand Manikutty
Is there something similar to the English sense of humor deployed with any regularity in modern Greek? I was thinking about your comment when reading this blog today. Although the blog had its moments, I also thought that it had a lot of cliched situations. Not that the blog did not have its

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 January 2011 10:26, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: NOTHING helps keep sysadmins in line. They are born without fear, or have it 'smacked' out of them. Try grabbing on to their cables. There lies their power. Real Sysadmins don't