Re: [silk] Chennai Silk meet this week?

2013-01-09 Thread Badri Natarajan
On 9 Jan 2013, at 11:24, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: None of the joints you mentioned serves beer. We can eat at bay leaf and cross the road to hotel maris for cheap beer and snacks I vote for Bay Leaf too. Earlier the better for me as I will need to go to the office

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk meet this week?

2013-01-09 Thread Thaths
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote: On 9 Jan 2013, at 11:24, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: None of the joints you mentioned serves beer. We can eat at bay leaf and cross the road to hotel maris for cheap beer and snacks I vote for Bay Leaf

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk meet this week?

2013-01-09 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: I think we have quorum for the Bay Leaf at 12:30. Okay. Sounds good. C

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk meet this week?

2013-01-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thaths [09/01/13 14:19 +0530]: I vote for Bay Leaf too. Earlier the better for me as I will need to go to the office after and Bayleaf is reasonably convenient for that. Perhaps 12.30? I think we have quorum for the Bay Leaf at 12:30. here's a homesick bong reviewing it

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk meet this week?

2013-01-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: here's a homesick bong reviewing it http://saptarshichakraborty.me/blog/food/dinner-at-bay-leaf-cathedral-road-madras/ small portions is probably a polite way of putting it. If the photographs are anything to go by

Re: [silk] Top-posting

2013-01-09 Thread SK
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:27 AM, thew...@gmail.com wrote: I won't get into arguments over whether one style is better than another, but when people refrain from replying on the list because of the top posting fear, isn't that enough reason to relax the rule? By the way, nice sig; mind if I

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk meet this week?

2013-01-09 Thread Divya
Ok, I'll be there. Cheers Divya Sent from my iPad On 9 Jan 2013, at 14:19, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote: On 9 Jan 2013, at 11:24, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: None of the joints you mentioned

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Divya Sampath
Caitlin Marinelli caitlin.marine...@gmail.com wrote: Bueno Radhika, - que tipo de libro te gusta leer? Ficcion? Supongo que ya has leido Cien Años de Soledad? Una novela que me encanta se llama La Sombra Del Viento - de Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Una mezcla de historia, comedia, tragedia -

Re: [silk] lower than absolute zero?

2013-01-09 Thread Divya Sampath
Dave Long dave.l...@bluewin.ch wrote: I read recently about new theories of infinitely or nearly infinitely hot plasma existing in the picoseconds after the big bang. I have a hard time understanding what temperature even means in this context, since I've always thought of temperature as a

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Radhika, Y.
hi Divya! thanks for the suggestions - have added them to my Spanish reading list. I was amused by your description of email becoming triage (aptly put btw!) - there is a lot of bleeding communication going on;-)) this is strictly in the non-reading, non-computer realm but I picked up a

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
As it happens, I picked up one of those being sold well below market price at a landmark sale. In english of course .. he's done for the thirty years war what Patrick O'Brian did for the napoleonic wars. Literate, superbly detailed. And even better because the only fiction I'd ever read set

Re: [silk] lower than absolute zero?

2013-01-09 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Divya Sampath divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm trying to remember if silk-list was the venue of a really fascinating discussion about zero-point energy a few years ago... Udhay? Does this ring a bell? Um, I recall something too, but my quick hunt is throwing

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Divya Sampath
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Even got made into a 2006 movie starring Viggo Mortensen, which actually had him speaking in spanish that was closer to 17th century spanish - he apparently grew up in Argentina, where of course the spanish followed an evolutionary path

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Divya Sampath
From: Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com this is strictly in the non-reading, non-computer realm but I picked up a delightful book called how to draw Trucks and Trains. Super fun if you like to doodle and draw - and great tension reliever! What a good idea - I should really get around to

Re: [silk] lower than absolute zero?

2013-01-09 Thread Divya Sampath
Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Divya Sampath divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm trying to remember if silk-list was the venue of a really fascinating discussion about zero-point energy a few years ago... Udhay? Does this ring a bell? Um, I

[silk] Bhopal?

2013-01-09 Thread Venkat Mangudi - Silk
I am in Bhopal right now. Any silk listers here? If you are, a drink perhaps? Cheers Venkat

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-09 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
There's a movie about Alatriste?! How did I miss this! Thanks, Suresh! It even has a clever title: Alatriste :) Speaking of movies, and continuing the grand silk-list tradition of thread drift, I want to add a movie recommendation for Rurouni Kenshin, which is a live action adaptation of a

Re: [silk] Silkmeet Bangalore?

2013-01-09 Thread Chew Lin Kay
Hello the good people of Silk! Can I have a show of hands who wants to join us for the Amrut visit? I called their marketing person, who mentioned something about permissions from the excise department, so if i can have a show of hands by three this afternoon, I can find out whatever forms it is

Re: [silk] Silkmeet Bangalore?

2013-01-09 Thread thewall
More details? Where, when, and for how long? Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone -Original Message- From: Chew Lin Kay chewlin@gmail.com Sender: silklist-bounces+thewall=gmail@lists.hserus.net Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:45:54 To: silklistsilklist@lists.hserus.net Reply-To:

Re: [silk] Silkmeet Bangalore?

2013-01-09 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:21 AM, thew...@gmail.com wrote: More details? Where, when, and for how long? I also want more details...what area...how long...

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2012

2013-01-09 Thread ashok _
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: For the fourth year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book recommendation this holiday season. What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What are you eagerly looking forward to reading over the

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2012

2013-01-09 Thread ashok _
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:15 AM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: For the fourth year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book recommendation this holiday season. What have you read over the last year that has left