Re: [silk] Fwd: Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why.

2013-12-19 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 14/12/13 08:41, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Maybe each of these activities (listening to high end audio gear, drinking high end wine, having needles inserted into your chakras) is really about ritualizing a sensory experience. By putting on headphones you know are high quality, or drinking

Re: [silk] Fwd: Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why.

2013-12-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote: which contained 1000mg paracetomol (why can't they just say 1g?) On a tangent, this reminds me of the PR blitz about the new Honda city - claiming 50mm increase in wheelbase. 50mm - and they unfailingly report it

Re: [silk] Fwd: Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why.

2013-12-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
1000 mg - sheesh, at that does you're skating very near liver damage The fda reduced the maximum to 650 mg a while back that I can remember Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [19/12/13 22:49 +0530]: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote: which contained 1000mg

[silk] Into the 5th power circle

2013-12-19 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Silk has been extremely quiet lately. And as many of you know, I've been caught up with various things as well. And almost unnoticed, we've completed 16 years since the first message was posted on this list [1]. I got reminded when this most excellent (even by its own standards) xkcd strip [2]

Re: [silk] Into the 5th power circle

2013-12-19 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On 20 December 2013 06:58, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I didn't mean to sound quite so maudlin, so here's a lightener: the first person to explain the subject line gets a beer. :) The number of years Silk has existed when expressed as a power of 2 would be higher than 4? Kiran

Re: [silk] Into the 5th power circle

2013-12-19 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
We are the Illuminati now? On 20 December 2013 12:40, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.comwrote: On 20 December 2013 06:58, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I didn't mean to sound quite so maudlin, so here's a lightener: the first person to explain the subject line gets a

Re: [silk] Into the 5th power circle

2013-12-19 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
On 20 December 2013 06:58, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I didn't mean to sound quite so maudlin, so here's a lightener: the first person to explain the subject line gets a beer. :) You like your Belgian comics, I see. Christin and Mezieres (insert accents as applicable)

Re: [silk] Into the 5th power circle

2013-12-19 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: The number of years Silk has existed when expressed as a power of 2 would be higher than 4? You get a beer, congrats! You'll have to come to Bangalore to collect, though. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N))