At 2011-06-11 18:28:43 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
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> > http://archives.aox.org/archives/silk/13492/thread
>
> I don't think the aox silk archive is still alive.
What was there still works, and in particular, that link works. I never
did subscribe it to live silk messages. I can't remember why
At 2011-06-11 10:21:50 +1000, charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
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> When I was 12 (13?) my math teacher got a local college to lend us an
> ASR-33 teletype and a 100 baud modem connected to a customized HP-3000
> timesharing minicomputer.
When I was thirteen, I moved from Calcutta to Delhi (where my
At 2011-06-01 02:23:08 -0700, manikuttyan...@yahoo.com wrote:
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> To build up an arbitrarily large sentence involving fish, I give you
> the following grammar:
>
> Sentence -> NX V [N_that_is_the_name_of_a_place] N
>
> NX -> N NX V | N N V
>
> Here, N = fish as a noun
> V = fish as a verb
> N_t
At 2011-05-20 12:26:10 +0530, xxx...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> This thread reminds me of the Tamil remake of Samson and Delilah
> starring Sambasivan and D.Leela !!
I wonder if there's a Mallu couple somewhere named Digital and Analog.
Aside: I know only a smattering of Norwegian and Swedish, but I do
At 2011-05-19 18:55:06 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
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> Wow. this is a wild claim, which I'm not in a position to evaluate.
> Thoughts, from those in a better position to comment?
After a conversation with a medically more aware friend: the claim, as
stated, is overblown. DCA is just one substanc
At 2011-05-18 02:09:06 -0700, dan...@gmail.com wrote:
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> I love that you top-posted this, Udhay :-).
It's not a top post if it's not a reply to whatever is being quoted.
Saying "Here's something to read: " is the normal order
in which to introduce something.
-- ams
At 2011-05-18 12:48:36 +0530, li...@aadisht.net wrote:
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> Peak hour pricing runs from 6 pm to 10 pm. Then, it may or may not be
> cheaper to buy from IEX.
A month or so ago, I saw that the average IEX clearing prices in TN had
risen to INR15/unit or something similarly ridiculous (prices elsewher
At 2011-05-18 07:12:45 +, r.sunda...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> You're here too? Maybe there's now a quorum for a Gurgaon/Delhi
> silkmeet?
Is London considered part of the greater Delhi area these days? :-)
-- ams
At 2011-05-18 11:58:09 +0530, li...@aadisht.net wrote:
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> I'm in Thiruvannamalai, not Coimbatore, but the IEX is of no use when
> the electricity board cuts the grid itself off.
Why do they do that?
-- ams
At 2011-05-16 11:11:49 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
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> Hm. What about this one then?
Sorry, I forgot about PXIL. You're right, there are two. (Until someone
digs up a third one I have never heard of, anyway.) Everything I said
earlier applies to the IEX. I don't know anything about PXIL.
-- ams
At 2011-05-16 09:54:59 +0530, li...@tarundua.net wrote:
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> Fascinating. Does one need to be a producer of electricity to
> participate in an energy exchange ?
Not "an", "the".
There's only one, which was mandated by the CERC (Central Electricity
Regulatory Commission, www.cercind.gov.in) in 2008
At 2011-05-16 00:56:49 +, sur...@hserus.net wrote:
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> You'll find that power cuts are a regular feature in industrial areas
> around india, most companies compensate by buying diesel generators
(I happen to be doing some work in this area, so…)
Another thing that smallish industrial units (i
At 2011-04-20 17:56:40 +0100, ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote:
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> ABS
>
> --
> Alaric Snell-Pym
How come you sign ABS rather than ASP?
-- ams
At 2011-03-30 16:30:15 +, sur...@hserus.net wrote:
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> Cheeni suffers a bit from the "india sucks because of the mediocrity,
> indian crab syndrome etc"
Hey, don't drag me into this.
-- ams
At 2011-03-26 23:03:37 +0530, vinay...@gmail.com wrote:
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> The list you mentioned has only one member - you and only one
> poster - you. Is this intentional ?
Think of the one-person list as a place to post things, kinda like
people used to have Geocities pages. But since Yahoo shut Geocities
dow
At 2011-02-15 17:26:54 +0530, j...@pobox.com wrote:
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> On 15-Feb-2011, at 2:54 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
> >
> > This talk of shenanigans and bandwidth conservation reminded me
> > of Postel's Prescription: “Be liberal in what you accept, and
> > conservative in what you send”.[1]
I don't see th
At 2011-02-07 09:44:56 -0800, tha...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> When did Silk become the bulletin board to routinely debate threads
> from this Indo-Eurasian research list?
For efficiency, we should clearly just subscribe silk to that list.
-- ams
At 2011-01-19 16:08:58 +0530, jude.bri...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Amazon EC2 instances in Singapore. The pricing seems very complicated
> though.
Interesting, but certainly too complicated for me to follow. Especially
with the new "spot pricing" model. I tried the calculator, but I wasn't
quite sure
At 2011-01-19 15:44:57 +0530, sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
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> That is, if the said limits can actually be attained.
Limits? We don't need no steenkin' limits.
I asked the Net4 chap what peak transfer rate they could give us, and he
said 10GB. So I said *rate*, not *size*, and he said
At 2011-01-19 02:10:10 -0800, sur...@hserus.net wrote:
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> i'd rather not touch net4india with a bargepole
Yeah. I've been not-touching-them-with-a-bargepole for so long that it's
sometimes difficult to explain to people why I prefer to avoid them. :-)
-- ams
Does anyone have:
(a) experience with Net4India's VPS hosting, and
(b) recommendations of any other VPS hosting providers in India?
My general reaction to Net4 is uniformly negative and I'd really rather
not host with them, but I'm told they've become "better" recently. But
they charge a hell of
At 2010-12-15 15:31:39 +0530, narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote:
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> But I want to find out if anyone else on this list shares my views.
I think it's vital to the functioning of democracy that the public have
access to information about our shady world leaders, e.g. which pubs in
Bangalore they hang o
Hi.
The following text is quoted from John Ray's ("Joannis Raii") 1713
"Synopsis Methodica Avium & Piscium", based on descriptions of some
birds around Madras by an Edward Buckley.
12. Pica Indica vulgaris: Ponnunky pitta; Gent. Ponnandur[c?]y;
Maderaspatanensibus: The MADRASS-JAY. Fi
Every time I take a car to a workshop for servicing, they seem to come
up with a new procedure that I've never heard of, and which costs the
best part of INR 1k.
Does anyone know if Maruti cars really need to be "decarbonised" every
10k kilometres or so? (How come my old 800 and Zen never needed i
Hi.
Does anyone here know how to calculate approximately how much power an
online/double-converting/sine wave UPS consumes from the mains? I guess
that, if it has to keep N 12V batteries charged, the most power it can
consume is (a bit higher than, depending on efficiency) N*12V*c, where
c is the
At 2010-06-15 12:38:37 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
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> I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it
> several times over the years.
I read it once, a very long time ago, and enjoyed it thoroughly. Then I
kept hearing people say it was so long and boring that they couldn't ge
Does anyone here have some experience with Intel's mini-ITX motherboards
such as the DG41MJ (older) or DH57JG (newer)? They look pretty nice.
-- ams
At 2010-05-13 09:46:12 +0530, narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> On a practical note, where does one go to get away from the news
> though?
I think the idea is to choose not to consume it, not go somewhere where
there is none to consume.
-- ams
Since we have a few lawyers on the list—where does one go to find the
text of the various judgements by Indian courts? Is www.judis.nic.in
everything there is?
How come companies like scconline.com charge INR75k for a CD of the text
of the judgements? Are they offering any data that aren't availab
At 2010-04-30 09:56:10 +0530, c...@shiokfood.com wrote:
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> I'm in, but I don't have a restaurant to host the meet any more,
> sadly. :D
What happened to it?
-- ams
At 2010-04-21 15:57:35 +0530, a...@toroid.org wrote:
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> http://toroid.org/ams/git-central-repo-howto
I just added some branch diagrams. Could someone please look at them and
tell me if they make the text easier to understand, or are just ugly and
superfluous?
-- ams
At 2010-04-21 06:56:16 -0700, deepak.j...@gmail.com wrote:
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> (this is not a comment on the contents of the tutorial)
Noted, but I kept the effect you describe very much in mind while
writing this tutorial. I've tried to write git-centric descriptions as
simply as possible, rather than to try to
Hi.
I don't know if there are any git users here, but I wrote a concise
guide to sharing a single git repository among developers. It's meant
for small teams who are just adopting git and would like to get started
with a familiar setup.
http://toroid.org/ams/git-central-repo-howto
I have tried t
At 2010-04-20 07:55:19 +0530, cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
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> ams - with respect may I point out that it was you who first raised a
> strawman about "lack of Hindu violence" on this thread which you tried
> to knock down subsequently.
Sure, go ahead. It would be churlish of me to deny you the plea
At 2010-04-19 21:01:37 +0530, cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Would you be greatly inconvenienced to point out two posts from anyone
> in the archives that make this assertion and prove that this is not
> the first of three strawmen you have created.
Yes, I would. I remember what happened the last
At 2010-04-19 08:18:59 +0530, cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> What religions dictate and what followers of religions do are two
> different things.
Right. One is smoke, the other is mirrors.
> The act of attributing a religious motivation to a societal event or
> societal situation is a political
At 2010-04-17 11:55:25 +0530, mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Some religions (though not Hinduism) have no place for those who do
> not believe; they are labelled "pagan" or "heathen" or "unbelievers"
> and can be persecuted and killed...
Yeah. No persecution and killing of unbelievers when it com
BTW, after a month-long "investigation", this is what ICICI bank has to
say about what happened:
> Kindly note that in any internet banking case, transaction can take
> place only with the authentication of user id and password by the
> system when entered.
>
> User ID and password is known only t
At 2010-04-01 14:49:39 +0530, suma...@gmail.com wrote:
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> Simon Singh won his appeal. Yay!
You don't think it's suspicious that the judgement is dated April 1?
-- ams
At 2010-03-23 17:31:36 +, sali...@googlemail.com wrote:
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> OK, I recall she was given one-month's prison or fine; she decided to
> go to prison, then paid fine after a day in jail. If that's wrong, I
> stand corrected.
Oh, no, that's definitely not what happened.
http://www.thehindu.com/2002
At 2010-03-23 16:25:18 +, sali...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
> … and her ignoring the more serious criticism from Gail Omvedt.
Thanks, I hadn't read Gail Omvedt's letter and response to some of
Arundhati Roy's writings on dams. I found them quite interesting.
> She went to jail for one night, pr
Has anyone done a security analysis of net banking sites in India? Have
any actual attacks been dissected and documented? Does anyone know what
measures are taken to safeguard authentication information?
Someone used my mother's net banking account without authorisation, and
the bank (ICICI) says,
At 2010-03-03 16:14:51 +0100, che...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I was pretty much happy with Linux usability too until last month when
> I had to spend 2 whole days getting sound to work on a realtek chipset
> that shipped on a HP machine that ostensibly supports Linux.
Well, that's depressing. I'm wres
At 2010-02-27 00:36:19 +0530, j...@pobox.com wrote:
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> > For pictures, didn't you get once settle on a work cycle involving
> > F-Spot?
>
> I did, and I can tolerate it, but the thing is, F-Spot can't process
> raw.
Have you seen RawTherapee?
-- ams
At 2010-01-21 11:51:34 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
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> The way I heard it, the very cheap truck/vehicle Suresh is referring
> to above was actually called a "jugaad" and the generic usage of the
> word for any hack of this nature came later.
I know nothing about the etymology of jugaad, but I've
At 2009-12-03 12:23:02 +0530, sur...@hserus.net wrote:
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> > I am at Nimhans. Your call on venue.
>
> The choice will probably drive him crazy.
So you're saying NIMHANS is the right venue?
-- ams
Does anyone have examples of online petitions addressed to a Government
body (e.g. the PMO) that have been taken note of and acted upon? Did the
number of signatures make a difference? Are there any government bodies
that routinely take such petitions seriously?
-- ams
At 2009-09-30 20:30:37 +0530, mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Rajesh, another important rule here (sometimes breached!) is..no
> ad hominem. Ridicule an opinion but not the person expressing it.
I wish everyone understood that rule as well as you do. It always annoys
me when someone uses it (m
At 2009-09-08 19:27:38 +0530, kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
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> But I agree it is a trick question in a way since it doesn't have a
> solution.
Alas:
http://www.isixsigma.com/forum/showmessage.asp?messageID=13057
http://main.isixsigma.com/forum/showmessage.asp?messageID=36435
(Time to fire
At 2009-09-08 09:52:51 +0530, kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
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> (yes, I make it cubes when interviewing women)
Yes, women are incapable of reasoning about spherical objects.
> Obviously, there is no solution in 3 weighings
Oh? Why is it obvious?
-- ams
At 2009-08-31 14:40:11 +0200, eu...@leitl.org wrote:
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> Гамлет
Oops, yeah. Sorry, just a typo.
(Entering Unicode characters by typing out their codepoints sucks.)
-- ams
At 2009-08-29 10:28:45 +0100, docto...@craphound.com wrote:
>
> - --
> Cory Doctorow
> docto...@craphound.com
>
> blog: boingboing.net
> vanity: craphound.com
> podcast: feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast
> Content (Essays): http://craphound.com/content
> Free novel: Little Brother: craphound.c
At 2009-08-27 20:16:14 +0530, mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
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> I now routinely refer to my husband as Mogun.
Works in Russian as well, where Hamlet is written Гамлэт (Gamlet)
because there's no H in Cyrillic (K and G, however, are distinct).
-- ams
At 2009-08-27 03:48:06 -, lukhman_k...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Jaaga in kannada means space. Its a common noun.
> Sorry to point out that its just not creative enough.
It's an experiment in architecture, not a sodding creative writing
workshop.
> Imagine building a house and calling it Mane' (ho
I thought some people here may find this interesting:
http://toroid.org/ams/etc/dual-use-scientific-names
It's about some of the more interesting examples of names that have been
given both to a genus and to a (different) species (of birds). Here's a
brief excerpt:
«The Farsi word Satrap (deri
Are employment contracts with "if you leave, you have to give three
months' notice or _pay us three months' salary_" clauses enforceable
in India? Or is it just intimidation?
-- ams, just curious.
At 2009-06-07 04:22:36 +0530, mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I don't know whom to defy...should I be a def-iyer or a def-iyengar?
"Here's the food… help yourselves, everyone." :-)
-- ams
At 2009-06-03 14:48:40 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
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> this member was of the opinion that pseudonyms such as "." or even
> "lawnun" should be discouraged on the list.
I've thought about this question often, but my feelings are complicated
and may be somewhat contradictory. (I've never tried to
At 2009-06-04 07:49:55 +0530, mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> What do you mean, put the vessel "on the spout"? My pressure cooker
> has a body and a lid with a spout that spews out water vapour. Am I
> supposed to put it on top of the lid, on top of the spout?
Yes. The cylinder has a hole in the b
At 2009-06-03 22:09:54 +0530, mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Please...offlist if necessary...send me the recipe, meaning, the
> proportions, for this.
I saw no reason to take it off-list, especially since Radhika wants the
recipe too.
You use approximately twice as much fine rice powder as (pref
At 2009-06-03 23:12:12 +0530, vinay...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Other things to see would be the Tsomoriri Tso
Is that like an ATM machine into which you type your PIN number? :-)
-- ams
At 2009-06-03 21:13:13 +0530, mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Isn't puttu a very laborious thing to make?
There must be two things with the same name and very different natures,
then. The puttu I know of is easy to make. Rice flour, grated coconut,
salt, steam (in a cylindrical metal container tha
At 2009-05-22 11:51:16 +0530, ven...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I am assuming that the Homkund mentioned here is Hemkund which is the
> famous Sikh pilgrimage spot near the Valley of Flowers.
No, it isn't.
Homkund is ahead of Roopkund, across the Shila Samudra glacier.
> Has anyone here been to the Va
Anyone been up to Roopkund, and beyond? (e.g. Homkund)
-- ams
At 2009-05-12 12:58:08 +0530, j...@pobox.com wrote:
>
> Does anyone else have a problem with the fora.tv server dropping the
> connection every few seconds?
Yes. wget -c handled it, though I had to restart it once (after it
reached its "dropped connection" limit and gave up).
-- ams
At 2009-04-04 17:47:43 -0700, sur...@hserus.net wrote:
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> In such a case you're better off with a pcmcia or usb data card.
A USB data card sounds good. I should have known that such things must
exist. I knew about PCMCIA ones, but I don't have a PCMCIA slot. Do you
have any recommendations? Or sh
I want to get a phone that can be used as a USB and Bluetooth modem with
Linux. I had a Nokia E61 for a while, and it worked well (as a modem; as
a phone, it was extraordinarily slow and painful). I want to replace it
with something (much) cheaper.
Many of the new(-ish) Nokia phones might fit the
If I want to buy a projector that is good for showing films to a small
(<10 people) audience, what should I be looking for? Price is the major
consideration, but not the only one.
-- ams
> If I own a house, I can set my own criteria for choosing a tenant.
Ah, yes. That brings back memories.
When we were looking for an apartment close to our daughter's school, we
contacted a number of brokers in the area. One of them found a very nice
apartment for us after a couple of weeks. A we
At 2009-03-11 21:59:28 +0530, j...@pobox.com wrote:
>
> Several of the photos I've processed this month were done with F-Spot
> and UFRaw on an Ubuntu netbook. It's totally practical.
http://www.rawtherapee.com also looks pretty good.
-- ams
What should two people in Coorg with a tent and a few days free in early
June do? (Other than "go somewhere with less rain", that is.)
-- ams
At 2008-12-29 09:07:14 +0530, dhingra.may...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I am contemplating buying his book "Peoplewatching
> <%20http://tr.im/2p8b>" on Body Language, has anyone here read it ?
Yes. It's excellent. So are Animalwatching and Bodywatching.
-- ams
At 2008-12-19 00:07:18 +, bluelull...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> "offer open till stocks last"
If you add an apostrophe to "stocks" and parse "last" as an adjective
instead of a verb, it all makes sense. ;-)
-- ams
At 2008-12-18 11:40:27 -0800, divyasamp...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> If you are nostalgic about my outbursts of linguistic pedantry on
> Silk, we can go into why the 'h' in 'hour', 'honour' and 'honest' are
> silent, and why this is not the case with 'history' or 'hippopotamus'.
Yes! Do tell.
> Permit
At 2008-12-11 06:23:04 +0530, chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I like it too. Handheld? Tripod/Handy human?
Thanks. Handheld. One quick West-to-East pass at 300mm (discarded), then
backtracking at 150mm (which exposures I could use).
> But the last few panoramas I did were manually stitched us
On a trip to mountains some time ago, I took an entirely unplanned
series of photographs of the view to the North; and used Hugin and
Autopano-SIFT (for the first time) to stitch them together into a
panorama.
I'm not entirely happy with the result (and I know now how to do better
next time, later
At 2008-12-03 12:56:15 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The wholesale tomato market was in full swing
How much were they selling tomatoes for?
-- ams
At 2008-11-17 15:40:46 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'd rather ask it this way: can we rationally explain our morals
> without stating it as a *belief* that something is right or wrong?
> I can't.
Doesn't that depend on what your morals are?
-- ams
At 2008-11-02 11:22:03 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Am a GTD-freak
>
> What is a GTD? (Goodness To ...something?)
"Getting things done". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
It's a sort of efficiency cult, as opposed to the "Make things go away
so I don't have to do them" cul
At 2008-09-28 20:07:05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> * amit_123 just cannot locate edible chappathi in Chennai
Not just that, but those Madrasis think it's spelled "chappathi".
-- ams
At 2008-09-26 08:27:18 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Even now, it is difficult to find White / Ash gourd in (South) Delhi
> markets;
Where did you guys go shopping where it was hard to find petha? I've
seen it in *every* vegetable market I've ever lived close to. It is
certainly available in
At 2008-09-25 10:20:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> and banana flower, though i haven't tried to cook that myself yet.
Speaking of which, we ate some Mochar ghonto at this restaurant in CR
Park (called "Babu Moshai") some time ago, and were quite disappointed.
I had high hopes, because I li
At 2008-09-18 08:40:46 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> No amounts of lolcats will cogitoergosum spontaneously.
But... what about a lolrus?
-- ams
At 2008-09-17 13:19:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> that can be awkward, or so it is sed.
Oh, cut it out. There's no col for that sort of thing any more. Less
talk about something else, man. Apropos of which, it horrifies me to
observe that:
$ ls -1 /usr/bin|wc -l
2219
-- ams
I hate it. The name, I mean.
Ethereal was an excellent name which, along with a photograph I can't
remember any more, inspired me to hack on the program (I contributed a
protocol analyser for PostgreSQL). "Wireshark" makes me want to curl up
in a corner and die of embarrassment.
I wonder how Gera
At 2008-09-17 22:22:47 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Suggestion : another "shell" pun and the perpetrator be locked up
> inside an rsh :-P
You've bourne all you can today?
-- ams
At 2008-09-17 16:48:10 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> samosas otoh is a north-indian monstrosity... ;-)
Yes! Would you believe people put *paneer* in them in Delhi? Ugh.
-- ams
Hi Stephanie. Welcome to silk.
> I worry about the culture shock and the learning the language (bengali
> specifically).
Has anyone told you yet about your having to eat fish heads at your
wedding? :-)
Bengali is a nice language to learn.
-- ams
At 2008-05-03 14:19:38 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> General photography... thats why I want something with a zoom range...
Then the 100-400 ought to be good for you.
(Note that although it's small for a "real" telephoto lens, it's a lot
larger and heavier than "ordinary" lenses. You should
Hi ashok underscore.
At 2008-05-02 19:43:22 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am looking for a L Series lens for my Canon...
(I'm assuming you mean an L-series telephoto lens.)
> Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM
> http://www.amazon.com/Canon-100-400mm-f4-5-5-6L-Telephoto-Cameras/dp/B7
At 2008-04-15 16:51:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> why not a MacBook?
Macbooks are heavy, and my impression is that the hardware (while very
nice, feature-wise) isn't as robust as the ThinkPads. If mobility is a
major consideration, then I personally wouldn't pick a MacBook.
(Obviously, t
At 2008-04-15 20:40:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> My current top choice is the TP X60s.
I can recommend the ThinkPad X6* without reservation for use with Linux,
and I think the hardware is fantastic.
-- ams
At 2008-04-15 14:57:53 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Just use the Spanish system. It scales...
>
> and that would be, what?
http://klamath.stanford.edu/~molinero/html/surname.html
-- ams
At 2008-04-15 14:44:14 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> When hyphenated individuals marry they become a double hyphenated
> couple, and when their offspring [...]
This is a story I've always heard while I was growing up (in Bengal).
I'm somewhat disappointed to note, however, that I haven't fou
At 2008-04-11 11:01:56 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> i tried Mexican at TGIF in Connaught Place in Delhi (where I am now
> based) and it was OK
Ten, at the YWCA on Parliament Street in Delhi, serves Mexican food
(Quesadillas, especially) that I enjoyed eating; but I have never
had an opportu
At 2008-04-07 12:07:33 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I wonder if it's Delhites, Delhi-ites or something else entirely,
> though. AMS?
I haven't seen the word written down too often, but it's always _said_
as if it were "Delhi-ites".
-- ams
At 2008-04-06 01:40:29 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> so she finally got into SPV, my alma mater (well, before i dropped
> out at 12). hindi medium, cultural, gujarati, enough clues
Another clue: going to Khan Market after the interview.
-- ams, who was also at SPV.
At 2008-02-27 22:58:39 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> The officer gruffly said that I should do whatever.
For a moment there, I almost thought there might be some advantage to
being a large male human when it comes to driving inspectors, but then
I realised that a fine upstanding public offic
At 2008-02-28 10:48:00 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Ok, now that everyone's "confessing" their music-learning crimes, let
> me state mine. It has a happy beginning.
Heh, me too.
I went to the Calcutta School of Music for several months one summer to
learn the (western classical) violin fro
At 2008-02-27 20:57:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Suppose each of us were to follow up any one of our dealings with the
> government in the fair, honest, right and proper way, no matter how
> long it takes - would that be a way to "participate in the machinery"?
When I wanted to get a dri
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