Re: [silk] An anniversary

2020-12-20 Thread Danese Cooper
What Venky said... On Sun 20 Dec 2020 at 08:52, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > Udhay, you were the one who introduced me to SilkList. I have really > enjoyed being on this list. SilkList is currently the only non-work related > mailing list that I am on :-) > > Venky > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 8:

Re: [silk] What are the things you splurge on that are worth the money?

2020-12-11 Thread Danese Cooper
-Computers -Musical Instruments -Matcha tea On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 4:44 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Like it says. I know there are similar threads out there on reddit etc - > this question is for silklisters. :) > > My list: > - Computers. Every 5 years or so I replace my computer with the best

Re: [silk] How to smell

2020-11-19 Thread Danese Cooper
“This scent had a freshness, but not the freshness of limes or pomegranates, not the freshness of myrrh or cinnamon bark or curly mint or birch or camphor or pine needles, not that of a May rain or a frosty wind or of well water... and at the same time it had warmth, but not as bergamot, cypress, o

Re: [silk] Bangalore and Chennai food/restaurant recommendations

2019-09-17 Thread Danese Cooper
My list to take US and EU colleagues in Chennai / Bangalore: -any of the restaurants at the Windsor (in Bangalore) or the Grand Chola (in Chennai)...because they are set up to cater to those populations. -Yauatcha in Bangalore...so good! Not Indian, but hey! My $.02 D On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:

Re: [silk] Hi, I’m Geetanjali

2019-02-23 Thread Danese Cooper
And presumably Geeth ❤️. Welcome, Anjali! On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 12:27 PM Geetanjali Chitnis < g...@geetanjalichitnis.com> wrote: > > I love biryani, romance novels, cats, makeup, movies and Bangalore weather. > >

Re: [silk] Silkmeet in Bangalore 18 Feb 2019

2019-02-11 Thread Danese Cooper
gt; Looking forward to seeing everyone... its been a while. > > Z > > > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:31 AM Udhay Shankar N > wrote: > > > > > Silklister Danese Cooper will be in town, possibly with Zaheda Bhorat > and > > > Alolita S

Re: [silk] Silkmeet in Bangalore 18 Feb 2019

2019-02-11 Thread Danese Cooper
Well obviously me :-) Really hoping to see you all <3 Danese On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:31 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Silklister Danese Cooper will be in town, possibly with Zaheda Bhorat and > Alolita Sharma. Let's use this as an opportunity to meet up. > > Show

Re: [silk] Bay Area meeting + 'India interdisciplinary'?

2018-10-10 Thread Danese Cooper
I’m still in SF (when I’m in California and not Ireland). Nov/Dec would be good months, because October is already crazy! D On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 5:40 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:15 AM Venkatesh H R > wrote: > > I'm spending a year at Stanford University as a journa

Re: [silk] Headspace and similar meditation "services"

2016-09-09 Thread Danese Cooper
Headspace is just a bit too gamified for me (very hipster-sticky though, I'm sure). I like Calm. No Aussie guy voice, no cutesy animations of metaphorical cars driving by like thoughts when you're trying to meditate... Yes, I'm old. D > On Sep 9, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Thaths wrote: > >> On Sat,

Re: [silk] Luck Matters More Than You Might Think

2016-04-18 Thread Danese Cooper
Exactly > On Apr 19, 2016, at 5:11 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: > > Strongly agree. I'm smart, but my success, such as it is, is more luck than > skill. > > That said - luck favors the prepared, and "the more I practice, the luckier > I get." > > -- Charles > >> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 at 11:18 Udha

Re: [silk] Danese in Bangalore...time for a Meetup?

2016-03-04 Thread Danese Cooper
So nice to see everybody! But alas my voice is tired and I must head home lest I fail to speak well at tomorrow's Drupal Meetup. Thanks Udhay and all <3 Danese > On Mar 4, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > >> On Mar 4, 2016 6:45 PM, "Danese Cooper&quo

Re: [silk] Danese in Bangalore...time for a Meetup?

2016-03-04 Thread Danese Cooper
Can't miss me. Right as you walk through the doors. I'm in pink > On Mar 4, 2016, at 6:46 PM, Rajesh Mehar wrote: > > 10 min away. Which table are you at Danese? > >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016, 18:45 Danese Cooper wrote: >> >> How can I be the first one he

Re: [silk] Danese in Bangalore...time for a Meetup?

2016-03-04 Thread Danese Cooper
How can I be the first one here??? > On Mar 2, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Arbor Brewing Company on Magrath road. > > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((via phone))

Re: [silk] Danese in Bangalore...time for a Meetup?

2016-03-01 Thread Danese Cooper
Needs to be evening, because I'm likely tied up all day out at PayPal. D > On Mar 2, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Rajesh Mehar wrote: > > Friday what time? > >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016, 12:04 Udhay Shankar N wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan < >> chandrachoo...@gm

[silk] Danese in Bangalore...time for a Meetup?

2016-03-01 Thread Danese Cooper
Which is better, Thursday or Friday evening? D

Re: [silk] Legal adulthood

2015-12-19 Thread Danese Cooper
Not that this fact should alter your plans, but I plan to spend all of February in India next year... D > On Dec 18, 2015, at 9:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >> On 12/1/2015 3:38 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >> >> Date? I’ll travel over. > > The date is today. Happy birthday, silk! A

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

2015-07-11 Thread Danese Cooper
Hmmm weird jobs...some of my favorites below... D > ​On a related note: Tell us about the most interesting jobs/assignments > you've worked on? > > (not just Kingsley, of course) > > Udhay > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) Xerox copier technician Cook

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet?

2015-02-16 Thread Danese Cooper
Thank you Gabin! See you soon. > On Feb 16, 2015, at 5:55 PM, gabin kattukaran wrote: > > I've got the long table out on the balcony. > > -Gabin > On 16-Feb-2015 5:43 pm, "Charanya Chidambaram" < > charanya.chidamba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On 16 February 2015 at 17:38, Vinayak Hegde wrote

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet?

2015-02-16 Thread Danese Cooper
I will miss seeing you. D > On Feb 16, 2015, at 2:45 PM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk > wrote: > > Oh, well. Something has come up and I'm going to have to take a rain > check. I'm going to regret not being able to attend. :-( > > -V > On 16 Feb 2015 09:43, "Venkat Mangudi - Silk" > wrote: > >>

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet?

2015-02-07 Thread Danese Cooper
kat >> On 8 Feb 2015 09:22, "Danese Cooper" wrote: >> >> Hyatt Bangalore apparently >> >> >>>> On Feb 7, 2015, at 7:10 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Biju Chacko >> wrote: &g

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet?

2015-02-07 Thread Danese Cooper
Hyatt Bangalore apparently > On Feb 7, 2015, at 7:10 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: >> >> I'll be in Bangalore 2/15 mid-day through 2/18 early morning. >>> >>> Shall we have an evening meetup? >> >> 15th and 16th work for me. +1 to the Lee

[silk] Bangalore Silkmeet?

2015-02-04 Thread Danese Cooper
Hi, I'll be in Bangalore 2/15 mid-day through 2/18 early morning. Shall we have an evening meetup? Also, my usual hotel (ITC Windsor) is booked out :-(. Looking for suggestions in town (even though I'll be working day times out in Whitefield). Towards the fun! Danese

[silk] "Homeland" has a cameo in "CitizenFour" (the documentary about Edward Snowden)

2014-11-25 Thread Danese Cooper
Shout-out to Cory...this is an amazing documentary currently in very limited release in the US. It's composed of footage shot as Edward Snowden was prepping with journalists to blow the whistle, with supporting footage of various members of the Intelligence Elite lying to the US Congress. Excel

Re: [silk] USA West Coast restaurant recommendations

2014-09-27 Thread Danese Cooper
Okay Tim :-) I guess I have to rise to this occasion. Madhu, when exactly are you in SF? I can arrange a tour for you of Anchor Steam Brewery (the original craft beer renaissance mecca in North America). I happen to know their primary brand ambassador, Bob Brewer (his real name) who is retiring t

Re: [silk] USA West Coast restaurant recommendations

2014-09-24 Thread Danese Cooper
My comments in-line... On Sep 24, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote: >> >> I would love your recommendations for food and drink adventures in >> these cities. I have no dietary restrictions. :) > > San Francisco: > Range for stake, Burma Superstar for Asian, Dosa on Valencia (say

Re: [silk] Lytro

2014-09-04 Thread Danese Cooper
I actually own a Lytro camera (I won it at SXSW year before last). Its super fun to play with, but the pictures (at least with the first iteration) are actually pretty low-rez and only useful in limited ways. I've seen a demo with a Lytro image embedded in a normal email (and still able to do the

Re: [silk] What You Learn in Your 40s

2014-05-20 Thread Danese Cooper
Okay...here's my wisdom (at the age of 55). Re-reading before I hit send, I realize some of this sounds relentlessly cheerful or optimistic and I want to preface by saying I have also suffered setbacks in my life that might have left me embittered (but wiser), but for whatever reason I am wired to

Re: [silk] What You Learn in Your 40s

2014-05-19 Thread Danese Cooper
> On May 19, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [silk] What You Learn in Your 40s > Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 14:11:50 -0400 > From: Bruce A Metcalf > To: Udhay Shankar N > > Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >> This is a fun list. P

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis RIP

2013-06-14 Thread Danese Cooper
I'm guessing OSI wants something a bit less ... personal. Their readership mostly won't have known Atul. Danese On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: > Wasn't that the point? > > > > bonobashi > > > > - Original Message - > > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian > > To: "mai

Re: [silk] Atul Chitnis

2013-06-03 Thread Danese Cooper
I'd been chatting with Atul every few days throughout the many months of this his last battle, and I found him both indomitable and yet realistic about his chances. He was also incredibly humbled (not something I expected) by the financial and emotional support he was receiving. In our last con

Re: [silk] Help!!help!!

2013-04-20 Thread Danese Cooper
Tried AirBnb? I live in California, so can't help directly, but I've had good luck everywhere I've used them. On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Naresh wrote: > I and a (male) friend are heading to London 25th april evening till 2nd may > and didn't book a hotel /accomodation till now..and it's

Re: [silk] outdated words in "Indian English"

2012-07-13 Thread Danese Cooper
that sounds...recursive. must be hard for him ;-) On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Bonobashi wrote: > It was. That was just Shiv in mid-flow demonstrating that he DOESN'T > squirm. He tends to get carried away proving his balance and refusal to be > carried away. > > Sent from my iPad > >

Re: [silk] outdated words in "Indian English"

2012-07-13 Thread Danese Cooper
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan < chandrachoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I believe Americans use pants quite often. In India and the US, pants mean > trousers, while in the UK, pants mean pants, as in underpants. > I hear "knickers" in the UK for underpants > >

Re: [silk] Anyone going from Chennai/Bangalore to the US?

2011-11-28 Thread Danese Cooper
Be careful of US customs regulations. We're encouraged to report any foodstuffs we're carrying and they sometimes get seized when we do :-(. D On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan < chandrachoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Going against the grain here. I don't wa

Re: [silk] Query on wines.... and snobbery

2011-11-10 Thread Danese Cooper
Yes please! On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 03:24:19PM +, Sidin Vadukut wrote: > >> It turns out I like smokey malts. Cheers. > > Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Ardbeg? >

Re: [silk] ADMIN: What is top posting, and why should you avoid it?

2011-05-18 Thread Danese Cooper
I love that you top-posted this, Udhay :-). D On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Resending this, for > a) The benefit of our newer members; > b) Some of our older members; & > c) The extra irony points. > > Udhay > > Original Message > From: Perry E. Me

[silk] Anybody want to find a recently published book for me in India?

2011-01-04 Thread Danese Cooper
Its in Malalayam, apparently...published within the last month and about Wikipedia. I don't know the title, but I want one. Danese

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

2011-01-04 Thread Danese Cooper
> > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: >> >> Danese (who as an infant would have been left on a cliff to die in Ancient >> Sparta) >> > > Oh...I thought they were thrown off the cliffmy mistake. > > And...I'm amazed at your k

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

2011-01-04 Thread Danese Cooper
I believe the anti-glare has more to do with how you look in glasses than functional reduction of glare to which you are subjected. I wear very strong lenses, and anti-glare reduces the surface reflection of light, mostly keeping people from noticing that I essentially have magnifying glasses st

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Bangalore

2010-12-11 Thread Danese Cooper
Me too please. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 11, 2010, at 4:36 PM, gabin kattukaran wrote: > Can someone give me directions to get to Windsor Pub from the airport? Do any > of the airport volvos go that way? If not an address that is usable with the > cabbies would suffice. > > thanks, > > gab

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Bangalore

2010-12-07 Thread Danese Cooper
I would love to, but my flight out of Pune isn't until evening so I fear I'll arrive too late. Danese On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote: > Cheeni is coming to India next week. Tweeple generally agreed to catch > up. It appears everyone has agreed to meet on the 14th, which hap

Re: [silk] Triskaidekaphilia

2010-11-24 Thread Danese Cooper
Make it late so I can come. I have a Wikimedian meetup earlier in the evening Saturday Sent from my iPhone On Nov 24, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On 24-Nov-10 7:30 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: > >> I'll actually be in Bangalore on the 19th :-D. I vote for Udhay

Re: [silk] Triskaidekaphilia

2010-11-24 Thread Danese Cooper
I'll actually be in Bangalore on the 19th :-D. I vote for Udhay buying us all drinks! Danese Sent from my iPhone On Nov 24, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On 19th December 2010, Silk-List turns 13 years old. it's been quite a > ride (with a surprising number of people who've been

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Danese Cooper
Durian On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Thaths wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters > > to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. > > Curd rice? > > Thaths > -- > Marge: Quic

Re: [silk] How does one unregister from Hinduism?

2010-04-08 Thread Danese Cooper
Ah, but you're not "born" Catholic. You have to consciously choose it and be "confirmed" before you can celebrate sacrament. Hinduism has a lower bar to entry. My understanding is that pretty much everybody (even a future Catholic) is "born" Hindu. I'm sure you'll all let me know if I've been m

Re: [silk] Tim Bray "the new face of the google apple rivalry"

2010-03-16 Thread Danese Cooper
I'm worried that Tim is just trading evils. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Well well .. way to go. > >suresh > > > http://www.pcworld.com/article/191633/meet_tim_bray_new_face_of_the_googleapple_rivalry.html > > http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010

Re: [silk] Danese is the new Wikimedia CTO

2010-02-16 Thread Danese Cooper
Hello all, Sorry I missed this post the other day, Udhay. Yes, it is true, I'm the new CTO of Wikimedia Foundation. So far I'm deeply locked in knowledge transfer...which could go on for some time. There's a lot to learn. The first CTO was also the first employee, so his knowledge of the proje

Re: [silk] Silkmeet SF?

2009-07-02 Thread Danese Cooper
So it's sort of the anti-Shiok? Danese Sent from my iPhone On Jul 2, 2009, at 3:35 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Suresh Ramasubramanian [02/07/09 03:20 -0700]: It is right next to a vietnamese place that serves the black coffee + condensed milk vietnamese coffee. Yup, the House of N

Re: [silk] Silkmeet SF?

2009-07-02 Thread Danese Cooper
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:55 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Biju Chacko [02/07/09 11:20 +0530]: How does dinner of Friday, Jul 10th somewhere in the Mission sound to you? Sounds good. Google maps tells me that the Mission is relatively close to the financial dist

Re: [silk] Burnout

2009-06-01 Thread Danese Cooper
Okay...just FYI this meal you're describing, while no doubt hot and tasty...is basically spicy, oily carbohydrates, right? FRESH vegetables have vitamins, nutrients...canned ones, not so much. > > I also got to be a pretty fair cook of stuff like "vegetable rice" (canned > vegetables stir fried w

Re: [silk] Recommendations for Bluetooth headset?

2009-04-20 Thread Danese Cooper
I absolutely *love* my Plantronics 925. I have owned dozens of Bluetooth headsets (slave to my cellphone that I am)...and this is the ONE. Light, comfortable, great sound. Only drawback is poor wind protection, but there are 925 owners who have put little bits of wind foam on the mic to good eff

Re: [silk] Houston/Seattle

2009-01-31 Thread Danese Cooper
Not sure yet, but I may be in Seattle at some point around that time. Danese Sent from my phone On Jan 31, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Divya Manian wrote: On 1/31/09 6:53 AM, "Gautam John" wrote: Anyone in the Seattle area? I'm there the 15th through the 20th of February. A meet-up? I live t

Re: [silk] who killed bangalore? from the "churumuri" blog on Karnataka

2008-12-26 Thread Danese Cooper
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Venkat Mangudi wrote: The worst experience was in a mall in Fremont, CA. > Somebody once told me CA was the most broadminded state. All that is > nonsense. Kentucky treated me better, I think. But I digress. Before I > get back to the mainstream discussion, let me

Re: [silk] who killed bangalore? from the "churumuri" blog on Karnataka

2008-12-23 Thread Danese Cooper
Must admit (as a business tourist and not a local), I wouldn't visit if there wasn't an interesting event happening. I don't care about the infrastructure issues (grew up in LA...and you forgot to mention gridlock in Beijing, Bangkok, the airport road into Hanoi...your city doesn't actually have t

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Danese Cooper
Nevermind. Just saw tweet confirming Eric is okay :-) Danese Sent from my phone On Nov 26, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just got off the phone with a few friends in Mumbai - thankfully, they're OK. Mumbai silklisters - speak up, please. Are you folks fine? ht

Re: [silk] Mumbai silklisters OK?

2008-11-26 Thread Danese Cooper
Brian and I are most worried about Dr. Eric Von Hipple, who was scheduled to check into Oberoi last night. Karim Lakhani tweeted about this earlier. Haven't seen any word whether the good Dr. Is safe or not. Danese Sent from my phone On Nov 26, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [silk] QOTD: God hasn’t voted yet!

2008-11-05 Thread Danese Cooper
Wow, Cory Doctorow is explicitly blacklisted on this site, and he's listed number three on the list (Obama is number one). Best bit is that there's a live link to the Craphound blog... D http://shelleytherepublican.com/blacklist On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [silk] More collateral damage in the loudness war

2008-10-08 Thread Danese Cooper
Wow. I didn't realize Silklist was a cover for a secret Metal Head society ;-). Danese On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sumant Srivathsan wrote, [on 9/29/2008 11:40 AM]: > > I blame Rick Rubin. IMO, the only Metallica album that sounds even >> remo

[silk] Cory in xkcd

2008-09-29 Thread Danese Cooper
http://xkcd.com/482/ Apparently, Cory is at 1/2 an atmosphere ;-) I'm jealous that he's in India, and I'm not. Danese

Re: [silk] Rebooting America

2008-08-01 Thread Danese Cooper
Yes, there was a conference last month that kicked this off. Its Micah Sifry's thing (Dave Sifry of Technorati fame is his brother). Silklist's own Brian Behlendorf was there and spoke on a panel. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the essay authors are FOO Camp regulars...Seems like poli

Re: [silk] apple - defective by design

2008-07-28 Thread Danese Cooper
I had a conversation with the guy who does iPhoneDevCamp last week at OSCON. He's really freaked because the NDA is still in place for the iPhone SDK. In essence it means that its illegal for non-Apple- employed iPhone developers to speak to each other directly (which is gonna make a BarCa

Re: [silk] Microsoft to sponsor the Apache Software Foundation

2008-07-26 Thread Danese Cooper
Biju, Brian is up at FNF (a weekend music party that is off the grid). Here's what I know about Apache taking that money. First of all, Apache got over dealing with proximity to MSFT for pragmatic reasons a long time ago. Covalent is an example of a company that sold Apache-based products

Re: [silk] Disadvantages of an Elite education

2008-06-29 Thread Danese Cooper
I have to beg to differ on the subject of Al Gore. If you've never seen his talk on Global Warming I guess you might still consider him a poor communicator...but it wasn't poor communication skills that cost him that election (not to open a new can of worms). On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:27 AM, B

Re: [silk] Is conflict necessary for progress?

2008-06-22 Thread Danese Cooper
Gotta love Google: from http://www.chaospark.com/politics/reid12.htm Libertarian or Anarchist? Libertarians are often accused of being anarchists or asked what the difference is between a libertarian and an anarchist. The popular image of anarchy is unrestrained violence and looting. Libert

Re: [silk] Is conflict necessary for progress?

2008-06-22 Thread Danese Cooper
If you think of the status quo as inertia, then physics tells us a force (which I'm gonna call conflict) is required to create change. In my work career I've seen this over and over. Those who are guarding the status quo do not go gently in a new direction, even if that direction is clearl

Re: [silk] Mumbai hotel recco?

2008-06-21 Thread Danese Cooper
2008 at 6:42 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Danese Cooper [20/06/08 18:39 -0700]: Well the Mark Hopkins (like the Imperial in Delhi or Raffles in Singapore or the Oriental in Bangkok) is more than a hotel..its a landmark. Heck, Kim Novak's characte

Re: [silk] Mumbai hotel recco?

2008-06-20 Thread Danese Cooper
Well the Mark Hopkins (like the Imperial in Delhi or Raffles in Singapore or the Oriental in Bangkok) is more than a hotel..its a landmark. Heck, Kim Novak's character *lived* there in Vertigo. :-). Price-wise however, I still say they are comparable. Sometimes Bombay is higher and someti

Re: [silk] inshallah

2008-06-20 Thread Danese Cooper
I'm an Inshallah user, but I choose my audience...wouldn't say it to a Sikh, I'd say Waheguru Ki Fateh...and I say Lahemdullah in the Magreb ;-). Then there's the question of what I say when I stub my toe or miss a nail and pound my finger with a hammer? I think automatic curses are more

Re: [silk] Mumbai hotel recco?

2008-06-20 Thread Danese Cooper
3 stars to you isn't 3 stars in India. You don't want to go below 4 stars (unless you want to do the ashram thing...which can be cheap and clean but essentially "no stars"). D On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Cory Doctorow wrote: I think I could be happy in a 3-star -- the Indian equivalent o

Re: [silk] Mumbai hotel recco?

2008-06-20 Thread Danese Cooper
The airport region has industry and some interesting barrios (if that's what you're writing about). Mumbai is really spread out and the neighborhoods are all somewhat unique. D On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Cory Doctorow wrote: Is the airport region really boring, like most airport locatio

Re: [silk] Mumbai hotel recco?

2008-06-20 Thread Danese Cooper
Hey Cory, Mumbai: I have stayed at the Leela (now owned by Kempinski and closest to the airport)...many, many times. Its considered pricey by some Indians I know, but is comparable to US hotels in price and has excellent service...particularly on their club floors. Its been there a long

Re: [silk] Numismatist ahoy!

2008-06-15 Thread Danese Cooper
Hey Gautam, Here is a list of numismatist groups in the Bay Area. Presumably there must be a similar list for India, no? http://www.kenbarr.com/clubs.html Danese On Jun 15, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Gautam John wrote: Hello! Are there any numismatist's on this list? My grandmother has an old co

Re: [silk] Rowling at Harvard

2008-06-08 Thread Danese Cooper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucdJHjZaqs If you'd like to listen to it. Danese p.s. This received really strange coverage on NPR yesterday. Interviews with Harvard grads who were disappointed with the speech because JK isn't a "world leader". Listening to the speech I think she's givi

Re: [silk] On Intolerance -off topic (ss)

2008-05-15 Thread Danese Cooper
Christian Brothers was a brand in California (they produced brandy and wine) for several decades. They really were "Christian Brothers" as the establishment was run by Franciscan monks (see http:// www.christianbrothersbrandy.com/history.html for a nice picture of their former winery on Hwy

Re: [silk] rant - Re: Wanted: Exceptional parents

2008-04-11 Thread Danese Cooper
I'm sure Charles will have his own answer, but allow me to comment generally on the homeschool movement in the US. Many, many parents have opted to pull their kids out of school in the US to pursue a course of education outside of the traditional school options of "public or private". They

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread Danese Cooper
FWIW, NASA has a couple of viable open source projects. Also the Dept of the Navy in the US was a very early employer of Linux Kernel engineers and the NSF worked on a "reliable" version of Linux that proved it could be done. Danese On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:

Re: [silk] romance and reading

2008-04-03 Thread Danese Cooper
So over here in the States I know of several long-term couples who read the same books. In the case of my friend Jane and her husband John, they share books even though he is a right-wing libertarian and she's a left-wing liberal. In my own marriage, well...my husband only reads books pub

Re: [silk] ... or I will kill you

2008-04-01 Thread Danese Cooper
When I worked for Apple we did a product with French engineers and a Japanese customer (NTT). We had these daily video conferences with the customer, and they used to say things like, "If you don't fix this (completely cosmetic) bug...you will be victimized" And they did look a little like

Re: [silk] RIP Arthur C Clarke

2008-03-18 Thread Danese Cooper
My pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danesecooper/sets/72157604156435040/ D On Mar 18, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: Arthur lived for many many years in Colombo, Sri Lanka. As essentially the patron saint of the Sri Lankan IT Industry, he often appeared at tech conferences

Re: [silk] RIP Arthur C Clarke

2008-03-18 Thread Danese Cooper
Arthur lived for many many years in Colombo, Sri Lanka. As essentially the patron saint of the Sri Lankan IT Industry, he often appeared at tech conferences organized in Colombo. The first year I spoke at FOSS-SL he came to visit, but on a day when I was absent (I was visiting the Naval A

Re: [silk] Writers not welcome in India?

2008-02-26 Thread Danese Cooper
Congrats! I was *so* happy to get mine last year. Feels so comforting to know I can go to India any old time. D On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Charles Haynes wrote: They just issued her a 10 year tourist visa.

Re: [silk] Writers not welcome in India?

2008-02-26 Thread Danese Cooper
Not that this is gonna help you now...but I *always* ask the Visa Network folks for advice when filling out a visa form (for any country). They've seen it all, and they've seen it more recently than I have. They know for instance not to refer to any specific conference when applying for a

Re: [silk] another intro

2008-02-23 Thread Danese Cooper
Not sure how I missed this thread originally...but nice to see fiber artists on Silk. I knit, crochet, tat, macrame, embroider and spin. I also do a lot of knitting on planes and also (famously) in meetings. http://danesecooper.blogs.com/divablog/2007/08/ashlee-vance-wh.html Danese On Fe

Re: [silk] Bay area silkmeet?

2008-02-20 Thread Danese Cooper
Maybe me too? I have to be in San Jose in the morning tomorrow... Danese On Feb 20, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Charles Haynes wrote: I'm also here in MTV through Mar 6 or so. Lunch in MTV works best for me, but dinner in SF may be possible. Come have lunch with Thats and me! -- Charles On Wed, Feb 2

Re: [silk] greetings and salutations

2008-02-04 Thread Danese Cooper
You guys are gonna scare poor Brian. Remember, he has to STAY there. Seriously, a few of the Sun folks stayed at the Churchill during FOSS.in and they found it to be fine...if a little far from the "center of town". Danese On Feb 4, 2008, at 7:20 PM, shiv sastry wrote: On Tuesday 05 Feb

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

2008-01-28 Thread Danese Cooper
Oh, there's poverty. There are plenty of folks missing out on the gravy-train. Especially small-holder farmers and share-croppers and the actual workers in the Industrial Zone. D On Jan 28, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Cory Doctorow wrote: at least some abject failure of development

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

2008-01-28 Thread Danese Cooper
Wow Cory :-). First babies are usually late...hope Alice is comfortable and that you're both caught up on sleep (you're gonna need it). Congrats. Danese On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Cory Doctorow wrote: and my wife is due to deliver our daughter TODAY

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

2008-01-28 Thread Danese Cooper
Cory, Are you actually going to go hang out in whichever of these places you select? If yes, I'd personally be leaning towards Chandigarh because it will have all the Punjabi politicsboth ancient and modern. You stlll have small-holder farmlands in the surrounding countryside, but a

Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures

2007-12-13 Thread Danese Cooper
Uhm...I don't have permission to view the page. Do you need to friend me on Flickr or something? I'm DivaDanese. On Dec 13, 2007, at 6:40 AM, Vinit Bhansali wrote: Here they are. http://flickr.com/photos/vinit/sets/72157603446375588/ And they come with a story that involves a burnt extern

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

2007-12-05 Thread Danese Cooper
They make great source to cut up for images for collage art. I give mine to schools for that purpose. Danese On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:33 AM, Shoba Narayan wrote: Shiv: We have 5 years of accumulated old issue of National Geographic too :) How on earth do you get rid of them? Shoba

Re: [silk] To FOU or not to FOU

2007-11-11 Thread Danese Cooper
Of course I've never been to FOU, but I've been to just about every FOO ever, I think. FWIW, a safari, if interesting and fun, wouldn't necessarily be out of bounds at FOO. Over the years there have been excursions offered (to a local artist workshop around the corner, to a performance by

[silk] To FOU or not to FOU

2007-11-10 Thread Danese Cooper
Okay, so now I must book my airline tix for trip to India. I still haven't seen consensus on FOU (when, where, to what extent???). Can we please, please just decide? Is it Fireflies? Somewhere else? I can be there Nov 30-Dec 2. I'm happy to moderate Werewolf games, to talk other wester

Re: [silk] Today is the first day...

2007-10-22 Thread Danese Cooper
I just spoke to Udhay on AIM, and the poor man is home sick in bed on his birthday :-( Danese Sent from my iPhone :-) On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:31 PM, "Deepa Mohan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For everyone who is trying to plan (or not) the next FoU ..today is BoU...happy birthday, Udhay! S

Re: [silk] skirt that becomes a camouflage vending machine

2007-10-22 Thread Danese Cooper
lly made by hand by the artist. Want me to pick one up for you? -- Charles At 800$, Danese, couldn't you scoop out a real vending machine, lug it along, and stand inside that, that would be even more recherche? AbhiSHEK thank you for that most interesting link! Deepa. On 10/22/07, Danes

Re: [silk] skirt that becomes a camouflage vending machine

2007-10-21 Thread Danese Cooper
You've never been to Hallowe'en in the Castro District...scary isn't really the point. Its more like a huge dress-up party. Clever counts ;-). Danese On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:36 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Danese Cooper wrote: My husband says, "Wow, can we

Re: [silk] skirt that becomes a camouflage vending machine

2007-10-21 Thread Danese Cooper
My husband says, "Wow, can we get one of those for Hallowe'en?" (We're very focused on Hallowe'en here in San Francisco). Danese On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Abhishek Hazra wrote: for me its a super art piece! sculpture+performance rolled (or wrapped?) into one. :) reminded me also of dune+

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-24 Thread Danese Cooper
FWIW, folks who are attending OS Summit Asia before FOSS.in can't make it to B'lore or environs by the 1st anyway. We'll be in Hong Kong until afternoon Nov 30th. Danese On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:43 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: On 22-Aug-07, at 8:15 PM, Casey O'Donnell wrote: Dec 1-2 is a

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Danese Cooper
Jim is one of my best pals from my "Sun Days", and I'm really happy to see him here on Silk. He's expecting to attend FOSS.in, and I'm hoping by then he'll be a friend of Udhay's so he can come to FOU. He's one of the goodguys :-) Danese Sent from my iPhone :-)

Re: [silk] Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

2007-07-09 Thread Danese Cooper
Unless you count Kamakaze pilots in WWII..and I'm sure somebody even before that. Danese On Jul 8, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Charles Haynes wrote: Suicide bombing was invented by the LTTE and is still used by them.

Re: [silk] IPhone - Thoughts?t

2007-06-30 Thread Danese Cooper
udhay, Where did you get the idea that you must go through iTunes? I grab music from lots of sources, in .mp3 .wav and other standard formats. Quicktime plays them, and they only convert to .aac if I say to. Also, its a single checkbox to mount an iPod as an external drive. I back stuff

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