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

Running shoes. Not the absolute high end, but the Asics, New Balance variety. I generally try and get good quality lenses and frames once a year. > On 07-Dec-2020, at 10:13 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Like it says. I know there are similar threads out there on reddit etc - > this question

Re: [silk] When to quit

I tend to agree with Biju that it depends on what you are attempting. I was desperate to try and quit smoking for many years, and finally managed in 2008 ( till now!) after at least five major attempts. On the other hand, things like staying with a particular book after it fails to grip me af

Re: [silk] Nineteen!

Appropriately enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipc9pL27krs > On 12-Dec-2016, at 5:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Tomorrow is the 19th birthday of silk. Raise a glass, and feel free to > party. I know I will! :) > > Udhay > -- > > ((Udh

Re: [silk] Nineteen!

Excellent. And truly inspirational! > On 12-Dec-2016, at 5:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Tomorrow is the 19th birthday of silk. Raise a glass, and feel free to > party. I know I will! :) > > Udhay > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Things that are worth the money

Spectacles, computers, phones and shoes top my list. Stuff you use all the time. Though I would clarify that I’d spend the extra money only if the money actually made a material difference to the product. It wouldn’t necessarily be for a bigger brand name unless the product was also better > O

Re: [silk] What book changed your mind?

Godel, Escher Bach. Douglas Hofstadter. Read it when I was seventeen, understood very little, but was absolutely staggered by what little I did understand. Godel's Incompleteness theorem changed my life view, if math could not be 'perfect,' what could?

Re: [silk] introductions

I am staggering to keep up Joy On 09-Jun-2014, at 12:06 PM, Lahar Appaiah wrote: > He lives and breathes cricket, he quizzes too, > Oh, he does everything that we want to do. > The pen can go on, and on and on, > Praising our Joy, till the break of dawn. > But, TL;DR, you want just the gist. >

Re: [silk] introductions

The Kolkata Knight Riders On 09-Jun-2014, at 9:25 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk wrote: > Which team, if I may ask? >> >>

[silk] introductions

Hi, Since I have spent 20 odd years in Delhi, it has to be a toss up between 'myself Joy Bhattacharjya' and 'Joy Bhattacharjya this side' Delighted to join the founding father of Indian mailing lists. I used to work with computers and then for a long time in the media -