Hi Vani,
I haven't had to deal with mental illness in myself or in my immediate
family.
But I have seen several people discussing mental health and getting support
from each other online.
E.g. On Twitter, there is a handle @therestlessquil operated by a woman who
regularly discusses mental illne
I but option dates
> to 1986 and the Apple IIgs
>
> So ctrl alt del is the clear winner here
>
> --srs
>
> > On 29-Nov-2017, at 10:24 AM, Rajesh Mehar wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering if the Apple Command+Option+Escape key combination came to
> be
> > lat
I'm wondering if the Apple Command+Option+Escape key combination came to be
later than the equivalent Windows Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination or if they
were introduced around the same time.
Does anyone here know?
Tentative +1 (attendance will depend on childcare options falling in place
for the date of the meetup)
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 18:26 Venkat wrote:
> +1 for 17th. I'm out on 15th and 16th.
>
> On 23/11/17 4:55 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > On 23/11/17, 3:29 PM, "silklist on beha
is personal contacts /
> favours or if they will do this for more people. Might be worth exploring?
>
> -Gaurav
>
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Rajesh Mehar
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Silklisters,
> >
> > I need some urgent help in Bangalore.
> >
> >
Hi Silklisters,
I need some urgent help in Bangalore.
An advocate friend of mine needs to move out of her current office and is
looking for a new office. But it's not just a simple real estate search,
because...
Her practice has a high pro bono component and clients need her office to
be close t
I propose a "the one thing that I have learnt/become better at/thought
newly about because of Silk list thread."
Or the one memory from being on Silk list thread.
Nothing synchronous can be planned due to varying timezones right?
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017, 12:49 Landon Hurley wrote:
>
>
> On 16 Nov
> Out of curiosity: What is the difference
> between active and passive lurking?
In my mind,
active lurking is reading the post and enjoying the discussion but
consciously (for whatever motive) not responding.
And passive lurking is mostly not reading the post and discussions but not
LEAVING the
Hi again Nadika,
Look forward to reading your thoughts here too. :-)
>
>
Oh n... It was a super idea.
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017, 14:32 Ashim D'Silva wrote:
>
> Rajesh, it got hard to source diverse enough photographs that were useful
> stock I think. So we ran out of material.
>
>
I loved pickle jar. Why didn't it work out?
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017, 11:54 Ashim D'Silva wrote:
> we
> also tried running a photo site for a while that we’d love to get going
> again: http://picklejar.in
>
>
>
It's Udhay's birthday today! Happy birthday Udhay. I think this is an
appropriate forum to demand a Speech! Speech! Speech!
Tell us three interesting things you're thinking about today.
Hi Peter, welcome to Silk. Many fellow quiet readers and observers here.
Don't worry. But do jump in whenever you feel like it. Everyone gets a long
leash on Silk. :-)
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 16:23 Peter Griffin wrote:
> Hi All
>
> (This feels like the first day of school)
>
> Thanks for inviting
Welcome Harnidh, I follow you on Twitter.
I'm close to 40 and still not much yet. :-)
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017, 11:29 Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Welcome, Harnidh.
>
> Are there any young fogies on this list?
>
> Deepa.
>
Who wants to draw a Venn diagram of all of this? Heh.
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 16:33 Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Hopefully next week let me try
>
> --srs
>
> > On 19-Jun-2017, at 4:19 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm mostly arriving on the 29th morning
> >>
> >> If I am able to sched
I'd like to come too.
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 07:47 Shyam Sunder wrote:
> In. Looking forward to it.
>
> Warm regards, Shyam
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 18-Jun-2017, at 22:26, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I'll be in town and Udhay suggested that we do a silk meet. Please
> rs
>>2. Studied piano. Played 3 piano concerts (as part of a group of pianists)
at St. Andrews Auditorium in Mumbai (with a proper audience, before you
ask). Also played a father-son concert with my older son.
3. Learnt how to read and write music. Used that to transcribe specific
songs that I've alwa
I slowed down on 31 March 2011.
I used to work for an FM Radio station in Mumbai (having been transfered
there from the Bangalore station) and I had swiftly moved up the
organizational hierarchy from being an on-air presenter (or RJ) to being
creative supervisor, assistant program director to fina
Dosa in Bangalore is like Biryani in Hyderabad, it gets way too many hot
and heavy opinions. So, careful of online 'foodies' communities.
Also, the 'traditional' masala Dosa has been altered to suit modern
economics more than anything else. Nowadays there is almost nil Urad dal in
most commerciall
In fact it's pretty much impossible to bottom post. Both on my phone and
laptop browser screen everything (including quoted text and response) gets
formatted as quoted text. It's really painful.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016, 20:21 Shrabonti Bagchi wrote:
> The top and bottom posting debate has been made
>> 2) Hired a* professional "family office" investment consultant* to invest
>> and maintain this corpus. I enjoy the financial planning aspect of wealth
>> management, but my weakness is I hate paperwork - and this from a person
>> whose career was built on documentation! So for my own sanity, I d
How does the failed startup/founder/entrepreneur compare to the struggling
actor in terms of identity and representation i wonder...
Koorka is called kurrukkankizhangu in Tamizh. I think this is also what's
called Arbi in Hindi. Right? Seems to be a pan-Indian tuber? May have been
the precursor to the potato. Would be good to know if someone has already
explored this idea...
>
>
; closely and respond until next week.
>
> Perhaps I’ll ask Tom A. to weigh in also.
>
> Clearly we’re facing a very complicated situation.
>
> jrs
>
>
>
> > On Aug 3, 2016, at 2:11 AM, Rajesh Mehar wrote:
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I appreciat
Hey! You know me from before anyway.
Welcome! I'm quite new here myself.
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 at 14:48 Madhu Menon wrote:
> On 3 August 2016 at 13:49, Venkatesh H R wrote:
> > smattering of Tamil and Hindi. Was anchor at CNN-IBN for 9 years. Numbed
> by
> > TV news, I decided to leave, but
> > i
Hi John,
I appreciate the synthesis of multiple ideas into one talk, but this talk
too glosses over a topic that's been bugging me recently. The idea that
shifting all our energy needs to 'renewables' is going to be a net positive.
I would like everyone's thoughts on these two links below, and th
I would like to make it, but things are a bit unpredictable right now. I'll
keep a track of the venue and time and land up unannounced if that's ok.
>
>
>
Have you tried buying beef yet? :-)
- the guy will either wrap it in
> > a
> > > newspaper or a brown paper bag before putting it inside a plastic bag
> > (not
> > > done for anything else)
>
I'm also thinking that Mumbai's famous acidic sea breeze may cause more
than average wear and tear on the single point of failure Bruce mentioned.
I worry about the damage if something falls, especially because everywhere
below is already over utilized.
On Mon, May 9, 2016, 08:45 Udhay Shankar N
-Introduction-Psychotherapy/dp/1855759659
>
> --srs
>
> > On 01-Apr-2016, at 12:09 PM, Rajesh Mehar wrote:
> >
> > Hello Silkies,
> >
> > This question popped up in my head this morning and St Google didn't
> > provide any good answers.
> >
> &
Hello Silkies,
This question popped up in my head this morning and St Google didn't
provide any good answers.
I know that in some cases, the pilot is killed during the events of a plane
hijack and so this question is moot. But I'm sure that in many hijacking
cases, the pilot survives and must liv
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 here???
>
> > On Mar 2, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> >
> > Arbor Brewing Company on Magrath road.
> >
> > --
> > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((via phone))
>
>
Don't think Windsor Pub is open before 7 PM on weekdays. I even saw it
closed at 6:30 PM last Sunday. Worth calling and checking.
>
>
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...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Friday works better for me too.
>
>
> Excellent. Friday it shall be. Where? ABC like last time?
>
> Udhay
>
>
> --
>
>
I've enjoyed reading:
Deep Green Resistance by Authors: Aric McBay, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith
and
Seasons of Trouble by Rohini Mohan (winner of the Shakti Bhat first book
prize)
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 08:43 Radhika, Y. wrote:
> Children of Air India by Reneé Saklikar (poetry)
> The Jaguar's
"Until now, there hasn't been an easy way to track activity on one and tie
it to another."
I think this is happening anyway, my phone is inextricably linked to my
laptop through Google. Android device, chrome browser, and Google apps that
build up my data base work together to do exactly this righ
I've eaten at Chinita several times. The lady who designed the restaurant,
and runs it along with her husband and brother in law, is of Chinese
ethnicity but lived in the US mostly. So, I guess it's reasonable to expect
a certain degree of 'fusion-y-ness' in the food.
Having said that, at Chinita,
In Kannada (and many South Indian languages), there are two possible
pronunciations of the sound corresponding to the English letter L.
Wikipedia says these are called Retroflex Lateral Approximant and Retroflex
Lateral Flap. Usually, while transliterating Kannada, they're written as l
(as in shaal
There is an apocryphal story about a Hamilton Bridge in Chennai (used to be
Madras when this story happened) that was pronounced variously by
non-English-speakers as Amton bridge, Umton bridge, etc.
One year, there was a huge drive to have bilingual signs in English and
Tamil. The bridge sported b
Happy birthday Mahesh! Congratulations on 50. With the aid of scientific
advances and good sense, here's to another 75 maybe?
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 at 12:27 Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
> Dear Mahesh,
>
> I will drop in for a while. It's been a long while since we last met.
> Congrats on the half-cen
>> Arbor Brewing Company on Magrath road at
>> 6:30pm?
>>
> I shall drop in, albeit a little later.
How late is everyone planning to stay? I may be able to make it around 9 PM.
>
Hey again Bruce!
Thanks for reviving this thread. I've had a similarly non-linear career
path up until now. I was a full time theater artist and then a full time
musician; both these sucked up all my time but gave back very little money.
Then I worked in online-learning and then did a stint in FM
Isn't Skype already doing exactly this in countless Indian families? Other
than the sentimental philosophising, I actually can't see the value add
from this new product.
Sometimes the 'Indian' sharing mentality anyway stretches the use of
products like Skype and WhatsApp. E.g. I've seen 5 schoolbo
There's a Tulu dish called "Thawwe". The recipe sounds identical. Is this
Daalithoy the same dish but called so in Konkani?
I don't know if I'm revealing some secret (likely not) but Gautam John
likes to leave fish fry out overnight to get a nice souring taste in...
Right Gautam?
>
>
> But to be
> fair, one needs to note that neither do balance sheets capture social
> benefits (quality of life after Company ABC set up in a remote area,
> perhaps?)
>
Recently I read that farmers protesting the Jaitapur power plant (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaitapur_Nuclear_Power_Proj
Hi Silklisters,
I was reading this morning about a UN sponsored report that tries to factor
in the true costs of industries around the world including environmental
costs which, according to the report, are usually externalized to show
unrealistic profits. It also says that social costs are not ev
Although, I think queue-cutting is much more a taboo in modern India than
saying "no". I've seen fistfights break out over queue place holders hired
by the well to do in situations where their privilege does not otherwise
allow them to cut in. LPG connections, Passport services, and temples come
to
Wow. Great find! Thanks Dave.
> Sorry it's taken me this long to set up, but these models suggest a few
ways one might attempt to make "casual programming" more attractive, by
relaxing the normal constraints:
> - give people a surplus of resources, so just about anything they
create works[3] (the "flower arranging"/"sp
Thanks for these responses Dave. I've been meaning to set aside a few hours
one weekend to go through the links and info you provided. Will get back to
you when I get around to it!
> To turn the question around: What are you interested in? What sort of thing
do you want to build?
> Web apps?
> In-browser games?
> Robots?
> Software to model quantum field theoretic models of nucleus formation?
Actually Alaric, when I'm not having fantasies about writing my own Android
Apps, I
Hi Esther!
I suspect I was the newest kid on the block before you arrived. :-)
Your work experience sparked a thought in me.
I studied (and really enjoyed) programming beginning with GW Basic on a ZX
Spectrum and then Quick Basic on a 386 DX2. Then I studied C and C++ in
engineering college befo
My own reading seems to be VERY different from all the others on this
thread, but I wanted to mention a few books that have affected me deeply
this year:
1) The First 20 Minutes by Gretchen Reynolds. This book brings together all
the latest research on fitness, working out, athletic performance, i
I think I'm one of the most recent joiners. Udhay told me about the list
after we met at Kiran's house.
Many people have mentioned the legendary threads of yore. Any links to the
archives for the n00bs?
Happy holidays to y'all!
--Rajesh
I would second (or is it third) the Amrut range. They have 3 variants.
Amrut Single Malt, Amrut Fusion, and Amrut Peated. I personally like the
peated whiskey the best. It has a much more dense and smoky flavor to it. I
would rank the Fusion second, followed by the regular variant.
Sorry for the slightly spammy advice Madhu:
I've recently been reading Michael Pollan's COOKED. In it, he describes
this place called The Skylight Inn in Ayden, North Carolina, where they
specialize in barbecuing whole hogs:
"But this a most unusual kitchen, one where the principal cooking
implem
>
> ... several card carrying members of Alcor ...
Funny to see Shoba Narayan's "I want to die at 75" article and mentions of
Alcor in the same thread. So, I guess another question worth asking is what
percentage of one's life is one aiming to spend in retirement?
With current levels of medical
>
>
> (About 3 weeks or so will be spent in NYC, but I'm set there.)
>
>
Oops. I was eager to give you NYC recommendations, because that's the only
American city I've been to. Care to share what your itinerary there is?
Do you have some Chinese places in Queen's planned? I know a great one...
"Fifteen more years has also given me some perspective on the importance of
doing *work you believe has enduring value*, and of the need for down time
to keep work from being the force driving you."
@Bruce: This is really interesting stuff for me. Could you write a little
bit about how you decided
Hi Sandhya,
What a beautiful place to be in!
*First reaction to your email:*
I once did this way before I was ready and did it wrong. The key is to have
something(s) to do once you quit. You should be able to schedule days the
way the normal corporate workday automatically does for us. However, t
I have no attachment or antagonism towards the Ice Bucket Challenge
campaign, but what the viral-ness of the campaign has caused is increased
scrutiny, and consequently some interesting revelations. This link below
talks of one FB user's research that for every $100 contributed to the
cause, only $
>
> Hi Rajesh,
> I am keen on a night out with Korean food. If there are more people
> interested, we could plan something soon to eat and make merry :)
>
If you haven't yet been, there are two really nice Korean places in
Bangalore. One called Arirang in the Kammanahalli area (north Bangalore).
I'm very interested in your ideas on pop-up dinners! Welcome Charanya. And
let me know if y'all are meeting up to discuss food, while eating food.
Hi Sandhya,
Congratulations on your beautiful journey and Tarana. We're hoping to adopt
too, we're waiting for our first (biological) child to get a bit older
before embarking upon the journey.
All the best.
Thanks for the corrections Charles. Anybody knows enough about Arabic to
explain?
And maybe Meera can clarify the meaning of her original question?
Is it the same for Arabic and Chinese as it is for Tamil? I'm not sure.
I know for Tamil it is a severe paucity of written symbols for the various
sounds in the language. So the same symbol is used to represent the sounds
cha, sa, sha, and ja in the symbol set of the traditional script. More
recen
Mohit, what's the reasoning behind not reading anything that is not more
than 5 years old?
he same.
>
> "Hi, I'm Biju C and I'm father to two boys, 7 and 4 respectively. Is
> there a 12-step programme to restore my sanity after such trauma?"
>
> :-)
>
> -- b
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Rajesh Mehar
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
Hi all,
My name is Rajesh Mehar, Uday just added me to this list. I'm a parent of a
three year old, and I live on a relatively quiet street in Jayanagar,
Bangalore. I was born in and grew up in Bangalore and other than for a
one-year-stint in Mumbai, I've lived here all my life. Happy t
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