I've been in Boston for more than 25 years - it seems completely normal to
me. But yes -
a) Layers.
b) Pay attention to the weather forecasts for temperature. Predictions of
precipitation are often wrong but wind chill predictions are subjectively
accurate :-).
c) If you're going to drive a car -
I would echo
99% Invisible - very clever and humane take on design
BBC's In Our TIme. I usually enjoy the pieces on the humanities more than
the Science/Math ones - the latter tend to be too simplified.
Nature
Science
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
History of Philosophy in India (I'd be
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk <
s...@venkatmangudi.com> wrote:
> We, as in Indians, love renaming stuff. Roads, cities, states, and just
> above everything else that may or may not belong to anyone in particular.
> Cologne is now Koln. How is this any different?
> On
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com
wrote:
That was terrible. One more joke like that and I'm gonna cry foal.
You could do that till your voice is horse, and
I wouldn't recommend the 1922 Quixote; 1605 and 1615 were much better
years. If you can't find this vintage I'd suggest the 1939 Menard which had
some of the similar organics.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:01 AM, gabin kattukaran gkattuka...@gmail.comwrote:
On 19 June 2013 14:05, Udhay Shankar N
YOKO? You Only Know Once?
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 29 May 2013 18:39, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
The closest approximation to infinite threads (at least on silk) are
pun cascades.
Yoko. Here we go again.
Ram
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
That's right, a thousand year old culinary tradition handed down from
father to son, cultivator to cultivator, gourmand to gourmand, and wood
fire to wood fire to deliver the best of the farm on to the plate needs
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 29 January 2013 19:08, Sean Doyle sdo...@gmail.com wrote:
materials from food long ago and now focus on packaging. And we're now
working on the education system so that the eight year old mentality
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Sean Doyle sdo...@gmail.com wrote:
I would welcome that. We're having a definite quality control problem
here.
Fox has been aiming at a 3 year old mentality (mine! all mine
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Ashwin Nanjappa ashwi...@outlook.comwrote:
At today's Chennai silk list meetup the topic of history podcasts came
up. I offered to post to silk list asking
everyone for recommendations.
1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:19 PM, John Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote:
If we're going to really work on this compilation, I think we need to
think outside the box and push the envelope.
Don't push too hard - we might jump the shark.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:58 PM, John Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote:
What's odd, depressing, and curiously interesting to me is that although
there are people in this country from all over the globe, Americans with
virtually every genetic marker borne by humans on earth, the race
question
Nishant -
Please add me if you can. Thanks.
sdo...@gmail.com
Sean
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Nishant Shah itsnish...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I'm in, but I don't seem to have the ability to invite people. Tried a
Surely the null hypothesis has to be better specified than that...
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Oh, and for some reason people are down on this
whole euthanasia thing. Beats me.
When I was in 4th grade I was late for a class in upstate NY .. it
consisted of the health teacher explaining why 'youth in asia' was evil
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote:
apologies for using a top posting phone client
[Kids today! They do (thing I disapprove of) much more than when *I* was a
child! I wonder if it is due to lack of parental discipline?]
Translation of previously
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Calvin cjwl...@yahoo.com wrote:
A more poignant reminder would be to body search everyone who enters the
building, Congressmen included.
I suspect that most Congressmen are exhibitionists - so this might
actually be an incentive for them :-).
This is a good idea but doesn't really go far enough. They need to recover
the outside of the monument in some reflective material so they can project
ads on the side. After a generation people will think of this as large HD TV
and will lose its iconic status. It can then be safely moved to
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still.
Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters
to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten.
In Kangding I was
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Sean Doyle [23/11/10 22:02 -0500]:
You made a chinese guy look ill? That's a first.
The folks in Kangding were ethnically TIbetan; in my experience they
have very different eating habits than Han. For example
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
And I agree with all those comments down below, which point out what's
wrong with the chatbot way of handling criticism, denial and negation.
Agreed. I worry this will set off an arms race - the people that fund GW
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Warming? Is for the birds. Will at most kill a billion.
What. An. Awesome. Quote.
I think Eugen is being too optimistic. We're already probably fried
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:34:38AM +0530, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
And don't try reading a 100+ MByte color PDF or DJVU on a Kindle.
Nevermind that a
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Beep
This is a test of the emergency silk system. This is only a test. Had this
been a real message you would have been advised not to top post in this
thread and to await further threads.You have been listening to the
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
How much lower can this go?
I believe that's up to Udhay. He has to tell us when we've passed or failed
the test.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:07 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 18 Aug 2010 1:45:26 pm Deepa Mohan wrote:
I have a question...why does this rewiring not work (it obviously
doesn't)
when the father does not accept responsibility for the child? Does the
re-wiring only occur if
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote:
I never liked Ayn Rand - always felt like she was a drill sergeant insisting
on her way...and all that aggrandizement of architects - utter rubbish.
Yes - I couldn't stomach the characters and the tone. It's been a
while
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=with-a-wave-of-the-hand
With a wave of the hand
How using gestures can make you smarter
Nietzsche claimed that you should only trust thoughts that you had while
walking
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeremy Bornstein wrote, [on 9/1/2008 10:24 PM]:
I was told once that the now common (in the USA anyway) How are you?
was a shortened form of How are your bowels?
Apparently, a not-uncommon greeting in Texas(s) is
lost its bumper and the hood was crumpled. So -
it's a sturdy beast.
Gas mileage could be better - it's only ~ 27 mpg. In general I'm happy with
it.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Sean Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Remember to stock up on the directional lights and headlights - they have to
be changed often (at least my experience with a 2000 Beetle). The first year
I had to replace at least one directional bulb a month; I still have to
replace the headlight bulbs every 6 months or so.
Otherwise - a nice
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Sean Doyle [18/08/08 13:23 -0400]:
Remember to stock up on the directional lights and headlights - they have
to
be changed often (at least my experience with a 2000 Beetle). The first
year
I had to replace
Agreed - I put this name into our product's test suite as soon as I saw it
;-)
2008/8/16 Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://xkcd.com/327/
-V
A number of years ago a co-op student from Germany came into my office and
said that he had just become an American citizen. I was very surprised - I
told him I had no idea he was applying.
His response - no - I'm not legally an American - but this weekend I became
a cultural American. How could
It's not just a reference - it's delicious (via Boing Boing)
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/03/beijing-restaurant-s.html
Of course - the wikipedia has to be freshly edited or it tastes stale.
On Dec 4, 2007 7:28 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Casey O'Donnell wrote: [ on 06:24
On 10/13/06, Kragen Javier Sitaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many churches in the US have gorgeous stained-glass windows which arenow encased between sheets of cloudy, yellowed plexiglas to protectfrom thrown stones.In the Northeast (where I live) most of the plexiglas covering stained glass
Thanks. That makes much more sense than the other pages I had seen.On 6/12/06, Biella Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:Sean Doyle wrote: Why are they building on top of Fedora Core 2? This seems very old.
I think they are building on
Why are they building on top of Fedora Core 2? This seems very old.I'm not asking to be snarky - I've only been to Bhutan once and know no Dzongkha (yet). This is very cool - I remember people being much more interested in Microsoft than Linux last Summer and a lot of it had to do with the support
When I first posted to this thread I think I missed the main point of why I love this camera.In high school I did a lot of photography (had a simple SLR, simple darkroom, lots of time..) - but I graduated in 1978. Over time I devolved to using just point and shoot cameras (first film, then
This makes complete sense - - if everything in the world is explained by supply and demand, and- if human decision-making is the same for all decisions- you don't have an economic side of the brain and a non-economic side
then this work is a real contribution. But I have my doubts :-)It's like
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