On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> (fried? what do you call it when you pour batter on a
> griddle and make pancakes?)
What's wrong with 'made'? It's not a twenty dollar word, but it fits.
Cheeni
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
>
> hands. I was merely pointing out that IMO Hinduism is equally guilty.
There were many merry blood thirsty battles for millennia between the
Indian religions before Islam & Christianity made sufficient inroads.
Kings fought each other for Sha
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:45 PM, ashok _ wrote:
[...]
> Many times I have found it more worthwhile (and beneficial) to
> temporarily (as in, for that moment) adopt a religion - rather than to
> explicitly deny it completely. For one, it opens many doors if you are
> traveling, and at least in som
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> Mahesh Shantaram did that many years ago. Here it is:
> http://bbs.seacrow.com/cix/106/829
> http://bbs.seacrow.com/cix/106/881
Thanks, I am sure that this is the most practical solution, even if I
have to repeat some variant of it in ev
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Danese Cooper wrote:
> 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
Apparently the catholic church has a form that you fill out, at least
in Switzerland. Seeing how Hinduism has all the bases covered -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism_in_Hinduism how does one get rid
of it?
Cheeni
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> they got the whole nation together and glued to the TV at the times they
> were telecast
That had more to do with the era than the serials. No TV show today
can have the pan-India grasp that any half decent show on DD had those
days.
Independ
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> ramanand sagar you mean? the one with the constipated looking actors and
> actresses who look like they need to find a toilet just as soon as the
> current scene is shot, cheezy firework tipped arrows and discordant
> background music
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Salil Tripathi wrote:
>> Congratulations, an excellent article
>>
>> http://www.livemint.com/2010/03/31210209/Maostan-of-Arundhati-Roy.html?h=D
>>
>
> Thanks, Suresh I'm hoping Shoba doesn't "unfriend" me on Facebook now.
I have no opinion on the subject, and
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
> http://xkcd.com/705/
You don't want to - I work with some of them and it's scary.
Cheeni
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Pranesh Prakash
wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 07:49 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
>> wrote:
>>> Implied thread drift.
>>
>> Why you Nazi you, you are no b
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
wrote:
> Implied thread drift.
Why you Nazi you, you are no better than Hitler.
I am with Charles. I'm only piping up to register my vote - not interested
in the debate.
Sent from my mobile device, apologies for terseness, spelling and style.
On Mar 24, 2010 9:45 PM, "Charles Haynes" wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang
wrote:
>
> On 24-Mar-10, at 9..
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:38 AM, ashok _ wrote:
>> I dont know about the specific pieces of law mentioned above but a lot
>> of european civil & legislative law and traditions are adapted from
>> islamic one
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thaths wrote:
> The death after eating pork (spoiled or poisoned) is pretty widely
> accepted. Buddhist priests, having to live off of hand outs from the
> lay community, were not (and still are not in places like Thailand,
> Laos, etc.) picky eaters. After all, c
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Indrajit Gupta wrote:
> 5. The meal
> of
> of pork is well-known of course; this is the first time I have read all the
> details.
>
I am no expert, but there are theories on the Internet that say that
Buddha ate "sukara maddava" i.e. Pig's Delight (i.e. mushroo
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:38 AM, ashok _ wrote:
> I dont know about the specific pieces of law mentioned above but a lot
> of european civil & legislative law and traditions are adapted from
> islamic ones.
My recollection is the same - and a Google search seems to bear this out:
http://www.for
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> No! Really?
How much of this is because of the lack of opportunity and
unemployment in Kerala? I grew up in an alcoholic town that quit its
habit over 2 decades as it gradually made its way out of abject
poverty.
Cheeni
gazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&sq=trolling%204chan&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all)
> ?
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
>>
>
India has variants of this, but not as common or lethal. One has to
wonder how much blame the cultural revolution has to bear for all of
this - dumbing down 1/6th of the world is no easy feat, but it
certainly seems to have succeeded.
Cheeni
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Human-t.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
>
>> Not that I
>> don't have one lying around, and my favorite HK retailer
>> dealextreme.com even sells one for $2 (incl. free shipping),
>
&
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> 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 th
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> People have been waiting for this for decades, but now we
> could see it starting to really happening.
I don't deny the advances made, I was pretty much happy with Linux
usability too until last month when I had to spend 2 whole days
getting so
BTW, can this thread gently drift back to the topic I originally
started? It's easy to beat up on individuals and their reporting
style, but I was hoping there'd be some debate on the larger issue at
hand.
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Divya Manian wrote:
[...]
> *Almost* all journalism is of this kind, the rarer form that is actually
> objective is almost never found,
Huh? Your average beat reporter (whose ilk forms the overwhelming
majority of the hack brigade) reporting on the missing cats, an
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> I don't have any A Priori objection to
> activism
> activism. I *do* take serious
> exception to _dishonesty_ masquerading as jounalism - whether it is
> Sainath, Tom Friedman or Arundhati Roy.
Sainath's "Everybody loves a good drought" sho
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> you nailed it. they call it "activist journalism" and i hate activism - on
> either side of the political spectrum (I detest the EFF and moveon as much
> as I do the teabaggers)
Perhaps what you meant to say is that you hate the EFF'
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Will need to think more about this, but broadly agree. However, it might
> just be that India's brand of democracy is one mitigating factor to the
> trend you speak of.
The great Indian democracy and its power to save the world is a bit
ove
I am very surprised this wasn't already posted here. I have deep
concerns about the "emperor's new clothes" attitude that modern India
has taken.
Countries that can't take honest criticism and have a deluded self
image are a threat to the rest of the world - India, USA and China are
in their own wa
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> To this non-connoisseur, the florid language at the URL above is setting
> off my bullshit alarms ("hand washed in mountain spring water and dried
> in pristine sunlight") but maybe other silklisters have experience with
> these brands/blend
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
>> Ooh, pretty! But wait, 3.5 hours battery life?
>
> There's a 6 cell battery upgrade for $99.
Oh wait, the reviewer also had a 6 cell battery, never mind then.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> Ooh, pretty! But wait, 3.5 hours battery life?
There's a 6 cell battery upgrade for $99.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Around 400 EUR with 2 GBytes,
> not
> not counting an SSD upgrade (a must, and
Yes, the SSD upgrade is unfortunately disproportionately useful on net books.
Solid state storage for OS at least seems to be the future. I'm
considering building
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> I'm off photography until there's a decent camera that fits in my pocket and
> can directly upload to the Internet.
A kludge, but http://www.eye.fi/
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
>
> In fact pick whatever
> thinkpad
> thinkpad works for you - the damn things are built
> like tanks, have usable keyboards and excellent linux support
In my very subjective opinion the Thinkpad line has never been the
same without
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Thaths wrote:
> Play Asia did come up in my searches. Their prices on game cartridges
> are, on average, 50% higher than amazon (!) and shipping is said to
> take weeks to India.
Try again in a few years, until then Burma Bazaar or courier via
friend / relative tr
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> Silklister Jace is tweeting from inside:
>
> http://twitter.com/jackerhack
>
> Hope he gets out ok ...
He's out safely and on his way home - he's currently on the phone with
a TV reporter
http://www.ndtv.com/news/videos/video_live.php?id=LIVE
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:08 AM, wrote:
> Amrut is available at 26 pounds a bottle at an upscale shebeen in Mayfair in
> London. I saw it. Glad to know the desi price. I'll buy it when I am next in
> India.
I saw it for about 45chf at an obscure whisky shop in Lausanne some 8
months back
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Raj Shekhar wrote:
> This anecdote is a bit hard to digest. Or maybe I have dealt with more
> hardened bureaucrats.
The comments in the blog cover this actually. For a change this being
the World Bank blog, the comments are actually useful.
Some quotes:
{
I wou
This is a very interesting idea, but of course not a silver bullet. There's
some interesting comments too. Can't easily quote the entire text via the
phone...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services
Paying Zero for Public Services
Imagine that you are an old lady from
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0125/US-oil-industry-hit-by-cyberattacks-Was-China-involved
US oil industry hit by cyberattacks: Was China involved?
MONITOR EXCLUSIVE: Breaches show how sophisticated industrial
espionage is becoming. The big question: Who’s behind them?
By Mark Clayton Staff w
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2010-01-21 11:51:34 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
>>
>> 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 c
ack
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
>
>
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Salil Tripathi wrote:
> is that with greater urbanization a reality in India, it will get
> harder to divide polyglot regions into exclusive ethnic enclaves.
Don't underestimate the power of caste to fight back.
I noticed this last month when I was in Madras, t
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Sruthi Krishnan wrote:
> It never makes sense to me that one of the conditions for registering to
> vote is that you must have lived at the present address for six months. Why
> is this necessary?
> Logistics?
(Don't want to make a big deal of it, but that quotin
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Charles Haynes
wrote:
> of hack. ESR's editing of the Jargon File is better.
The canonical location of course is, http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
Hacks and Jugaads are close relatives, but they are IMO not the same.
The "hack" in the jargon file sense evo
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Heather Madrone wrote:
> Why would living a nomadic life with tethers to society be faking it?
What Eugen said initially sums it up:
<>
> Nomadic peoples all over the world have a long history of trading
> with settled peoples. They didn't make or find everyth
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote:
> But it isn't happening even remotely as much as it could. The monstrous
> growth of gigantic cities in many parts of the world (especially those with
> severe poverty) remains a tragically strong trend.
If these mega city dwellers could
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> An all-terrain vehicle, a self-erecting solar canopy,
> solid-state air conditioning and water still, LEO sat constellation uplink.
I was thinking more along the lines of a Mongolian yurt. Living a
nomadic life with tethers to society is fakin
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote:
>
> On banks and oilfields - wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of both?
Oh, but you can. It's getting a lot harder with every passing year,
but there are still places on this planet where one can be a hermit on
the mountain, leading
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having seen people burn out, and one former employee of a company I
> used to work for being admitted to a mental institution due to stress
> and not getting enough sleep, I try and get at least 6-7 hours
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Midnight to 4 am, and noon to 4 pm is still 8 hours btw
>
Not being an expert, I can't really judge if that's a valid equivalency, but
it would appear, there's many variables to this question - for example, I
can think of the effect
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Divya Manian wrote:
> It is definitely not TED, it is a light-hearted gathering of geeks who
> share, through Ignite, what they are passionate about in 5 minutes.
I can totally get behind that, but the tag line and marketing on their
webpage make it sound rather di
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> http://ignite.oreilly.com/
>
> What Is Ignite?
>
> If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only
> got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around
> the world geeks have been putting together Ign
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Jeez.
>
> http://www.livemint.com/2010/01/03205001/Struggling-Air-India-looks-to.html
I find the phenomenal popularity of Ayn Rand and Adolf Hitler's Mein
Kampf among Indian readers at once interesting and scary.
Cheeni
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM, ss wrote:
[snipping text from SS on which I am in agreement]
To voice some conspiratorial thoughts I've had over the elephant in the room:
- The timing of this release from "unknown" sources is a little too pat.
- Given the political turmoil in AP, the Governor
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > monday maybe? or sunday dinner.
>
> Either day, dinner sounds good. You get to meet my wife and kids too...
> :-) Who else is coming?
+1
Cheeni
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
[...]
> This is quite the Derrida-ish argument that everything is justifiable if
> only we try to really really understand it, and that Charles Manson should
Whatever is being smoked in this room smells of religion to me.
Cheeni
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> I have some thing in the way of personal experience here, and so I say
> - I agree.
I am quoting here the bits I definitely felt myself relating to.
> But a study by Mr. Wadhwa and other academics found that 34 percent of
I have some thing in the way of personal experience here, and so I say
- I agree.
Cheeni
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/business/global/28return.html?_r=1&src=tw&pagewanted=all
Some Indians Find It Tough to Go Home Again
By HEATHER TIMMONS
Published: November 27, 2009
NEW DELHI — When 7-ye
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Doesn't need a professor higgins
> A swiss german speaker vs a german speaker.. well, coimbatore and kochi
> aren't too far away and you can tell tamil and malayalam apart right
You mean Coimbatore and Palghat - and yes, even I can
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM, ashok _ wrote:
>> I am in Chennai till the 3rd of December -- if there is a meeting
>> being organized I would be glad to meet other participants on this
>> list ...
>
> D
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM, ashok _ wrote:
> I am in Chennai till the 3rd of December -- if there is a meeting
> being organized I would be glad to meet other participants on this
> list ...
Ditto!
Cheeni
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Zainab Bawa wrote:
[...]
>> The lack of condoms is typical of our hypocrisy
>>
>>
> Jace and I once requested a friend if he could let use the bathroom in his
[...]
> girls were not allowed inside boys' rooms in this Infosys guest house!
Indian middle class mo
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Srini RamaKrishnan wrote, [on 11/14/2009 5:17 PM]:
>
>> Weekend of 18th Dec; i.e. evening of 18th Dec / arrive 19th & back
>> 20th evening / 21st morning. I suspect I caused some confusion by
>> stating "t
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Am game, cheeni. Dates?
Weekend of 18th Dec; i.e. evening of 18th Dec / arrive 19th & back
20th evening / 21st morning. I suspect I caused some confusion by
stating "this" weekend, which I meant to be the weekend of the silk
meet.
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Udhay Shankar N wrote, [on Thursday 29 October 2009 02:16 PM]:
>
>> Based on the earlier session we did there, I recommend we meet up at
>> Jaaga [1]. We were discussing things we could do, such as a musical
>> jam (and some rockband [2] as
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
[...]
> ohYES. We wish to state that the population of our country is entirely due
> to the activities of the stork, not the result of a lark, as one wag said!
So, how many storks does the list reckon will be visiting Brazil 9
months from now? B
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:34 PM, ss wrote:
[...]
> Aiyo. No, no, shiv, digital marketing is those two fingers wandering
> over the Yellow Pages!
So to be clear, it is not about election ink then?
Cheeni
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Srini RamaKrishnan wrote, [on 10/8/2009 9:30 PM]:
>
>> When and where is the annual meetup, i.e foucamp? I might want to
>> combine it with a trip to India.
>
> Still open - no fixed date, so throw in your In
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Aditya Kapil wrote:
> How does one get a Google Wave account / invite?
Sorry, I handed out all the ones I had - mostly to people on this
list, so Udhay, Sirtaj, Divya to name a few benefactors might have
their quota to hand out.
Cheeni
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
wrote:
> 2009/10/13 ss
>
>> What's up with younger people nowadays? Or should I ask what's not up?
>
>
> Free internet porn maybe. There are enough websites which offer porn video
> clips a la Youtube which unless you're doing a detailed study
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Manar Hussain wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:04 PM, ss wrote:
>> On Friday 09 Oct 2009 4:28:59 pm Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>> The Peace Nobel is effectively a joke. Just not a very funny one.
>>
>> And this joke appears to me to be like a political act.
>
> It's biz
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
[...]
> What are your thoughts around how to commemorate this anniversary?
When and where is the annual meetup, i.e foucamp? I might want to
combine it with a trip to India.
Cheeni
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
[...]
> 3. A tertiary pipeline, back in the days when the membership was
> technically open (being private only by virtue of obscurity) was people
> who just stumbled across the page and signed up.
"back in the days when the membership was te
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Radhika, Y. wrote:
> i know of at least 2 who left consulting jobs to become teachers at much
> less pay. they did this in the U S though.
School teachers are paid more than Swiss Air pilots in Switzerland. I
think this is called - getting your priorities right!
C
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Luqmaan wrote:
[...]
>
> Another strange thing happened around that time (and cannot be told here)
> after which a few of the active people decided to call it quits.
>
Small town intrigue is often the juiciest, so too it seems is the case
with a small BBS versus
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Anish Mohammed wrote:
[...]
> welcome to silk, from another fellow doc who doesnt practice :-). Did MBBS
> from gov medical college Trivandrum
Given an MBBS is 5 years of non trivial labour, I'd be interesting in
hearing what made either of you give it up?
Che
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote:
[...]
> So far, the problems aren't big enough to make me "break the habit". But for
> the sake, maybe, of a bit of experimenting... which alternatives do you
> wizards think are the best?
bing.com
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Pranesh Prakash
wrote:
> [1] http://tr.im/zO6B
> [2] http://tr.im/zO5N
http://is.gd/3HCef [0] for the full PDF of the article.
[0] Obfuscation deliberate
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Amit Varma wrote:
[...]
>> http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Whats-the-big-deal-about-Tharoors-tweet/videoshow/4327575.cms
>>
>> That was agonizingly stupid, all 4 of them. Thank heavens I don't watch TV.
>>
>
> All 4 of them? :)
True, only 3 of them spoke in the firs
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:15 PM, divya manian wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Thaths wrote:
>> Actually, Suraiya is wrong on at least this front.
>
> Probably comes from being "computer-illiterate" and being "proud of it"
> http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Whats-the-big-deal-about-Tharoors
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
wrote:
> 2009/9/18 KinkiGirl
>
>> Anyway nice prefix, who cares.
>>
>
> The prefix (actually name) comes from the avatar you've chosen on yahoo. I
> realized the same after yahoo referred to me as Adrienne (apparently a guy's
> name somewhere i
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
[...]
> So...*I* think that top- or bottom- posting is just a matter of what one is
> used to, like driving on the left or right sides of a road. On the silklist,
FWIW, I like to think I am a usenet old timer, and I have almost no
problems with
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Sruthi Krishnan wrote:
> :) Talking to peopel around about this now is throwing up interesting
> insights in to the whole addiction thing. It is a catchy phrase "addiction"
> and conjures up all sortsa images. And I really like the whole ants crawling
> over feet.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
[...]
> and I now
> routinely refer to my husband as Mogun.
>
> Deepa (or Deeba, as the case may be.)
Unless I am being careful I find myself pronouncing Nehru as neyru.
Cheeni
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Suresh
Ramasubramanian wrote:
> If you want that sort of stuff - there's yet another interesting historical
> novel about india. This is the first of a 5 part series about the Mughals,
> Alex Rutherford's "Empire of the Moghul". The first volume is about Babur,
> "R
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Sriram Karra wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
[...]
> that's 5 metres long in most large restaurants including SB.
I meant 5 feet I think - but you
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Sriram Karra wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
[...]
> You are ignoring the great Hotel Saravana Bhavan. The rate at which their
> serving sizes are diminishing is only surpassed by the rate at which their
> charges
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Suresh
Ramasubramanian wrote:
> add "thandoori items" [sic] to the list and you have it nailed.
> The wedding caterers must be in league with the gelusil manufacturers.
There's material enough for a book I think - on the lines of Super
size me - on the morphing of
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> An exchange with a friend. Any thought, folks?
Yes, what others said, the kindle is a bad idea, even if you live in the US.
It relies on the Sprint network to download off the air, so no, that
won't work outside the US.
E-Readers won't
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Srini RamaKrishnan wrote, [on 8/17/2009 9:27 PM]:
>
> > It isn't that hard to donate for a worthy cause voluntarily. Yes, there
> are
> > some people who demand their pound of flesh even when helping someone
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan >wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, I do prefer sending money directly to causes I hold dear to my heart
> -
> > stuffing my face with luxury while imagining I am helping t
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> Not at all a mind trick. Simply a way to aggregate more funding.
>
> Feel free to write checks directly to tulir if you like, without trusting
> your appetite to the tender mercies of whichever chefs they get hold of.
Yes, I do pr
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <
> kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > number of people attending, but just 200
> > would mean a donation of 10 lakhs.
> >
> > Try asking the very people who would attend this event t
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> There was something about 'no admin costs' aka all the cash goes to the
> charity.
There is no such thing as a free lunch - I'd prefer they didn't feed anyone
and instead donated their costs to charity...
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> That is if you would also like to donate RS.5000 to a very deserving
> charity.
IMHO, events like this remind me of an old Reader's Digest cartoon where an
upper class socialite is climbing into her Rolls when a hungry beggar
inter
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Suresh
Ramasubramanian wrote:
> ashok _ [12/08/09 00:10 +0300]:
>>
>> Really nice documentary series on Al-Jazeera TV ... about a guy who
>> runs an IIT training school in Bihar...
>>
>> Youtube edition of the doucmentary on the link below ...
>
> I wonder what the
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:09 AM, ss wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 9:46:44 pm J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
>> On Jun 29, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>> > Um. Interesting take. Comments?
>>
>> Two comments:
>
> Could anyone tell me why I seem to NOT receive the first post of some topics -
>
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Um. Interesting take. Comments?
Heh, as always Udhay gets away with jabbing others for comments
without revealing what he thinks... :p
>
> http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/18/the_death_of_macho
>
> The Death of Macho
I think
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