Re: [silk] An anniversary

2020-12-21 Thread ckelty ckelty
April 19, 2000. I found Udhay via a company he worked with (SMS Internet gateway something or other), and wanted to study Indian start-ups. That failed, but I found silk-list, and a lot of intelligent flaming, as promised, along with a bunch of interesting people in Bangalore and around th

Re: [silk] Anil Kumar

2020-10-19 Thread ckelty ckelty
On 10/18/20 5:37 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: For those of you who knew him, I have sad news. Silklister Anil Kumar passed away of a cardiac arrest a few days ago. We were friends for ~30 years. That involved many many shared experiences, including youthful indiscretions, late night conversat

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

2018-10-10 Thread ckelty ckelty
On 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 journalism fellow >> and am >> keen >> to meet any silklisters in the

Re: [silk] What are you optimising for?

2017-11-07 Thread ckelty ckelty
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 7:45 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Interesting article by Cory. Curious. I don’t post to mailing lists anymore, silk-list sadly included, but I do continue to read them: because posting engages one in conversations and a kind of anxiety of call and response (as do all s

Re: [silk] Nineteen!

2016-12-12 Thread ckelty ckelty
pause does this mean there will be a 20-year reunion and Epic SilkList Conference, next December? ck On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 17:25, 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 @ po

Re: [silk] The Need for Guaranteed Basic Income or why Kiran is worried sick

2016-04-29 Thread ckelty ckelty
The anthropologist cringes. see here for a great article on this very issue: http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/4/the-history-of-mana-how-an-austronesian-concept-became-a-video-game-mechanic ck > On Apr 28, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:33 P

[silk] library.nu

2012-03-10 Thread ckelty ckelty
Only after hearing from Udhay by phone recently (Heil Udhay!) and unrelatedly, did I realize that I should have posted this here on silklist: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012227143813304790.html I'm sure people here have opinions about the subject. In the last 10 days the art

Re: [silk] Steve Jobs...in memoriam

2011-10-17 Thread ckelty ckelty
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > > How did Dennis Ritchie's death impact you all? Especially the geeks? > > Cheers, Deepa. > http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/10/20111017101758923914.html ck