[silk] Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) explains what happened

2014-10-08 Thread skn
, though I am not sure how much of a lesson they can serve as other than that it is possible. Does this group have any ideas on what should be done? -skn-

Re: [silk] Long Now's Manual for Civilization Lists

2014-09-30 Thread skn
Sci-fi, do check this Kickstarter project out https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clarkesworld/clarkesworld-chinese-science-fiction-translation-p -skn- On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:55 PM, skn s...@skn.fastmail.fm wrote: Long Now Foundation has a very interesting project - Manual

[silk] Financial planning

2014-09-29 Thread skn
be spent (given I have very young kids) etc. etc. Any insights, life lessons? -skn-

Re: [silk] Financial planning

2014-09-29 Thread skn
purely out of curiosity :) -skn-

[silk] Long Now's Manual for Civilization Lists

2014-09-29 Thread skn
Long Now Foundation has a very interesting project - Manual for Civilization Lists, roughly 3500 books most essential to sustain or rebuild civilization. http://blog.longnow.org/02014/02/06/manual-for-civilization-begins/ The recent blog post on the subject has list from David Brin, Bruce

Re: [silk] Financial planning

2014-09-29 Thread skn
has tentacles spread in the market, there is no way armchair investors like us can know what is going on in advance enough to buy/sell. -skn-

Re: [silk] To retire or not - that is the Q.

2014-09-23 Thread skn
a relatively flexible work, the focus of which might, I agree, change every couple of years. Regards, -skn- On Tue, Sep 23, 2014, at 03:59 PM, Sandhya aka Sandy wrote: Botsie et al Continues to be an illuminating thread. Great story, Deepa. Humbling. makes me realize that I'm lucky to have

[silk] Vikram Chandra's Geek Sublime

2014-09-07 Thread SKN
Thanks, -skn-