Not sure if my introduction message went through so reposting.
Hi there folks
The name is Bhaskar Dasgupta, I know of this list from few of the long standing
members here ☺ but just recently talking to somebody and decided to delve in.
Bit of a background, seriously corpulent and hirsute,
He lives and breathes cricket, he quizzes too,
Oh, he does everything that we want to do.
The pen can go on, and on and on,
Praising our Joy, till the break of dawn.
But, TL;DR, you want just the gist.
We are proud to have him, on Silk List.
(Ode to Joy).
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Deepak
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
(Ode to Joy)
You have started a pun cascade. I hope you're proud of yourself.
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
You have started a pun cascade. I hope you're proud of yourself.
Would such a cascade build a pun upon each other?
http://about.me/chandrachoodan
I am staggering to keep up
Joy
On 09-Jun-2014, at 12:06 PM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
He lives and breathes cricket, he quizzes too,
Oh, he does everything that we want to do.
The pen can go on, and on and on,
Praising our Joy, till the break of dawn.
But, TL;DR, you want just
What else can I wish you on this mailing list...but joy!
Deepa.
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Joy Bhattacharjya
joy.bhattachar...@gmail.com wrote:
I am staggering to keep up
Hi,
Since I have spent 20 odd years in Delhi, it has to be a toss up between
'myself Joy Bhattacharjya' and 'Joy Bhattacharjya this side'
Delighted to join the founding father of Indian mailing lists. I used to work
with computers and then for a long time in the media - specifically sports
Welcome to silk... Not a dull moment here... :-)
Cheers
On 9 Jun 2014 09:22, Joy Bhattacharjya joy.bhattachar...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
Since I have spent 20 odd years in Delhi, it has to be a toss up between
'myself Joy Bhattacharjya' and 'Joy Bhattacharjya this side'
Delighted to join
The Kolkata Knight Riders
On 09-Jun-2014, at 9:25 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk s...@venkatmangudi.com
wrote:
Which team, if I may ask?
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk
s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
Which team, if I may ask?
Sacrilege! :)
Joy-da, welcome and glad to see you join!
And about the facebook posts. Phenomenal. That stuff can go in a book
as is. Heck I'll preorder it if you did :)
Welcome to the interesting bunch of folks whose connecting factor being Udhay
;)
Anish Mohammed
Twitter: anishmohammed
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/anishmohammed
Skype: thecryptic
On 26 Jan 2014, at 05:01, Shenoy N sheno...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm happy and honored to be part of this list (thanks
Welcome...
Nice combination that... Hindustani classical and rock. Try Queen. You
might like the music. And Eric Clapton.
On Jan 26, 2014 6:31 PM, Anish Mohammed anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote:
Welcome to the interesting bunch of folks whose connecting factor being
Udhay ;)
Anish Mohammed
Thanks Sumanth. I read about your 250 km (!) Atacama crossing! Deep respect!
Hi Madhu! Prostrations :)
Thanks Anish! Great to meet you
Thanks Venkat! The lad has been getting me to listen to Queen (Bohemian
Rhapsody, to be precise) but I found that song too random, which opinion
made me drop
Thank you. Been two more post that and hopefully I finish the last desert this
November :)
Sent from my iPhone
On 26-Jan-2014, at 19:27, Shenoy N sheno...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Sumanth. I read about your 250 km (!) Atacama crossing! Deep respect!
Hi Madhu! Prostrations :)
Thanks
I'm happy and honored to be part of this list (thanks Udhay!) and while I'm
acutely aware that I'm probably, as my wife Sheela leaves no opportunity
unutilized to remind me of this, a pretty useless and boring person, here's
a brief intro
I'm Narendra Shenoy. I run a factory manufacturing
Welcome
Sent from my iPhone
On 26-Jan-2014, at 10:31, Shenoy N sheno...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm happy and honored to be part of this list (thanks Udhay!) and while I'm
acutely aware that I'm probably, as my wife Sheela leaves no opportunity
unutilized to remind me of this, a pretty useless
On 26 January 2014 10:31, Shenoy N sheno...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm happy and honored to be part of this list (thanks Udhay!) and while I'm
acutely aware that I'm probably,
Welcome. I think we've met in Bombay once.
--
Madhu Menon
Food Photography: http://madhumenonphoto.com
Restaurant
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From: Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com
Sent: Mon Mar 11 01:52:02 EST 2013
To: silklist silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] Introductions
From personal observation, the whole thread of a mail
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote:
As with most choices of this nature, the correct answer is it
depends.
I have a thesis that it depends is the correct answer to _any_
technical question. I do not have a formal proof but I'm yet to come
across a
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a thesis that it depends is the correct answer to _any_
technical question. I do not have a formal proof but I'm yet to come
across a counter example.
There is a marvelous proof, but this mailing list is too
Indrajit Gupta
On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a thesis that it depends is the correct answer to _any_
technical question. I do not have a formal proof but I'm yet to come
On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a thesis that it depends is the correct answer to _any_
technical question. I do not have a formal proof but I'm yet to come
across a counter
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
My understanding, based on rare and highly bewildering interactions with that
tribe, is that IIM Ahmedabad discovered this and patented it thirty five
years ago.
It depends.
-- b
Indrajit Gupta
On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
My understanding, based on rare and highly bewildering interactions with
that tribe, is that IIM Ahmedabad discovered this and
Inspired by John Sundman's mail after a period of quiet time on the list:
There are a couple of new members. Welcome, and feel free to jump out
of lurkspace and introduce yourselves.
Any other members who want to (re)introduce themselves are welcome to, too.
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N))
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Inspired by John Sundman's mail after a period of quiet time on the list:
There are a couple of new members. Welcome, and feel free to jump out
of lurkspace and introduce yourselves.
Any other members who want to
Udhay wrote:
Am I making sense?
Yes, but perhaps not the *same* sense to all of us.
I may have a somewhat different perspective on this, being an relatively
untraveled American. My meatspace experience has never introduced me to
a Udhay, a Madhu, or a Bonobashi. From here, I can't tell if
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
My view on this is that while I do not care about the identity of a person
or
what name that person uses, I would prefer tie an identity down with a
distinctive name+email id
My view too, except that I care about the identity of the
Just to be clear: I wasn't talking about tight-knit online communities
where people know each other well in meatspace. In such communities
usually anonymity is not desired, and even if it is (for instance, a
gay person is not yet comfortable letting everyone know that, but
wants to advance
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:23, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote:
Another word: disinhibition [2] [3]
But disinhibition is a very strong argument against such a
reputation-less world. A world filled with YouTube/4Chan commenters
is a scary proposition.
Talking of 4chan, and
Digressing slightly, a lot of people seem to have been on Wodehouse India. I
was Bat Jarvis there, for what it's worth. I suspect I'm still on the group,
on Read-Only.
There's a Japanese online forum where people aren't allowed to use a name or
a handle (I think it's called 4chan). The deal is
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Ahem, that bit about the address, that would be me, and I think I've
apologized a few times to all parties concerned. It was at least to me
an intellectual exercise in proving a point that went wrong.
[.]
btw,
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
Aside: . should classify with lawnun and bonobashi, but it bothers me
because I can't read or write it as a word. It's a syntactical problem,
though, not one of identity: va was better, but so would qx be. I'm
just not
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
Oh well. Life would be different if everyone used serial numbers.
I presume you mean *metric* serial numbers. :-)
Thaths
--
You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel. -- Homer J. Simpson
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
Digressing slightly, a lot of people seem to have been on Wodehouse India. I
was Bat Jarvis there, for what it's worth. I suspect I'm still on the group,
on Read-Only.
Brinkley/Bingley the Revolutionary Butler was my Nom
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:22, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a Japanese online forum where people aren't allowed to use a name or
a handle (I think it's called 4chan). The deal is that a person's identity
may lend undue weight to any posts of his or hers- and similarly, a new
Pranesh Prakash wrote, [on 6/4/2009 7:56 PM]:
Isn't it then a desirable thing to have consistent anonymity
(by people posting from a random e-mail addresses each time), even if
it causes discomfort?
Not to me, as one of the best parts of online communication on silk is
the community aspect of
Isn't it then a desirable thing to have consistent anonymity
(by people posting from a random e-mail addresses each time), even if
it causes discomfort?
Another way of answering this, with apologies to Denis Leary:
One word: reputation [1]
Another word: disinhibition [2] [3]
Udhay
[1]
On Wednesday 03 Jun 2009 2:48:40 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:
I had an offlist conversation with a silklist member that got me
thinking. Following the contretemps last year about multiple people
ostensibly using a single email account, and what this does to the
notion of identity online
My view
I had an offlist conversation with a silklist member that got me
thinking. Following the contretemps last year about multiple people
ostensibly using a single email account, and what this does to the
notion of identity online [1], this member was of the opinion that
pseudonyms such as . or even
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Lots more can be said about identity and anonymity, and no doubt will
be said. One thing, however, struck me (given the core silklist
principle of assuming goodwill). Might it not be a good idea to ask
I attach more value to somebody posting under his or her proper
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I had an offlist conversation with a silklist member that got me
thinking.
Ah, the sweet irony of the complainant remaining anonymous to the rest
of the list!
Thaths
--
You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel. --
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I had an offlist conversation with a silklist member that got me
thinking. Following the contretemps last year about multiple people
ostensibly using a single email account, and what this does to the
notion of identity
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Lots more can be said about identity and anonymity, and no doubt will
be said. One thing, however, struck me (given the core silklist
principle of assuming goodwill). Might it not be a good idea to
Thaths wrote, [on 6/3/2009 7:02 PM]:
I had an offlist conversation with a silklist member that got me
thinking.
Ah, the sweet irony of the complainant remaining anonymous to the rest
of the list!
Well, I made the call to not reveal the name of the member.
And it wasn't a complaint per se
--- On Wed, 3/6/09, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
From: Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Introductions and Identity
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009, 8:29 PM
Thaths wrote, [on 6/3/2009 7:02 PM]:
I had an offlist conversation
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Am I making sense?
Udhay
On this list, that's really leading with your chin, Vod ka Raja!
While talking about members posting under pseudonyms, I would also like to
raise the issue of how many members ARE on this
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.inwrote:
Almost everybody knows everybody.
No, Wood Dweller, I don't, at least. Remember, I did email you and got to
know you a little more as a person.
If a new person appears, we can always look that person up in the
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:00 AM, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
After I joined, I was astonished when someone linked a photograph and
also listed Hassath's address on the list in all their friendliness to
welcome her. I dont know about her but I would have been upset if it
happened to me,
--- On Wed, 3/6/09, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Introductions and Identity
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009, 11:47 PM
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:40 PM,
Srini RamaKrishnan che
At 2009-06-03 14:48:40 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
this member was of the opinion that pseudonyms such as . or even
lawnun should be discouraged on the list.
I've thought about this question often, but my feelings are complicated
and may be somewhat contradictory. (I've never tried to write
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
At 2009-06-03 14:48:40 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I've thought about this question often, but my feelings are complicated
and may be somewhat contradictory. (I've never tried to write them down
before, and I'm not
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Data point: I think of you as 'crab'. I mean, I know what your real
name is, it's just that I first knew you as crab, and crab has stuck in
my head. Similarly, but conversely (if you know what I mean) I first
knew Kiran
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 00:05 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Try this .. http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/prego/
+1, though you do need to be a bit of a travel geek to use it.
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 23:12 -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
I've tried to keep my travel on Star Alliance to go for those obscene mile
numbers rather than have lots of different accounts, plus those flights
seem much more expensive and I'm still a cheap bastard; but maybe sanity
has a cost
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [21/02/08 13:53 +0100]:
west coast (only the US airlines give you reasonable miles on cheap
fares on star, and they have poor connections between europe and the
west coast).
bmi for you. and south african should help you as well.
if you have an air france card theres kenyan
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [21/02/08 13:53 +0100]:
i don't want to turn silk into flyertalk, but... i'll renew platinum on
skyteam by april this year too, and wonder what to do with the rest of
the year, and probably consider star alliance and discover again that
skyteam doesnt have any reasonable
On Thu, February 21, 2008 9:27 pm, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
BTW, I am not saying that hserus or you are obsessive collectors, but
I found this article on frequent flyer mile junkies illuminating.
Oh yeah. But I'm not as much of a junkie as the people who do mileage
runs .. search around to
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
i don't want to turn silk into flyertalk, but...
I usually just toss my miles away, I can't be bothered to keep track
of them. Firstly I don't want to fly so much that I will collect
On Feb 21, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Madhu Menon wrote:
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
i don't want to turn silk into flyertalk, but...
I usually just toss my miles away, I can't be bothered to keep track
of them.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
In that case, can you book tickets for me on your miles please? :P
Sure, I have no problems if you want to be my lackey who will deal
with the airlines, pick up my cast away ticket stubs, and keep track
of my point
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
ps: Isnt freudian psychology pretty much passe by now?
Yeah, but it is very good fun. I couldn't resist :-)
On 2/12/08, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So Ravages isn't responsible for getting you in here? Tell us how it
happened.
Here is what happened. Deepak had mentioned several times, that this
mailinglist has intelligent conversations going on, so I decided to
sign up by sending an
On 2/11/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lufthansa / Air France from Madras get you there in 10 hrs to CDG or FRA + a
6..7 hour direct flight to SEA, 2 hours or less for transit. You land in CDG
/ FRA early in the morning, and you have enough time for a shower and some
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Try this .. http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/prego/
Second this, - I use itasoftware all the time for within US flights -
flexibility like you wouldn't believe. (Tip of the hat to Anjana Mohan,
who first sent me here)
Cheerio,
M
--
Madhu M Kurup
The Lufthansa flights seem to all leave in the middle of the night -
1am from Chennai, 3am from Delhi. Those are really rough on one's ability
to adjust, especially since I agree that moving forward in time should be
Yeah and SQ is 11:40 or something, TG is after midnight from MAA.
Not much
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:50:32PM +0800, Divya Manian wrote:
* Pack for Seattle trip starting this weekend.
I'm a San Francisco denizen but will be in Seattle this weekend for this
workshop:
http://www.academiadellaspada.com/events/4w/2008/about.html
(I'm sure visitors are welcome to come
On Feb 11, 2008 2:50 PM, Divya Manian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
Hi Divya,
welcome to the silklist.
* Paint at least 1 canvas next month -
http://flickr.com/photos/nimbupani/sets/1107209/
Your shelf seems to have Applied cryptography and algorthim book by
Rivest, this seems to give
Hi Divya.
Welcome.
On Feb 11, 2008 8:20 PM, Divya Manian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since Hassath has created a new high for introductions (hi Hassath!),
(It's only later I discovered that actually not many people post their
introductions ;-)
--
- Hassath
Oops my intro does not mention I live in Singapore. Singapore to
Seattle via Taipei is 15 and 1/2 hours including transit while the
usual route via Tokyo is 18+ hours. Plus it leaves around afternoon,
so I dont have to wake up before sunrise!
That starts to make much more sense. You mentioned
Hi all
Since Hassath has created a new high for introductions (hi Hassath!),
here is me in the ever-popular bullet point GTD to-do list:
* Pack for Seattle trip starting this weekend.
* Blog 10 ways Opera works better than Firefox (or insert another
Digg-catchy title here) -
On 12-Feb-08, at 5:52 AM, divya manian wrote:
On 2/12/08, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello. Have we met before?
Yep, several times on twitter (http://twitter.com/nimbupani) and rare
times at some cafe place in Chennai (from some 20 person blog meets to
a 2 person
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
All these sound like me. Except the blogging, and that I probably
wouldn’t fly to the US east coast through Singapore and Taipei .. would
take a European carrier instead.
Knowing that you meant to say west
Flying through Europe has
On 2/12/08, Anish Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your shelf seems to have Applied cryptography and algorthim book by
Rivest, this seems to give away your geekiness :-).
Ha ha :) These are textbooks from my university days. I loved
Applied Cryptography but the algorithm book is something I
On 2/12/08, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. Have we met before?
Yep, several times on twitter (http://twitter.com/nimbupani) and rare
times at some cafe place in Chennai (from some 20 person blog meets to
a 2 person one!)
- divya
SQ will take you 4:30 hrs MAA-SIN, a whole day in SIN, and then a 16
hour ++ flight to EWR / JFK (stopover in TPE / ICN / HKG if you don’t
want their ultra long haul on the 777s, which are sold at a hefty
surcharge), followed by (I guess) United to SEA. And flying west to
east makes you look
Yep - but seems to always be taken by the time I get to choose seats at
the airport. :(
Call LH and ask them to place a seat request. Tell them UA *G.
srs
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Get slightly smashed in the lounge, or take ambient, sleep. Don’t bother
to eat anything on board the plane, you wont need it. Probably the
breakfast when they wake you up a couple of hours before landing, but a
granola bar or two should be
On Feb 11, 2008 2:50 PM, Divya Manian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
Hello. Have we met before?
C
--
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/
+91-9884467463
Divya Manian wrote:
* Pack for Seattle trip starting this weekend.
* Buy eeePC at Taipei (transit between Singapore and Seattle) and
discover Linux all over again -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC
* Plan and book tickets to Bangalore from Chennai for travel in early
March.
* Plan
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