On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:20:30AM +0530, Abhishek Hazra wrote:
> > gouda too.
> you mean Goudy, like Goudy Old Style? all though thats an interesting typo!
oops sorry of course goudy. i guess i've become a cheesehead in .nl now.
> The Museum Gouda recently did a show of the indian artist, Sheela
>I have heard of "e-enabled" but this might become "e-disabled"!
:)
>us writing in heiroglyphics..
so called coded messages and texts can sometimes be banal too, isn't it?
like that old story of the 'hidden' arrow in the FedEx logo...
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000273.php
On Thu, Apr 17
>the problem with your ex libris suggestion for me would be
>where to put the i :-)
indeed :) that needs figuring out.
> gouda too.
you mean Goudy, like Goudy Old Style? all though thats an interesting typo!
The Museum Gouda recently did a show of the indian artist, Sheela Gowda.
http://www.kunst
i love bembo and baskerville, especially slightly narrowed, e.g. 90%.
gouda too. the problem with your ex libris suggestion for me would be
where to put the i :-)
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 11:03 +0530, Abhishek Hazra wrote:
> and just to have a small quirky element in this ex-libris stamp, one could
>
On Thursday 17 Apr 2008 3:32:21 pm Deepa Mohan wrote:
> My father's family had the automatic nomenclature process, where the
> names Natesan and Viswanath kept alternating
This was true on my father's side but ended with my father's generation.
However I was very nearly named after my grandfather
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:54 PM, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> the first son is named after the paternal grandfather and the second
> after the maternal grandfather, girls are named similarly according to
> paternal and maternal grandmothers.
>
That's how it is in my family. I am nam
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>
> Funny you should say that from mutt which doesn't include the Aiyer in
> your name. Part of the reason I am against hyphenation or placing any
> great emphasis on last names is because it draws attention to my ro
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:54 PM, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
how some tribal
> groups in Kenya (the gikuyu, the mijikenda...) name their children...
>
> the first son is named after the paternal grandfather and the second
> after the maternal grandfather, girls are named similarly acco
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Divya Sampath wrote:
>
> In most of the Spanish speaking world, everyone has
> double-barrelled last names: for example, Maria Gomez
> Felix. In the US, they tend to hyphenate to aoid
> giving the impression that the first surname is a
> 'middle name'. By conv
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Abhishek Hazra
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > also A, Y, E and R are good forms to design an ex-libris stamp.
I've been thinking about designing an ex libris stamp for a couple of
years now. Haven't come up with anything that I liked so far. Also,
does one do th
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Abhishek Hazra
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and just to have a small quirky element in this ex-libris stamp, one could
> flip the upper case E so that the vertical becomes parallel with the
> vertical of the R. this will then echo the counterform between A and Y.
and just to have a small quirky element in this ex-libris stamp, one could
flip the upper case E so that the vertical becomes parallel with the
vertical of the R. this will then echo the counterform between A and Y.
anyway...just some trivial formal riffs
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Abhishek
oh lovely.
very happy to see you reveling in typographic details.
yes the counterform space created between upper case A and lower case is
indeed nice.
and this counterform space looks more pleasing when set with a good humanist
serif face like Bembo or even Baskerville.
also A, Y, E and R are good
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Rishab Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:51:21AM +0530, Abhishek Hazra wrote:
> > were you already reading A.J Ayer then?
> > please elaborate on "typographic attraction"
>
> yes, but that's not the name i picked! Aiyer looks much nic
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Rishab Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:02:08AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
> > > southie-bong-delhi-ites unite!!! we will defeat the tam-brams yet. are
> > > there more than us two?
> >
> > Sort of, Tam-bram married to a Bon
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:51:21AM +0530, Abhishek Hazra wrote:
> were you already reading A.J Ayer then?
> please elaborate on "typographic attraction"
yes, but that's not the name i picked! Aiyer looks much nicer than Iyer, i
think (i don't think Ayer is popular among tambrams). the upward slop
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:02:08AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
> > southie-bong-delhi-ites unite!!! we will defeat the tam-brams yet. are
> > there more than us two?
>
> Sort of, Tam-bram married to a Bong with tenuous connections to Delhi.
too bad, doesn't count, we're an exclusive club.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 08:53 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> > I do like to see the Indian-integration surnames on this
> > list...Aiyer-GhoshMenon-Sen :))
>
> southie-bong-delhi-ites unite!!! we will defeat t
were you already reading A.J Ayer then?
please elaborate on "typographic attraction"
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> well, actually i legally changed my name when i was 15 to add my
> mother's maiden surname (albeit with typographically more attrac
well, actually i legally changed my name when i was 15 to add my
mother's maiden surname (albeit with typographically more attractive
spelling) as my _middle_ name. so, spanish style, no hyphenation!
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 09:14 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just use the Spanish system. It scal
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 08:53 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> I do like to see the Indian-integration surnames on this
> list...Aiyer-GhoshMenon-Sen :))
southie-bong-delhi-ites unite!!! we will defeat the tam-brams yet. are
there more than us two?
--- Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:44 PM,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just use the Spanish system. It scales...
>
> and that would be, what?
In most of the Spanish speaking world, everyone has
double-barrelled last names: for example, Maria Gomez
At 2008-04-15 14:57:53 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Just use the Spanish system. It scales...
>
> and that would be, what?
http://klamath.stanford.edu/~molinero/html/surname.html
-- ams
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> In fact, the only relevant double-hyphenate I know is Rishab, and I
> suspect, somehow, that he doesn't want to have my babies to further
> the cause of quadratic hyphenation.
It's not that abnormal, I have c
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:44 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just use the Spanish system. It scales...
and that would be, what?
Cheeni
At 2008-04-15 14:44:14 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> When hyphenated individuals marry they become a double hyphenated
> couple, and when their offspring [...]
This is a story I've always heard while I was growing up (in Bengal).
I'm somewhat disappointed to note, however, that I haven't fou
Just use the Spanish system. It scales...
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> I do like to see the Indian-integration surnames on this
> list...Aiyer-GhoshMenon-Sen :))
My concern is that hyphenation doesn't scale. When hyphenated
individuals marry they become a double hyphenated coupl
Deepa Mohan wrote, [on 4/15/2008 8:53 AM]:
This is probably why I am unable to entirely share the doomsday
viewsthat, and an optimism that there WILL be some self-regulation
before disaster actually strikes our planet.
Such as vhemt.org ?
Udhay
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> most modern malthusians, such as the author of the excerpted text
> above, forget to do this; indeed, they take for granted that their
> pessimistic projections are based on correct premises, even though
> simi
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 22:50 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> By 2040, we would need to triple the global food supply in order to
> meet the basic food needs of the eleven billion people who are
> expected to be alive. But doing so would require a 1000 percent
> increase in the total energy expended in
REQUIEM
by Jay Hanson, 02/20/98
http://www.dieoff.com/page181.htm
[snip]
What kind of future will our children have? Shortly after the year
2000, industrial activity will rise high enough for it to seriously
degrade land fertility. This will occur because of contamination by
heavy metals and persi
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