Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 08:59:54AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: Amateur. I find that a healthy sense of terror helps keep sysadmins in line. It Interesting. Both the idea of sys/network admins being primadonnas, and that they cannot be trusted yet can be controlled by intimidation. also helps

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: You better start preparing for the next Masterchef India then :) Haven't seen the Indian version, but am a fan of the UK series. How does the Akshay Kumar thing compare to the original? C --

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Thursday 20 January 2011 01:26 PM, Vijay Anand wrote: --V (getting tired typing out the same 6 characters over and over again) Type the 6 characters I say! What if I also (and I often do) get tired? V. The addition of -- will mark the difference. :)

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Thursday 20 January 2011 01:30 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: Haven't seen the Indian version, but am a fan of the UK series. How does the Akshay Kumar thing compare to the original? It doesn't. --V

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 20 January 2011 13:19, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: --V (getting tired typing out the same 6 characters over and over again) I see that you are moving head-on towards a Nov 5th goal. :) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 20 January 2011 13:30, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: You better start preparing for the next Masterchef India then :) Haven't seen the Indian version, but am a fan of the UK

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: Madhu Menon hasa very nice piece on MCI. Whenever I watched the show, my violent tendencies were stimulated. Smashing a few heads is occasionally good for the health. I'd think not to the health of the smashee. C --

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Madhu Menon
My bucket list? World domination! Riches, fame, and everyone living in fear of my knives! Muhahahaahahaa! -- Madhu Menon http://twitter.com/madmanweb MCorp Hospitality Consulting: http://mcorphospitality.com

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Madhu Menon
On 20-01-2011 13:37, Ashwin Kumar wrote: You better start preparing for the next Masterchef India then :) Haven't seen the Indian version, but am a fan of the UK series. How does the Akshay Kumar thing compare to the original? Madhu Menon hasa very nice piece on MCI.

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Vijay Anand
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 January 2011 13:19, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: --V (getting tired typing out the same 6 characters over and over again) I see that you are moving head-on towards a Nov 5th goal. :) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Thursday 20 January 2011 01:57 PM, Madhu Menon wrote: everyone living in fear of my knives! I think this is generally the case among people who live in your neighbourhood, isn't it? --V

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 January 2011 13:00, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: What's on *your* bucket list? I will list the more practical achievable stuff that is there on my list: * explore parts of India for two weeks every year.

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 20 January 2011 16:05, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: I have reserached the trans-Siberian and Ghan. Someday I will get around to doing them. Divya on this list has done the Ghan a couple of months back. And, I have done the Indian-Pacific. So, feel free get more details. :)

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote: My bucket list? World domination! Riches, fame, and everyone living in fear of my knives! Muhahahaahahaa! That's your heads-in-the-bucket Madame Defarge list, Madman!

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Meera
Retire, learn horse riding, become an expert in skating, become the president, or at least a governor. In any order. -Me

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Meera meerak...@gmail.com wrote: Retire, learn horse riding, become an expert in skating, become the president, or at least a governor. In any order. If you retire and learn horse trading, you CAN become the president or governor in any order...or lack of it,

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Madhu Menon
On 20-01-2011 18:26, Deepa Mohan wrote: Muhahahaahahaa! That's your heads-in-the-bucket Madame Defarge list, Madman! Here, something to use as your mobile phone ring tone till I get there: http://madhumenon.posterous.com/madman-evil-laugh -- Madhu Menon http://twitter.com/madmanweb

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote: Here, something to use as your mobile phone ring tone till I get there: http://madhumenon.posterous.com/madman-evil-laugh For those who are lazy, can we receive the same as an attachment offlist ? ;) -- sankarshan

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Thu, 20/1/11, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote: From: Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com Subject: Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list? To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Thursday, 20 January, 2011, 18:47 On 20-01-2011 18:26, Deepa Mohan wrote:      Muhahahaahahaa! That's your heads

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread ss
I had only one thing on my bucket list. I have done it now. I have written a will. After my will, everything else can only be a won't or at best a maybe. shiv

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 21-Jan-11 3:31 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: Very disappointing. More enthusiasm than evil. Why is the immediate reaction one of sympathetic concern, a desire to let the man race past us in a crowded corridor on his urgent mission to the men's room? Where is that susurrus of evil, that

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Fri, 21/1/11, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: From: Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com Subject: Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list? To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Friday, 21 January, 2011, 7:06 On 21-Jan-11 3:31 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: Very disappointing. More

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Biju Chacko
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: We've all heard the herding cats analogy with regard to managing programmers. Managing sysadmins is like leading a neighborhood gang of neurotic pumas on jet-powered hoverbikes with nasty smack habits and opposable thumbs.

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Fri, 21/1/11, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: From: Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list? To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Friday, 21 January, 2011, 8:59 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 21 January 2011 10:26, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: NOTHING helps keep sysadmins in line. They are born without fear, or have it 'smacked' out of them. Try grabbing on to their cables. There lies their power. ~ashwin PS: cables can be replaced with pipes if you are a

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 January 2011 10:26, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: NOTHING helps keep sysadmins in line. They are born without fear, or have it 'smacked' out of them. Try grabbing on to their cables. There lies their power. Real Sysadmins don't

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Anand Manikutty
Item #1. Write a Bucket List Item #0. Create your own bucket list, and make everyone else think that is the one they should have. (Make it reach the New York Times Bestseller list) Anand:+: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/138 --- In silk-l...@yahoogroups.com,

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Heather Madrone
On 1/18/11 11:30 PM January 18, 2011, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I saw this phrase on a blogpost and it has stuck in my head. Basically, this is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket (i.e stuff to do before you die) I seem to be singularly lacking in ambition, as I can't think

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Charles Haynes
I don't have a long list of things I want to do before I die, detailed requirements are a trap. :) I do know what I would like to do next short term and long term. Short term I'd like to explore southern Tasmania a bit. Expect to do that this weekend. Long term I'd like to live in China for a

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Radhika, Y.
Finish my screenplay and a modest chapbook of poems to my satisfaction before my son turns 2. if that doesn't get done i don't care about the rest of my time.

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote: This is a good thing to try after you've accomplished the others on your bucket list, methinks. For obvious reasons of not missing out on the others, by accident. :-) Ah! Let me know how long you took to get your

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Vijay Anand
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: On Wednesday 19 January 2011 01:16 PM, Vijay Anand wrote: Skydiving has been there for a while. So has getting my Pilot license This is a good thing to try after you've accomplished the others on your bucket list,

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: What's on *your* bucket list? Over the last two years, I've learnt I am a fairly good cook. Only way to validate that assumption: find out what others say. Hence one of my not-too-many wishes on the bucket-list: work in a

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 19 January 2011 13:00, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: What's on *your* bucket list? I will list the more practical achievable stuff that is there on my list: * explore parts of India for two weeks every year. * publish a coffee table photography book/s from the travels. USP - shot

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 20 January 2011 13:07, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: What's on *your* bucket list? Over the last two years, I've learnt I am a fairly good cook. Only way to validate that

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Thursday 20 January 2011 12:55 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: Ah! Let me know how long you took to get your tongue out of cheek. Glad you got that, :-). Always wondered about this phrase, found this [1]. Now I am slightly enlightened. --Venkat [1]

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Venkat Mangudi
On Thursday 20 January 2011 01:10 PM, Ashwin Kumar wrote: You better start preparing for the next Masterchef India then :) Hah! But for that, you need to master the food that Akshay Kumar's mother fed him when he was a small kid. And you've got to learn to cry at the drop of a hat. --V

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-19 Thread Vijay Anand
--V (getting tired typing out the same 6 characters over and over again) Type the 6 characters I say! What if I also (and I often do) get tired? V. -- --- The Blog: www.vijayanand.name

[silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-18 Thread Udhay Shankar N
I saw this phrase on a blogpost and it has stuck in my head. Basically, this is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket (i.e stuff to do before you die) I seem to be singularly lacking in ambition, as I can't think of very many things to put there. What's on *your* bucket

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:00:37PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I saw this phrase on a blogpost and it has stuck in my head. Basically, this is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket (i.e stuff to do before you die) I seem to be singularly lacking in ambition, as I

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Udhay Shankar N [19/01/11 13:00 +0530]: Basically, this is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket (i.e stuff to do before you die) for some on this list it'll probably mean investing in a cryogenic technology for me, its to leave my family self sufficient i dont have any

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-18 Thread Vijay Anand
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:00:37PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I saw this phrase on a blogpost and it has stuck in my head. Basically, this is a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket (i.e stuff to do

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-18 Thread Ingrid
On 19 January 2011 09:30, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: What's on *your* bucket list? Udhay -- Write my novel.

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-18 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: me too. but what the hell. if i die and go to heaven there'll be an eternity of boredom watching apsaras dance I get to see that regularly already, though I don't find it boring. :) One example: