Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-02 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote: there was also the woman in Montana who named her daugther Syphilis-it seemed such a feminine, pretty word to her! That reminds me of a friend who named his company, Onus Consultants, despite my bets efforts to dissuade

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-02 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Thu, 2/4/09, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: From: Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Thursday, 2 April, 2009, 12:03 PM On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Radhika, Y

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-02 Thread Mahesh Murthy
That reminds me of a friend who named his company, Onus Consultants snip It must have been a heavy burden on him, but other than that, what was objectionable in this title? Did he have, as it were, a tendency to sit on his tasks? At least his investors could clearly see an exit

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-02 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Thu, 2/4/09, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Thursday, 2 April, 2009, 12:45 PM That reminds me of a friend who named his

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-02 Thread ss
On Thursday 02 Apr 2009 12:28:30 am Mohit (मॊिहत) wrote: And what do you think of Just Mohit? :) - Mo I think Mohit means full of charm or charming shiv

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-02 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Thu, 2/4/09, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: From: ss cybers...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Thursday, 2 April, 2009, 2:37 PM On Thursday 02 Apr 2009 12:28:30 am Mohit (मॊिहत) wrote: And what do you

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-02 Thread Ravi Bellur
Re: various interesting names It would be hard to beat this one for irony, especially if you're cursed with puerile sensibilties like me: the director of the WHO's dept on HIV/AIDS is named Kevin De Cock. http://www.who.int/hiv/mediacentre/news59/en/index.html He actually looks like a pretty

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
Re: various interesting names I had gone to a wildlife photography meet in Mysore and met a gentleman who is a camera fanatic; he knows cameras, literally, inside out. He said that he had named his two sons Canon and Nikon (no jokes, they are their middle names.). So we quickly rallied and

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Anil Kumar anilkumar.naga...@gmail.comwrote: What number of the Venkats will he be on Silk? If there are many, we can change the name of the group from Silk to Goldthat's what Venkata means. Deepa

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:08:15 +0530 Venkat Inumella ven...@gmail.com wrote: What number of the Venkats will he be on Silk? I used to work in a cubicle farm of a Citibank subsidiary (we lovingly called it the Dungeon) and every time someone shouted Venky or Venkat five heads would pop up

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Anil Kumar anilkumar.naga...@gmail.comwrote: What number of the Venkats will he be on Silk? If there are many, we can change the name of the group from Silk to Goldthat's what

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Madhu Menon
Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: If there are many, we can change the name of the group from Silk to Goldthat's what Venkata means. I did not know that. Do explain more. I am all ears. Also, we have a critical mass of venkatas here so this should be of generic interest. I think I'll

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Mahesh Murthy
I thought I was condemned to a common name like Mahesh. Till I discovered there were 5 Seenis (Srinivases) in my B. Tech. class. in Hyderabad. Seeni is right up there with Subbu and Venky. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:38

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Madhu Menon: I think I'll call you all Goldie from now on, making you instant Punjus. ;) Hawn jee .. srs

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2009-04-01 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/31 Venkat Inumella ven...@gmail.com [...] Welcome. If you're shooting for finishing the IMDB top 250, I might be able to help you if you have a region code hacked dvd player and lots of time. I can

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2009-04-01 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
I went through most of the IMDB top 250 over a period of a couple of months - 3 movies a day on average. I must say it got depressing since the movies that tend to get selected for artistic excellence are often very sad and unhappy. OTOH, try anything once. Cheeni Your sentiment is true

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2009-04-01 Thread Charles Haynes
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/31 Venkat Inumella ven...@gmail.com Welcome. If you're shooting for finishing the IMDB top 250, I might be able to help

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2009-04-01 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Venkat Inumella ven...@gmail.com wrote: I enjoy running and swimming. I have run a 52km ultra-marathon Wow! I doubt if Silk-Listers have collectively run 54kms! You belong to another planet :-) Venky

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Venkat Inumella
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: I used to work in a cubicle farm of a Citibank subsidiary (we lovingly called it the Dungeon) and every time someone shouted Venky or Venkat five heads would pop up (including mine). Ditto for Subbu or Subramaniam. I

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Venkat Inumella ven...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: I used to work in a cubicle farm of a Citibank subsidiary (we lovingly called it the Dungeon) and every time someone shouted Venky or

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2009-04-01 Thread Venkat Inumella
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: I enjoy running and swimming. I have run a 52km ultra-marathon Wow! I doubt if Silk-Listers have collectively run 54kms! You belong to another planet :-) Thanks!:) Truly mindless (pointless, even) endeavours are my

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread gabin kattukaran
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am no Venkat. But try beating Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan for uniqueness. If you want to play that game - Gabin Eluvathingal Kattukaran -gabin -- Samuel Goldwyn - I don't think anyone

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
Well, I am no Venkat. But try beating Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan for uniqueness. Not very unique I'm afraid. Chandrachoodan or the one who wears the moon aka Shiva is a fairly common name in Kerala. Given the fact that Gopalakrishnan is also a very common surname, I'll bet you could easily

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Radhika, Y.
how about Himadri for a man's name? On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am no Venkat. But try beating Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan for uniqueness. Not very unique I'm afraid. Chandrachoodan or the one who wears the moon aka

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
2009/4/1 gabin kattukaran gkattuka...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I am no Venkat. But try beating Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan for uniqueness. If you want to play that game - Gabin Eluvathingal Kattukaran

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Mahesh Murthy
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote: how about Himadri for a man's name? Quite common, actually. Have a film producer friend - whose next movie releases in 2 months, by the way, called Sheetal Talwar. And it's a he. Talking of names, I used to work in Hong

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Thu, 2/4/09, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote: From: Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Thursday, 2 April, 2009, 12:07 AM how about Himadri for a man's name? //Yeah, how about it? Men

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Radhika, Y.
my personal favorites are Appollo Singh (named because he was born on Jul 20, 1969 presumably shortly before Armstrong took his steps) and Russia and America Rao (NOT a joke!). On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Radhika,

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
2009/4/2 Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote: how about Himadri for a man's name? Quite common, actually. Have a film producer friend - whose next movie releases in 2 months, by the way, called Sheetal Talwar. And

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Radhika, Y.
there was also the woman in Montana who named her daugther Syphilis-it seemed such a feminine, pretty word to her! On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/2 Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Radhika,

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Mahesh Murthy
Talking of names, I used to work in Hong Kong with a Billboard Kwok - I kid not, in my media-buying department, and had a client - a Marketing Manager at American Express, I kid you not again, who was somewhat unfortunately named Vagina Lau (she pronounced it Vuh-geena). In addition to

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Radhika, Y.
well at least Symbiosis is better than Parasite Lee On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.comwrote: Talking of names, I used to work in Hong Kong with a Billboard Kwok - I kid not, in my media-buying department, and had a client - a Marketing Manager

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Dave Kumar
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote: there was also the woman in Montana who named her daugther Syphilis-it seemed such a feminine, pretty word to her! A friend of mine said she talked to a woman in Brazil who had named her daughter Menage A Trois. She (the

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread मॊिहत
And what do you think of Just Mohit? :) - Mo

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
2009/4/2 Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com there was also the woman in Montana who named her daugther Syphilis-it seemed such a feminine, pretty word to her! I always thought Montana as a state was where you could drive at 100mph and contained nothing but ranches owned by the well to do from

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Mahesh Murthy
America Rao (NOT a joke!). America Rao would be ethnologically correct in Telugu naming convention of {Place of origin}+{Father's Name}+{Your Name} for a 2nd generation Gult. As in a certain gent Rama Rao was the son of Taraka, from Nandamuri village and hence became NTR

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Radhika, Y.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.comwrote: America Rao (NOT a joke!). America Rao would be ethnologically correct in Telugu naming convention of {Place of origin}+{Father's Name}+{Your Name} for a 2nd generation Gult. As in a certain gent Rama Rao was

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Mahesh Murthy
not really. my name is Yeddanapudi Radhika as in Radhika of Yeddanapudi village with no father's name in between. Neither does my brother carry my dad's name nor do any of my cousins on the Yeddanapudi side. I guess there is some variability here. My school principal in Hyderabad was

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Mahesh Murthy [02/04/09 00:14 +0530]: Talking of names, I used to work in Hong Kong with a Billboard Kwok - I kid not, in my media-buying department, and had a client - a Marketing Manager at American Express, I kid you not again, who was somewhat unfortunately named Vagina Lau (she pronounced

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-04-01 Thread Radhika, Y.
well i should give the complete picture then to further confound:-) my full name is Yeddanapudi Lakshmi Arudra Rama Radhika (but I have abbreviated all of this dogma down to Y.R. Radhika for a long, long time). The Lakshmi is homage to a family practice of giving the eldest daughter a name

[silk] Yet another introduction

2009-03-31 Thread Venkat Inumella
Hello! Having lurked sufficiently, and recognizing, barely in time, that this is (was?) introduction-month, here goes: Like every self-respecting engineer who graduated this century, I served time at Infosys (for Finacle, the banking product) before moving to eLitmus, the little start-up I'm

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2009-03-31 Thread Venkat Inumella
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote: Well, didn't expect to see you here, Venx. Who dragged you in here? :) Madhu Why, hello! :) I came across the Linked-in group several months ago, much nosey-ness ensued, and I pretty much dragged myself here. Venkat

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2009-03-31 Thread ss
On Tuesday 31 Mar 2009 11:46:35 pm Venkat Inumella wrote: I have run a 52km ultra-marathon, Aha! Now that is something.. shiv

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2009-03-31 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
2009/3/31 Venkat Inumella ven...@gmail.com Hello! Having lurked sufficiently, and recognizing, barely in time, that this is (was?) introduction-month, here goes: Like every self-respecting engineer who graduated this century, I served time at Infosys (for Finacle, the banking product)

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction (Venkat Inumella)

2009-03-31 Thread Anil Kumar
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:08:15 +0530 Venkat Inumella ven...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Venkat Inumella ven...@gmail.com To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:08:15 +0530 Subject: Re: [silk] Yet another introduction On Tue, Mar 31, 2009

[silk] yet another introduction

2008-02-08 Thread va
Hi, Seems like my kurtz intro got lost in the excitement of discovering Hassath's gender/identity and address :-) so yeah /me is yet another woman joining silk. On Feb 7, 2008 6:48 AM, Hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I couldn't think of a better introduction. if '/me' implies

Re: [silk] yet another introduction

2008-02-08 Thread va
On Feb 8, 2008 2:47 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi VA, and welcome! But...being a non-geek and all, I must confess, that I thought you were (like several others) a lurker who was belatedly introducing..er..hesself...andvid or va don't give me a clue to your name, either...are

Re: [silk] yet another introduction

2008-02-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
so yeah /me is yet another woman joining silk. Hi VA, and welcome! But...being a non-geek and all, I must confess, that I thought you were (like several others) a lurker who was belatedly introducing..er..hesself...andvid or va don't give me a clue to your name, either...are you based in

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2006-04-27 Thread Amoghavarsha JS
It's called google ego search! ha ha ha http://www.google.com/search?q=amoghavarsha PS: And I don't even need Deepa Mohan wrote: oh my...I like introductions in plain English as I am very code-challenged...the user-profile is also set to private On 4/27/06, *Devdas Bhagat * [EMAIL

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2006-04-27 Thread Manish Jethani
On 4/27/06, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22devdas+bhagat%22 Me too! :) http://www.google.com/search?q=%22manish+jethani%22 http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22manish+jethani%22 Of course, this works when your name is not very common and when you're the

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2006-04-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Manish Jethani wrote: Me too! :) http://www.google.com/search?q=%22manish+jethani%22 http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22manish+jethani%22 Of course, this works when your name is not very common and when you're the one writing most about yourself. I wouldn't judge someone entirely on what a

Re: [silk] Yet another introduction

2006-04-27 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 27/04/06 17:39 +0530, Madhu Menon wrote: Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Deepa Mohan wrote: oh my...I like introductions in plain English as I am very code-challenged...the user-profile is also set to private Well - its nothing about his user profile.. just to show that devdas has