Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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 -- http://www.uk.linkedin.com/in/chandrachoodan http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ +919884467463, +447940289855
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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?
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?
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?
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 series. How does the Akshay Kumar thing compare to the original? 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. ~ashwin
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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 -- http://www.uk.linkedin.com/in/chandrachoodan http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ +919884467463, +447940289855
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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?
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. Whenever I watched the show, my violent tendencies were stimulated. Smashing a few heads is occasionally good for the health. Obligatory shameless plug: http://www.tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?filename=hub041210Akshay_Ate.asp -- Madhu Menon http://twitter.com/madmanweb MCorp Hospitality Consulting: http://mcorphospitality.com
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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 Nah! You are giving this way too much credit. This is just creative laziness. -- --- The Blog: www.vijayanand.name Twitter: www.twitter.com/vijayanands
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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?
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. Well I want to explore India for a couple of years during the different festivals photographing and enjoying them. flights of fantasy: * sail a boat up the Mekong starting at the delta * do every long train journey in the world. Orient Express, Ghan, Trans-Siberian, the Americas on train I have reserached the trans-Siberian and Ghan. Someday I will get around to doing them. As you can see I am borrowing stuff from your bucket list :) -- Vinayak
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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. :) ~ashwin
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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?
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?
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, Meera
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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 MCorp Hospitality Consulting: http://mcorphospitality.com
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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 mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/
[silk] Can't wait to shop? Blame your surname, says study
An excellent study. I know my in my school roll call was by first names so the 'Deepak' overruled the 'Srinivasan' In any case ... read on Can't wait to shop? Blame your surname, says study 2011-01-20 09:34:48 Washington: Why do some people wait patiently to buy stuff while others rush to grab it? The answer lies in your surname, according to a new study. It found that the first letter of our last names determines how quickly we act on consumer opportunities as grownups. The tendency to act quickly to acquire items such as those above is related to the first letter of one's childhood surname, said Kurt A. Carlson of Georgetown University and Jacqueline M. Conard of Belmont University. While looking at how quickly adults responded to opportunities to acquire 'items of value', they found that individuals were faster or slower to respond depending on where their last names fell in the alphabet. Those with surnames that started with letters at the beginning of the alphabet were slower, while those whose surnames started with letters later in the alphabet were faster. So why do the Abbotts wait, while the Zimmermans rush to buy? The researchers believe that it is because children with surnames near the end of the alphabet have spent their lives at the end of lines and at the back of classrooms. The idea holds that children develop time-dependent responses based on the treatment they receive, they said. In an effort to account for these inequities, children late in the alphabet will move quickly when last name isn't a factor; they will 'buy early, they added. Likewise, those with last names early in the alphabet will be so accustomed to being first that that individual opportunities to make a purchase won't matter very much; they will 'buy late', they said. The researchers also said that the 'last-name effect' occurred only with childhood surnames, not names that had changed due to marriage. The study is published in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Re: [silk] Silk, the interactive edition
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:48:34PM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote: Yes, his usual rant was Βγείτε γκαζόν μου! Sorry, that was greek to me. Not to Google Chrome. And of course silk archive is the #1 hit. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
[silk] The bloggers called it, the Street blew it
Unaffiliated analysts took 9 out of the 10 top spots. Oy vey! http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/19/apples-blow-out-quarter-the-bloggers-called-it-the-street-blew-it-2/ Anand
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
--- 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-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 == 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 chill which runs up and down, no, not the same corridor, the spine. There is a distinct impression of discomfort. That is not, emphatically not canonical. Our received and acknowledged villain, the Sir Jaspers, are far more assured and leisurely in their approach to all things, mirth included. They know, with absolute conviction, that it is their earth, that they are the rulers, that all the doors are locked, the windows barred, and the minions spread out strategically throughout the cellar, poised to cut off any hard-hit ball, or perhaps the head of the executioner, struck off with his own ugly, that there is no escape, that there can be no escape, that even the minions of hell await with subservient brow in the anteroom, waiting for a break in the torture to discuss long-term equipment hire leases and technology transfer MOU's. One should like to see another, thought through attempt. The energy and enthusiasm are welcome; who would question these considering the very heavy torque involved in a turn of the traditional screw (no, not that screw, the rack and pinion sort is what is meant). The tempo is not. Ah, tempo! As great artists from Casanova to Tamerlane have known, tempo is everything. We need tempo, but we need the precise tempo that this situaetion demands. It is not the carefree, childlike, skip-stepping, lilting air of the Seventh Symphony. No, not at all, it is the Hall of the Mountain King, the tempo ladelled out with thick contempt that we seek. It is a clearly dominating tempo that we seek, a tempo redolent with lazy amusement at the unavailing flutters of the trapped victim, richly laden with contentment at the way that Fate drives these little morsels into one's mouth. And what about the rich overtones of evil? The cruel anticipation of the impact of the rare Oriental spice on the unsuspecting palate of the gaijin? No, no, this won't do. Re-do it please. Score: B- -- Madhu Menon http://twitter.com/madmanweb MCorp Hospitality Consulting: http://mcorphospitality.com
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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?
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 chill which runs up and down, no, not the same corridor, the spine. There is a distinct impression of discomfort. That is not, emphatically not canonical. Our received and acknowledged villain, the Sir Jaspers, are far more assured and leisurely in their approach to all things, mirth included. They know, with absolute conviction, that it is their earth, that they are the rulers, that all the doors are locked, the windows barred, and the minions spread out strategically throughout the cellar, poised to cut off any hard-hit ball, or perhaps the head of the executioner, struck off with his own ugly, that there is no escape, that there can be no escape, that even the minions of hell await with subservient brow in the anteroom, waiting for a break in the torture to discuss long-term equipment hire leases and technology transfer MOU's. For some reason, reading IG's message reminded me of the below quote: 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. Oh, and as a manager you're a neurotic junkie puma too, only they cut your thumbs off and whereas all the other pumas get to drive around on their badass hoverbikes and fire chainguns at the marketing department, YOU have to drive a maroon AMC Gremlin behind them and hand out Band-Aids and smile a lot, when all you're REALLY thinking about is how to get one of them to let you borrow his hoverbike for a few minutes so you can show those fools how it's DONE. This is because managers are usually people who proved that they were handy with a chaingun and were thus rewarded by having their thumbs cut off and their weapons handed to some punk college hire. -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
--- 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 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 chill which runs up and down, no, not the same corridor, the spine. There is a distinct impression of discomfort. That is not, emphatically not canonical. Our received and acknowledged villain, the Sir Jaspers, are far more assured and leisurely in their approach to all things, mirth included. They know, with absolute conviction, that it is their earth, that they are the rulers, that all the doors are locked, the windows barred, and the minions spread out strategically throughout the cellar, poised to cut off any hard-hit ball, or perhaps the head of the executioner, struck off with his own ugly, that there is no escape, that there can be no escape, that even the minions of hell await with subservient brow in the anteroom, waiting for a break in the torture to discuss long-term equipment hire leases and technology transfer MOU's. For some reason, reading IG's message reminded me of the below quote: 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. Oh, and as a manager you're a neurotic junkie puma too, only they cut your thumbs off and whereas all the other pumas get to drive around on their badass hoverbikes and fire chainguns at the marketing department, YOU have to drive a maroon AMC Gremlin behind them and hand out Band-Aids and smile a lot, when all you're REALLY thinking about is how to get one of them to let you borrow his hoverbike for a few minutes so you can show those fools how it's DONE. This is because managers are usually people who proved that they were handy with a chaingun and were thus rewarded by having their thumbs cut off and their weapons handed to some punk college hire. -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) Rings true.
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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. Oh, and as a manager you're a neurotic junkie puma too, only they cut your thumbs off and whereas all the other pumas get to drive around on their badass hoverbikes and fire chainguns at the marketing department, YOU have to drive a maroon AMC Gremlin behind them and hand out Band-Aids and smile a lot, when all you're REALLY thinking about is how to get one of them to let you borrow his hoverbike for a few minutes so you can show those fools how it's DONE. This is because managers are usually people who proved that they were handy with a chaingun and were thus rewarded by having their thumbs cut off and their weapons handed to some punk college hire. Amateur. I find that a healthy sense of terror helps keep sysadmins in line. It also helps if they don't think of you as the manager but as the BOFH keeping an eye on them. -- b
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
--- 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: 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. Oh, and as a manager you're a neurotic junkie puma too, only they cut your thumbs off and whereas all the other pumas get to drive around on their badass hoverbikes and fire chainguns at the marketing department, YOU have to drive a maroon AMC Gremlin behind them and hand out Band-Aids and smile a lot, when all you're REALLY thinking about is how to get one of them to let you borrow his hoverbike for a few minutes so you can show those fools how it's DONE. This is because managers are usually people who proved that they were handy with a chaingun and were thus rewarded by having their thumbs cut off and their weapons handed to some punk college hire. Amateur. I find that a healthy sense of terror helps keep sysadmins in line. It also helps if they don't think of you as the manager but as the BOFH keeping an eye on them. -- b NOTHING helps keep sysadmins in line. They are born without fear, or have it 'smacked' out of them.
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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 senator.
Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 14, Issue 22
Is there something similar to the English sense of humor deployed with any regularity in modern Greek? I was thinking about your comment when reading this blog today. Although the blog had its moments, I also thought that it had a lot of cliched situations. Not that the blog did not have its funny moments, but I think the posts would have been funnier if she had allowed the humor in the situation to be more implicit, say, by not talking down to the subject. Like a lot of Indians, I find the more indulgent English sense of humor quite appealing. Anand == http://101baddesidates.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html The waitress arrives with a pot of jasmine tea. She fills stoneware cups and pulls out a pen and pad to jot down our order. “Anything else to drink?” she asks. “Is the tea free?” Virat asks. Stunned, I look up from the menu. Who asks such a question? Is he cheap? How much can tea possibly cost? Visibly irritated, the waitress nods. “Then I’ll also have a pineapple juice. changes mine From: Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Wed, January 19, 2011 1:37:38 PM Subject: Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 14, Issue 22 Yes and No. I would think the aim of poetry is to get away from idiom and cliches. My teacher encouraged us to read pulp fiction because the cliches are amazingly similar to the ones in English and those that are different are quite humorous to the foreign ear! On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing strange about this Radhika! Being able to read pulp fiction, or poetry, of a language, where the most idiomatic and slang usages occur...is (I think) the acid test of comfort with, and command over, that language.
Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?
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 need cables. --V ~ashwin PS: cables can be replaced with pipes if you are a senator. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
