[silk] Presenting...A ray of light (but my folks named me Kiran)

2009-02-27 Thread kiran k
Well paid, single, way above average IQ, personal philosopher, communicator, internet junkie, networker, technology geek, gamer, music lover, reader, singer, crappy blogger, worse writer, ideator, realist, enthusiast, obsessive compulsive, smoker, part-time alchoholic, and all the good stuff with

[silk] Fwd: Minutes from last evening's meeting at ALF

2009-02-27 Thread Gautam John
- Lawrence: Could someone please take minutes of the meeting? Jasmeen: We're thinking of restarting the clothes campaign.  That is, the campaign asking people what clothes they were wearing when they were harassed. Pranesh: While the clothes campaign is very useful as a long-term project,

Re: [silk] Presenting...A ray of light (but my folks named me Kiran)

2009-02-27 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM, kiran k kiran.karthike...@gmail.comwrote: Well paid, single, way above average IQ, personal philosopher, communicator, internet junkie, networker, technology geek, gamer, music lover, reader, singer, crappy blogger, worse writer, ideator, realist, enthusiast,

Re: [silk] Presenting...A ray of light (but my folks named me Kiran)

2009-02-27 Thread anish . mohammed
Hi Kiran, Welcome to the list, the median crappiness of the list has moved a bit more towards the right direction :) Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: kiran k kiran.karthike...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:02:00 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net

Re: [silk] Presenting...A ray of light (but my folks named me Kiran)

2009-02-27 Thread kiran k
...takes a bow. Thanks for the warm welcome! I am happy that the immodest, humility lacking, egotistical, and bohemic introduction to yours truly has touched the right chord. Most happy to oblige in scaling new heights of depravity :) *Deepa*, I will look up the good doctor. Aye, the pollution

Re: [silk] Presenting...A ray of light (but my folks named me Kiran)

2009-02-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
kiran k wrote, [on 2/27/2009 5:16 PM]: ...takes a bow. Thanks for the warm welcome! Welcome. And as a word to the wise, top-posting is considered bad form. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] US returnees wanted for interview

2009-02-27 Thread Mahesh Murthy
How recent? On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: From a reporter friend. Any ideas? Udhay Original Message Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:05:36 +0530 From: (redacted) To: 'Udhay Shankar N' Hey, Udhay. Hope all is well. Am looking to

Re: [silk] US returnees wanted for interview

2009-02-27 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Me. Returned 2 yrs ago. On 2/27/09, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: How recent? On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: From a reporter friend. Any ideas? Udhay Original Message Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:05:36 +0530 From:

Re: [silk] US returnees wanted for interview

2009-02-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Mahesh Murthy wrote, [on 2/27/2009 6:36 PM]: How recent? I'd assume in the past year or so. Maybe Venkat qualifies as an edge case, I'll ask. :) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Presenting...A ray of light (but my folks named me Kiran)

2009-02-27 Thread Deepa Mohan
And as a word to the wise, top-posting is considered bad form. Udhay Kiran... Udhay prefers topless-posting.( I have fallen foul of this top-posting disallowed sevveral times. Now I am Pavlov-conditioned!) And Aye, the pollution and bad water - the good life does have its costs.

Re: [silk] US returnees wanted for interview

2009-02-27 Thread kiran k
Hi, I can arrange a phone call with one of the founders of the start-up where I used to work in Hyderabad. She came back about a year ago after being a Director at an internet co in the US. Her husband also fits the profile. I can also introduce you to another who has actually wrapped up his

Re: [silk] Fwd: Minutes from last evening's meeting at ALF

2009-02-27 Thread ss
On Friday 27 Feb 2009 2:12:18 pm Gautam John wrote: Suggestion: I was president of my local area association for a few years and we developed a very good relationship with the police by inviting senior officers and discussing issues with them One often finds that the sserior officer is well

Re: [silk] Fwd: Minutes from last evening's meeting at ALF

2009-02-27 Thread Bonobashi
font size=5bonobashi/font From: ss cybers...@gmail.com To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Friday, 27 February, 2009 9:06:49 PM Subject: Re: [silk] Fwd: Minutes from last evening's meeting at ALF On Friday 27 Feb 2009 2:12:18 pm Gautam John wrote:

Re: [silk] Fwd: Minutes from last evening's meeting at ALF

2009-02-27 Thread ss
On Friday 27 Feb 2009 9:17:49 pm Bonobashi wrote: Shiv is a good friend. Who is coordinating this effort? Heh Heh May I suggest one more thing. I took part in a long conversation with Vatal Nagaraj - whom many of you will know as a Kannada Chaluvligar - Kannada Chauvinist. He was mad at the

[silk] Fwd: Minutes of Fearless Karnataka meeting

2009-02-27 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
-- Forwarded message -- From: Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:42:34 +0530 Subject: Fwd: Minutes from last evening's meeting To: Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com Dear Kiran, Can you please forward the minutes of yesterday's meeting at ALF to the Silk

Re: [silk] Fwd: Minutes from last evening's meeting at ALF

2009-02-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Life saving rather than changing Else your march will attract bjp goons -Original Message- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of ss Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:36 PM To:

Re: [silk] Presenting...A ray of light (but my folks named me Kiran)

2009-02-27 Thread Nishant Shah
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: kiran k wrote, [on 2/27/2009 5:16 PM]: ...takes a bow. Thanks for the warm welcome! Welcome. Welcome, welcome indeed... we need new blood (I really don't like using the word in a welcome post, but oh well!) to help us

Re: [silk] US returnees wanted for interview

2009-02-27 Thread Divya Manian
On 2/27/09 4:55 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: From a reporter friend. Any ideas? He could talk to K Srikrishna: http://twitter.com/ksrikrishna He has a startup here and returned from the US about 2 years ago (I think). - divya

[silk] Primates on Facebook

2009-02-27 Thread Thaths
So... is your network over or under the Dunbar number? http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13176775 Primates on Facebook Feb 26th 2009 | SAN FRANCISCO From The Economist print edition Even online, the neocortex is the limit THAT Facebook, Twitter and other online social

Re: [silk] You're probably right

2009-02-27 Thread jcox
Udhay, Anybody got some insight into whether this is any different from the fuzzy logic that was all the rage some 20 years ago? Fuzzy logic can be framed in terms of computing the degree of your belief in the correctness of an inference (and then perhaps applying a thresholding

[silk] Tell me what I might want to search for *or* read my mind

2009-02-27 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
Hi, Interesting read when you have a few hours to spare. Guess this is where Yahoo! chat started labelling possible search queries, but this seems to go further. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D08/D08-1107.pdf Kiran Abstract Web-search queries are known to be short, but little else is

[silk] 'Sita sings the blues' - now online (legally)

2009-02-27 Thread Jai Iyer
Animator Nina Paley's much anticipated 'Sita sings the blues' is now online, for free viewing : http://www.thirteen.org/sites/reel13/blog/watch-sita-sings-the-blues-online/347/ - Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband