My reading is that he meant
that: in a given context, the majority of humanity is, _by definition_,
average or below - using whatever metric you care to.
By the same bell-curve reading, in any given context, the majority of
humanity is, _by definition_, also average or above average - using
On 24-Oct-11 11:39 AM, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
By the same bell-curve reading, in any given context, the majority of
humanity is, _by definition_, also average or above average - using
whatever metric you care to.
Sure. So?
Udhay
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((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com))
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On 24-Oct-11 11:39 AM, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
By the same bell-curve reading, in any given context, the majority of
humanity is, _by definition_, also average or above average - using
whatever metric you care to.
By the same bell-curve reading, in any given context, the majority of
humanity is, _by definition_, also average or above average - using
whatever metric you care to.
Sure. So?
So both the arguments: we're all mediocre / we're all superior are right.
Yet irrelevant to the
How about Bierre Club? Great music, beer and decent chow.
Udhay has forced me out of my comfort zone and asked me to post on Silk so I
am doing this, let me add, under huge duress. :)
Regards,
Amitha
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*Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or
because others do
Its dry. So stock up two or three days earlier and meet at someone's apartment?
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srs (blackberry)
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Isn't it funny that whatever metric we choose, we put ourselves outside the
bell curve? If we're measuring below average, it is everyone else. We tend to
be the exception.
Having said that, as a person who *chose* to return and stayed, life is
certainly *not* easy here. But it is easier to be
Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Its dry. So stock up two or three days earlier and meet at someone's
apartment?
+1. Yay, K-9 mail allows inline mails.
Venkat
-too lazy to delete the rest of the email
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srs (blackberry)
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From: Ashwin Kumar
Well, as per the law it isn't a dry day and honestly don't see how it can be
a dry day coz all the local groups (read dons) drink to their hearts content
and dance the night away on Rajyotsava. :)
Also check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_India for a list
of dry days in India,
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Interesting piece. I know a few people who decided to return to
(usually) the US after the Return To India didn't go as well as they
wanted, but this is an interesting way of putting it.
Udhay
From Udhay's search on Facebook, I gather it isn't a dry day.
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Handheld
On Oct 24, 2011 3:53 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
** Its dry. So stock up two or three days earlier and meet at someone's
apartment?
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srs (blackberry)
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*From: *
Eh, you can get booze anywhere on dry days too, of course sold at a premium
If kr day isn't dry then so much the better
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srs (blackberry)
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From: Amitha Singh amithasi...@gmail.com
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:00 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
he doesnt know what he wants.
This..is probably true of many people who come back. I am not going to sit
in judgement of anyone! The Return works for some people, it doesn't work
for others, even several I know who had very
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote:
Having said that, as a person who *chose* to return and stayed, life is
certainly *not* easy here. But it is easier to be among friends and family.
A mumbaikar coming back to India should have chosen to go to
hey everyone,
We're welcome to meet at Jaaga too.
There may be a human rights film festival
http://www.jaaga.in/AHRF2011
going on as well, but the new Jaaga is big
enough to take all kinds.
Jaaga is central on double Rd.
http://jaaga.in/contact
but we don't have great parking.
Freeman
On Mon,
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
\
Um, This argument doesn't quite ring true Venkat.
I landed in Bristol with no existing friends circle there. I built one up.
All of us do that: be they work friends, blog friends, silk friends,
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
\
Um, This argument doesn't quite ring true Venkat.
I landed in Bristol with no existing friends circle there. I built
On Monday 24 October 2011 05:09 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Um, This argument doesn't quite ring true Venkat.
I landed in Bristol with no existing friends circle there. I built one
up. All of us do that: be they work friends, blog friends, silk friends,
family friends, uni
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Interesting piece. I know a few people who decided to return to
(usually) the US after the Return To India didn't go as well as they
wanted, but this is an interesting way of putting it.
And, among other folks, Chetan
Might be a bit of a rant, possibly cause it seems to be our plight at the
moment. Here's my sad story for those who can empathize.
Got an airtel broadband line here for the office here at The Startup Centre -
8mbps, with a limit of 50GB. Its a 2999 rs. package. I go through the fine
print and
On Monday 24 October 2011 06:29 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
And, among other folks, Chetan Bhagat chimes in as well
http://www.chetanbhagat.com/blog/2011/10/24/happy-diwali-and-why-i-am-still-here/
Mr Nice. That article is so sickeningly sweet that I now have to eat a
few Bhuts to feel
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Vijay Anand vi...@vijayanand.name wrote:
Ive exhausted all my resources. Their twitter id is handled by some gorilla,
i am assuming. Their only response was that they sensed i didnt have a good
customer experience. Called the Akosha guys to handle the
On Monday 24 October 2011 06:32 PM, Vijay Anand wrote:
I am at my final point, before i talk to lawyers to file a case in consumer
court. Silk listers, what would you suggest?
Get BSNL.
Call me a coward, but at this point, i can empathize with the NRI who
returned back to the US. It
I am at my final point, before i talk to lawyers to file a case in consumer
court. Silk listers, what would you suggest?
If you're OK with it, can I have someone from Airtel call you back on this?
If you can share an account number / phone number on email that would help.
Cheers
Mahesh
On 24-Oct-2011, at 6:44 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
I am at my final point, before i talk to lawyers to file a case in consumer
court. Silk listers, what would you suggest?
If you're OK with it, can I have someone from Airtel call you back on this?
If you can
On 24-Oct-2011, at 6:41 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
On Monday 24 October 2011 06:32 PM, Vijay Anand wrote:
I am at my final point, before i talk to lawyers to file a case in consumer
court. Silk listers, what would you suggest?
Get BSNL.
Call me a coward, but at
On 24-Oct-2011, at 6:37 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Vijay Anand vi...@vijayanand.name wrote:
Ive exhausted all my resources. Their twitter id is handled by some gorilla,
i am assuming. Their only response was that
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
there are times, I must say, when I am wondering what my husband and I are
doing here, when ALL our family is Over There. Why should I be running
around trying to do something about my city...I have only one life, I
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.comwrote:
If you're OK with it, can I have someone from Airtel call you back on this?
If you can share an account number / phone number on email that would help.
If you can pull strings in Airtel, Mahesh, I'd like to talk to
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda j...@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.comwrote:
If you're OK with it, can I have someone from Airtel call you back on
this?
If you can share an account number / phone number on email that
By saying so on a publicly archived list you became the first point of contact
for every random guy posting ill-spelt rants about them on mouthshut
--
srs (blackberry)
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From: Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com
Sender:
On 24 October 2011 18:32, Vijay Anand vi...@vijayanand.name wrote:
Their twitter id is handled by some gorilla, i am assuming. Their only
response
was that they sensed i didnt have a good customer experience.
On 24 October 2011 23:13, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
(BTW, it's
So Vijay, the gorilla who sensed your plight works at Pinstorm.
Nope, not really.
Their customer service ID: @airtel_presence is handled completely internally
by them.
Pinstorm handles the outbound ID: @Airtel_in, and also runs the scans,
stats, analytics, sentiment metrics, insights and
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
** By saying so on a publicly archived list you became the first point of
contact for every random guy posting ill-spelt rants about them on mouthshut
It's a job, someone has to do it :-)
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Radhika, Y. radhik...@gmail.com wrote:
Deepa, I live in Canada and my family lives mostly in the US and the
Hyderabad Metro area. In the US I worked with an international organization
and had a visa that was not on the immigrant track so I felt pretty secure
Call me a coward, but at this point, i can empathize with the NRI who
returned back to the US. It shouldnt be this bloody hard to get a service
out of a corporate, when you are paying for it.
Vijay
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http://www.thestartupcentre.com
Is it a myth
I just bought myself a samsung 8.9 tablet,after much handwringing over the
right tablet ..I need to insert a 3G Sim card..Please recommend the right
one/plan etc..
I don't want to end up with a horror story of excessive billing. Mostly my use
is for email/
Either vodafone or airtel - both are just fine
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srs (blackberry)
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From: naresh v xxx...@yahoo.com
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:29:07
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On 25-Oct-2011, at 9:59 AM, naresh v wrote:
I just bought myself a samsung 8.9 tablet,after much handwringing over the
right tablet ..I need to insert a 3G Sim card..Please recommend the right
one/plan etc..
I don't want to end up with a horror story of excessive billing. Mostly my
use is
On Tuesday 25 October 2011 09:59 AM, naresh v wrote:
I just bought myself a samsung 8.9 tablet,after much handwringing
over the right tablet ..I need to insert a 3G Sim card..Please
recommend the right
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