Re: [silk] Hello and Introduction

2021-05-06 Thread Ashwin
Mighty Mighty MIT :) On Thu, May 6, 2021, at 19:20, Sundar Narayanan wrote: > Thank you Subodh and Gabingreat to see more MITians here. > On Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 08:10:58 PM CDT, gabin kattukaran > mailto:gkattukaran%40gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 18:10, Subodh

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading for 2020

2020-12-12 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
My reading was severely hampered this year due to our son being at home all day. With helping him all day at home we ended up having much less energy at the end of the day for reading or watching something. But I was part of a bookclub at work and through that I got to read stuff from outside my

Re: [silk] What are the things you splurge on that are worth the money?

2020-12-12 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
I am really enjoying the men's perfumes you folks are sharing and looking them up on BaseNotes. Taking notes for trying them out.  On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 9:17 PM Danese Cooper wrote: > -Computers > -Musical Instruments > -Matcha tea > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 4:44 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote: >

Re: [silk] (no subject)

2020-09-23 Thread Ashwin
wanted to say I loved the book. :) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Valuing and selling inherited trinkets

2020-04-17 Thread Ashwin
Hi Pooja I would be interested in the cameras. Could you mail me directly? ~ashwin m...@ashwin.live On Sat, Mar 21, 2020, at 21:23, Pooja Sastry wrote: > Reaching out to Silklist for help. > > I grew up as one of five people living in a house in Bangalore built for at &

Re: [silk] Weekly or monthly recommendations

2020-03-01 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
enny. Also they > > don’t obsess over ‘good writing’ as much as ‘things that are good for > > reading’. > > > > TheBrowser.com > > On 29 Feb 2020, 18:15 +, Ashwin Nanjappa , > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have been thinking of switching

[silk] Weekly or monthly recommendations

2020-02-29 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
am reading The Economist and Linux Weekly News (LWN). Would love to discover more such sources. *What non-trash sources of weekly/monthly cadence do you recommend?* I would prefer they have paper versions, cause I am getting tired of complicated payments, ads, tracking, DRM etc. Regards, Ashwin

Re: [silk] How do you collect and retrieve information from what you read?

2020-02-27 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
r mess :-) On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:58 PM Srijith Nair wrote: > Hi Ashwin, > > > I have terrible memory, so how best to take notes and be able to search > and > > find them later is probably something I worry about every single day. > > > > Your curren

Re: [silk] How do you collect and retrieve information from what you read?

2020-02-25 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
I have terrible memory, so how best to take notes and be able to search and find them later is probably something I worry about every single day. Your current query is about: books and long-form online articles. I am guessing you mean non-fiction works. - *Non-fiction books* -

Re: [silk] New member intro - Krishna Udayasankar

2019-12-26 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
Welcome Krishna. I'm an ex-resident of Singapore too (11 years) and got a PhD there too (let's not talk about it). LOL On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 6:39 AM Krishna Udayasankar < kris.udayasan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Thanks for welcoming into this wonderful space. My name is Krishna, I >

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2019-12-26 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
This year I discovered Keigo Higashino, a Japanese mystery author. Devoured 2 of his books: The Devotion of Suspect X and The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping

Re: [silk] Organizing files/ folders on one's laptop

2018-10-25 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
I always wished to keep my files well organized, but ended up never managing that. Most of my old files got lost when I moved between computers. These days it's all Google Drive. I upload everything with descriptive filenames. I have a basic set of directories but again most of the time I don't

Re: [silk] Bangalore: Time to meet up

2018-01-21 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Weak Yes. From: silklist on behalf of Udhay Shankar N Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2018 1:42:25 PM To: Silk List Subject: Re: [silk] Bangalore: Time to meet up ​I'm in, but you knew that.​

Re: [silk] The end of the teens

2017-11-23 Thread Ashwin Kumar
+1 ~ashwin From: silklist <silklist-bounces+ashwink=live...@lists.hserus.net> on behalf of Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2017 6:53:04 PM To: Intelligent Conversation Subject: Re: [silk] The end of the teens I am on

Re: [silk] Bangalore Help Needed

2017-11-18 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Rajesh Vidhi is located out of the WeWorks space in Brigade Road and they got a pretty decent deal. Is anyone from Vidhi on this group? ~ashwin ~ashwin From: silklist <silklist-bounces+ashwink=live...@lists.hserus.net> on behalf of Gaurav

Re: [silk] Reintroducing myself

2017-11-16 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
De-lurking a bit ... We met in Singapore a long time ago at a dinner Meetup. Welcome back Nadika ☺ On Nov 16, 2017 19:34, "Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan" < chandrachoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > Let me see, it's been 10 years on the list. After initial enthusiasm in > responding to all

Re: [silk] Reintroducing myself

2017-11-16 Thread Ashwin Kumar
What do you care, what other people think? - Arline Feynman Welcome back N ~ashwin ~ashwin From: silklist <silklist-bounces+ashwink=live...@lists.hserus.net> on behalf of Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 5:11:49

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

2017-11-05 Thread Ashwin Kumar
~ashwin From: silklist <silklist-bounces+ashwink=live...@lists.hserus.net> on behalf of Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 11:45 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction On Mon, Nov

Re: [silk] I saw this message and panicked.

2017-11-05 Thread Ashwin Kumar
~ashwin From: silklist <silklist-bounces+ashwink=live...@lists.hserus.net> on behalf of Gaurav Vaz <m...@gauravvaz.com> Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 08:37 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] I saw this message

[silk] I saw this message and panicked.

2017-11-05 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Nov 8th is almost upon us. :) ~ashwin

[silk] NYC/Bay Area Meet up?

2016-09-05 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Hi all I sent an email earlier, but not sure whether it left my outbox. I will be in * NYC - Sept 26th to 30th* Bay Area (Sunnyvale/San Jose) - Sept 30th to Oct 8th Any silksters want to meet up? ~ashwin

[silk] NYC/Bay Area Meetup?

2016-09-05 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Hi folks I'll be in NYC from Sept 26th to 30th, and Bay Area from 30th on to Oct 8th. Anyone in the area for a meetup? I'll be free all evenings.  ~ashwin +919483466818

Re: [silk] Hello From Advaith

2016-08-10 Thread Ashwin Kumar
vaith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGEhsjik1kU Hesse is one of my favourite authors. ~ashwin

[silk] Naresh on Place Making of Bengaluru

2016-05-15 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Hi Naresh Nice talk.  https://youtu.be/c_ldfSRU4EI ~ashwin +919483466818

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-13 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Aadisht Khanna wrote: > Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - I took two years to finish this, but enjoyed > it far more in 2015 than 2014. Tolstoy has this under-the-surface mild > sarcasm that suddenly leaps out, bites, and then goes back to rest.

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-13 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Supriya Nair wrote: > Anonymity for the > 1000-page edition seems puzzling -- if it was the > Penguin black classics edition, it's by Robin Buss. Well worth reading. The > novel form was invented for Dumas to have fun with. There are 2

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-13 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Buss is canonical - and a lot of the other translations redact large parts of > the novel, either for convenience to chop out side stories, or due to > victorian prudery I find such "snipping" of content from

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-13 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > Copyright, 1887. > By JOSEPH L. BLAMIRB. > > There’s a Joseph L Blamire who is credited with some other works from the > 1860s onwards. He may not be the translator. Googling with his name does not throw up

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
Books I loved this year ... Fiction: The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan) https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north/ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/ On The Beach

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Thaths wrote: [...] > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus I've just started on this one, it is just amazing! > * The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > by Siddhartha Mukherjee. An >

Re: [silk] Puns in other languages

2015-09-25 Thread Ashwin Kumar
back, "How is that possible? I had squeezed all the puli myself. Each one I found". puli - in Tulu also means worms. That new movie starring Vijay (Puli) makes me laugh. In Tulu, pili means tiger. ~ashwin > Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:48:27 +0100 > From: namith...@gmail.com > To: silkli

Re: [silk] The Name of the Road

2015-09-11 Thread Ashwin Kumar
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:33:45 +1000 > From: charles.hay...@gmail.com > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Subject: Re: [silk] The Name of the Road > Mostly though I do it to encourage discussion about the fact that this > place already had a name. I want cities to be renamed purely for fun. I

[silk] Meetup - NYC/Bay Area

2015-09-01 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Hi folks I will be in NYC from Sept 28th-Oct 2nd, and in the Bay Area from Oct 3rd until Oct 16th. Anyone want to meet up? Unless you really fancy a in-the-middle-of-nowhere meet up at Bentonville, AR. :) cheers~ashwin

Re: [silk] Meetup - NYC/Bay Area

2015-09-01 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Right, I do work for the beast of Bentonville. :) I do want to experience a cabin in the woods kind of adventure in Bentonville. ~ashwin > From: sur...@hserus.net > Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:10:02 +0530 > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Subject: Re: [silk] Meetup - NYC/Bay Area

Re: [silk] Camera gurus - need advice

2015-05-02 Thread Ashwin Kumar
and IQ wise. ~ashwin +919483466818 On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:40 PM -0700, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Hm. It’s quite likely wrong to conclude from your experience that mirrorlesses are slow in general. Lots of people who've been using SLRs for years have been going the other way

[silk] SF Silk Meetup?

2015-04-30 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Hi folks I will be in the SF area from May 26th to June 10th. Meetup anyone? ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Subtitles for movies in Bengaluru theatres

2014-11-08 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
With regards to Interstellar, according to Raja Sen's review it seems to be playing in Indian theatres with subtitles: http://rajasen.com/2014/11/07/interstellar/ ~ash On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if anyone come across any movie

Re: [silk] Intro!

2013-07-02 Thread Ashwin Kumar
much for you know nothing. :) yup, I do remember that. But, since it was Japanese... ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Intro!

2013-07-02 Thread Ashwin Kumar
For the record, the show's English title was Johnny Socko and His Flying Robot. So much for you know nothing. With reference [1] ~ashwin [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Sokko_and_his_Flying_Robot

Re: [silk] Intro!

2013-07-02 Thread Ashwin Kumar
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net From: thew...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:58:18 + Subject: Re: [silk] Intro! i.e., I Ygritte to inform you that you know nothing? punditji. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Intro!

2013-07-01 Thread Ashwin Kumar
responses Dear All, Glad to be a part of the list. Our Udhay has imposed an intro giving rite of passage on me... so here we go... so readers get a logical flow. Welcome to the madhouse. :) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Intro!

2013-07-01 Thread Ashwin Kumar
(at least in South Indian temples I have never seen Ganesha with his wives), or Shiva/Parvathi having a daughter. There was an article (on silk?) which mentioned an increase in number of Vaishno Devi temples after the cult classic Jai Maa Vaishno Devi. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Intro!

2013-07-01 Thread Ashwin Kumar
recent trip to Gujarat (6 holy-shmoly days) was a revelation in terms of cashing in on the God factor. Key takeaway: If you are a brahman, your path to moksha is assured if you do a 11K+ pooja at Dwaraka. Anything less, and you need to rely on your good karma. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Intro!

2013-07-01 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Dwaraka, though I did like Bet Dwaraka (no photography there though). Gujarat also introduced me to the cult of Swaminarayan. I had heard about them, but never experienced their religious centers. Those guys have cornered the market in commercializing God, and I thought IS-Con was bad. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Intro!

2013-07-01 Thread Ashwin Kumar
shirt during lunch at functions. These days, dakshine has become an ego/status symbol. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Intro!

2013-07-01 Thread Ashwin Kumar
serial of all time. Giant Robot. Ja-yanto Robo. You know nothing thewall. You know nothing. ~ashwin *geeking out on referencing Game of Thrones/Jon Snow to thewall* *my day is made*

[silk] [enquiry] Do any of you know about Ab Initio?

2013-04-23 Thread Ashwin Kumar
this is not SilkList material, but any help would be useful. Please reply to me ashw...@live.in with any details/help. :) Thanks~ashwin

Re: [silk] Bangalore Meet, Food Drinks

2013-04-11 Thread Ashwin Kumar
rooftop patio in Richmond Town? *raises hand, three-quarters the way up* *raises hand half-way up* ~ashwin

Re: [silk] yelp!! USB drive advice

2013-01-16 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
From: xxx...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:33:42 +0530 To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] yelp!! USB drive advice I need some advice on which USB flash drive to buy..the parameters are 1.No separate cap but the retracting mechanism must be solidly built 2.am unclear as

Re: [silk] Introduction - Andy Deemer

2013-01-15 Thread Ashwin Kumar
much sounds like stack ranking. :) Welcome to the list. A very interesting collection of experiences. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-12 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
At today's Chennai silk list meetup the topic of history podcasts came up. I offered to post to silk list asking everyone for recommendations. 1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your opinion? My vote is for In Our

Re: [silk] Chinese martial arts movies

2012-12-23 Thread Ashwin Kumar
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Arrows - War of the Arrows. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Chinese martial arts movies

2012-12-23 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
From: Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: I watched another Donnie Yen movie recently, the animation-adaptation flick Dragon Tiger Gate. It's high on martial arts but low on storyline (too many plots for a 2 hour movie). Ip Man is going on my to watch list. Not a martial arts movie

Re: [silk] Chinese martial arts movies

2012-12-21 Thread Ashwin Kumar
/Wu_Xia_(film) - this movie is excellent. It stars one of my favorites Takeshi Kaneshiro. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] quiz help

2012-10-12 Thread Ashwin Kumar
2. Paul Newman ? 5. Employees are the most valuable resource :) On 12 October 2012 16:03, Namitha Jagadeesh namith...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Santa-Banta? 2. Shah Rukh Khan (don't know the other) 3. BMW 4. Safari? (am usually content to lurk, but couldn't resist jumping in) Namitha On Fri,

Re: [silk] autoresponse weirdness

2012-10-12 Thread Ashwin Kumar
+1 and UnLike. On 12 October 2012 17:57, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: One member of the list appears to be getting an autoresponse from the ID customersupp...@icicilombard.com for a posting made to silklist.

Re: [silk] RIP - Sriram Bala

2012-07-28 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 28 July 2012 06:37, Ashwin Nanjappa ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: I talked to him a couple of times after we both came back to the US. But we drifted apart. When Livejournal started rotting on the vine, the updates I used

Re: [silk] RIP - Sriram Bala

2012-07-27 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: I talked to him a couple of times after we both came back to the US. But we drifted apart. When Livejournal started rotting on the vine, the updates I used to get about what he was up to ceased. I remember a few interactions with

[silk] The Flight From Conversation

2012-04-28 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
From: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html The short: WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. [...] In the silence of connection, people are comforted by

Re: [silk] English expressions that irritate me

2012-04-23 Thread Ashwin Kumar
they stand for. Venkat, please do the needful so we can greenlight the jargon list. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] The Bhansali Stork

2012-04-17 Thread Ashwin Kumar
to admire the kid's sense of timing. One might come to the conclusion, that he wanted to be a part of the Silk List having seen the meet up close. :) Congrats Vinit and Surabhi. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Bangalore silkmeet 13 Apr?

2012-04-12 Thread Ashwin Kumar
2012/4/12 Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com Current headcount: Deepa A Sruthi (?) Mahesh Naresh Udhay Thejaswi Udupa Surabhi Tomar Vinit Vinayak H Ashwin Kumar Venky (the second) Sandhya M Shrabonti Deepa M (?) -1 for me. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Bangalore silkmeet 13 Apr?

2012-04-10 Thread Ashwin Kumar
. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Bangalore silkmeet 13 Apr?

2012-04-08 Thread Ashwin Kumar
+1 me. ~ashwin Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On 08-Apr-12 5:11 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Ha ha. This is the shortest silkmeet prep ever for me. Customer meeting all day on the 13th

Re: [silk] Anyone who works 40-hour weeks?

2012-03-20 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
Related: http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_1_ecstatic_capitalisms.html/ A 2001 long-form piece that examines the work culture of the dot-com community and gathers together many more related strands of how this is changing how we live. Allison Behr, the 29-year-old public-relations director

Re: [silk] JT Edsons

2012-01-30 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 13:38, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: My list would include Clive Cussler, David Eddings and Edgar Rice Burroughs. +1 for Clive Cussler :-) ~ash

Re: [silk] Acts of the Apostles, etc

2011-12-22 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 23 December 2011 08:51, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I am having a number of interesting conversations as a result of sending out my usual year-end note. What follows is [part of] one such. John Sundman [1] is an author whom some of you might know, either in person or through

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2011

2011-12-04 Thread Ashwin Kumar
visit, and if you will be visiting Bangalore. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2011

2011-12-04 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
provides. I seem to have now forgotten a lot of the cool stuff from the book. Time to find it and read it again :-) Regards, ~ash On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:31, Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com wrote: Amen to the first book Ashwin suggested. It gives a fascinating history and introduction

Re: [silk] Why this Kolaveri di?

2011-11-28 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 28 November 2011 13:20, Thejaswi Udupa thejaswi.ud...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Chew Lin Kay chewlin@gmail.com wrote: Time for the good old days of the Macarena? taking part in quizzes for fun, *understatement* :) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Anyone going from Chennai/Bangalore to the US?

2011-11-28 Thread Ashwin Kumar
), and a other such items which make no sense. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2011

2011-11-28 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
2 books that I particularly enjoyed in the last year ... * Peking Diary: (1948 – 1949) A Year of Revolution by Derk Bodde Diary of a US sinology professor in Beijing when the Communists routed the Nationalists and the PRC was formed. More:

Re: [silk] Why this Kolaveri di?

2011-11-27 Thread Ashwin Kumar
It's even appearing on Hindi music channels. oh! the pain. Why this kolaveri di? On 27 November 2011 23:10, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote: It's on BBC even: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF6CLkrP8vE And while we are covering tanglish videos, Machaan Sollu Sollu for the

Re: [silk] Why this Kolaveri di?

2011-11-27 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 28 November 2011 06:39, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, November 28, 2011, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: It's even appearing on Hindi music channels. oh! the pain. Why this kolaveri di? Reminds me of the huge success of mukkala muqabala o Laila years ago

[silk] Remember Shakti - India Tour dates

2011-11-13 Thread Ashwin Kumar
. Shrinivas (mandolin) V. Selvaganesh (kanjira, ghatam, mridangam) 5/02/12 Pune 7/02/12 Mumbai 9/02/12 Kolkata 10/02/12 Bangalore 11/02/12 Chennai 12/02/12 Mumbai ~ashwin

Re: [silk] BLR Meetup?

2011-10-30 Thread Ashwin Kumar
Is this happening? When and where its the meetup? Ashwin On Oct 24, 2011 5:16 PM, freeman murray free...@jaaga.in wrote: 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

Re: [silk] BLR Meetup?

2011-10-23 Thread Ashwin Kumar
and time, but ideally dinner/drinks somewhere. Nov 1st evening works for me. Venue suggestions? I wonder if Naresh's fancy office lounge is available (hint, hint) :-P I am fine with it too... ~ashwin

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

2011-08-19 Thread Ashwin Kumar
to the mass hysteria around AH/Lokpal nonsense. +1 on Kiran. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Mission: Bangalore silk meetup - Thu July 14

2011-07-12 Thread Ashwin Kumar
? Because a good friend of mine who knows her food didn't have very nice things to say about Pizzeria Romano: http://foodtravelbangalore.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/pizzeria-romano-koramangala/ I'd concur with that review. To save all the pain, why don't we meet at Herbs and Spice ? ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Mission: Bangalore silk meetup - Thu July 14

2011-07-12 Thread Ashwin Kumar
that the chef doesn't seem to know any other flavours except for pepper and garlic. Ok. :) +1 to Thulp. I am almost certainly going to be there :) Thulp it is then. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Plus by Google

2011-07-01 Thread Ashwin Kumar
on the sidebar that have an updated stream content (much like auto-archive + labels in gmail) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] The future of learning?

2011-06-12 Thread Ashwin Kumar
, Jace, Thaths, Divya, Cheeni, who are on this list, and a bunch of other people who are in the real world. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Gmail on android

2011-06-04 Thread Ashwin Kumar
color just landed. Upgraded to 1.2, not rooted yet. Works very well. Speaking of Android's and tablets, I have an offer to buy a Notion Ink Adam. There are some reports of being able to run Honeycomb very nicely on this device. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Bangalore Silkmeet tomorrow?

2011-05-17 Thread Ashwin Kumar
I was told 7PM. this is a new timing? ~ashwin On 17 May 2011 10:10, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: Not a traditional top post. After a bit of haggling with Udhay over Gtalk, the two of us have decided that Silver Wok on Richmond Road is a good place to meet

Re: [silk] Sidin Vadukut - Introduction

2011-05-17 Thread Ashwin Kumar
spasm? Tomorrow's Headline - Madman commits seppuku on Vadukut's entry Welcome Sidin. ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Using an X-Box Controller as a PC text input device

2011-05-04 Thread Ashwin Kumar
golly! here I am working on the Ad Platform for Bing, and I find a consumer. :) Hi Sumant. Aadisht, I can put this on the local chat list. There are a few of the XBOX/Kinect tinkerers on it. ~ashwin On 4 May 2011 15:36, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote: I can try taking

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

2011-04-22 Thread Ashwin N
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 20:48, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote: On Apr 22, 2011 8:47 PM, Ashwin N ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: So then, what can we do about the sugar we *do* need to add to our regular food? What sugar would that be? I don't know of any sugar you *need* to add to your

Re: [silk] A crisis of confidence

2011-03-31 Thread Ashwin Kumar
pasta :( Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device I did this at a French restaurant in Singapore, and got a visit from the chef. ~ashwin

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 series

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

2011-01-20 Thread Ashwin Kumar
. :) ~ashwin

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

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

2011-01-19 Thread Ashwin Kumar
~ashwin

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

2011-01-19 Thread Ashwin Kumar
India then :) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-06 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 6 January 2011 21:38, Samanth Subramanian wordpsm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Udhay. A cordial Hello to the Silklisters out there. Welcome Samanth. I ordered the book on flipkart a few minutes back. :) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-18 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 18 December 2010 12:19, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, December 16, 2010, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: it's weird that you need to type out the entire handle with @joindiaspora to search for a person. Diaspora is supposed to be a distributed social

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-15 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 15 December 2010 17:13, Anish Mohammed anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Any invites left , can I have one please ;) Invites if any left are welcome :)

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-15 Thread Ashwin Kumar
left Thank you, Suresh. I've got five invites to give out, folks, though I'm going to hold one back to invite a friend who works in the social media/networking sphere. interesting, I still haven't got an invite. CC, ek mere liye? (*ripping off on an old Indian ad*) ~ashwin

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-15 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 15 December 2010 20:47, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Neha Viswanathan nehav...@gmail.comwrote: *wiping tears of joy* I am n...@joindiaspora.com - I've never been just neha. I am chandrachoo...@joindiaspora.com

Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-15 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 16 December 2010 08:08, Venkat Mangudi - Silk s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: ashwi...@joindiaspora.com Couldn't find you. Have added the others to my silk aspect. added you to my aspect. it's weird that you need

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