I've always tried to aim a little higher than "not actively painful" when
choosing my tipples. I realize I may be privileged in this regard.
-- Charles
My experience has been that neither streaming nor downloading are all that
common in most of Africa. The most common distribution mechanism for
digital media are small shops that sell digital content to be loaded on a
BYO micro SD card (for phones.)
Bandwidth is too expensive and unreliable for st
There is also the "reverse snobbery" effect, which the wine tastings I
describe actually encourage. It's the joy of finding a cheap wine that you
really enjoy that you think tastes better than the expensive wines that
other people are overpaying for. It requires a certain strength of will,
and it i
ri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On 10/05/13 10-May-2013;4:05 pm, Charles Haynes wrote:
>
> > The wine tasting I have consistently advocated is personal double-blind
> > vertical or horizontal tastings with a ringer.
>
> Here's a counterpoint
Sounds about right. Sula is swill.
-- Charles in Johannesburg drinking a cheap Warwick 2011 Cab, that's better
than anything Sula makes.
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Thaths wrote:
>
> http://www.slate.com/articles/life/roads/2013/11/indian_wine_industry_will_indians_trade_their_whiskey_for_
My reaction was "chicken little says 'the sky is falling'*"
Keep an eye on what is happening in countries "further ahead" on the
lack-of-privacy and surveillance curves and how internet users in those
countries cope. I'm particularly impressed with Chinese internet users.
Simple lessons:
Evolve
Well for one reason, you may have the problem that all hill climbing
algorithms are subject to. You may get stuck on a local maximum where
every small change (hack) actually makes things worse.
In which case you either have to completely change where you're starting
from, or you have to use an alg
When I say "A hill climbing algorithm does not always find a global
maximum" and you reply "But mine did!" I have three replies.
1) That does not refute the original assertion (as I'm sure you know)
2) How do you know? (That you found the global maximum)
3) If the plural of anecdote is not data, t
I'm leaving for Myanmar in three days, are there any silklisters in Myanmar
that would like to meet?
Alternatively, are there any silklisters about things to see or do while in
Myanmar? Our basic plan is to land in Yangon, spend a very small amount of
time there, then make our way overland to the
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Thaths wrote:
> Isn't improving one's life just a collection of individual life hacks?
>
Some improvements can be achieved by a sequence of locally optimal smaller
improvements, but not all.
Which is to say, you may not be able to hack your way to happiness.
I was in Joburg for a year till april. I can recommend origin for coffee.
On 20/07/2013 9:39 AM, "Mark Seiden" wrote:
> i have often wondered about the geo-distribution of people on this list,
> off the
> the bangalore/cambridge/mountain view axes….
>
> so here's a try. i'm in cape town for a lo
at least in the USA it's clear that girls are steered away from STEM
curricula by a variety of mechansims, primarily social. Girls aren't
"supposed" to like Maths, and so they don't. Girls that show an interest or
aptitude are subtly or not so subtly told that this is inappropriate, that
they're we
While I agree it was spammy, perhaps we could suggest a more appropriate
way to convey the intended message?
Maybe something like:
"I went to this event and really liked it, it talks about mysticism of
Kabir and Mira. Anyone interested please contact me or check out this url.
I (will/will not) b
We are here table we
On May 28, 2013 7:34 PM, "Dibyo Haldar" wrote:
> This is on? I'll reach in 5
> On 28 May 2013 08:26, "Charles Haynes" wrote:
>
> > Ok, let's meet at MTR for dinner this evening seems appropriate for a
> Silk
> > meet. Sh
Ok, let's meet at MTR for dinner this evening seems appropriate for a Silk
meet. Shall we say 7:30pm? I'll chope a table for five, larger if I see
more interest.
"Serangoon Rd, near Farrer Park (where Sri Lakshmi Narasimhan used to be,
previously)." My number is (+65) 8402 2104.
-- Charles
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> I find the ethical shortcomings more problematic - the food I eat
> literally becomes me. It used to be unthinkable that someone would
> sell food in ancient cultures, including India. Food was always
> donated or shared freely, and th
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:55 PM, mark seiden wrote:
> On May 26, 2013, at 6:11 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Charles Haynes
> > wrote:
> >> Saravana Bhavan
>
> > In the spirit of Silk, I register here my personal
There are also two Saravana Bhavan outlets here if one prefers Chennai
style, but I was thinking of some of the places near Mustapha's - if we
were to go in that direction.
-- Charles
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Dibyo Haldar wrote:
> On 26 May 2013 16:12, Charles Hayne
Hi Shoba,
If you're still up for a meetup we're back from Tanjung Pinang and would
love to meet with people. Do you have a preference between Monday and
Tuesday night?
We could do traditional South Indian Vegetarian in Little India, it seems a
bit of a shame to come to Singapore to eat South Indi
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Sriram Karra wrote:
>
> I wonder ... is there *any* way one can do the above in India over a
> meaningfully long period of time in without having to, in parallel, plan a
> heist at a local bank?
Are you friends with an importer? Do you have a lot of friends tha
It looks, from the excerpts and the reviews, like a book for people who
like to see the mighty brought low. Not really a genre I'm fond of. I'm
mildly curious what he has to say about chefs I actually respect (e.g.
Blumenthal, Keller, Adria) rather than Food TV celebrities.
Heston Blumenthal, for
Seems unlikely. The Burgundians believe they came from Scandinavia and
they're almost certainly just another East Germanic tribe. The name can be
traced back to at least 250 AD in Scandinavia, so unless
the Scandinavians were visiting South India earlier than that (or vice
versa) it seems pretty u
When I was in practice, I could pretty reliably identify a sparkling wine
as a ("real") Champagne, and which district from within Champagne but not
better than that. I'm reasonably good a picking out a Penedès. I expect a
master Sommelier can do better and as part of the exam I believe they are
req
One last reply to myself. I've included below the most recent invitation of
the tasting group I used to regularly attend when I lived in the Bay Area.
It's a private group run by a computer geek who started doing this for fun
probably 40 years ago, and still runs them. If I were still in the Bay Ar
Some of the key things you learn, quickly or over time, are that:
You must depend on your own taste. There will be people whose judgement
agrees with yours, but you will still disagree with them in surprising
ways. After tasting but before revealing we would often discuss our
rankings of the vario
Despite his hyperbolic style and deliberate provocation I don't disagree
with his central thesis, which is that wine reviews are basically useless
as a guide to finding wines you will like.
His attention grabbing headline "Wine Tasting is Bullshit," however, is
bullshit.
The wine tasting I have c
How about a treetop dinner photowalk at Macritchie?
We'll be here through then, so ping us when you come up for air?
"In total, the walk is about *8km long*, with patches of uneven, undulating
terrain. At a moderate pace, the walk should take you about *2½ to 3 hours*
."
Is it airconditioned? I
She is indeed, already finding events too. Went to lasalle(?) uni
graduating class school of dance recital. Also food naturally.
-- Charles
On May 6, 2013 7:56 AM, "Deepa Mohan" wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Charles Haynes
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> &
Hi,
I'll be working here in Singapore for about 11 weeks, would love to meet
local silklisters. What do you say?
-- Charles
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Nikhil Mehra wrote:
> This should liven up the debate a bit:
>
> http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/04/economist-explains-why-iceland-ban-pornography?fb_ref=activity
>
Iceland has, unfortunately, bought the Dworkin/MacKinnon "feminist"
anti-por
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Shoba Narayan wrote:
> > The principal ground of the petition is that pornography is
> > directly linked to the rise in heinous sexual offences against women.
>
>
> Is this true though?
No.
> Can it be proved through numbers and studies?
>
No. It can (and ha
"*There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the
streets?" Dick Cavett (as quoted in Life magazine)*
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> The conservatives will obviously welcome this and the politicians will love
> it because it's a meaningless but d
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ingrid Srinath
wrote:
> Charity J: Spends virtually nothing on donor acquisition... Deploys
> virtually the entirety of the small sums they collect to feed starving
> children. Saves their lives but does nothing to expand the number of lives
> they can save or to
On Apr 4, 2013 1:39 AM, "Deepa Mohan" wrote:
> Indeed. Remember that silk is only arrived at by boiling the worms
> alive...
Ah but afterwards they make a tasty snack.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/haynes/5845641446/
FWIW the explanation of "mu" above owes more to Robert Anton Wilson than to
Wumen. The doctrinaire explanation of Joshu's Dog is that Joshu is using
"mu" in the sense of "no." That is he's saying that a dog does not have
Buddha nature. Why would Joshu say THAT? Much of the Mumonkan are koans
that h
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM, SS wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 00:31 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
> > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
> > ** directory. And then the C programmer became
Hi Yosem,
Nice to see you here! I've just finished a year working in Africa
(Johannesburg and Kampala) building local software development capability
The idea is to build up local development ability rather than continuing to
allow Africa to be treated as a market to be exploited. Love to hear mor
"Value" is multidimensional and context dependent even for an individual.
The value of sleep, or food, varies quite a bit depending on how much I've
had recently. You can't actually reduce "value" to a single metric, whether
you call it money or anything else.
Value, at least in my case, is also n
I have used code complexity arguments successfully in the past. "How hard
is this to change?" "Where are the bugs?" Cyclomatic complexity (highly
correlated with local of course)
The supposed advantages of the c++ solution should be measurable or they
are simply faith. The measurements should supp
I am in Ethiopia, which has a (very) modest wine industry. I wish I could
help your collection. I have been collecting local beer labels in Amharic,
sadly the labels are usually the best part of the beer.
BTW with respect to African wines, besides the justifiably well respected
South African wines
On 30/12/2012 1:00 PM, "Vinayak Hegde" wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Thaths wrote:
> > Yucatan is on the other coast. How do you plan to go across Mexico?
IIRC,
> > Virgin America and Aero Mexico have non-stop flights from LA to Cancun.
> >
> > Here are some recommendations in Yucat
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Venky wrote:
> And since nobody has brought this up yet, my favourite example of the
> counter intuitive probability puzzle:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
I do not think you should expect to be able to explain conditional
probability to a sev
On Oct 27, 2012 1:37 AM, "Deepa Mohan" wrote:
> I'd like to read some more on this. Anything and everything that I've
> read have led me to only one intuitive idea...that probability is
> 50%...something may happen or occur, or it might not.
>
> Nothing has, so far, been able to convince me other
I have a friend who has one. I've played with it. As I said when it first
came out "there's no magic, it has to sacrifice resolution to get variable
focus."
It's a cute gadget, but pretty useless.
-- Charles
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Dibyo wrote:
>
>
> On 27 September 2012 00:23, Thaths
I'm happy she's open to listening to women who know what they want and
need, and willing to look at the evidence of how it changes lives.
Brava.
-- Charles
On Sep 5, 2012 3:19 PM, "Deepa Mohan" wrote:
>
> I've tasted Kopi Luwak, and though there IS a distinctive smooth
> taste, I can't understand why it's worth the price...
It's not. Almost all kopi luwak is fake. The small amount that is not comes
from caged civets force fed low quality coffee che
On Sep 1, 2012 10:08 AM, "Biju Chacko" wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Charles Haynes
wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 1, 2012 9:19 AM, "Charles Haynes" wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> pronunciation was "samosa."
> >
On Sep 1, 2012 9:19 AM, "Charles Haynes" wrote:
>
>
> pronunciation was "samosa."
Samoosa. Even my autocorrect knew it was wrong.
On Sep 1, 2012 7:02 AM, "Udhay Shankar N" wrote:
> Yes, but by that logic, a place called "Shiok" run by a Malyali from
> Delhi wouldn't be Thai, would it? Serious question.
Of course not, "shiok" is a Malay word, not Thai...
But more seriously, the whole discussion of "authenticity" in food is
On Sep 1, 2012 5:18 AM, "SS" wrote:
> Deepa the reason why this article can be described as garbage is that it
> makes a fake connection between garbage and mosquitoes.
It does?! That's terrible. I didn't read the article even though I've
recently been in both malaria and yellow fever belts.
My
On Aug 26, 2012 9:06 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" wrote:
> The basic premise seems to be that cooperation with law enforcement by
ISPs is a violation of its users' privacy and free speech.
As a user I would prefer to use an ISP that divulged my personal
information only when legally compelled, a
The racism is most obvious when you look at who are allies of "The West'
[ahem] and who are allies of Sauron. "Southrons" in particular with their
elephants. The "corsairs of umbar." all of the heros are pretty obviously
from the british isles, or at least northern europe. If you look at his
"map o
On Jul 28, 2012 3:36 PM, "ashok _" wrote:
> I think religion is always cultural ... i remember traveling in
> tanzania years ago and the southern region
> bordering mozambique has the yao people who practice their brand of
> islam (they dont eat pork, they pray
> five times a day facing mecca etc
d
not affect culture. Both claims are immediately and obviously false.
-- Charles
On Jul 28, 2012 8:16 AM, "Charles Haynes" wrote:
>
> On Jul 28, 2012 3:35 AM, "ss" wrote:
> >
> > On Friday 27 Jul 2012 5:23:53 am Shoba Narayan wrote:
> > > What will
On Jul 28, 2012 3:35 AM, "ss" wrote:
>
> On Friday 27 Jul 2012 5:23:53 am Shoba Narayan wrote:
> > What will Indian culture (or any culture) be like without religion?
>
> I am not sure that I should reply to this because it typically launches
me off
> on one of my rambles.
>
> Religion is never c
On Jul 20, 2012 11:25 PM, "Bonobashi" wrote:
>
> I wonder what he meant by "the raw kaffir".
>
> > “A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are
little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the
children are taught to believe in that manner, with the
Coming from some experience in the gay rights struggle in the 80s and 90s,
I think multiple simultaneous approaches are important. The seminal (ahem)
event of the gay rights strugge was Stonewall - a violent riot in protest
against continuing police harassment. However violent protests alone could
I just got back from Rwanda and Uganda, and systems like this (including
m-Pesa itself) are ubiquitous. However there are some interesting risks
associated with them, not so much in stealing individuals credentials, but
stealing authentication for the kiosks.
-- Charles
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:
People have been complaining about "the young people of today" for as long
as there have been young people. I believe there's an essay by Pliny on the
subject, and I'm sure there are earlier versions.
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Dibyo wrote:
> On 9 June 2012 05:10, Bharath Chari wrote:
>> About a third of Americans believe that humans evolved, but with God's
>> guidance;
> Does anyone else think that this is statistic that is both hilarious and
> scary?
How can facts be either hilario
On Jun 3, 2012 7:23 AM, "Deepa Mohan" wrote:
> I think that whether "native tongues" survive or not, English itself, as
it gets spoken globally, will acquire local overtones, and fracture into
as many dialects, as there arelanguages now.I can already say that
the language spoken by the Ge
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Sriram Karra wrote:
> P.S.: I am reading the following article. If one wants to be pedantic, why
> not go all the way. Ref: section 2.4 in
> particular. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-uncertainty/#UncRelUncPri
That reference seems like a fine explanation of
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Sriram Karra wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Charles Haynes
> wrote:
>> Now go read the rest of the rant, because it's great.
> Well written and, er, very pedantic. What next? Is he going to nitpick about
> 'bitrot
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> Worst Heisenbug Ever.
Rob Pike on the term "Heisenbug"
http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2010/08/know-your-science.html
"What's really sad is that many of the commonest misuses of the
terminology of quantum mechanics come from other areas of
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Sidin Vadukut wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
>> On 29-May-12 10:02 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
>> > the ERP that crashed if the CEO of our company was in the room.
>> > Same kind of story.
>> Here's a silklist-worthy project - let us crowdsour
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Kragen Javier Sitaker
wrote:
> surely [there are] problems ... that are not 80% Hindu-caused. For example,
> there are undoubtedly at least a couple of murders in India per year of
> converts from Islam to Christianity, by their own families; that problem is
>
On May 17, 2012 11:28 PM, "ashok _" wrote:
>
>
> The report warned of
> the growing influence of the Soviet Union on the ANC and said that US
> strategic and corporate interests (i.e., access to South Africa’s
> minerals) would be best served if there were genuine sharing of
> political power
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk
wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Charles Haynes
> wrote:
>>
>> Where 'this' is to be in denial about making mistakes.
>
>
> Some of us are just human.
And accepting that, as a human, you will
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk
wrote:
> The first two (make and admit) is easier than the third (learn). As the
> author says, we are wired to do this. And have been doing this for ages.
Where 'this' is to be in denial about making mistakes.
> If we really figure out ho
On Apr 19, 2012 6:04 PM, "Vinayak Hegde" wrote:
> one of my friends had a US and Schengen Visa and tried to cross
> the border by land from Syria. He was denied entry into Turkey. Well
> that would have been okay - only one problem - he had a single entry
> visa into Syria so he could not go back
On Apr 19, 2012 3:30 AM, "ss" wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 18 Apr 2012 9:33:10 pm Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> > When the world thinks of Brazil it rarely thinks of those with African
> > or Native American blood lines, which seems to help.
>
> Would you be able to qualify this statement?
>
> The genera
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote:
> thew...@gmail.com [16 April 2012 10:42]:
>> More references to Westerns? SRS would be thrilled. I remember hijo de
> puta
>> from JT Edson and Sudden.
>
> Swearing in Mexican? Look no farther than Tuco -
> http://www.youtube.com/wa
> "Baddi maga" could mean son of prostitute.
"HIjo de puta" (lit. "son of a whore" but meaning approximately the
same as "son of a bitch" in english) is a very common Spanish curse.
-- Charles
On Apr 14, 2012 11:44 AM, "Giancarlo Livraghi" wrote:
>
> A correction, fwiw, on "swearing" in Italian.
>
>
> > Italian, for example is primarily blasphemous.
>
> Actually it isn't. Probably because "religiosity" is declining,
"blasphemous" swearing has become rare, practically disappearing. While
On Apr 14, 2012 6:45 AM, "Udhay Shankar N" wrote:
>
> Picking up on one of the conversational threads from yesterday's meetup:
>
> Can people here provide examples of strong curse/swear words in any
> language (i.e, these mean something beyond just punctuation or verbal
> tics) that DO NOT involve
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:36 PM, mark seiden wrote:
>
> chowhound is a great resource for the "outer boroughs".
>
Chowhound is a great resource, period. Ok maybe not as great for stuff
outside of the USA, but in the US it's my first go-to source.
> "best bagels" used to be h&h next to zabars,
On Mar 31, 2012 1:32 PM, "Srini RamaKrishnan" wrote:
> The exception does not make the rule.
"The exception proves [tests] the rule."
A pet peeve of mine (I have a lot of pets) is the misquotation and misuse
of this line. Proof in this usage means "to test" not "to demonstrate."
Somewhat archai
I loved Bristol, especially the Forest of Dean and scrumpy! I love the
West Country accent too. Beautiful country, nice people.
-- Charles
It looks like I am going to Johannesburg for 4 weeks, are there any
Silklisters there?
-- Charles
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Thaths wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
>> On Feb 27, 2012 12:06 AM, "Thaths" wrote:
>>> On the other hand, if there is any country that can come closest to
>>> achieving a post-racial soci
On Feb 27, 2012 12:06 AM, "Thaths" wrote:
> On the other hand, if there is any country that can come closest to
> achieving a post-racial society, it is the United States.
You make the case that the US is close, sure, but "closest?" I see many
countries with multi-racial societies, why do you th
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Deepak Shenoy wrote:
>> If you include the parts of the message you are replying to, and
>> interleave your responses, I find the GMail model works pretty well. I
>> hated it when I first encountered it (and hated that I couldn't
>> "delete" messages) but now I fi
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM, ss wrote:
> On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 2:15:10 pm Chew Lin Kay wrote:
>> Throwing a comment out there until I find more brain space to deal with
>> it--there is diversity of race, there is diversity of religion, there is
>> diversity of class.
> Disclaimer: I ask f
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> wrote:
>> Gmail on the web has its own idiosyncracies and some context sensitive
>> advertising that occasionally tends to the bizzarre
>
> That the Gmail WebUI doesn't al
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
> It's an argument that applies equally well to SMS-speak in email. There's no
> loss in semantic content -
O RLY?
> after a fashion - so why does syntax matter?
Why does social signalling matter? One geek conceit is that only the
sema
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
> I was in Meghalaya,India visiting the living bridges characterised by
> a deep valleys and ridges falling off into the Bangladesh plains. The
> villages of Cherrapunjee and Mawsynram are at the top of these hills
> and hold the record for mo
Ah those wacky Americans and their silky laws about religion.
http://j.mp/zkVSqH now they're making Google censor results that make fun
of religion in Indiana. Oh wait, that's not IndiaNA, that's India.
WTF?
-- Charles
On Feb 2, 2012 6:22 AM, "Jon Cox" wrote:
>
>
> Discussing "commonly held co
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:15 AM, John Sundman wrote:
> when it comes to my mortgage, I draw the line.
Why?
Seriously. Is it because telephone tech support from Bangalore is
relatively low quality in all cases, and you're willing to put up with
it for most things, but want high-quality technica
> If you ate willing to accept argument by passive voice it can beer argued
that writing is not necessary, but only an efficiency improvement.
Ate = are
Beer = be
Thank you autocorrect.
Sent from my galaxy note.
-- Charles
On Jan 28, 2012 5:32 PM, "gabin kattukaran" wrote:
>
> On 28 January 2012 12:45, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> > On 28/01/12 6:26 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
> >>
> >> I would argue for the scientific method, or mathematics.
> >
> >
> > It
I would argue for the scientific method, or mathematics.
-- Charles
What is "electro-yet watermark?"
-- Charles
On Nov 15, 2011 4:05 PM, "Biju Chacko" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:14 PM, ss wrote:
> > On Monday 14 Nov 2011 4:40:51 pm Eugen Leitl wrote:
> >> DIY meaning starting completely from scratch, with the green plant.
> >>
> > Green plant? Why use tobacco?
> I've always thought of pot as fa
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Sriram ET. wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Charles Haynes
> wrote:
>> we were not influenced by brand or price. It was in the course of
>> years of these kinds of tastings that I determined my own preferences
>> in wine style a
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:24 PM, ss wrote:
> On Thursday 10 Nov 2011 2:17:14 pm Deepa Mohan wrote:
>> I don't see anything wrong with liking the cheapest and most plonky wine in
>> the supermarket.
>>
> Deepa wine appreciation is pure snobbery nothing else.
Certainly there are wine drinkers who a
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
> My previous mail does not imply Charles is a wine snob. :) sorry, Charles.
> Just that wines have matured in India.
Charles *is* a wine snob. Which is to say that, perhaps unfortunately,
I've "educated" my palate. I'm reminded of an articl
On Nov 10, 2011 4:05 PM, "Chew Lin Kay" wrote:
>
> Is there anything from Indian vineyards worth drinking, then?
As of when I left a few years ago? No. Unless for some reason you
absolutely have to have wine and can't drink an import.
-- Charles
A seven year old indian white wine? Drain cleaner.
-- Charles
On Nov 10, 2011 2:20 PM, "Chew Lin Kay" wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Am un-lurking as Udhay suggested I write the list to tap Collective
> Wisdom. I've heard of India (and China) collaborating with old world
> vineyards to produce their own wi
On Oct 23, 2011 11:38 AM, "Radhika, Y." wrote:
> certainly i agree that the vast majority of us are mediocre.
Really? I don't. I don't think I've ever met a mediocre person. I find this
characterization (and I know you didn't start it) very sad it sets you up to
feel constantly inadequate. Why wo
Aren't there objective metrics for class mobility in societies? As I have
left the US does that mean... "I am the NRA?"
-- Charles
On Oct 22, 2011 11:16 PM, "Udhay Shankar N" wrote:
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> On 23-Oct-11 10:42 AM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
> > My underst
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