On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:31 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I also think you may be unaware of other rather more explicitly
>> decentralized religions. Quakers and Unitarian Universalists come
>> immediately to mind.
> Aren't these people fragments of the greater whole of Christianity?
Uni
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> say. The people who turn you away from temples think that they are the
> arbiters of Hinduism, But they are not the arbiters of Hinduism any more than
> the people who are turned away from temples.
They call themselves Hindu, and w
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:44 AM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 Jul 2008 2:55:55 pm Charles Haynes wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:32 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Has anyone ever looked at Hinduism as the ultimate decentralization of
>
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:32 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone ever looked at Hinduism as the ultimate decentralization of
> religion, which is what it is.
The "ultimate" decentralization of religion is each person defining
religion for themselves.
As long as some arbiter of Hindune
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - There is a wide range of bands of thought if sampled across the
> population of India, but a given Indian person chooses far too few.
You really think so? Relative to what - the world wide range of
thought? I think t
If you read the article, you see that it is making a distinction
between bi-lingual and bi-cultural. They are seeing a difference
between people who speak two languages but only identify with a single
culture, versus people who speak two languages and identify with two
cultures.
None of the commen
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is that really sustainable? I assume high salaries would alleviate
> much of the pain but at some point this 'under'-class will tip over
> the barrier of political conciousness. Then what?
Good question. I think it will dep
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But on a more serious note, Japan is dying. Literally. The whole
>> country. The population today is about 125 million but will be cut in
>> half in 50 years because people
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:34 AM, va <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I even enjoy Carnatic music...
>
> maybe
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Aditya Kapil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All jazz is not good nor is all rock. As I grow older my ability to listen
> to rock for long periods of time is withering. I get music fatigue with more
> than an hour of rock (at any volume). Like I said this is subjective
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:02 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles - I am going to say (jokingly of course) that "You asked for it. This
> is a long and detailed reply. Sorry.
Thanks for the long and detailed reply!
> On Thursday 15 May 2008 5:02:35 am Charles Ha
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Haynes [15/05/08 09:32 +1000]:
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what's your opinion of Gustave Courbet's "L 'Origine
>> du Monde?"
>
> Given that primitive
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:17 AM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 12 May 2008 10:16:56 am Gautam John wrote:
> > [1] http://www.indianexpress.com/story/307248.html
>
> Quote from the above:
>
> >"In a free and democratic society, tolerance is vital. This is true
> >especially in large
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Casey O'Donnell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Really? Even "unable to get actual experts to distinguish the Markov
> > generator texts from ac
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Casey O'Donnell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Perry E. Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As I recall, Rob Pike built an automatic Derrida generator some years
> > ago. It used Markov Chains to produce texts with roughly the sa
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2008-05-03 14:19:38 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > General photography... thats why I want something with a zoom range...
>
> Then the 100-400 ought to be good for you.
I just wanted to comment on your ex
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM, rene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> rene wrote:
> > I am Rene ... How can you know? You have to trust me.
But that trust works both ways, by deliberately obfuscating your
identity, you created the impression that you were unwilling to trust
us.
> va created the
My fairly techie sweetie has one we picked up in Singapore in Feb. She loves it.
-- Charles
I'll be in Bangalore next week. How about meeting at Shiok 7pm on
Monday? Please let me know if you're planning to go so I can give
Madhu some vague idea about how many people will be there.
-- Charles
Madhu asks:
> Charles, what exactly did "homeschooling" involve? Did you personally teach
> them everything? Hired private tutors? I'm curious.
My wife taught them most subjects, but we also had access to classes
taught at the local charter school and they took some of those
classes.
Deepa adds:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:12 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually this sounds like typical corporate propaganda via an advertorial, of
> which one sees a lot in unexpected places and ways.
...
> Don't know about computer chips but there is a lot of variation in lots of
> products that
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 Apr 2008 4:39:43 pm Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> > Bad parenting + good peers = some hope
> > Good parenting + bad peers = disaster
>
> Interesting but it sounds like an escape route for parents - a clause that
> ca
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been wondering why there is an acute lack of *any* restaurant, in
> Bangalore, that serves Mexican food. I'm not sure if this is true of
> the rest of India too...
> A friend contrasted this to the proliferation of
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Rishab Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> charles, was your misunderstand perhaps a result of (not entirely
> unjustified) cultural expectations of an indian male :-P
Mea culpa, and I'm happy to be wrong!
Thanks for clearing that up.
-- Charles
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and i hardly think the attitude is getting worse. if anything, people
> are getting more used to seeing more bare skin. it's just that abuses
> are talked about more often.
"Abuses?" That seems like a strong word
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i thought that was brilliant, especially the bit about the rapture. i am
> continuously disconcerted by seeing serious looking businessmen in suits
> reading the rapture books
When the rapture comes, can I have your
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 3/28/08, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 14:26 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> > > > they have waiting rooms called 'purgatory', 'limbo' and 'hell'.
> > > > though hell ha
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:48 AM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He seems to go on and on about prudery in India. But that should not surprise
> him. Prudery is Indian
Really? I thought it was a Westernism inherited from the Victorian
sexual mores of the Raj and the Arabic sexual mores of the M
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:32 PM, va <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Where Atithis Fear To Tread" [1], a blog entry by Majumdar has
> interesting views about women in India getting the short end of the
> stick. With unfailing regularity we get to read a lot of tragic events
> in the press [2]*, irr
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A Quest to Reproduce a Top Chef's Recipes at the South Pole
> By MICHÈLE GENTILLE
> Special to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
> March 15, 2008; Page W1
Very cool. I forwarded it to my friend who was the cook at NASA's Mars
rese
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Ideally, we'd be able to strip out the original text and lay the
> > translated text in that very same area.
>
> That can't be autom
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:27 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is in saying that only one God is correct and that other Gods are
> wrong. This is the fundamental basis of conversion and this is what hurts
> Hindu sentiment.
But what about saying that only one Ramayana is correct
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 01 Mar 2008 6:12:40 am Thaths wrote:
> > The story of the brutal murder of an evangelical preacher and his
> > young son does not leave me fuzzy in any way.
>
> Thaths - let us please not get into this. This is a dead e
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:31 PM, divya manian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/29/08, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I thought much of the objection was to converting to Buddhism?
> > Buddhism does not say that only one god is correct and t
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:57 AM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 29 Feb 2008 5:49:37 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> > So the person has made a choice. What, then, is the problem with that?
>
> The problem is in saying that only one God is correct and that other Gods are
> wrong. This is t
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:39 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 29 Feb 2008 12:15:31 am Charles Haynes wrote:
> > So why is the official reaction to violent intimidation by right wing
> > looney thugs one of appeasement? Is not what they did both clearly
> &g
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Haynes wrote, [on 2/28/2008 5:40 AM]:
> You mean this?
>
> http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/28/stories/2008022859311200.htm
>
> The part of the article you left out makes it clear it is p
I hadn't realized just how serious a crime being a writer was. From The Hindu:
> Baseless charges: PMO
> New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office has denied as "baseless" charges
> regarding Dr. Singh's
> daughter Upinder Tankha having 'written or edited' a book on the Ramayana.
> "She has writte
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:54 PM, divya manian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I heard people are nowadays learning carnatic music online through
> > teachers who are teaching them through the voice chat, sitting in
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:48 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hope Debbie gets her visa,
Thanks! It turns out that living in India for a year may have taught
us useful skills in dealing with the bureaucracy. Rule 1, if you don't
get the answer you want at first, be persistent. Keep asking.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Badri Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My point was only that it isn't that unusual even for democratic countries
> to impose special immigration requirements on media.
As may be, but are all writers "media?" When asked she said she wrote
for her personal
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Badri Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > subversive sweetie a long term visa. They seemed concerned that she
> > should not write about India and sell it for some reason. I know that
> > there are third world dictatorships lacking a free press that are
Debbie and I are in the process of applying for 10 yr validity tourist
visas for India. Our applications are very similar, except I put down
"Software Engineer" as my occupation and Debbie put down "Writer."
Big mistake.
I got my ten year "tourist" (T) visa with no problems or delays.
Debbie howe
I'm also here in MTV through Mar 6 or so. Lunch in MTV works best for
me, but dinner in SF may be possible. Come have lunch with Thats and
me!
-- Charles
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
> <[EMAIL PROTECT
I have to admit that yes, Google deliberately and randomly drops ICMP
from Airtel. Curse you, you've found us out!
-- Charles
On Feb 18, 2008 11:23 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alok had mentioned that there is some serious packet loss while
> pinging google or youtube when on an A
On Jan 24, 2008 2:03 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:54 +0530, Charles Haynes wrote:
> > On Jan 23, 2008 7:14 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> > Eurobarometer 2005 showed that only 52% of Europeans "be
On Jan 23, 2008 10:28 PM, Venky TV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most of these questions would work just as well if you are talking
> about the United States. I see your point about people being
> naturally xenophobic. What really scares me though is a xenophobic
> government. And of the countri
oops. Must have had a bug, this time I got 428.
On Jan 23, 2008 3:41 PM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 3:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Charles Haynes wrote:
> >
> > >> http://www.ethnologue.com/s
On Jan 23, 2008 3:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Haynes wrote:
>
> >> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IN
> >
> > 178 languages
>
> How did you get that? Quoting from the page above,
>
>
> The number of
On Jan 23, 2008 1:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 12:54 PM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Europe has 23 official languages, India has 22. I'd call that a tie
> Just nitpicking, but if one were to use "living
oard)
> 07. Anup Mathew Thomas (doing a multi part photography based work on
> kerala. has done some interesting work based on the National Library
> in Lahore)
> 08. Surekha (video artists, feminist, explorations of gendered subject)
> more soon...
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 1
On Jan 23, 2008 7:14 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> most of europe is christian, a higher proportion than india is hindu,
Eurobarometer 2005 showed that only 52% of Europeans "believe there is
a god" and 18% say "I don' t believe there is any sort of spirit, God
or life force
On Jan 23, 2008 7:48 AM, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 Jan 2008 8:19 pm, Gautam John wrote:
> > the world is facing
> > the worst financial crisis since World War II
> As usual, "World" means the US of A. Other countries don't count and might not
> suffer any worse a fin
On Jan 23, 2008 6:29 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 13:25 +0530, Charles Haynes wrote:
> > How much innovation is happening in dance and music? Is it like
> > western classical music where there are rigorous requirements on how
&
On Jan 23, 2008 6:02 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> galleries, afford internet connections, etc. there are a huge number of
> professional artists in india; they are less likely to live in cities or
> speak english or find space in galleries or have internet connections,
Could
On Jan 22, 2008 1:45 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >something happens to rub my nose in it. Like a friend of a friend
> >mentioning that a good friend of his came out to his parents and was
> >killed by his father for it. I don't think I could ever be completely
>
> Go a
On Jan 22, 2008 10:40 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I love about Japan is its past (Kurosawa movies, just to start with).
What I love about Japan is hard to sum up in a few words, but yes I
love Japanese movie directors (Kurosawa, Miyazaki, Takahata, Inagaki,
Mizogu
On Jan 22, 2008 8:41 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The worst examples of this you will get are ... in Japan. Or China.
That agrees with my limited experience. Notwithstanding the way Japanese treat
all non-Japanese, it's really sad how they treat Koreans. I find it
both
BUYING OPPORTUNITY!
The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets... my only
question is whether to wait for more bleeding.
-- Charles
On Jan 20, 2008 10:32 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I always thought it was the Chinese who sold the nuke to PK!
A valuable secret like that, you don't sell just once!
-- Charles
ional market.
>
> Care for a temporary swap Rayman with Zelda? Anytime in Bangalore.
>
> - Vinit
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> et] On Behalf Of Charles Haynes
> > Sent: Friday, January 18
On Jan 18, 2008 1:56 PM, Vinit Bhansali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And the fact that I had to buy non-OEM 220v power adapter for my
> US-purchased Wii that had a 110v adapter.
>
Yep. I mentioned this to the buyer. My other unit will be used in the US, so
not a problem.
>
> So, please charles, if
I called them, they seem legit to me but I didn't give them any money
or have them install anything yet.
-- Charles
On Jan 16, 2008 3:06 PM, Raul Siddhartha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Next thing you know, people will start buying stuff from
> > amazon.geocities.com
> >
> > Googlepages.com is
On Jan 15, 2008 6:28 AM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IIRC, Charles was at Chitra Santhe held around here during the
> Christmas/New Year holidays. So, Charles, what did you think about the
> art / craft that was being sold at Chitra Santhe?
http://blog.edgeplay.org/2007/12/milestone-of-so
On Jan 15, 2008 5:51 AM, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles why don't you visit Chitrakala Parishad in Bangalore. This is a school
> for arts and they hold regular art exhibitions. It is situated near the Race
> Course and West End Hotel. Actually it is down the road from Hotel Ashok
On Jan 14, 2008 11:04 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is the hawaiian steel guitar, which incidentally made its way
> into india via the hawaiian guitarist Tao Moe in the 1930s (he used to
> perform at the taj mahal hotel in bombay).
>
> To best understand carnatic music, i think you should
On Jan 14, 2008 7:57 PM, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of the really interesting albums is the one with Vishwa Mohan
> Bhatt (who plays
> a modified hawaiian guitar in the indian classical style) and Ry Cooder called
> "a meeting by the river"
Fascinating. I'm a long time fan of k
On Jan 14, 2008 3:56 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[makes notes about K. Vishwanath movies, and Guitar Prassana]
> Yes.. I did think of Shakti, that more or less started all this. Didn't
> mention it though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti_(band)
> John McLaughlin /
On Jan 14, 2008 1:50 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2008-01-14 13:28:08 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I've noticed that, Auroville aside, there seems to be almost no studio
> > pottery here either. Am I missing something? There's some handwork in
> > terra cotta, an
On Jan 14, 2008 1:27 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think Dakshinachitra is slicha better than Cholamandal artist's
> > village. DC is as much about history & conservation as it is about art.
> Or a trip around madras - kanchipuram for example, would be an idea, if yo
On Jan 14, 2008 1:09 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think Dakshinachitra is slicha better than Cholamandal artist's village.
> DC is as much about history & conservation as it is about art.
I've been to DC, and I enjoyed it, but as you say DC is not so much
about
On Jan 14, 2008 11:24 AM, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes I think dance and music are both respected and there are professionals as
> well as part timers and there are patrons/sponsors. Amateur dance and music
> are widely prevalent and have a following that is getting bigger with mor
On Jan 14, 2008 11:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://flickr.com/photos/haynes/311638848/ . I've been looking for
> > original art here and been surprised at just how hard it is to find! I
> > consider myself one of those "middle level" patrons of the arts.
>
> Poom
On Jan 14, 2008 10:53 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm not so sure - see "patronage" above. I think it requires a culture
> > that appreciate and values art.
> How would that end up subsidizing the large number of beginner (and worse,
> workmanlike / mediocre rather t
On Jan 14, 2008 9:53 AM, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Indian art survives as music, classical dance and, to an extent Indian
> language literature and poetry.
Are they "respected" professions? How widespread are they? I'm really
very uninformed about them other than having listened t
On Jan 14, 2008 5:54 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 14:01 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > Then, there's this consistent pressure to earn, earn, earn .. join
> > Cognizant, get married, have kids, settle down into a comfortable middle
> > class
I don't want to turn silk into a grey-market for-sale list, but due to
mis-communication between my wife and me, we ended up with two Wii's.
I'm selling the extra, it's here in Bangalore and I'm selling it at my
cost. US$300+$100 I paid for shipping, handling and import duty. I'll
take INR at the c
Thaths aren't you in the US now? I thought that was the cheapest place
in the world to get unlocked iPhones...
-- Charles
On Dec 17, 2007 3:21 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2007 2:13 PM, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Biju Chacko wrote:
> [...]
> > > Kerala is a nice place to visit but I'd hate to actually live there.
> > > I'm probably biased though. ;-)
> > I concur.
Debbie and I just spent a few days in Kochi (Fort Cochin) and found it
quite charming. Lots of winding little streets, fishing with chinese
nets, good food, and a walkable town. We did the typical touristy
things, eating Karimeen Pollicharu, saw a Kathakali performance, took
a boat tour around the
i'm interested.
-- Charles
On Dec 16, 2007 3:46 PM, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charles Haynes wrote:
> > The Top Indian Red was Seagrams Nine Hills Cabernet Sauvignon 2007.
>
> I tasted the Seagarms Nine Hills Cab Sauv and did not think it was
>
Sadly, in my opinion all of the current crop of Indian wines are
little better than plonk. Given that, the best of a bad lot, IMO:
Grover's Viognier - light white, crisp, not too sweet, and not fruit juice.
Some of the Banyan wines aren't horrible. Try them all and decide for
yourself which you
On Dec 15, 2007 5:02 PM, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 Dec 2007 2:16 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> > Wind farms don't kill birds -- but the damn things kill sleep,
> > if you live nearby. They're NOISY.
> Nobody knows the local effects of removing 0.05% (or more?) of energy
It may be because Vinit is a "regular" not "pro" member of Flickr.
Regular members can have only 200 photos viewable at a time (if I
recall) and he appears to have uploaded a couple hundred rock climbing
pictures yesterday.
-- Charles
On Dec 14, 2007 8:49 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
<[EMAIL PROTE
I'm a "probably not" as I have a 9:30pm phone conference.
Sad,
-- Charles
If the accuracy of the other 'facts' in that article are at the same
level as this:
"A good example is last year's plot to smuggle common chemicals on board
commercial flights using drink containers. The chemicals would then be mixed
together to form explosives, which if detonated by a small charg
On Nov 22, 2007 3:39 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For the sake of comparison: I've bought SIM cards in Malaysia, China,
> Thailand and Singapore and would rate them in that order for ease of
> activation, ranging from instant to half an hour in queue. All but
> Malaysia requ
On Nov 22, 2007 3:17 PM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:09:31PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> > Won't help you. Kooky decisions like the Holger Voss case banning logging
>
> They may log whatever they want, they still don't know
> who owns the phone.
I disagree a little with his description of a mocha. IME a proper
mocha is Steamed Milk/Unsweetened hot chocolate/Espresso in 1:1:1
proportion.
He also left off latte macchiato, but that's nearly unknown outside of
Italy (and pretty obscure even there).
-- Charles
I used to drink breves all the time for breakfast. Ah sweet memories.
-- Charles
On Nov 22, 2007 10:51 AM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A follow-up:
>
> http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/2007/09/04/coffee-diagram-follow-up/
>
> With a printable PDF and an vector image file...
>
>
> On Sep 3
http://fishman.googlepages.com/Poker0517.pdf [via
http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/]
"Poker, a zero-sum game of incomplete information, has recently experienced a
surge of popularity among both amateur and professional players.
Several players who
have done well in multiple tournaments have achie
On 11/6/07, Anish Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> If you intend to travel around Cochin ( say another 100+ kms) you could
> see a lot more. BTW what kind of stuff are in interested,
> culture/history/nature ?
1) Food
2) More food
3) Good food
4) History
5) Culture
My frie
On 11/6/07, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/6/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Udhay Shankar N said the following on 06/11/2007 21:09:
> >
> > > Udhay, just back from a few days in a resort in Kerala that appeared
On 11/6/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Udhay Shankar N said the following on 06/11/2007 21:09:
>
> > Udhay, just back from a few days in a resort in Kerala that appeared
> > largely populated by Europeans -- nary a USAnian in sight, FWIW.
>
> Kerala is way too exotic for Ame
On 11/3/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 06:46:11PM +0530, Charles Haynes wrote:
>
> > You refuse to believe the evidence of your senses?
>
> Huh? Which evidence?
"I can't believe the amount of thought and list space y
On 11/3/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 10:18:24AM +, Sriram Karra wrote:
> > On 11/3/07, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Of course the converse is also true - if you have an open mind about
>
On 11/2/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2007-11-02 10:11:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Also, if these one-way functions were like MD5 or SHA-1 algorithms, I
> > should be able to take 2 people who have had similar lives (socially,
> > economically, etc.) for the l
On 11/2/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How is time of birth measured? When labor begins? When the head of the
> > baby peeps into the world? When the feet of the baby leaves the
> > mother's body? When the umbilical chord is cut? Isn't the interval
> > between all these t
On 10/31/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I posted the link above, as I'm trying to wean myself from posting
> Wikipedia links - I've come to have misgivings about how easily it
> can be gamed (indeed, how it games itself) - [1] is an example, I
> personally know of more.
>From [1
On 10/29/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recall reading long ago - when linguistic morals wre different, that the F
> in SNAFU is not "fckued" as suggested, but "fouled"
That what they would tell civilians sometimes, but trust me - they
Navy guys did not use "fouled."
-- Charles
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