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

Running shoes. Not the absolute high end, but the Asics, New Balance variety. I generally try and get good quality lenses and frames once a year. > On 07-Dec-2020, at 10:13 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Like it says. I know there are similar threads out there on reddit etc - > this question

Re: [silk] When to quit

I tend to agree with Biju that it depends on what you are attempting. I was desperate to try and quit smoking for many years, and finally managed in 2008 ( till now!) after at least five major attempts. On the other hand, things like staying with a particular book after it fails to grip me

Re: [silk] Nineteen!

Appropriately enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipc9pL27krs > On 12-Dec-2016, at 5:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Tomorrow is the 19th birthday of silk. Raise a glass, and feel free to > party. I know I will! :) > >

Re: [silk] Nineteen!

Excellent. And truly inspirational! > On 12-Dec-2016, at 5:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Tomorrow is the 19th birthday of silk. Raise a glass, and feel free to > party. I know I will! :) > > Udhay > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Things that are worth the money

Spectacles, computers, phones and shoes top my list. Stuff you use all the time. Though I would clarify that I’d spend the extra money only if the money actually made a material difference to the product. It wouldn’t necessarily be for a bigger brand name unless the product was also better >

Re: [silk] What book changed your mind?

Godel, Escher Bach. Douglas Hofstadter. Read it when I was seventeen, understood very little, but was absolutely staggered by what little I did understand. Godel's Incompleteness theorem changed my life view, if math could not be 'perfect,' what could?

Re: [silk] introductions

I am staggering to keep up Joy On 09-Jun-2014, at 12:06 PM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote: He lives and breathes cricket, he quizzes too, Oh, he does everything that we want to do. The pen can go on, and on and on, Praising our Joy, till the break of dawn. But, TL;DR, you want just

[silk] introductions

Hi, Since I have spent 20 odd years in Delhi, it has to be a toss up between 'myself Joy Bhattacharjya' and 'Joy Bhattacharjya this side' Delighted to join the founding father of Indian mailing lists. I used to work with computers and then for a long time in the media - specifically sports

Re: [silk] introductions

The Kolkata Knight Riders On 09-Jun-2014, at 9:25 AM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: Which team, if I may ask?