Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-28 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Madhu Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh: Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: So you finally landed on silk? Thought just your mom was here, and she's become a regular in such a short time :) Welcome. Not for a want of trying, I can assure you. From

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-28 Thread shortindiangirl
(Though I must say she has jumped straight into mid-stream, no dainty dipping of feet for her.) You forget, only those following this thread know that I'm here... SIG

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-28 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-27 22:58:39 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The officer gruffly said that I should do whatever. For a moment there, I almost thought there might be some advantage to being a large male human when it comes to driving inspectors, but then I realised that a fine upstanding public

[silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread Deepa Mohan
I was pretty impressed with this evidence of public-spiritedness on the part of a silk-lister whom we all like to get together and take on sometimes http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2296559004/ Thank you, Nallu/Shiv/Dr Sastry..imagine, a whole notice with grammar and spellings

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread The smaller the better
] Lost and Found Heck - I am being exposed am I? But let me rant a bit. Getting any board painted is a pain because you have to struggle with what the painter thinks the spelling and grammar should be versus what you think you know. And I typically tend to translate my own English into a kind

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread The smaller the better
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:33:28 PM Subject: Re: [silk] Lost and Found Heck - I am being exposed am I? But let me rant a bit. Getting any board painted is a pain because you have to struggle with what the painter thinks the spelling

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
So you finally landed on silk? Thought just your mom was here, and she's become a regular in such a short time :) Welcome. 3) Perceived social hierarchy of govt. officials. (Where did the termGovernment Servant come from ?). Many do not consider them equals It is more like bureaucracy and red

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread The smaller the better
, honest, right and proper way, no matter how long it takes - would that be a way to participate in the machinery ? - Original Message From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:39:45 PM Subject: Re: [silk] Lost and Found

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
The smaller the better wrote, [on 2/28/2008 10:07 AM]: ARGH: Copying pasting = random deletion of spaces. Please ignore previous message for better readability of this one. I have to cheat. Udhay suggested I post an intro, since I justjoined the list yesterday. I was going to do so after

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The smaller the better Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:27 AM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] Lost and Found So the bureaucracy is one justified 'time-efficiency' detractor. Maybe our Indian civic responsibility

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
$ sudo list_members silklist|grep short [sudo] password for suresh: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome, though I am curious how you managed to post to silklist from this address - when I added your hotmail address to the list. Suresh? Any ideas? There's just 5 hotmail addresses signed up to the list

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread va
On 2/28/08, The smaller the better [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the bureaucracy is one justified 'time-efficiency' detractor. Maybe our Indian civic responsibility should lead us to pledge to unravel one reel of red tape per year, or something like that. Suppose each of us were to follow up

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-27 20:57:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose each of us were to follow up any one of our dealings with the government in the fair, honest, right and proper way, no matter how long it takes - would that be a way to participate in the machinery? When I wanted to get a driver's

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread Madhu Kurup
Heh: Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: So you finally landed on silk? Thought just your mom was here, and she's become a regular in such a short time :) Welcome. Not for a want of trying, I can assure you. From 2004, to now, just a short four years of public threatening..

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread The smaller the better
I changed the address I was listed under. Anjana. - Original Message From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:06:25 PM Subject: Re: [silk] Lost and Found $ sudo list_members silklist|grep short [sudo] password

Re: [silk] Lost and Found

2008-02-27 Thread The smaller the better
Subject: Re: [silk] Lost and Found At 2008-02-27 20:57:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose each of us were to follow up any one of our dealings with the government in the fair, honest, right and proper way, no matter how long it takes - would that be a way to participate in the machinery